Open Source Linux Documentation Software
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View 7 business solutionsBrowse free open source Documentation software and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Documentation software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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Doxygen is a JavaDoc like documentation system for C++, C, Java and IDL.
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PlantUML allows to quickly create some UML diagram using a simple textual description language.
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Mermaid
Diagram and flowchart generation from text similar to markdown
Mermaid is a JavaScript-based diagram and flowchart generating tool that uses markdown-inspired text for fast and easy generation of diagrams and charts. Forget about using heavy tools to explain your code. Mermaid greatly simplifies documentation with its simple markdown-like script language, and offers a great range of diagram and chart options. The latest version of Mermaid comes with a number of bug fixes and enhancements, as well as a new diagram type, entity relationship diagrams. Its range of available diagrams include flowcharts, sequence diagrams, gantt diagrams and more, with new ones continuously being developed. -
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TestLink
Test & requirements management
TestLink is a web based Test Management tool. The application provides Test specification, Test plans and execution, Reporting, Requirements specification and collaborate with well-known bug trackers. Repository: https://github.com/TestLinkOpenSourceTRMS -
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Joplin
Open source note taking and to-do app with synchronization
Joplin is a free and open source note-taking and to-do application that can handle a large number of notes in Markdown format, organize them into notebooks and synchronize them with various cloud services. All notes can also be copied, tagged, searched and modified directly from the app or through your own text editor. Notes that are exported from Evernote can be imported into Joplin, be it formatted content, resources, complete metadata or plain Markdown files. When notes are synchronized with cloud services, notebooks, tags and other metadata can easily be moved, inspected or backed up as plain text files. Supported cloud services include Nextcloud, OneDrive, Dropbox and WebDAV. Joplin is available for Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS and Android, with three types: desktop, mobile and terminal. All of them have similar user interfaces and can be synchronized with each other. -
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Swagger UI
HTML, JavaScript, and CSS assets that generate Swagger documentation
Swagger UI is a collection of HTML, JavaScript, and CSS assets that dynamically generate beautiful documentation from a Swagger-compliant API. Simplify API development for users, teams, and enterprises with the Swagger open source and professional toolset. Find out how Swagger can help you design and document your APIs at scale. The power of Swagger tools starts with the OpenAPI Specification — the industry standard for RESTful API design. Individual tools to create, update and share OpenAPI definitions with consumers. SwaggerHub is the platform solution to support OpenAPI workflows at scale. Swagger open source and pro tools have helped millions of API developers, teams, and organizations deliver great APIs. Swagger offers the most powerful and easiest to use tools to take full advantage of the OpenAPI Specification. -
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Utilities for general- and special-purpose documentation. Includes reStructuredText, the easy to read, easy to use, what-you-see-is-what-you-get plaintext markup language.
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Zeal
Offline documentation browser inspired by Dash
Zeal is a simple offline documentation browser inspired by Dash. Get binary builds for Windows and Linux from the download page. After installing Zeal go to Tools ⟶ Docsets to browse and download docsets. You can limit search results to specific (or a set of specific) docsets. The docset filter and the search query are delimited by a colon character (:). If you prefer, you can start Zeal with a query from the command line. You can also search multiple docsets separating them with a comma. You can limit the search scope by using ':' to indicate the desired docsets. -
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Swagger Editor
An editor designed for Swagger
Swagger Editor lets you edit Swagger API specifications in YAML inside your browser and to preview documentations in real time. Valid Swagger JSON descriptions can then be generated and used with the full Swagger tooling (code generation, documentation, etc). swagger-editor is a traditional npm module intended for use in single-page applications that are capable of resolving dependencies (via Webpack, Browserify, etc). swagger-editor-dist is a dependency-free module that includes everything you need to serve Swagger Editor in a server-side project, or a web project that can't resolve npm module dependencies. If you're building a single-page application, using swagger-editor is strongly recommended, since swagger-editor-dist is significantly larger. -
