Examples of popular open source software used in education include the Moodle learning management system, the LibreOffice suite, and the versatile Linux operating system itself.

The coolest open-source software tools in 2022 include the Apache Druid database, Apache Iceberg data analytics tool, Grafana observability software and TensorFlow machine learning platform.

At Open Source Summit Europe 2025, the Linux Foundation unveiled projects and research spanning AI, sovereignty and developer ...

InfoWorld’s 2022 Bossie Awards celebrate the most important and innovative application development, devops, data analytics, and machine learning tools of the year.

An open source web server, a software foundation, and a permissive license that, unlike the GPL, allows source code to be mixed into non-open source, commercial code.

The proliferation of free open source software has made machine learning easier to implement both on single machines and at scale, and in most popular programming languages.

The coolest open-source software tools of 2021 include Apache Kylin, AWS SaaS Boost, Kubecost, Red Hat OKD and TensorFlow.