There is a wide range of competent note taking software for Linux. This article focuses on apps that have a Text User Interface (TUI).
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cull – reclaim precious disk space
cull is a program written in Go that helps you clean up your system. It’s a lovely small utility. Give it a whirl!
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NoctaVox – TUI music player for local music
NoctaVox recently caught my attention. It’s billed as a lightweight, plug and play TUI music player for local music.
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3 Useful Free and Open Source Haskell TUI Frameworks
The software featured in this roundup helps developers create TUI programs. All the software featured is written in Haskell.
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3 Useful Free and Open Source YAML Code Formatters
This roundup selects some useful code formatters for YAML developers.
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Linux Candy: sigye – terminal clock
sigye is a terminal clock with ASCII art fonts. The name “sigye” (시계) means “clock” in Korean. It also offers Pomodoro functionality
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Ampere – lightweight music player
Ampere is a GUI-based playlist-based audio player written in Python and Qt. It’s free and open source software.
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ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H Running Linux: BIOS
In this article in the series I’ll show you many of the BIOS options that are available with the ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H.
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Pipeline – watch YouTube and PeerTube videos
Access YouTube content without using a web browser. Pipeline goes one step further by letting you also view PeerTube content.
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Best Free and Open Source Software: January 2026 Updates
January 2026 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.
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5 Useful Free and Open Source Rust TUI frameworks
The software featured in this roundup helps developers create TUI programs. All the software featured is written in Rust.
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Linux Candy: asciify – turn images into attractive ASCII art
asciify is a CLI tool that converts images into ASCII art. It’s part of our Linux Candy series.
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Volla Phone Quintus running Volla OS: Introduction to the Series
This series looks at Volla OS, an Android operating system which has been de-googled. All your data is yours.
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Hummingbird – modern music player
Hummingbird is a cross-platform Rust-based music player with basic functionality already implemented. It’s worth checking out!
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Minisforum AI X1 Pro running Linux: BIOS
In this article in the series I’ll show you many of the BIOS options that are available with the Minisforum AI X1 Pro.
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Site Updates: Our Plans
I’m delighted to discuss our updated plans with the Linux community!
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Keybox – GUI password manager
Keybox is a minimal, encrypted, local password manager written in GDScript.
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Oxicord – TUI Discord client
Oxicord is a high-performance, memory-safe Discord TUI client written in Rust. It is a spiritual successor to Discordo
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: tree
This article spotlights alternative tools to tree, a utility that lists the contents of directories in a tree-like format.
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8 Best Free and Open Source Dart Static Site Generators
To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, here’s our selection of the best Dart static site generators.
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struct – smarter tree command
struct is a smarter tree command built in Rust, focused on presenting clean, meaningful project structure.
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2 Easy Ways to Access Python from R
This roundup picks the finest software which lets you access Python from R.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: cat
cat derives its name from concatenation and provides other nifty options too. This article spotlights alternative tools to cat.
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7 Best Free and Open Source Ruby Static Site Generators
Investigate the best static site generators written in the Ruby programming language. They are all free and open source software.
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batdoc – cat for Office documents and PDFs
batdoc dumps .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .pptx, and .pdf files to your terminal as markdown.
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2 Useful Free and Open Source Make Static Site Generators
To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of static site generators that use make
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Codon – extensible Python compiler
Codon is a high-performance Python implementation that compiles to native machine code without any runtime overhead.
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9 Best Free and Open Source Java Object-Relational Mapping Software
Here’s our picks of the finest object–relational mapping (ORM) software.
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3 Best Free and Open Source Nix Static Site Generators
We have compiled a list of the best Nix static site generators. These tools are released under a freely distributable license.
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sled – simple text editor
sled is a simple text editor with a terminal UI.
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Betula – self-hosted personal link collection manager
Betula is a single-user self-hosted federated bookmark manager with Fediverse support and archives.
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Ly – display manager
Ly is a lightweight TUI (ncurses-like) display manager for Linux and BSD, designed with portability in mind.
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zond – network mapping and discovery tool
zond is an easy to use network mapping and discovery tool.
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Bloop – build server for the Scala programming language
Bloop aspires to provide the best out-of-the-box experience to Scala developers and a solid platform for build tool authors
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OpenMeters – audio metering/visualization program
OpenMeters is a fast and simple audio metering application for Linux, built with Rust and PipeWire. It’s in active development.
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