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draw.io
draw.io is a free online diagram drawing application forworkflow, BPM, org charts, UML, ER, network diagrams. No login or registrationare required and features include the ability to save locally (including svg),a range of stencils, .vsdx, Lucidchart and Gliffy import and real time diagramsharing.
yEd Graph Editor
yEd is a powerful diagram editor that can be used to quicklycreate diagrams manually or import external data for analysis andauto-magically arrange even large data sets by just pressing a button. You canuse yEd to quickly create flow charts, BPMN and UML diagrams, organizationcharts, mind maps, and many other kinds of diagrams, graphs, and networks.Choose from a wide range of highly sophisticated layout algorithms toautomatically arrange diagrams in no time.
Dia
Dia is a GTK+ based diagram creation program for Linux,Unix, Mac OS X and Windows released under the GPL license. Dia is roughlyinspired by the commercial Windows program Microsoft Office Visio, though moregeared towards informal diagrams for casual use. It can be used to draw manydifferent kinds of diagrams. It currently has special objects to help drawentity relationship diagrams, UML diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, andmany other diagrams.
LibreOffice - Draw
Draw lets you produce anything from a quick sketch to a complex plan, and gives you the means to communicate with graphics and diagrams. With a maximum page size of 300cm by 300cm, Draw is a an excellent package for producing technical drawings, general posters, and much else.
Pencil Project
Pencil is a standalone app or Firefox extension that lets you create diagrams or UI mockups. It doesn't have collaboration/multi-user features. The Pencil Projects unique mission is to build a free and opensource tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use.
PlantUML
PlantUML is an open-source tool that uses simple textual descriptions to draw UML diagrams. The generator can be run anywhere within JVM and integrated with various application such as wiki, text editor, IDE, programming language, documentation generator, and others. Mostly based on Graphviz. Can render various diagram syntax such as PlantUML, Dot, and Ditaa.
Edraw Max
Creating flowcharts, organizational charts, business diagrams, science illustration, network diagrams, mind map and lots more.
Apache OpenOffice Draw
Draw, part of the Apache OpenOffice suite, is a graphics editor that gives you the tools to communicate with visuals and diagrams. With a maximum page size of 300cm by 300cm, Draw is powerful tool for posters, graphs, charts, and more.
StarUML
StarUML is a program to develop fast, flexible, extensible, featureful, and freely-available UML/MDA platform running on Win32 platform. The goal of the StarUML project is to build a software modeling tool and also platform that is a compelling replacement of commercial UML tools such as Rational Rose, Together and so on.
CmapTools
This software empowers users to construct, navigate, share, and criticize knowledge models represented as Concept Maps. The toolkit is platform independent and network enabled, allowing the users to build, and collaborate during the construction of concept maps with colleagues anywhere on the network, as well as, share and navigate through others models distributed on servers throughout Internet.
Umbrello
Umbrello is a Unified Modelling Language (UML) modelling tool and code generator. It can create diagrams of software and other systems in the industry-standard UML format, and can also generate code from UML diagrams in a variety of programming languages.
Whimsical
Whimsical is a collaborative visual workspace for creating flowcharts, wireframes, virtual sticky notes, and more!.
Calligra Flow
Calligra Flow is an easy to use diagramming and flowcharting application with tight integration to the other Calligra applications. It enables you to create network diagrams, organisation charts, flowcharts and more.
Creately
Creately makes diagramming and design easy. We do this with an access anywhere, online application that is purpose built for collaboration. Creately allows teams to solve problems and collaborate visually. It stands out from the crowd for its ease of use and intuitive interface. Built-in collaboration, revision control, 1-click publishing on the Internet and Smart Objects make Creately the easiest and most powerful online diagramming application today.
diagrams
Diagrams is a powerful, flexible, declarative domain-specific language for creating vector graphics, using the Haskell programming language.
UMLGraph
UMLGraph allows the declarative specification and drawing of UML class and sequence diagrams. The current features are part of an ongoing effort aiming to provide support for all types UML diagrams.
IYOPRO
IYOPRO, Improve your Processes, is a professional online BPM and workflow system that utilizes the BPMN 2.0 standard. Run it in less than one minute - without installation - always in the latest version. IYOPRO offers modelling, simulation and workflow automation in three editions. There are various operating modes available: SaaS within the browser, installed out of the browser and on premise.
MagicDraw
MagicDraw is an award-winning business process, architecture, software and system modeling tool with teamwork support. MagicDraw UML can do comprehensive UML diagramming, reverse and forward engineering for Java and C++.
