This series shines a spotlight on open source developers who make a real difference. Too often, their contributions go unrecognised.
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8 Best Free and Open Source Linux Wi-Fi Terminal Managers
NetworkManager is the standard networking stack on many Linux distributions, especially desktop-oriented systems.
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Namida – feature-rich music / video player for Linux, Android, and Windows
Namida is a modern music and video player. The application aims to combine an attractive interface with a powerful local music library
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Astra is billed as an audiophile music player
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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tori – remote server monitoring without the infrastructure
tori is a TUI remote server monitoring tool. A single binary and an SSH connection — metrics, logs, and alerts for your Docker hosts.
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upkeep – Arch TUI helper
upkeep is a terminal user interface (TUI) for managing Arch Linux system updates, installed packages, orphans, and rebuild issues.
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IxeRam – terminal-native memory scanner and debugger for Linux
IxeRam provides a “Cheat Engine-like” experience for developers and reverse engineers who prefer the terminal or work over SSH.
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8 Top Data Analysis Free and Open Source Tools for Big Data
Big Data analysis can be performed with data mining software. Here’s the best free tools to perform data analysis on big data.
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roseate – simple image viewer
Roseate is an image viewer built in Rust with a focus on speed, configurability, and a polished desktop experience.
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12 Best Free and Open Source Graphical Email Clients
We feature our recommended graphical email clients. They are all free and open source goodness.
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Logria – log aggregation tool
Logria is a terminal-based log aggregation and monitoring tool written in Rust.
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8 Best Free and Open Source Linux Statistical Analysis Tools
We recommend the finest software for performing statistical analysis. Open source goodness at its best.
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lazykiq – rich terminal UI for Sidekiq
lazykiq is a rich terminal UI for Sidekiq, a popular, high-performance background job processing framework for Ruby.
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10 Best Free and Open Source Linting Tools
We recommend the finest prose linters, software which checks your text against style guides.
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Blue Nebula – fork of Red Eclipse 1
Blue Nebula is a fast-paced arena shooter project derived from the Red Eclipse 1.x series.
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6 Best Free and Open Source OS-level Virtualization
A container is an operating-system-level virtualization method for running multiple isolated Linux systems. Here’s our recommended open source software.
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Packémon – generate packets of arbitrary input
Packémon is a TUI tool for generating packets of arbitrary input and monitoring packets on any network interfaces
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aim – CLI download/upload tool with resume
aim is a command line download/upload tool with resume. It’s written in the Rust language.
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wordplay – anagram finder
wordplay is a command-line anagram finder. It takes an input string and searches a supplied word list to generate valid anagrams.
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23 Best Free and Open Source Console Linux File Managers
We recommend the finest free and open source console-based file managers for Linux and other operating systems.
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Pomotroid – simple and visually-pleasing Pomodoro timer
Pomotroid is a simple and configurable Pomodoro timer. It aims to provide a visually-pleasing and reliable way to track productivity.
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FCD – text based file manager
The FCD File Manager (FranCommanDer) is a text based file manager for Linux.
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cmix – lossless data compression program
cmix is a lossless data compression program aimed at optimizing compression ratio at the cost of high CPU/memory usage.
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