August 2026 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.
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16 Best Free and Open Source Linux Collection Managers
There is a wide range of collection manager software available for Linux. We recommend the best free and open source options.
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rwx – TUI file permissions and ownership manager
rwx is a Rust TUI for inspecting and changing Unix file permissions and ownership, with octal editing, special bits, previews, and recursive mode.
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10 Best Free and Open Source Console Web Browsers
A web browser is the quintessential desktop application. We recommend the finest free and open source console based web browsers.
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PocketSphinx – speaker-independent continuous speech recognition engine
PocketSphinx is a compact, speaker-independent continuous speech recognition engine originating from CMU Sphinx.
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20 Best Free and Open Source Media Players
A media player is software that lets you watch video and listen to music on your computer. We cover the best free and open source options.
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Omnom – self-hosted web content preservation service
Omnom is a self-hosted web content preservation service that combines bookmarking, feed aggregation and Fediverse support.
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Barcoder – barcode and QR code generator
Barcoder is a GTK barcode and QR code generator supporting common 1D formats, QR and Aztec codes, with bitmap and vector export.
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jsonrepair – repair invalid JSON documents
jsonrepair repairs invalid JSON documents. It can correct many common syntax problems automatically
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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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