The software featured in this roundup helps developers create TUI programs. There is a diverse range of programs included.
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WallPicker – wallpacker picker with Wallhaven integration and AI upscaling
WallPicker is a modern wallpaper picker application. This isn’t the first wallpaper program that’s been explored in this series.
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Orange Pi 6 Plus Single Board Computer running Linux: BIOS
In this article in the series I’ll show you many of the BIOS options that are available with the Orange Pi 6 Plus single board computer.
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cryptofetch – cryptocurrency tool
cryptofetch is a terminal-based tool in the style of neofetch that displays cryptocurrency prices and statistics.
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Transistor – GUI internet radio player
Transistor is a GUI internet radio player for Linux written in C++. It’s impressive to say the least!
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Orange Pi 6 Plus Single Board Computer running Linux: Ubuntu
In this article I explore running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS on the Orange Pi 6 Plus single board computer.
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3 Useful Free and Open Source Kotlin Code Formatters
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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kubefwd – port forward pods within a Kubernetes namespace
kubefwd is a command-line utility that bulk port forwards Kubernetes services to your local workstation.
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8 Best Free and Open Source Music Trackers
A music tracker (short version tracker) is a type of music sequencer software for creating music. We recommend the best free and open source trackers.
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rustledger – Rust implementation of Beancount
rustledger is a drop in Rust replacement for Beancount.
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GitType – turn your source code into typing challenges
GitType turns your own source code into typing challenges.
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Great Open Source Collaborative Editing Tools
This article highlights our favourite free and open source tools to collaborate on documents in real time.
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senpai – modern terminal IRC client
senpai is an IRC client that works best with bouncers.
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SwitchCalc – GTK4 calculator
SwitchCalc is a GTK4 calculator application for Linux with Standard, Scientific, Programmer, and Date calculation modes.
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GoMusic – download and stream music from YouTube
GoMusic is a terminal UI for downloading and streaming music from YouTube with automatic MP3 conversion and metadata tagging.
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wtp – enhanced Git worktree management
wtp (Worktree Plus) is a powerful Git worktree management tool that extends git’s worktree functionality
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brick – Haskell TUI programming toolkit
brick is a Haskell terminal user interface (TUI) programming toolkit.
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LazyCat Terminal – terminal emulator
LazyCat Terminal is billed as a high-performance terminal emulator with multi-tab, split-pane, and transparent background support
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4 Best Free and Open Source Bash Static Site Generators
To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, here’s our selection of the best Bash static site generators.
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Chihaya – BitTorrent tracker
Chihaya is built for developers looking to integrate BitTorrent into a preexisting production environment.
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MakeStaticSite – generate and deploy static websites
MakeStaticSite is a set of Bash shell scripts that configure and use Wget to generate a static website from a (typically dynamic) website
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: make
This article spotlights alternative tools to make, a utility which controls the generation of executables and other non-source files.
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3 Best Free and Open Source Web-Based XMPP Clients
XMPP (also known as Jabber) is an open and free alternative to commercial messaging and chat providers. Web-based clients are featured.
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pdpmake – public domain implementation of make
pdpmake is a public domain implementation of make which follows the POSIX standard.
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Modular Font Editor K – modular font editor
MFEKglif is a Glyph editor for the Modular Font Editor K project.
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