March 2025 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: dd
This article spotlights alternative tools to dd, a popular utility to convert and copy a file.
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8 Best Free and Open Source Linux Guitar Tools
This feature recommends the finest Linux applications that are targeted at guitarists. All of the software featured here is open source, free to download, and are easy to install and intuitive to use.
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14 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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7 Best Free and Open Source Stock Tickers
A stock ticker is a report of the price of specific securities, updated continuously throughout the trading session by the various stock market exchanges.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: man
A Linux system comes with a whole collection of system reference manuals (known as man pages). There’s a man page for each command or program.
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11 Best Free and Open Source Accountancy Software
Accountancy is the measurement, processing, and communication of financial and non financial information about economic entities.
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23 Best Free and Open Source Linux Bioinformatics Tools
This article identifies our favourite tools which are extremely useful for anyone interested in sequence analysis, molecular modelling, molecular dynamics, phylogenetic analysis and more.
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9 Best Free and Open Source Google Analytics Alternatives
Web analytics is the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of internet data.
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8 Best Free and Open Source Font Viewers
This article highlights useful tools to view your fonts. We only feature free and open source software in this article.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: find
This article spotlights alternative tools to find.
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22 Best Free and Open Source Clipboard Managers
Linux has a number of proficient clipboard managers. We make our recommendations – all free and open source.
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21 Best Free and Open Source DNS Servers
Domain Name System (DNS) is the internet’s directory service. We recommend the best free and open source DNS servers.
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11 Useful Bluetooth Tools for Linux
We recommend a variety of different Bluetooth tools besides BlueZ, the official implementation of the Bluetooth protocol stack.
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11 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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