January 2025 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.
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Gum – tool for glamorous shell scripts
Gum lets you leverage the power of Bubbles and Lip Gloss in your scripts and aliases without writing any Go code.
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EasyOS – experimental Linux distribution
EasyOS is an experimental Linux distribution made in Australia. While using Easy, everything happens in RAM.
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QIV – Quick Image Viewer
Quick Image Viewer (QIV) is a very small and pretty fast open source gdk/imlib image viewer.
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Minisign – sign files and verify signatures
Minisign is a very simple tool to sign files and verify digital signatures.
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17 Best Free and Open Source GUI Matrix Clients
Matrix is an open standard for interoperable, decentralised, real-time communication over IP. Here’s our recommended free and open source GUI Matrix clients.
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Mirage – fast and simple GTK+ image viewer
Mirage is a fast and simple GTK+ image viewer which only depends on PyGTK.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Universal Control
Universal Control is software which lets you use the keyboard and mouse to control up to two other nearby Mac or iPad devices.
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Drawing – simple image editor
Drawing is a basic raster image editor is similar to Microsoft Paint, but aiming at the GNOME desktop.
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grype – vulnerability scanner
grype is a vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems.
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Clear Linux OS – Linux distribution optimized for performance and security
Clear Linux OS is an open source, rolling release Linux distribution optimized for performance and security.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: grep
This article spotlights alternative tools to grep, a utility that searches for patterns in each file.
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bower – curses frontend for the Notmuch email system
bower is a curses frontend for the Notmuch email system. There are two main views: the index, and the combined thread/pager.
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The Way – code snippets manager
the-way is a terminal-based code snippets manager.Record and retrieve snippets you use every day, or occasionally, without starting a browser.
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Pygments – generic syntax highlighter
Pygments is a generic syntax highlighter suitable for use in code hosting, forums, wikis or other applications.
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Kryptor – simple, modern, and secure file encryption and signing tool
Kryptor lets you encrypt multiple files/directories with a passphrase, symmetric key, or asymmetric keys.
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