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"Roberge's Used Robot (RUR) : a Python Learning Environment" is a Python implementation of a "robot environment" as introduced by R. Pattis in 1981. **It is obsolete.** See https://github.com/aroberge/rur-ple
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Sphinx
Main repository for the Sphinx documentation builder
Sphinx is a tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful documentation, written by Georg Brandl and licensed under the BSD license. It was originally created for the Python documentation, and it has excellent facilities for the documentation of software projects in a range of languages. Of course, this site is also created from reStructuredText sources using Sphinx! HTML (including Windows HTML Help), LaTeX (for printable PDF versions), ePub, Texinfo, manual pages, plain text. Semantic markup and automatic links for functions, classes, citations, glossary terms and similar pieces of information. Easy definition of a document tree, with automatic links to siblings, parents and children. General index as well as a language-specific module index. Automatic highlighting using the Pygments highlighter. Automatic testing of code snippets, the inclusion of docstrings from Python modules (API docs), and more. -
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cloc (Count Lines Of Code) counts, and computes differences of, comment lines, blank lines, and physical lines of source code in many programming languages. cloc is now being developed at https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc
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TagSpaces
TagSpaces is an offline, open source, document manager with tagging
TagSpaces is a free, no vendor lock-in, open source application for organizing, annotating and managing local files with the help of tags. It features advanced note taking functionalities and some capabilities of to-do apps. The application is available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS and Android. We provide a web clipper extension for Firefox, Edge and Chrome for easy collecting of online content in the form of local files. File and folder management - TagSpaces provides a convenient user interface for browsing, viewing and man files and folders. The application supports two ways for tagging files. The default one embeds the tags directly in the name of the file, the other one uses a so called sidecar files for persisting the tags. The search functionality supports fuzzy functionality and can filter your locations for files and folders containing one or more tags. -
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riscv-isa-manual
RISC-V Instruction Set Manual
This repository contains the source files for the official RISC‑V Instruction Set Manual, including the Privileged RISC‑V Manual in LaTeX and the Unprivileged Manual in AsciiDoc. It tracks formal ratified versions of the ISA maintained by RISC‑V International and hosts build workflows for releasing updated ISA documents. -
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BookStack
Simple & Free Wiki Software
BookStack is a free and open source platform for storing and organising information and documentation. A self-hosted and opinionated wiki system, BookStack is simple and easy to use, giving even new users with just basic word-processing skills a pleasant out of the box experience. BookStack offers a relaxed, open and positive approach. While the platform can provide advanced power features to those who want them, it is primarily designed not to be extensible outside of its core purpose. That being said, BookStack already comes with plenty of powerful features, such as search and linking, cross-book sorting, image management and more. It is also multi-lingual and offers options for authentication integration. -
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Msc-generator
Draws signalling charts, block diagrams and graphs from text input.
NOTE! We have moved to https://gitlab.com/msc-generator/msc-generator All development happens there. Also, download new releases & submit issues there. A tool to draw various charts from textual descriptions. Currently, three types of charts are supported: Message Sequence Charts, generic Graphs, and Block Diagrams, with more to be added in the future. There is a command-line version for Linux and Mac (replacing mscgen), which now sports a GUI, as well. Msc-generator allows fine control over the appearance and has a rich feature set complete with detailed documentation. On Windows, you can embed the charts in a document or presentation and simply double-click it in Office to edit them. On Linux and the Mac, a command-line version is available, and a GUI, as well. A .deb package is available starting from Debian Bookworm (currently testing) and Ubuntu Jammy Jellyfish (22.04) from the official repositories. For older releases see the Wiki. A Mac homebrew package is available. -
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AsciiDoc is a presentable text document format for writing articles, UNIX man pages and other small to medium sized documents. The asciidoc(1) command translates AsciiDoc files to HTML, DocBook and LinuxDoc formats.
