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5 open-source projects that secretly power your favourite apps


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“You’ve heard that the world’s infrastructure runs on Linux, and how important Free and Open Source (FOSS) software is to just about all the technology we enjoy every day, but there are some (to bring out the old cliché) unsung heroes of FOSS without which your stuff just wouldn’t work—and you should at least know their names.”

It is true, too, that most open source projects are built using other open source projects, but these are a few of those that sit in the background powering many popular projects.

I love the article’s comment about Electron. I suppose it is the same as for Flatpaks, AppImages and Snaps. They make things possible across distros.

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