Musicat is billed as a sleek music player for your local music library. It supports MP3, FLAC, WAV, AAC, and OGG formats.
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3 Useful Free and Open Source R Linters
This article picks some useful tools to help you fix R code.
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14 Useful Free and Open Source CSS Parsers
A CSS parser is a component of a web browser (or any CSS-processing tool) that reads CSS code and turns it into a structured format.
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Orange Pi 6 Plus Single Board Computer running Linux: Power Consumption
For this article in the series, I’m looking at the power consumption of the Orange Pi 6 Plus comparing it to other machines.
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podliner – terminal-based podcast player
podliner is a terminal-based podcast player. It’s cross-platform software that runs under Linux, macOS, and Windows.
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Linux Candy: ascii_moon – displays the moon phase
ascii_moon is a small TUI program that displays the moon phase in ASCII art. It’s a small single native binary.
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BOSGAME M6 HX370 AI PC running Linux – BIOS
In this article in the series I’ll show you many of the BIOS options that are available with the BOSGAME M6 Plus.
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Best Free and Open Source Software: December 2025 Updates
December 2025 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.
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LinuxLinks: Our most-read stories of 2025
I’ve trawled through our statistics and found our ten most well received posts/series that saw the highest page views for 2025.
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LinuxLinks.com reaches epic milestone
We at LinuxLinks.com are thrilled to announce a remarkable achievement: we’ve just published our 10,000th article on all things Linux!
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LinuxLinks – The Home of Linux
Our popular series on the best free and open source Linux software, hardware including mini PCs and SBCs, phones, and NAS devices.
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Creality Print – 3D slicer for Creality printers
Creality Print is forked from Orca Slice. In turn, Orca Slicer is forked from Bambu Studio, a fork of PrusaSlicer, a fork of Slic3r.
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ReShell – modern shell
The ReShell project aims to provide a complete alternative to popular Linux shells such as the sh family (sh, bash, zsh, ksh, …)
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10 Best Free and Open Source Graphical BitTorrent Clients
BitTorrent, also referred to as simply torrent, is an internet transfer protocol for peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P).
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17 Best Free and Open Source Replacements for ls
When invoked without any arguments, ls lists the files in the current working directory. We recommend some great replacements.
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PikaTorrent – pick a torrent, stream and download
PikaTorrent is billed as a next-generation torrent client offering a beautiful, lightweight, and cross-platform app
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FTS – fast local-network file transfers and communication
FTS is a lightweight CLI tool and TUI application for fast local-network file transfers and communication.
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SeqTUI – Terminal Alignment Viewer and Toolkit
SeqTUI is a fast terminal-based viewer and command-line toolkit for sequences. View, translate, convert (to FASTA)
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21 Best Free and Open Source Linux Markdown Editors
Markdown is a plain text formatting syntax created by John Gruber in 2004. We feature our recommended open source Markdown editors.
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mmtui – TUI disk mount manager
mmtui is a TUI disk mount manager for TUI file managers for Linux.
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Mansnip – navigate through man pages
Mansnip is a command-line tool that makes Linux manual pages (manpages) easier to search and navigate by extracting relevant snippets.
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btdu – sampling disk usage profiler for btrfs
btdu is a sampling disk usage profiler for btrfs. It’s written in the D language.
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Footfetch – system profiling tool
Footfetch is a CLI utility for viewing system information, but with a twist
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SwiftLint – enforce Swift style and conventions
SwiftLint is a tool to enforce Swift style and conventions, loosely based on the now archived GitHub Swift Style Guide.
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9 Best Free and Open Source Linux Caching Systems
Caches are employed in a variety of different ways. Here’s our recommended free and open source caching systems.
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Katifetch – system information tool
Katifetch is a cross-platform system information tool (fetch) that displays system details alongside ASCII art.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: man
A Linux system comes with a whole collection of system reference manuals (known as man pages). There’s a man page for each command or program.
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Yamtrack – self hosted media tracker
Yamtrack is a self hosted media tracker for movies, tv shows, anime, manga, video games and books.
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Scrap – block based programming language
Scrap is a new block based programming language with the aim towards advanced users.
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