Curated-OpenSource/README.md
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Curated OpenSource Tools

Live Sound and Lighting

Sound

Open Sound Meter https://github.com/psmokotnin/osm

Lighting

QLC+ https://qlcplus.org/

VFX

Tools

CorridorKey https://github.com/nikopueringer/CorridorKey

3D animation

Blender https://www.blender.org/

Home Automation

Hubs

Home Assistant https://www.home-assistant.io/

OpenHAB https://www.openhab.org/

ESP

ESPHome https://esphome.io/

Tasmota https://tasmota.github.io/docs/Getting-Started/

Asset/Stock/Logistics

Asset Management

SnipeIT https://snipeitapp.com/

Shelf (not intended to be selfhosted?) https://www.shelf.nu/

Stock and Logistics

Inventree https://inventree.org/

OpenBoxes https://openboxes.com/

FleetBase https://fleetbase.io/

GitHub replacements

Gitea (has small open core restrictions) https://about.gitea.com/

GitLab (no longer recommended due to open core restrictions) https://about.gitlab.com/

Forgejo (100% OSS fork of Gitea used on Codeberg) https://forgejo.org/

Google Drive/OneDrive

NextCloud https://nextcloud.com/

OwnCloud https://owncloud.com/

Google Photos replacements

Immich https://immich.app/

OnePassword, NordPass replacements

VaultWarden https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

iTicket, Ticketek, TicketMaster replacements

Hi.Events (Easier, less features) https://github.com/HiEventsDev/Hi.Events

Pretix (more advanced and has a native Android scanning app) https://github.com/pretix/pretix

Slack, Discord replacements

Rocket.Chat (Open core with minor restrictions) https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat

Zoom replacements

Jitsi Meet https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet

GPS - Any Cloud Provider

Traccar (Works with many vendors) https://www.traccar.org/

TeamSpeak

Mumble (OSS TeamSpeak alternative) https://www.mumble.info/

Any CV generator

Reactive Resume https://github.com/amruthpillai/reactive-resume

BitTorrent

Trackers

SQTracker https://github.com/tdjsnelling/sqtracker

easy-torrent-tracker https://github.com/skipperbent/easy-torrent-tracker

Clients

QBitTorrent https://www.qbittorrent.org/

Deluge https://deluge-torrent.org/

Transmission https://transmissionbt.com/

NAS/Network Attached Storage

TrueNAS https://www.truenas.com/

Data Recovery

https://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/

https://www.hddsuperclone.com/

https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download

Quality of Life

PiHole (Network wide adblocking) https://pi-hole.net/

Cryptocurrency

Bitcoin full node https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-core/

Automated BTC payment gateway https://btcpayserver.org/

open source btc wallet with full control https://electrum.org/

Stratum V2 https://stratumprotocol.org/

Team Awareness Kit

TAK Servers

OTS (Actively developed TAK server full of bugs) https://opentakserver.io/

FTS (not as actively developed) https://github.com/FreeTAKTeam/FreeTakServer

Original TAK server https://github.com/TAK-Product-Center/Server

TAK Clients

CloudTAK (webui for tak servers) https://cloudtak.io/

ATAK Android client https://github.com/TAK-Product-Center/atak-civ

Telecommunications

Radio Comms

OSS P25 + DMR + NXDN Network https://dvmproject.io/

4G/LTE/Cellular

LTE Core Network https://github.com/open5gs/open5gs

LTE and 5G Radio Access Network https://www.srsran.com/

PyHSS EIR https://github.com/nickvsnetworking/pyhss

Mobile

Security and Anti-Forensic

Oblivion (remote wipe and timeout) - https://f-droid.org/packages/net.oblivion.wipe/

FMD (Find my Device) - https://fmd-foss.org/

Operating Systems

LineageOS https://lineageos.org

GrapheneOS https://grapheneos.org/

Recovery

Lineage Recovery https://github.com/LineageOS/android_bootable_recovery

TWRP https://twrp.me/

Flashing tools

Heimdall https://github.com/benjamin-dobell/heimdall

FastBoot https://android.googlesource.com/platform/system/core/+/master/fastboot/

SRE (Software Reverse Engineering)

Ghidra https://github.com/nationalsecurityagency/ghidra

Old School

IRC Server

UnrealIRCD https://www.unrealircd.org/

Email

Warning: Email hosting is very difficult to get right. ISPs also tend to block them and your server has no reputation so your emails go to other people's spam boxes. Run at your own risk

