Astra is a music player designed for playing local music files, whether your collection consists of FLAC, MP3, or other common audio formats.
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firemark – flexible Linux watermarking tool for images and PDFs
firemark is a command-line tool that adds watermarks to images and PDF documents before sharing them with third parties.
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Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux: Battery Life
For this article in the series, I’m looking at the battery life of the laptop in more detail. The 16″ model of the laptop has a 60Wh battery.
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Receiver – a modern internet radio player progressing rapidly
Receiver is an awesome open source internet radio player. If you like internet radio, you really should try it today!
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Best Free and Open Source Software: February 2026 Updates
February 2026 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.
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Perforator – Continuous Profiling app
Perforator is a production-ready, Continuous Profiling app that can collect CPU profiles from your production.
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NetWatch – htop for your network
NetWatch is a lightweight, keyboard-driven TUI application that gives you instant visibility into network traffic.
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Axel – command-line download accelerator
axel is a lightweight command-line download accelerator that speeds up file transfers by opening multiple connections to a server.
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Clockwork Orange – cross-platform wallpaper manager
Clockwork Orange is a Python application for managing wallpapers and lock screen backgrounds, supporting Linux, Windows, and macOS.
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11 Best Free and Open Source Graphical Download Managers
A download manager is a type of software that manages the downloading of files from the Internet.
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Mecalin – learn touch typing
Mecalin is a typing tutor application built with GTK4, Rust, and Adwaita.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: Wget
We spotlight alternatives tools to Wget, a non-interactive network downloader.
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NeoDLP – feature-rich video/audio downloader based on yt-dlp
NeoDLP (Neo Downloader Plus) is a cross-platform application that provides a graphical interface for the popular yt-dlp media downloader.
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9 Best Free and Open Source Linux Library Management Systems
We have compiled a list of 9 useful library management systems. Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion.
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gosh-dl-cli – download manager for the terminal
gosh-dl-cli is a fast, modern download manager CLI with HTTP/HTTPS multi-connection acceleration.
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8 Best Free and Open Source Linux Boot Utilities
Here’s 8 useful boot utility tools. They are all free and open source software.
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ec – terminal Git mergetool
ec (easy-conflict) is a terminal Git mergetool with a 3-way TUI and Neovim integration.
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14 Useful Free and Open Source JavaScript Web Frameworks
Our recommended free and open source JavaScript web frameworks.
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tortuise – terminal-native 3D Gaussian splatting viewer
Tortuise is a terminal-based 3D Gaussian splatting viewer that renders complex 3D scenes directly inside a text terminal.
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9 Best Free and Open Source Self-Hosted Pastebin Alternatives
A pastebin or text storage site is a type of online content-hosting service where users can store plain text (e.g. source code snippets for code review).
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Dgraph – horizontally scalable and distributed GraphQL database
Dgraph is a distributed graph database designed to store and query highly connected data efficiently.
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7 Best Free and Open Source AppImage Package Managers
This article looks at software which helps you manage AppImages on your system.
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Tooters – Rust TUI-based Mastodon App
Tooters is a Rust-based TUI Mastodon app.The project was created as a means to learn Rust and scratch a personal itch.
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Archium – wrapper for AUR helpers
Archium is a CLI tool for managing packages on Arch Linux. It provides a simple and intuitive interface for common package management tasks
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