Qfsm
Qfsm - A graphical tool for designing finite state machines. Qfsm is a graphical editor for finite state machines written in C++ using the graphical toolkit Qt. A graphical tool for designing finite state machines and exporting them to Hardware Description Languages, such as VHDL, AHDL, Verilog, or Ragel/SMC files for C, C++, Objective-C, Java, Python, PHP, Perl, Lua code generation.
Wirify
Wirify is free, easy and fun to use Step back and see the big picture of a web page Focus on page structure by hiding the content Analyse page layout to aid learning and teaching Wireframes look cool
Breakdown Notes
Breakdown notes: Make mindmaps and notes online for free. Breakdown Notes is a web-app to make notes, diagrams or mindmaps in your browser. It currenty works on desktop or laptop using recent version of Chrome or Firefox. It's free to use and requires no registration. Breakdown Notes mostly lookes like an electronic transparentboard to which you can add text, shapes, paths and pictures. Moving, resizing or styling shapes and text is easy.
Cubetto
Cubetto gives you the opportunity to model in modeling languages from a vast set of selections. You can choose between BPMN, Event-driven Process Chains (EPC) to Flowcharts. Even a generic modeling language for your own needs is available. The app features a full auto-layout and the specially designed Process-Flow-Wizard, which guides you step by step through the modeling process. The app has an English and German interface.
Thortspace
Install the Free Thortspace App on Windows, Mac, Android, iPad and Linux… The world’s first collaborative 3D mind mapping software. Breakthrough thinking, whenever and wherever it is needed most. Thortspace has many different possible applications; however, the great potential is to help those individuals or organisations in the formative stages of getting their thoughts together.
Linux Alternatives To Microsoft Project
ProjectLibre
ProjectLibre is a Java-based project management solution that gives Microsoft Project a run for its money. Offering a UI similar enough to ease the transition from...
GanttProject
GanttProject is a cross-platform desktop tool for project scheduling and management. It runs on Windows, Linux and MacOSX, it is free and its code is opensource. What...
Spekfy
Visualise project structure, capture & manage requirements, estimate and analyse financials, discuss details with customer and team.
LibrePlan
LibrePlan is an open source web application for project planning, monitoring and control. LibrePlan is a collaborative tool to plan, monitor and control projects and...
GNOME Planner
Planner is the GNOME project management tool. Its goal is to be an easy-to-use no-nonsense cross-platform project management application. Planner is a GTK+...
Bitrix24
Some companies already use Bitrix24 for project collaboration and customer management. Tasks, chats, contacts and VoIP calls - all in one suite. Free for up to 12 users.
ActiveCollab
ActiveCollab is the project management software that gives you complete control over your work. Make Real Work happen now!.
ZenTao
ZenTao is an open source project management tool, supporting Scrum. It integrates product management, project management, bug management and QA management, etc....
Open Atrium
Open Atrium is an installation profile for Drupal. Open Atrium is an intranet in a box that has group spaces to allow different teams to have their own...
Ora
Ora is an all-in-one realtime workspace for teams. It has everything your team might need to be productive. Task management, kanban, time tracking, chat, reports on...
Bric
Bric helps creative agencies increase employee utilization through more accurate project planning and time tracking. We do this with machine learning. Bric automatically...
ProjeQtOr
ProjeQtOr (formely Project'Or RIA) is an open source Project Management Software, gathering in a single tool every functionality needed to organize your projects. ...
jxProject
Free Project Management Software - Windows/Linux/Mac, Supports resource leveling/optimizer, parent/child task structures and familiar linking relationships. Flexible...
Rachota
Rachota is a portable application for timetracking different projects. It runs everywhere. It displays time data in diagram form, creates customized HTML reports or...
Taskjuggler
TaskJuggler is a modern and powerful, Free and Open Source Software project management tool. Its new approach to project planning and tracking is more flexible and superior to the commonly used Gantt chart editing tools.
BamBam!
BamBam!™ is a collaboration platform for people of different roles and work s for whom regular task management software is not enough.
CarbonCopy
CarbonCopy is a collaborative project manager based in contexts, using the basis of communication and user defined structures.
Teamweek
Teamweek is and online project planner and team calendar, a perfect gantt chart alternative.
Easy Redmine
Easy Redmine is a web based collaborative project management application.
Calligra Plan
Calligra Plan (formerly KPlato) is a project management application. It is intended for managing moderately large projects with multiple resources.
Avaza
Avaza is an all-in-one solution for project management, resource scheduling, tracking time, managing expenses, quotes & invoices.
Gladys
The key solution to boost your productivity and innovation.
TIEMCHART
Create Project Plans, Interactive Gantt charts, and Real time project monitoring system. Industry specific online project management software from TIEMCHART.
