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Discover open-source software founded or developed in Canada — from academic projects to government tools and community initiatives.

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OpenHMD

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Joey Ferwerda & contributors, Canadian team 2013 Toronto, Ontario Boost Software License v0.3.0

OpenHMD is a free and open-source API and drivers for immersive technology such as head-mounted displays (VR/AR). Canadian developers have been central contributors, and the project supports a wide range of VR headsets on Linux.

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Maple Linux

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Bartlomiej Mika, Rodolfo Martinez 2025 Southwold, Quebec GPL-2 v1.4.7

Maple Linux is a Canadian maintained, Debian based distro. It ships with Cinnamon DE for an easy transition for Windows users, and includes additional security and privacy enhancements out of box. Learn more at maplelinux.ca

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Linux

Communication
Open Source

Open-source software project maintained in a public source repository.

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Util Linux

Communication
Open Source

Open-source software project maintained in a public source repository.

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Podman

Communication
International Apache-2.0

Podman is an open-source software project focused on containers, devops, linux. It can be evaluated as a transparent, community-developed alternative for individuals, organizations, and technical teams.

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Homebrew

Communication
International BSD-2-Clause

Homebrew is an open-source software project focused on package manager, macos, linux. It can be evaluated as a transparent, community-developed alternative for individuals, organizations, and technical teams.

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Flatpak

Communication
International LGPL-2.1

Flatpak is an open-source software project focused on package manager, desktop, linux. It can be evaluated as a transparent, community-developed alternative for individuals, organizations, and technical teams.

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AppImageKit

Communication
International MIT

AppImageKit is an open-source software project focused on package manager, portable, linux. It can be evaluated as a transparent, community-developed alternative for individuals, organizations, and technical teams.

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Snapd

Communication
International GPL-3.0

Snapd is an open-source software project focused on package manager, linux, containers. It can be evaluated as a transparent, community-developed alternative for individuals, organizations, and technical teams.

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Bubblewrap

Communication
International LGPL-2.0

Bubblewrap is an open-source software project focused on sandbox, security, linux. It can be evaluated as a transparent, community-developed alternative for individuals, organizations, and technical teams.

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Firejail

Communication
International GPL-2.0

Firejail is an open-source software project focused on sandbox, security, linux. It can be evaluated as a transparent, community-developed alternative for individuals, organizations, and technical teams.

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OpenSCAP

Communication
International LGPL-2.1

OpenSCAP is an open-source software project focused on security, compliance, linux. It can be evaluated as a transparent, community-developed alternative for individuals, organizations, and technical teams.

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Lynis

Communication
International GPL-3.0

Lynis is an open-source software project focused on security, audit, linux. It can be evaluated as a transparent, community-developed alternative for individuals, organizations, and technical teams.

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AIDE

Communication
International GPL-2.0

AIDE is an open-source software project focused on security, file integrity, linux. It can be evaluated as a transparent, community-developed alternative for individuals, organizations, and technical teams.

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Rkhunter

Communication
International GPL-2.0

Rkhunter is an open-source software project focused on security, rootkit, linux. It can be evaluated as a transparent, community-developed alternative for individuals, organizations, and technical teams.

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Chkrootkit

Communication
International BSD

Chkrootkit is an open-source software project focused on security, rootkit, linux. It can be evaluated as a transparent, community-developed alternative for individuals, organizations, and technical teams.

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Btrfs-progs

Communication
International GPL-2.0

Btrfs-progs is an open-source software project focused on filesystem, storage, linux. It can be evaluated as a transparent, community-developed alternative for individuals, organizations, and technical teams.

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Cockpit

Communication
International LGPL-2.1

Cockpit is an open-source software project focused on server management, web ui, linux. It can be evaluated as a transparent, community-developed alternative for individuals, organizations, and technical teams.

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Webmin

Communication
International BSD-3-Clause

Webmin is an open-source software project focused on server management, web ui, linux. It can be evaluated as a transparent, community-developed alternative for individuals, organizations, and technical teams.

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Ajenti

Communication
International MIT

Ajenti is an open-source software project focused on server management, web ui, linux. It can be evaluated as a transparent, community-developed alternative for individuals, organizations, and technical teams.

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Virt-manager

Communication
International GPL-2.0

Virt-manager is an open-source software project focused on virtualization, desktop, linux. It can be evaluated as a transparent, community-developed alternative for individuals, organizations, and technical teams.

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WireGuard

Networking
International open-source community Various, International GPL-2.0

A modern VPN protocol and implementation designed for simplicity, speed, and strong cryptography.

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FreeIPA

Security
International open-source community Various, International GPL-3.0

An integrated identity management solution for Linux environments using LDAP, Kerberos, DNS, and certificates.

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btop

Office
Apache-2.0

Resource monitor for processors, memory, disks, networks, and processes with a terminal interface.

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Tetragon

Media & Design
Apache-2.0

eBPF-based security observability and runtime enforcement tool for Linux and Kubernetes.

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KubeArmor

Media & Design
Apache-2.0

Runtime security enforcement system for Kubernetes workloads using Linux security technologies.

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Warpinator

Office
GPL-3.0

Linux Mint file-transfer tool for sharing files between computers on a local network.

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KOReader

Office
AGPL-3.0

Document and e-book reader optimized for e-ink devices and Linux-based readers.

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