Open Source Linux Documentation Software
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Documentation Software for Linux
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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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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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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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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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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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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Just the Docs
A modern, high customizable, responsive Jekyll theme for documention
Just the Docs gives your documentation a jumpstart with a responsive Jekyll theme that is easily customizable and hosted on GitHub Pages. Just the Docs is built for Jekyll, a static site generator. View the Jekyll quick start guide for more information. Just the Docs requires no special plugins and can run on GitHub Pages’ standard Jekyll compiler. The Jekyll SEO Tag plugin is included by default (no need to run any special installation) to inject SEO and open graph metadata on docs pages. Your theme is set up just like a normal Jekyll site! To test your theme, run bundle exec jekyll serve. Add pages, documents, data, etc. like normal to test your theme's contents. As you make modifications to your theme and to your content, your site will regenerate and you should see the changes in the browser after a refresh, just like normal. -
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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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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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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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Documenter.jl
A documentation generator for Julia
A documentation generator for Julia. A package for building documentation from docstrings and markdown files. -
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xindy is an index processor that can be used to generate book-like indexes for arbitrary document-preparation systems. This includes systems such as TeX and LaTeX, the roff-family, and SGML/XML-based systems (e.g., HTML).
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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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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. -
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terraform-docs
Generate documentation from Terraform modules in various formats
terraform-docs is a utility to generate documentation from Terraform modules in various output formats. The terraform-docs configuration file uses the yaml format in order to override any default behaviors. This is a convenient way to share the configuration amongst teammates, CI, or other toolings. Once you set it up and configured it, every time you or your teammates want to regenerate documentation (manually, through a pre-commit hook, or as part of a CI pipeline) all you need to do is run terraform-docs /module/path. One of the most popular format is markdown table, which is a very good fit for generating README of module. terraform-docs is available on Linux, macOS, Windows, and FreeBSD platforms. terraform-docs will locate any available configuration file without needing to explicitly pass the --config flag. -
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Official Support and Documentation for SourceForge.net, provided by the SourceForge.net Service Operations Group (SOG).
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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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Docsy
Hugo theme for open source documentation
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. -
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Documize Community
Modern Confluence alternative designed for internal & external docs
Zerabase unifies product objectives, deliverables, assets, analytics & customer interactions. Everything organized in one place to help product teams think, share and execute. Documize Community is an open source modern, lightweight alternative to Confluence and other similar solutions. Built for technical and non-technical users. Designed to unify both customer-facing and internal documentation. The organization through labels, spaces, and categories. It's built with Golang + EmberJS and compiled down to a single executable binary that is available for Linux, Windows and Mac. All you need to provide is your database -- PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server or any MySQL variant. -
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OpenAPI Generator
OpenAPI Generator allows generation of API client libraries
With 50+ client generators, you can easily generate code to interact with any server which exposes an OpenAPI document. Maintainers of APIs may also automatically generate and distribute clients as part of official SDKs. Each client supports different options and features, but all templates can be replaced with your own Mustache-based templates. Getting started with server development can be tough, especially if you're evaluating technologies. We can reduce the burden when you bring your own OpenAPI document. Some generators support Inversion of Control, allowing you to iterate on design via your OpenAPI document without worrying about blowing away your entire domain layer when you regenerate code. Ever wanted to iteratively design a MySQL database, but writing table declarations was too tedious? OpenAPI documents allow you to convert the metadata about your API into some other format. -
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Optic
Generate, Diff, and Test OpenAPI Descriptions
Vizualize API changes to improve the quality of reviews. Test API changes to ensure nothing bad slips through. OpenAPI diffs are difficult to read. Because these files contain references, small changes can have a large effect on your API. Linters can not check for backward compatibility or enforce versioning and deprecation policies. Optic adds a visual changelog to every Pull Request that makes it easy to see exactly what API changes have been proposed. Optic tests each set of API changes in CI, making it more powerful than a linter. Our built-in checks will help any team ship a more reliable API. OpenAPI diffs are very difficult to review, comprehend and give feedback on. Optic’s changelogs are easy to understand allowing anyone (even non-developers) to participate in review. Optic goes beyond linting OpenAPI, it lets you write test about each set of API changes. We also make it easy to share your API standards.