SOPlanning
SOPlanning is an online tool. It will help you to efficiently plan projects and tasks from any browser or device. Assign work for each member of your teams, no matter what's your activity.
MOOS Project Viewer
MOOS Project Viewer is a Microsoft Project viewer that can open any MS Project file type (.mpp, .mpt, .mpx, .xml) for any Microsoft Project version (2000, 2003, 2007, 2010).
RationalPlan
RationalPlan by Stand By Soft is a great alternative to Microsoft Project with some extra-features like multiproject management.
Instant Team
Instant Team is a fully customizable software for Project Management and CRM - simplifies tasks and resources management, baseline tracking and costs. Excellent alternative to MS Project.
GroupThinq
Accounting systems are built for accountants and they are great for filing a year-end but they suck at running a day-to-day consulting company where every hour has value.
JREAM Projects
A simple web-based project management application in PHP (>5.2) for hosting on your own server/webspace.
freelancerKit
PHP Project Management. Similar to ActiveCollab and Basecamp, affordable alternative which includes Project Management, Collaboration, Documents, File Sharing, Mailing, Newsletters, Todo, Ticketing, etc.
Onepoint Project
Project Management Software: Onepoint Project - open source commercial, IPMA/PMI-compliant enterprise project management solution specializing in integrating agile and JIRA projects
Kantask
An all-in-one visual workspace to build high performing teams.
Kelloo
Kelloo's resource planning software enables you to organize, prioritize and plan your work in a quick and visual way.
PASKR
PASKR is a cloud based construction management solution built for every member of your construction team to bid, build, and track great projects.
2-Plan
2-plan Project Management Systems offers three PM tools: a free desktop system, an open-source software for multiple projects and teams, and a scrum board.
How to sync Microsoft OneDrive on Linux
OneDrive (previously known as SkyDrive) is a popular cloud storage offering from Microsoft. Currently OneDrive offers 7GB free storage for every new signup. As you can imagine, OneDrive is well integrated with other Microsoft software products. Microsoft also offers a standalone OneDrive client which automatically backs up pictures and videos taken by a camera to OneDrive storage. But guess what. This client is available for all major PC/mobile platforms except Linux. "OneDrive on any device, any time"? Well, it is not there, yet.
Don't get disappointed. The open-source community already has already come up with a solution for you.onedrive-d written by a Boilermaker in Lafayette can get the job done. Running as a monitoring daemon,onedrive-d can automatic sync a local folder with OneDrive cloud storage.
In this tutorial, I will describe how to sync Microsoft OneDrive on Linux by using onedrive-d.
Install onedrive-d on Linux
While onedrive-d was originally developed for Ubuntu/Debian, it now supports CentOS/Fedora/RHEL as well.
Installation is as easy as typing the following.
$ git clone https://github.com/xybu92/onedrive-d.git
$ cd onedrive-d
$ ./inst install
First-Time Configuration
After installation, you need to go through one-time configuration which involves granting onedrive-d read/write access to your OneDrive account.
First, create a local folder which will be used to sync against a remote OneDrive account.
$ mkdir ~/onedrive
Then run the following command to start the first-time configuration.
$ onedrive-d
It will pop up a onedrive-d's Settings window as shown below. In "Location" option, choose the local folder you created earlier. In "Authentication" option, you will see "You have not authenticated OneDrive-d yet" message. Now click on "Connect to OneDrive.com" box.
WPS Office For Linux Looks As Good As MS Office, Performs Even Better
http://xmodulo.com/2014/06/sync-microsoft-onedrive-linux.html
It’s about time someone made an Office suite that can actually claim to be better than Microsoft Office. With WPS Office for Linux, Kingsoft has a winner.
We have shown you how to get Microsoft Office running in Linux through Wine, but if the one thing keeping you back from using Linux is a native Microsoft Office alternative you’re in luck. WPS Office is essentially a Linux port of the Kingsoft Office suite available for Windows, and is a darn impressive clone of MS Office.
The current package, Alpha 11, includes three apps: Writer, Presentation and Spreadsheet — alternatives for the famous trinity of Word, Powerpoint and Excel. Sure: it falls short for some features, but it also includes many that Microsoft would do well to emulate.
With A Ribbon On Top
When I say Kingsoft has made a clone, I mean it. It’s missing Microsoft’s blue colour scheme, but you can even change that by switching themes if you really want.
The Ribbon UI, which Microsoft introduced with Office 2007 and continued with Office 2010 and 2013, is something most workers now swear by. It makes almost every task infinitely easier with its easy interface. And WPS Office has cloned that pretty well.
