30 Cool Open Source Software I Discovered in 2013 | Linux Today

30 Cool Open Source Software I Discovered in 2013

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Jan 4, 2014

These are full-featured open source software products, free as in beer and speech that I started to use recently. Vivek Gite picks his best open source software of 2013.

#1 Replicant – Fully free Android distribution

Replicant is entirely free and open source distributions of Android on several devices including both phones and tablets. I have installed it on an older Nexus S. You can install apps from F-Droid store a GPLv2 client app that comes configured with a repository hosting only free as in freedom applications.

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