This roundup selects some useful code formatters for Kotlin developers. Only free and open source software is included.
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4 Useful Free and Open Source Kotlin Linters
This article picks some useful tools to help you fix Kotlin code. Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion.
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Linux Candy: Fractal Art – desktop wallpaper generator
Fractal Art is software which generates colorful wallpapers. It’s free and open source software written in Haskell.
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BOSGAME M6 HX370 AI PC running Linux – Fan Noise
Fan noise can ruin my enjoyment of using a computer. In this article I report my findings on the BOSGAME M6 Mini PC.
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goradion – command line radio player
goradion is a TUI internet radio player for Linux. It uses mpv as its playback engine.
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Minisforum UM890 Pro Mini PC Running Linux: BIOS
In this article in the series I’ll show you many of the BIOS options that are available with the Minisforum UM890 Pro.
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Musicat – desktop music player
Musicat is billed as a sleek music player for your local music library. It supports MP3, FLAC, WAV, AAC, and OGG formats.
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3 Useful Free and Open Source R Linters
This article picks some useful tools to help you fix R code.
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14 Useful Free and Open Source CSS Parsers
A CSS parser is a component of a web browser (or any CSS-processing tool) that reads CSS code and turns it into a structured format.
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Orange Pi 6 Plus Single Board Computer running Linux: Power Consumption
For this article in the series, I’m looking at the power consumption of the Orange Pi 6 Plus comparing it to other machines.
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podliner – terminal-based podcast player
podliner is a terminal-based podcast player. It’s cross-platform software that runs under Linux, macOS, and Windows.
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Linux Candy: ascii_moon – displays the moon phase
ascii_moon is a small TUI program that displays the moon phase in ASCII art. It’s a small single native binary.
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BOSGAME M6 HX370 AI PC running Linux – BIOS
In this article in the series I’ll show you many of the BIOS options that are available with the BOSGAME M6 Plus.
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Best Free and Open Source Software: December 2025 Updates
December 2025 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.
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LinuxLinks: Our most-read stories of 2025
I’ve trawled through our statistics and found our ten most well received posts/series that saw the highest page views for 2025.
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LinuxLinks.com reaches epic milestone
We at LinuxLinks.com are thrilled to announce a remarkable achievement: we’ve just published our 10,000th article on all things Linux!
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LinuxLinks – The Home of Linux
Our popular series on the best free and open source Linux software, hardware including mini PCs and SBCs, phones, and NAS devices.
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11 Best Free and Open Source Frontends for mpv
mpv is a free (as in freedom) media player for the command line. It supports a wide variety of media file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types.
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gocui – create console user interfaces
gocui is a minimalist Go package aimed at creating Console User Interfaces.
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Traggo – self-hosted tag-based time tracking
Traggo is a tag-based time tracking tool. In Traggo there are no tasks, only tagged time spans.
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xt7-player-mpv – mpv GUI
xt7-player-mpv aims to be an (in)complete graphical interface to mpv, focused on usability.
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termui – Golang terminal dashboard
termui is a cross-platform and fully-customizable terminal dashboard and widget library built on top of termbox-go.
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uosc – minimalist proximity-based UI for mpv
uosc is a feature-rich minimalist proximity-based UI for mpv.
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tview – terminal UI library with rich, interactive widgets
tview is a Go package provides commonly used components for terminal based user interfaces.
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3 Best Free and Open Source R Static Site Generators
To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 3 best R static site generators.
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RQ – simple Python library
RQ (Redis Queue) is a simple Python library for queueing jobs and processing them in the background with workers.
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zlaunch – application launcher and window switcher
zlaunch is a fast application launcher and window switcher for Linux Wayland, built with GPUI.
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diffnav – Git diff pager
diffnav is a git diff pager based on delta but with a file tree, à la GitHub.
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fpm – Fortran Package Manager
Fortran Package Manager is a package manager and build system for Fortran. It aims to improve the user experience of Fortran programmers.
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Brrtfetch – animated system information fetcher
Brrtfetch displays the user specified GIF rendered as animated ASCII art alongside the system information from your favourite fetcher.
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Bubble Tea – build terminal apps
Bubble Tea offers a fun, functional and stateful way to build terminal apps.
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HyprSnipper – snipping tool for Hyprland
HyprSnipper is a Qt-based screenshot tool designed specifically for Hyprland. It’s written in Python.
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yt-x – browse YouTube from the terminal
yt-x lets you browse YouTube from your terminal. Plus other sites yt-dlp supports.
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Karing – proxy utility
Karing is billed as a simple and powerful proxy utility. It’s written in Dart.
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11 Best Free and Open Source Linux Simple Backup Software
We recommend home users install software that hides the complexity of doing backups. Here’s our verdict on open source solutions.
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