And hey, if you don’t like the Ribbon, you can switch to the ‘Classic’ view, which is akin to Office XP or Office 2003. Perfect for traditionalists.
Just like with MS Office, the default ‘Home’ tab of the Ribbon gives you some basic options to format a document, presentation or spreadsheet. Other tabs include Page Layout, Insert, Formulas, Table , Animation, Slideshow, Review, View and more, depending on the app you are using.
There are some tabs that aren’t in the MS Office Ribbon, such as ‘Reference’ in Writer, with shortcuts to insert a table of contents and footnotes — two tools I use very often when editing a book.
What I really liked was the inclusion of a second toolbar of shortcuts on the right, which changes based on the app. So for example, in Presentation, you get shortcuts for colour schemes, effects, autoshapes and materials, etc. There’s also a Backup button here, which we will come to soon.
I didn’t really find any feature from MS Office that was missing in WPS Office. Let me know your findings below, though.
Overall, it really looks, feels and behaves like Microsoft’s popular software. And while that might not be a good thing for some, I’m all for it. Having used MS Office for so many years now, I find comfort in a similar environment rather than having to learn my way around a whole new software.
Paragraph Formatting: There’s a persistent floating button called ‘Paragraph Format’ next to each paragraph in your Writer document. Hit it and it auto-selects the whole paragraph and lets you format its layout, much like you would stretch or compress an image. Just hold one of the sides and move it to set how you want the paragraph to appear. In Paragraph Format mode, you can also select multiple paragraphs (Ctrl+Left Mouse Button) or the whole document (Ctrl+A). It’s just so easy.
Tabs: I really have no idea why Microsoft still doesn’t have this feature, but I’m glad WPS comes with it out of the box. Your documents, spreadsheets and presentations can be opened in tabs, which nest in a little bar right under the Ribbon. If you haven’t used tabs before in an office suite, they will change your work life — just like they did in browsers.
Backup Management: Sure, Microsoft has AutoSave, but this is something more. WPS Office creates periodic backups of your documents, whether you’ve saved them or not. The best part is that it actually saves them in a folder t you can go back to at any time in the future. It doesn’t matter whether your PC or the software crashed unexpectedly, that earlier version of your document is forever stored safely.
Text To Columns: Another neat option was ‘Text to Columns’ in Spreadsheet, which actually was the original reason I found WPS office. I was looking for a way to quickly sort my contact list, which had a single cell for all contact names. I wanted to split them into First Name and Last Name. Text To Columns let me choose ‘space’ as a separator and sorted my list into two columns — as simple as that. You can choose characters other than a space, or even draw a line straight through the column to split it into two.
Compatibility
The biggest problem with WPS Office at the moment is that the file formats it supports are too limited. Regular DOC, XLS and PPT files are fine, as are simple common ones like CSV, TXT and HTML. But when it comes to Office 2007 files, like DOCX and PPTX, you can only read them — you can’t edit or save them. Which is a problem, because a lot of professionals today use those by default. Surprisingly, it also doesn’t support OpenOffice or LibreOffice formats like ODT.
Instead, WPS has its own file formats (WPS, DPS, ET). The only third-party format that works without a glitch right now is XLSX in Spreadsheets, which you can read, edit and save.
The inability to edit DOCX, PPTX, ODT and other file formats can be a deal-breaker for many people. The developers have recently said that they will be supporting DOCX editing in WPS Office Alpha 12, the first version of which is slated to release on September 10 2013.
WPS vs The Rest
Linux has plenty of alternative office suites. Compared to some of those, WPS Office is quite limited in what it offers. After all, it has only the big three — word processor, presentation and spreadsheets — whereas other suites like OpenOffice,Calligra and LibreOffice come with other work-related applications
such as database management (Base, Kexi) and vector graphics tools (Draw, Karbon). And if your needs are restricted to just word processing or only spreadsheets, thenAbiWord (which we have reviewed) and Gnumeric are much lighter, standalone programs than WPS Office.
WPS Office still has plenty going for it. It looks polished, feels like a professional software to use, and has loads of cool features that will make you never want to go back to Office 2007 or any of the other software. Really, once you get used to that Paragraph Formatting, you wonder how you ever lived with MS Office for all these years. And all for the wonderful price of free
Plus, although the file format support is limited, I have to mention that the common file formats it does support now — DOC, XLS, XLSX and PPT — look almost exactly like what they do originally in MS Office, which is something that can’t be said about competitors like LibreOffice or IBM Lotus Symphony, all of which often distort the formatting of files created in MS Office.
Unless you specifically need more or less than the aforementioned three basics of an office suite, WPS Office is the best you can get right now.
