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Best Free and Open Source Software: May 2025 Updates

May 2025 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

Passively cool the Raspberry Pi 5 the right way. Use the case as a heatsink. No fan noise to interrupt your concentration.

DynFi Firewall allows you to structure the cybersecurity of your networks effectively.

Xnec2c is a high-performance multi-threaded electromagnetic simulation package to model antenna near- and far-field radiation patterns.

zplug has a good feature set including lazy loading, branch/tag/commit support, and many more.

Klaro is a simple and fast translation app for KDE Plasma that helps you translate text between different languages.

Cinecred is a free and open source program to create credits without the pain.

Kibi is a configurable text editor with UTF-8 support, incremental search, syntax highlighting, line numbers and more

NST is a toolkit designed to provide easy access to best-of-breed Open Source Network Security Applications.

We are always looking for utilities that improve our productivity. One way to improve your workflow is to enhance your typing experience.

Scriptorium is a text editor coupled with a plotting tool and a formatting tool.