Free Software Advent 2025
This post is a recap of my Mastodon series for #FreeSoftwareAdvent 2025! The hashtag is/was about free and open-source software that we rely on every day (although I didn’t manage to post every day). These are the FOSS tools and apps I’m using at work for our VFX pipeline. The links below are pointing to my Mastodon posts where you can find more information about the applications and a link to their respective homepages:
5th: OpenImageIO — modern library and tools to read/write all kinds of image formats
7th: DokuWiki — self-hosted wiki solution for our intranet knowledge database and documentation
9th: gitea — self-hosted git server (think gitlab/forgejo/codeberg/github)
11th: OpenZFS — powerful copy-on-write filesystem that is the base for TrueNAS
13th: pyRenamer — small GUI tool to rename a collection of files
14th: mongodb — json document database (“NoSQL”)
15th: OpenColorIO — color-management and color conversion toolkit used across all DCC apps
17th: Ansible — powerful tool to configure and control your whole IT infrastructure
19th: ffmpeg — *the* open-source video encoder/decoder
21st: Zulip — self-hosted chat system
24th: Linux & Python — the obvious essentials
Things I forgot
Of course there are many more essential open-source tools that I use regularly or that our VFX pipeline relies on: LibreOffice, Inkscape, Gimp/Krita, Redict (a fork of the Redis database), Borg backup and Borgmatic (encrypted backup solutions), Syncthing (UDP-based file synchronisation), Podman, KeepassXC, ….
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