OBS Studio, Streamlabs Desktop and Restream are compared constantly, but they solve different problems. Here is how the free open source encoders stack up against a proprietary multistreaming service.

Three free tools do almost all of the video transcoding on the planet, and they are easy to confuse because they overlap. HandBrake and VidCoder are both graphical transcoders aimed at people who want results without typing commands. FFmpeg is the engine underneath them — a toolkit and command-line tool that the other two quietly […]

Skred is a polyphonic wavetable synthesizer you drive from a terminal with ASCII commands — MIT-licensed, MIDI-aware and built for live performance. Here is what it does and how it fits alongside Helm, LMMS and Sonic Pi.

Notable FOSS Releases This Week Our RSS monitoring caught a busy run of releases at the end of September and start of October. This week’s roundup leads with a genuine language milestone — Rust 1.99.0 stabilizes C-ABI variadic functions, meaning variadic functions can now be written in Rust rather than only called. Alongside it we […]

Continuous integration and delivery is the backbone of modern software work, and the tooling you pick shapes how quickly your team ships. Three names dominate the self-hosted conversation: Jenkins, the long-standing automation workhorse; Woodpecker CI, a lean community fork; and Drone CI, once the darling of container-native pipelines. They look similar on the surface, but […]

Android is open source, but the version most people carry is buried under Google services, OEM telemetry and carrier bloat. Three well-established projects strip that back and hand you a phone you actually control: GrapheneOS, CalyxOS and LineageOS. They share the same AOSP foundation but make very different trade-offs between hardening, everyday app compatibility and […]

Ask ten Linux users which distribution you should run and you’ll get ten confident, contradictory answers. That’s because there is no single best Linux distribution — there’s only the one that matches how much control you want and how much fiddling you’re happy to do. The good news is that the choice has never mattered […]

Running a business on scattered spreadsheets and disconnected tools gets painful fast. When you outgrow them, the usual answer is a commercial ERP — with per-user licence fees that scale with every hire. That is exactly the problem open source ERPs solve: you get the accounting, stock, CRM and reporting under one roof, self-hosted on […]

Almost everyone uses a password manager by now, but choosing which one is the right one still trips people up. The three strongest candidates all take different approaches to the same job. Bitwarden is the polished cloud-synced favourite with a famously generous free tier. KeePassXC is the fully offline, local-database purist. Proton Pass is the […]

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platforms are the backbone of any serious security operation, collecting logs and alerts from across your infrastructure so you can detect and respond to threats. When you begin comparing open source options, two names come up again and again: Wazuh and Elastic SIEM (Elastic Security). Both are powerful, both […]