Installation
WPS Office Alpha 11 for Linux is available as downloadable RPM (best for Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE), Debian (best for Ubuntu, Mint, Knoppix) and Tarball packages. Grab the package that’s right for your operating system, double-click it and just follow the step-by-step installation process. It couldn’t be simpler.
What do you think about WPS Office? Has it replaced your default office suite or are you sticking with your current options? We’d love to know which one you choose and why in the comments section below.
Web-Based Microsoft Office That Works Natively With Linux - No Wine Required
1. Open your favorite web browser (I use Firefox for Linux).
2. You must first create a free Microsoft Account here: https://login.live.com Click on the "Sign Up Now" option (lower right) to creat your account.
3. After you've created your Microsoft account, go to Microsoft One Drive here: https://onedrive.live.com
4. Next, click on the One Drive “Sign In” box at the top right. Use your Microsoft Account to sign in. You'll be re-directed to this link: https://login.live.com/login.srf?wa=wsignin1.0&rpsnv=12&ct=1394662346&rver=6.4.6456.0&wp=MBI_SSL_SHARED&wreply=https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?cid=B0431E1C0159A4CF&resid=B0431E1C0159A4CF!164&app=Word&wdo=1&lc=1033&id=250206&cbcxt=sky&cbcxt=sky
5. After successfully signing in, you'll be redirected back to the MS One Drive Main page athttps://onedrive.live.com
6. You are now in the One Drive environment, main page. In effect, you have created your own individual 7GB free cloud storage drive. Along with this comes access to MS Office On-Line.
7. To open to MS Office apps, there are two ways:
(a) At the top left next to the “One Drive” logo (with the cloud icon), click on the down arrow. This opens a list of links to apps - Outlook, Contacts, Calendar, One Drive (cloud storage) Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and OneNote.
(b) Or, at the top left next to the word “Create”, click the down arrow. You'll find options for going straight to creating Word docs, Excel spreadsheets, Powerpoint presentations, etc.
8. This tutorial does not cover specifics of how to use each MS Office application (perhaps a topic for a follow-on tutorial), other than the following points:
(a) In the One Drive main page, top left, you'll find “Sort By.” Click the down arrow to find options for sorting docs by name, type, date, etc. Hint - you have to create docs first for all sort options to be available.
(b) Next to “Sort By” you'll find icons for “Views.” Hovering your pointer over each icon shows options for “Details View,” “Thumbnails View,” or “Details Pane.” I prefer the Details View as it shows the folder structure of your One Drive account.
(c) You can create new docs on One Drive. Use the "Create" button.
(d) You can upload existing docs to One Drive, and then edit in one of the MS Office apps. Use the "Upload" button.
(e) You can save docs to One Drive, and/or save to your local system drive.
(f) In each app (Word, Excel, Powerpoint), at the top very far right of the screen, you'll see a question mark “?”....this will open the useful Help Menu.
(g). Office on-line is meant to be highly collaborative (similar to Google Docs), so take a look at the collaboration features.
(h) There's no off-line MS Office capability, so if you want to work offline on a doc, you'll have to use your favorite Linux app (Libre, Open Office, text editor, etc)
(i). See also more information here:
http://www.howtogeek.com/183299/a-free-microsoft-office-is-office-online-worth-using
Ways to Install Microsoft Office
There are several different ways to install Microsoft Office on Linux:
- Wine: Wine is a Windows compatibility layer that allows you to run Windows programs on Linux. It’s not perfect, but it’s optimized enough to run popular programs like Microsoft Office well. Wine will work better with older versions of Office, so the older your version of Office, the more likely it is to work without any trouble. Wine is completely free, although you may have to do some tweaking yourself.
- CrossOver: CrossOver is a paid product that uses code from the free version of Wine. While it costs money, CrossOver does more of the work for you. They test their code to ensure that popular programs like Microsoft Office run well and ensure upgrades won’t break them. CrossOver also provides support — so if Office doesn’t run well, you have someone to contact who will help you.
- Virtual Machine: You could also install Microsoft Windows in a virtual machine using a program like VirtualBox or VMware and install Microsoft Office inside it. With Seamless Mode or Unity Mode, you could even have the Office windows appear on your Linux desktop. This method provides the best compatibility, but it’s also the heaviest — you have to run a full version of Windows in the background. You’ll need a copy of Windows, such as an old Windows XP disc you have lying around, to install in the virtual machine.
- We’ll be focusing on using Wine or Crossover to install Office directly on Linux. If you want to use a virtual machine, all you have to do is install VirtualBox or VMware Player and create a new virtual machine. The program will walk you through installing Windows and you can install Office inside your virtualized Windows as you normally would.
