January 2025 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.
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Qreator – create your own QR codes
Qreator enables you to easily create your own QR codes to encode different types of information in an efficient and compact way.
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Tucana – Linux distribution built for customization
Tucana is an ultra customizable distro built entirely from scratch. Essentially Tucana is a Build-Kit where you can share you customizations.
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20 Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to the Top Utility
top is a small, venerable utility that offers a dynamic real-time view of a running system. We identify alternatives to top that offer more control in managing processes on a running system.
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Greenbone Vulnerability Manager – central management service
The Greenbone Vulnerability Manager is the central management service between security scanners and the user clients.
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PGPTool – encrypt and decrypt files
PGPTool is a Java-based desktop GUI application for easy and regular PGP decryption/encryption.
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Eye of MATE – simple graphics viewer for the MATE Desktop Environment
Eye of MATE (or eom) is the official image viewer for the MATE Desktop Environment.
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Scrumlens – agile retrospective tool
Scrumlens is an agile retrospective tool. Real-time, and designed to make your team’s voice heard loud and clear.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Windows Media Player
Windows Media Player is a video and audio player. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives for Linux.
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Chroma – general purpose syntax highlighter
Chroma takes source code and other structured text and converts it into syntax highlighted HTML, ANSI-coloured text, and more.
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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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