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DocFX
Static site generator for .NET API documentation
DocFX can produce documentation from source code (including C#, F#, Visual Basic, REST, JavaScript, Java, Python and TypeScript) as well as raw Markdown files. DocFX can run on Linux, macOS, and Windows. The generated static website can be deployed to any host such as GitHub Pages or Azure Websites with no additional configuration. DocFX provides a flexible way to customize templates and themes. DocFX makes it extremely easy to generate your developer hub with a landing page, API reference, and conceptual documentation, from a variety of sources. DocFX builds a static HTML website from your source code and Markdown files, which can be easily hosted on any webserver (for example, github.io). Also, DocFX provides you the flexibility to customize the layout and style of your website through templates. If you are interested in creating your own website with your own styles, you can follow how to create a custom template to create custom templates. -
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Schema Spy
SchemaSpy code home
This is a new code repository for SchemaSpy tool initially created and maintained by John Currier. I personally believe that work on SchemaSpy should be continued, and a lot of still existing issues should be resolved. Last released version of the SchemaSpy was in 2010, and I have a plan to change this. Process of installation is very simple because SchemaSpy is only one Java .jar application. You can learn more read the installation doc. When you environment will be ready, and you can start using SchemaSpy you can read more about the configuration. Browse some sample pages generated by SchemaSpy. Note that this was run against an extremely limited schema so it doesn't show the full power of the tool. -
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Hugo Book Theme
Hugo documentation theme as simple as plain book
Hugo documentation theme as simple as a plain book. By default, the theme will render pages from the content/docs section as a menu in a tree structure. You can set title and weight in the front matter of pages to adjust the order and titles in the menu. There are a few configuration options that you can add to your config.toml file. A simple blog is supported in the section posts. A blog is not the primary use case of this theme, so it has only minimal features. The theme supports Hugo's multilingual mode, just follow the configuration guide there. You can also tweak search indexing configuration per language in i18n folder. There are layout partials available for you to easily override components of the theme in layouts/partials/. There are a few features implemented as plugable scss styles. Usually these are features that don't make it to the core but can still be useful. -
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Scramble
Modern Laravel OpenAPI (Swagger) documentation generator
Scramble is OpenAPI (Swagger) documentation generator for Laravel. It generates API documentation for your project automatically without requiring you to manually write PHPDoc annotations. The documentation is generated in OpenAPI 3.1.0 format. To show the documentation in UI, Stoplight Elements is used. The main motto of the project is to generate as much API documentation automatically as possible. This allows you to focus on code and avoid annotating every possible param/field as it may result in outdated documentation. By generating docs automatically from the code your API will always have up-to-date documentation you can trust. -
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CatMDEdit is a metadata editor tool for describing resources, mainly geographic information. Developed by IAAA (University of Zaragoza) and GeoSpatiumLab S.L., sponsored by IGN Spain. Technical details: Java, XML, multiplatform, multilingual.
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ECMAScript
Status, process, and documents for ECMA-262
The most accurate and up-to-date ECMAScript specification. It contains the content of the most recent yearly snapshot plus any finished proposals (those that have reached Stage 4 in the proposal process and thus are implemented in several implementations and will be in the next practical revision) since that snapshot was taken. This Ecma Standard defines the ECMAScript 2022 Language. It is the twelfth edition of the ECMAScript Language Specification. Since publication of the first edition in 1997, ECMAScript has grown to be one of the world's most widely used general-purpose programming languages. It is best known as the language embedded in web browsers but has also been widely adopted for server and embedded applications. ECMAScript is based on several originating technologies, the most well-known being JavaScript (Netscape) and JScript (Microsoft). The language was invented by Brendan Eich at Netscape and first appeared in that company's Navigator 2.0 browser. -
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Wiki.js
A modern and powerful wiki app built on Node.js
Works on virtually any platform and is compatible with either PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, MS SQL Server or SQLite! Manage all aspects of your wiki using the extensive and intuitive admin area. Running on the blazing-fast Node.js engine, Wiki.js is built with performance in mind. Fully customize the appearance of your wiki, including a light and dark mode. You'll be ready to go within minutes! Step-by-step install guides are available for all platforms. Make your wiki public, completely private, or a mix of both. Whether it's on a tiny Raspberry Pi or on a high-performance VM in the cloud, Wiki.js intelligently makes use of the available resources. Built-in authentication with self-registration and password recovery capabilities. Use 3rd-party authentication services like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, GitHub, Discord, Slack and more. Add an extra layer of security using two-factor authentication for supported authentication modules.
