Open Source Linux Documentation Software

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.

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.

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.

WackoWiki is a light and easy to install multilingual Wiki-engine. Supports WYTIWYG-editing, page rights (ACLs), design themes (skins), file upload, email notification and much more. Compatible with PHP 8.0 - 8.5 and MariaDB / MySQL / SQLite.

Allows to generate a wiki (interlinked HTML files) from a bunch of XML formatted files. It also allows to add a Help-system to a Swing or JavaFX application. Also it is also possible to generate a PDF, Word (docx), or epub document rather than a wiki. The tool also provides a visual editor to edit the wiki. The project also support both the Mediawiki and Markdown syntax.

Piggydb is a flexible and scalable knowledge building platform that supports a heuristic or bottom-up approach to discover new concepts or ideas based on your input. You can begin with using it as a flexible outliner, diary or notebook, and as your database grows, Piggydb helps you to shape or elaborate your own knowledge. Piggydb is a Web application provided as a self-contained package that contains a Web server and database engine. With Piggydb, you can create highly structured content by connecting knowledge fragments to each other to build a network structure, which is more flexible and expressive than a tree structure. Fragments can also be classified using hierarchical tags.

Parse formatted man pages and man page source from most flavors of UNIX. Convert to HTML, ASCII, TkMan, DocBook, and other formats.

A complete documentation solution for PHP. Generates javaDoc-style API documentation and user-level manuals from your PHP code.

Javadoc-search CGI script searches html generated by javadoc. Use it to quickly pull up javadoc by class or class member.

XSL-FO Formatting markup WYSIWYG editor & PDF tree BookMark. XML document which is most often used as PDFs or RTF generator. It can read and edit 95% from Apache fop sample. Export to fo,pdf,rtf,tif fax, page, Import fo,html,page,odt OpenOffice 1-2

Resx Editor is a small translation-oriented file editor for Microsoft RESX 2.0 files. Resx Editor is designed for professional translators (include a word count feature).

Experimental browser that natively supports HTML, PDF, man pages, TeX DVI, scanned paper. Annotate with hyperlinks, highlights, notes, executable copy editor markup. [PDF tools for compress, impose, decrypt/encrypt, split/merge have been moved.]

The Monster Journal - An electronic journalling program to replace the paper notebook. The Monster Journal provides the user a centralized, easily accessible electronic notebook for storing thoughts, ideas, and answers to questions.

KCWiki is a set of wiki engines. awiki is a simple wiki. Goal is simplest but modular code. one-page coded style. No database is needed.

The objective of the OpenBerg Project is to develop Open-Source, Open-Standards-based, Multi-Platform tools for eBook authors, editors and users. We are currently working on OpenBerg Lector, an e-Book reader, and OpenBerg Rector, an e-Book compiler.

Glossword is a system to create and publish online multilingual dictionary, glossary, or encyclopedia. Suits for creating web sites also. WAMP [Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP] package is available.

A Java GUI to manage DocBook parts like glossary, bibliography and blockquotes.

This is a client side XML Editing and XML Message generation framework which is flexible/powerful yet standard compliant and easy to implement. The idea is based on SGML Architectural Form Processing and XHTML Modularization.

The BanPro DMS is a solution for any Internet or Intranet site which requires a rich-text environment for the creation and sharing of documents. Perfect for anyone who wants to run a blog, journal or other rich-text document pages on their network.

Bethelite is a content management system based on version release-1_2-branch of the PhpWiki application. Bethelite adds user management, site management, and access levels.

Tools for moving from Blog:CMS to NucleusCMS. All tools are Hacks & may require some PHP skills. Check our documentation for the best answers found todate. If you move to NucleusCMS let us know how it went - we'd love to hear some "war stories".

Calenco is a Web collaborative platform that enable remote teams of writers, proofreader, graphic designers, translators, etc. to produce together XML documents like user guides, security procedures, etc.

A group of shared development tools using GTK or Java interfaces for creation of open source projects or software development education.

I have stopped developing this project, as I found DokuWiki to be exactly what I was looking for when starting to develop Codeslang. Sorry.

This WordPress plugin integrates a generated documentation (like NDoc and JavaDoc) within your blog. Visitors are now able to blog on your software documentation.