Open Source Unix Shell Documentation Software

The Heirloom Project provides standard Unix utilities.

og-aws (The Open Guide to Amazon Web Services) is a community-maintained reference that consolidates tips, best practices, and practical knowledge for effectively using AWS. Unlike official AWS documentation, which provides only formal product details, this guide integrates real-world experiences, advice, and caveats gathered from engineers who work with AWS daily. It covers core services such as EC2, S3, IAM, load balancers, and EBS, while also providing insights into optional and advanced services. The guide is designed to be concise, practical, and continuously updated, making it a valuable resource for both beginners and experienced cloud practitioners. It addresses topics like cost management, lock-in risks, service selection, and alternatives, helping users make informed architectural decisions. As a collaborative effort, og-aws grows and evolves with community contributions, ensuring its content remains relevant in the fast-changing cloud ecosystem.

nginx-admins-handbook is a practical, in-depth guide for configuring, securing, and operating NGINX across real-world deployments. It distills years of research, notes, and field experience into a single handbook that complements the official docs with concrete rules, explanations, and curated external references. The handbook spans fundamentals and advanced topics alike, from HTTP and SSL/TLS basics to reverse proxy patterns, performance tuning, debugging workflows, and hardening strategies. A centerpiece is its prioritized checklist of 79 rules, grouped by criticality, helping readers focus on what most impacts security, reliability, and speed. Instead of copy-paste snippets in isolation, it emphasizes understanding trade-offs, avoiding common pitfalls, and balancing security with usability. Designed for system administrators and web application engineers, it aims to be a living companion that encourages experimentation, measurement, and continuous improvement of NGINX configurations

Foswiki is an Enterprise wiki, typically used to run a collaboration platform, knowledge base or document management system. Users can create wiki applications using the Topic Markup Language, and developers can extend its functionality with plugins. Foswiki stands for "Free and Open Source" wiki to emphasize its commitment to Open Source software.

TEA is a text editor that provides a wide range of text-processing functions (over 100) and the syntax highlighting. There are two branches of TEA: Qt-based and GTK-based.

Translation team with the primary objective to translate and maintain the translations of some useful SourceForge.net Projects. GUI and CLI applications, PHP, Java and Documentation for Linux, Apple MAC & BSD and Windows. More info on our homepage.

A command-line tool for working with a log of Architecture Decision Records (ADRs). ADRs are stored in a subdirectory of your project as Markdown files. The default directory is doc/adr, but you can specify the directory when you initialize the ADR log. Create a directory named doc/architecture/decisions containing the first ADR, which records that you are using ADRs to record architectural decisions and links to Michael Nygard's article on the subject. Create a new ADR file that is flagged as superceding ADR 9, and changes the status of ADR 9 to indicate that it is superceded by the new ADR. It then opens the new ADR in your editor of choice.

This project has been moved to GitHub: https://github.com/tomschr/dbcookbook/ The DoCookBook project aims to create an open source book about DocBook and the DocBook XSL stylesheets written as a cookbook and released under a Creative Commons license.

The DAPS project moved to https://github.com/openSUSE/daps The SUSE XSL Stylesheets have moved to https://github.com/openSUSE/suse-xsl To join the discussion, under https://github.com/openSUSE/daps/discussions

Comprehensive DocBook XML processing solution for MacOS X

DocScript is an approach to document preparation. It presents tools and utilities to edit and publish documents. The philosophy behind the DocScript project is to utilize the programming tools you're working with anyway in your daily work.

Docsy is a Hugo theme developed by Google for creating structured, user-friendly technical documentation websites. It provides an elegant and consistent layout optimized for documentation sets, with built-in features such as automatic navigation, customizable site structure, and responsive design. The theme simplifies the process of building and maintaining documentation sites by offering flexible configuration options, modern styling, and seamless integration with Hugo’s static site generation system. Users can easily adapt Docsy for projects of any scale—whether personal developer docs or large enterprise documentation hubs. It supports the use of SCSS and PostCSS for advanced styling and includes compatibility with Hugo modules for streamlined project setup and modular development. The project is actively maintained and widely used by developers and open source communities to deliver high-quality, maintainable documentation websites.

DoxyProxy is wrapper software, driving three main components: doxygen, graphviz and xsltproc using specialized Doxyfile templates, xslt templates and your POSIX-like shell environment. Is in an alpha but still useful state. Tested on x86 Linux.

DoxyMentor makes autogeneration of software project documentation a snap, by utliizing DoxyMake (and doxygen), and a source code repository. Supports exporting tagged modules from cvs and documenting them based on a short-and-sweet Doxymake config file.

A script to automatically create documentation for ESX hosts. The output is in HTML format and can be emailed to you directly. The script now also creates a link on the ESX hosts web interface for easy access to the information.

While writing the shell script, we often write the repeated lines of: echo "message" This is one of the most tedious tasks in the shell scripting. By this tool ... 1) We can write the text messages into the plain text. 2) From that text file, our shell script can grab and print the required text fragment.

(Kubuntu is a User-friendly Desktop OS) Various add-ons and enhancements for the Kubuntu Linux distribution, aiming to make it even more appealing for the masses. So the main focus is on average casual desktop users' skill levels and interests.

Linux One Stanza Tips (LOST) is a collection of tips/ snippets related to GNU/Linux. These are relatively short, and suitable for use as email signatures, web tickers, login messages, screen savers etc. The project is aimed primarily at greenhorns. On it

ModelicaFloChrt is a script/Perl process that extracts information from Modelica library html help files and generates flow charts of module connectivity in eps and pdf formats.

Murdoc is a system for presenting documents in webpages. Murdoc includes a lot of tools to create documents, including tools to automatically document a variety of computer systems.

OpenALM is an open-source application lifecycle management system. It is intended to be a framework to implement software development team's process. It also intends to provide an API to plug-in with version control system.

Pau Code Review is a light weight code review tool. The emphasis of this project is to create the artifacts required for a code review without forcing a specific code review process on the user.

SAM is a command line tool (for Slackware Linux) which uses a stack to provide control of variables, including PATH, and functions. To do this it uses a set of scripts, functions and compiled code. The result is a command line environment that changes the way you see and thus changes the way you think. It has helped me to write more and better shell code. Perhaps it will help you also.

Create, maintain and localize a complete documentation for the Sylpheed Email and News client. This includes manual and FAQ.

Transcript merges functionality of legacy UNIX 'script' tool and shell command history to provide a convenient access to the list of executed commands along with its output. Includes also automatic user input highlight and copy to X11 clipboard as HTML