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Exo Labs · Distributed & parallel computing

Open-source software that pools several Apple Silicon Macs (and Linux hosts) into one local inference cluster, sharding large models across devices with MLX

Apache-2.0Open sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

GNU Parallel

GNU Project (Ole Tange) · Distributed & parallel computing

Shell tool that runs commands in parallel over input lines on one or several machines, as a drop-in alternative to xargs and shell loops

GPL-3.0-or-laterOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Ollama

Ollama · Local LLM inference & serving

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Open-source runtime and model manager for running open-weight LLMs locally on macOS, Windows and Linux, with a REST API, OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible endpoints and optional cloud models

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

OpenSSH

OpenBSD Project · Tunneling & remote access

Reference implementation of the SSH protocol from the OpenBSD project: remote shell, file transfer, port forwarding, key agent and certificate authority tooling

SSH-OpenSSHOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

PM2

Keymetrics (Unitech) · Infrastructure & provisioning

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Production process manager for Node.js and other long-running programs with cluster mode, log handling, restart policies and boot-time startup scripts

AGPL-3.0-onlyOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

RStudio IDE

Posit Software, PBC · Mathematical & statistical computing

Posit's open-source integrated development environment for R, with console, editor, plots, environment panes, Quarto/R Markdown authoring and Python via reticulate

AGPL-3.0-onlyFreeOpen sourceLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

TeX Live

TeX Users Group (TUG) · LaTeX & typesetting

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The comprehensive free TeX distribution for Linux, macOS and Windows, released yearly with the tlmgr package manager and all major engines, packages and fonts

Open sourceFreeOpen sourceLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

WireGuard

WireGuard project (Jason A. Donenfeld) · Tunneling & remote access

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Minimal, high-speed VPN protocol and implementation built on modern cryptography, included in the Linux kernel and available on macOS, iOS, Windows, Android and BSD

GPL-2.0-onlyOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

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