August 2026 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.
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syndicationd – terminal RSS and Atom feed reader
syndicationd is a terminal RSS and Atom feed reader with local storage, flexible filtering, feed management, and configurable key bindings.
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Aliza MS – medical imaging and DICOM viewer
Aliza MS is a free DICOM viewer with 2D and 3D imaging, volume rendering, MPR, RTSTRUCT support, de-identification, and metadata tools.
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20 Best Free and Open Source Linux Audio Editors
To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 20 high quality free and open source audio editors.
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whisper.cpp – implementation of OpenAI’s Whisper automatic speech recognition model
whisper.cpp is a high-performance C/C++ implementation of OpenAI’s Whisper automatic speech recognition model.
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Kodaskanna – multi-format 1D/2D code scanner
Kodaskanna is a KDE utility for reading QR codes and other 1D/2D barcodes from images, with clipboard, file and desktop integration.
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Lap – local-first desktop photo manager
Lap is a local-first desktop photo manager designed for browsing, organising and managing large personal media libraries.
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5 Graphical Frontends for ImageMagick
ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images.
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Readeck – self-hosted read-it-later application
Readeck is a self-hosted read-it-later app for saving, organising, searching and annotating web content, with EPUB export and browser extensions
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Color Picker for COSMIC – color utility for COSMIC desktop
Color Picker for COSMIC is a native colour picker supporting six colour spaces, screen sampling, HEX editing, graphs and clipboard copying.
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FunASR – end-to-end speech recognition toolkit
FunASR is an end-to-end speech recognition toolkit. It provides tools for building, training and deploying speech-processing systems
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CoreELEC – lightweight Linux distribution for Kodi
CoreELEC is a lightweight Linux distribution for Amlogic hardware that provides an appliance-style Kodi media centre with extensive codec support.
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15 Best Free and Open Source Natural Language Processing Tools
Natural language processing (NLP) is a field of computer science, artificial intelligence, and computational linguistics concerned with the interactions between computers and human (natural) languages.
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OTree – terminal user interface for viewing structured data
OTree is a terminal user interface for viewing structured data as an interactive tree. It supports JSON, YAML, TOML and XML files.
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11 Useful Free and Open Source Virtualization Tools
A type 2 hypervisor, or hosted hypervisor, interacts with the underlying host machine hardware through the host machine’s operating system.
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Chatterbox – family of text-to-speech models
Chatterbox is a family of text-to-speech models from Resemble AI. It supports speech generation, voice cloning, and multilingual synthesis.
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Polyphone – powerful SoundFont editor
Polyphone is a graphical SoundFont editor for creating and editing sampled instruments with SF2, SF3, SFZ and sfArk support on Linux.
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23 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based News Aggregators
A news aggregator is software which collect news, weblog posts, and other information. We recommend the best terminal-based news aggregators.
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Botfather – cross-platform automation framework
Botfather is a cross-platform automation framework for scripting Android, desktop, and browser applications with JavaScript and image matching.
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postmarketOS – Alpine-based Linux distribution for mobile devices
postmarketOS is an Alpine Linux-based distribution bringing mainline Linux and multiple mobile interfaces to smartphones, tablets and other devices.
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KmPlot – mathematical function plotter
KmPlot is a mathematical function plotter that can draw graphs of functions together with their integrals and derivatives.
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