Mail Servers

Mailcow https://mailcow.email/

Postal https://docs.postalserver.io/

Webmail Clients

Roundcube https://roundcube.net/

Media

Multimedia

Jellyfin https://jellyfin.org/

Large music libraries

Navidrome https://www.navidrome.org/

Gaming

Minecraft

Auth Servers

Drasl https://github.com/Unmojang/Drasl

Ely.By https://github.com/elyby

Index Generator

https://github.com/betacraftuk/asset-index-maker

Launchers

Fjord Launcher https://github.com/unmojang/FjordLauncher

MultiMC https://github.com/MultiMC/Launcher

Cracked

Fjord Launcher Unlocked https://github.com/hero-persson/FjordLauncherUnlocked

Game Server Management

Pterodactyl https://pterodactyl.io/

DRM

EPUB/Ebook

Readium LCP Server https://github.com/readium/readium-lcp-server

Networking

Network Access Control

PacketFence https://www.packetfence.com/

FreeRADIUS https://www.freeradius.org/

Infra specific

virtualization

https://proxmox.com/en/

Clustering

Nomad https://developer.hashicorp.com/nomad

Kubernetes https://kubernetes.io/

(proxmox can cluster as well)

OS useful for clusters

NixOS https://nixos.org/

SSO

KeyCloak https://www.keycloak.org/

Authentik https://goauthentik.io/

Authelia https://www.authelia.com/

ZITADEL https://zitadel.com/

Apereo CAS https://apereo.github.io/cas/current/index.html

Policy Management

OPA https://www.openpolicyagent.org/

LDAP/User Store

FreeIPA https://www.freeipa.org/

OpenLDAP https://www.openldap.org/

Reverse Proxies, Webservers

Traefik (Proxy only) https://doc.traefik.io/traefik/

Caddy (Proxy and Webserver) https://caddyserver.com/

Nginx (Proxy and Webserver) https://nginx.org/

PKI

EJBCA https://www.ejbca.org/

Boulder (Powers LetsEncrypt) https://github.com/letsencrypt/boulder

Secrets Management

Vault (open core with minor restrictions) https://www.hashicorp.com/en/products/vault

SOPS https://getsops.io/

ZTN/VPN/Remote

ZTN/"ZeroTier-Like"

NetBird https://netbird.io/

UI for selfhosted ZeroTier controllers https://github.com/dec0dOS/zero-ui

VPN

AmneziaWG (Bypasses firewalls) https://docs.amnezia.org/

DNS

BIND https://www.isc.org/bind/

DHCP

Kea https://www.isc.org/kea/

S3-like storage

RustFS (MinIO drop in replacement) ttps://rustfs.com/en/

Databases

MariaDB https://mariadb.org/

Apache Cassandra https://cassandra.apache.org/_/index.html

Apache Accumulo https://accumulo.apache.org/

monitoring and visualization

Zabbix https://www.zabbix.com/

InfluxDB https://www.influxdata.com/

Prometheus https://prometheus.io/

Grafana https://grafana.com/

Uptime Kuma https://uptimekuma.org/

alerting and notification

Ntfy https://ntfy.sh/

Gotify https://gotify.net/

SIEM and security

Wazuh https://wazuh.com/

Error reporting

Sentry https://sentry.io/welcome/

GUI Management

Docker Management https://www.portainer.io/

General Linux administration https://cockpit-project.org/

ICANN Stack

FRED https://fred.nic.cz/en/

Namingo https://namingo.org/

Nomulus (Powers the Google registries) https://github.com/google/nomulus

RIPE NCC

https://github.com/RIPE-NCC

Registries, Repositories and Package Manager Services

Docker Registries

Quay https://www.projectquay.io/#v3

Harbor https://goharbor.io/

Official Docker registry https://hub.docker.com/_/registry

NPM

NPM Proxy Registry (Archives everything you download through it) https://www.verdaccio.org/

Backups

Restic https://restic.net/

Libraries and components

UI

MUI X https://github.com/mui/mui-x

MUI Material https://github.com/mui/material-ui

Server

Go3270 https://github.com/racingmars/go3270

Open Source Hardware

Time and Time Sync

Time-Card (Hardware+Software) - Atomic clock synced to GNSS https://github.com/Time-Appliances-Project/Time-Card

Radio

LimeSDR

https://github.com/myriadrf/LimeSDR-Mini-v2

https://github.com/MyriadRF/LimeSuite

https://github.com/myriadrf/LMS7002M-docs

https://github.com/myriadrf/LimeSDR-USB_FX3

https://github.com/myriadrf/LimeSDR-USB_GW

https://github.com/myriadrf/LimeSDR-USB

Duplex MMDVM Hotspot HAT https://github.com/phl0/MMDVM_HS_Dual_Hat

Government Open Source

United States Government

CFPB

HMDA Submission https://github.com/cfpb/hmda-platform

General Services Administration

USWDS https://github.com/uswds/uswds

United Kingdom

GovUK Design System https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-design-system

GovUK Frontend https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-frontend

Other GovUK Digital Services https://github.com/alphagov

Various Commercial/Large Scale apps

Octocon

https://github.com/OctoconDev/app

https://github.com/OctoconDev/octocon

Simply Plural

https://github.com/ApparyllisOrg/SimplyPluralApi

PluralKit

https://github.com/PluralKit/PluralKit

Pronouns.Page

https://gitlab.com/PronounsPage/PronounsPage

Ely.By

See above.

Trans Resources

Pitch and Resonance Analyzer https://github.com/lmcnulty/gender-voice-visualization