From cc05cec888ab0a1de5900817f30210dae462a15f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alicia Sykes Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 17:09:43 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Adds Open Source Media Applications --- 5_Privacy_Respecting_Software.md | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/5_Privacy_Respecting_Software.md b/5_Privacy_Respecting_Software.md index ac26073..32ddcfa 100644 --- a/5_Privacy_Respecting_Software.md +++ b/5_Privacy_Respecting_Software.md @@ -66,9 +66,10 @@ Be aware that no software is perfect- there will always be bugs and vulnerabilit - [Payment Methods](#payment-methods) - **Bonus** - [Alternatives to Google](#bonus-1---alternatives-to-google) - - [Self-Hosted Services](#bonus-2---self-hosted-services) - - [Self-Hosted Sys-Admin](#bonus-3---self-hosted-sysadmin) - - [Self-Hosted Dev Tools](#bonus-4---self-hosted-development-tools) + - [Open Source Media Applications](#bonus-2---open-source-media-applications) + - [Self-Hosted Services](#bonus-3---self-hosted-services) + - [Self-Hosted Sys-Admin](#bonus-4---self-hosted-sysadmin) + - [Self-Hosted Dev Tools](#bonus-5---self-hosted-development-tools) - **See Also** - [Personal Security Checklist](/README.md) - [Gadgets for Privacy & Security](/6_Privacy_and-Security_Gadgets.md) @@ -775,7 +776,42 @@ Moving away from Google, and using multiple alternative apps will mean there is -## Bonus #2 - Self-Hosted Services +## Bonus #2 - Open Source Media Applications + +Community-maintained media software can help you migrate away from providers that may not respect privacy. The following software packages are open source, cross-platform and free. + +- **Graphics** + - [GIMP](https://www.gimp.org) - Free open source image editor, with advanced features + - [Scribus](https://www.scribus.net) - Desktop publisher software, for developing posters, magazines, books and packaging + - [SwatchBooker](http://www.selapa.net/swatchbooker) - Manage colours, gradients, swatches. Supports importing and exporting to other applications + - [InkScape](https://inkscape.org) - Professional vector graphics editor + - [Kirta](https://krita.org) - Professional painting software. Great for concept art, texture and matte painters and illustrations and comics +- **Audio** + - [Audacity](https://www.audacityteam.org) - An easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder, with advanced features + - [Mixxx](https://mixxx.org) - Comprehensive DJ and mixing software. Supports BPM, key detection & sync, sound effects, Vinyl Record Control and hardware support + - [MusicBrainz](https://picard.musicbrainz.org) - Music tagger and manager, supporting multiple formats, AcoustID, CD Lookups and plugins + - [Qtractor](https://qtractor.sourceforge.io) - Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application written in C++, and using JACK for audio and ALSA sequencer for MIDI as multimedia infrastructures +- **Video** + - [Shortcut](https://www.shotcutapp.com) - Video editor, with wide format support, many device and transport options and a sleek, intuitive interface + - [OpenShot](https://www.openshot.org) - Video editor with a clean UI and fast rendering, it is easy to use, quick to learn, but also surprisingly powerful + - [kdenlive](https://kdenlive.org) - Long standing video editor, with a configurable interface, color scopes, and a variety of effects and transitions +- **Media Players and Servers** + - [VLC Player](https://www.videolan.org) - Multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols + - [Kodi](https://kodi.tv) - Highly customizable media server software, great for home theatres supporting Music, Movies, TV Shows and Photos + - [Plex](https://www.plex.tv) - A powerful, secure and fully-featured and easy-to-install media server software + - [Subsonic](http://www.subsonic.org) - Feature-packed media streaming platform + - [Madsonic](https://beta.madsonic.org) - Flexible and secure web-based media server and media streamer + - [Emby](https://emby.media) - Powerful, easy-to-use media server software, great for accessing your content on any device + - [Gerbera](https://gerbera.io) - A free media server, making it easy to stream your media to devices on your home network + - [OpenELEC](https://openelec.tv) - OpenELEC (Open Embedded Linux Entertainment Centre) is a small Linux based JeOS as a platform to turn your computer into a Kodi media centre. + - [OpenFlixr 2](https://www.openflixr.com) - virtual, flexible, energy efficient and fully-automated media server software. It supports automated downloading and serving of media, encrypted connections, and smart auto-updating + - [OCMC](https://osmc.tv) - Simple, easy-to-use, full-featured media server software and media streamer. Based on Kodi, it supports all well known media formats and a variety of sharing protocols. It has a remarkable interface, which looks great on the big screen +- **Misc** + - [Blender](https://www.blender.org) - 3D creation suite, supporting modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, video editing and 2D animation pipeline + - [GoDot](https://godotengine.org) - Open source game engine for Windows, providing a huge set of common tools + + +## Bonus #3 - Self-Hosted Services - Analytics: [Matomo](https://matomo.org), [Fathom](https://github.com/usefathom/fathom), [GoatCounter](https://www.goatcounter.com), [Rudder](https://github.com/rudderlabs) - Blogging: [Hexo](https://hexo.io), [Noddity](http://noddity.com), [Plume](https://joinplu.me), [Ghost](https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost), [Write.as](https://github.com/writeas) @@ -801,7 +837,7 @@ Moving away from Google, and using multiple alternative apps will mean there is - XMP: Server: [ejabberd](https://github.com/processone/ejabberd), [MongooseIM](https://github.com/esl/MongooseIM), [OpenFire](https://github.com/igniterealtime/Openfire). Clients: [Candy](https://github.com/candy-chat/candy), [Converse](https://github.com/conversejs/converse.js) -## Bonus #3 - Self-Hosted Sysadmin +## Bonus #4 - Self-Hosted Sysadmin - Ad-Block (network-wide): [PiHole](https://pi-hole.net) - Content Filter: [E2Guardian](http://e2guardian.org), [Squid Guard](http://www.squidguard.org) @@ -819,7 +855,7 @@ Moving away from Google, and using multiple alternative apps will mean there is - VPN: [OpenVPN](https://community.openvpn.net), [Pritunl](https://pritunl.com) - Web Servers: [NGINX](https://nginx.org), [Caddy](https://caddyserver.com), [Light TPD](https://www.lighttpd.net) -## Bonus #4 - Self-Hosted Development Tools +## Bonus #5 - Self-Hosted Development Tools - API Management: [Kong](https://github.com/Kong/kong), [Krakend](https://github.com/devopsfaith/krakend), [tyk](https://github.com/TykTechnologies/tyk), [Hasura](https://hasura.io) - Browser-based IDE: [Code Server](https://github.com/cdr/code-server) (VS Code), [Che](https://github.com/eclipse/che) (Eclipse), [ICEcoder](https://github.com/icecoder/ICEcoder), [ml-workspace](https://github.com/ml-tooling/ml-workspace) (for Data science and ML), [r-studio](https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio) (for R programming)