It's not uncommon nowadays for useful apps and services to require a subscription or a one-time purchase. But there are plenty of free open-source programs. This free availability is one of the ...

What if you could have a personal AI coding assistant that’s not only as powerful as leading proprietary tools but also completely free and open source? Enter Open-SWE, a new solution designed to ...

We list the best free office software, to make it simple and easy to use a free alternative to Microsoft Word. For most users, Microsoft 365 (formerly known as Microsoft Office and Office 365) remains ...

There are a few apps I must install on any new Android phone. Without them, using my handset would be quite challenging. These include the usual suspects like shopping and banking apps, browsers, AI ...

Open source software is a vital part of modern computing; it’s involved in much of the software we use every day. But is it too good to be true, and is it really free, in either sense of the word?

More than a 1,000 Docker Hardened Images (DHI) are now freely available and open source for software builders, under the Apache 2.0 license. Docker is a popular platform that enables developers to ...

Underpinning the digital economy is a deep foundation of open-source software, freely available for anyone to use. The majority of the world’s websites are run using Apache and Nginx, two open-source ...

It may come as no surprise that Valve has invested in emulation tech for Arm-based hardware, having just announced its first device running an Arm chip. But beyond its own hardware, Valve's support of ...

When leaders say open source is “free,” what they really mean is that the software has no license cost. Everything else (hardware, integration, staffing and support) still carries a bill. Many IT ...