All of the time trackers featured in this roundup are console applications, using a command-line interface.
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Author: Steve Emms
15 Useful Free and Open Source DNS Clients
DNS is one of these things many take for granted that is critical to using the internet. Without DNS, the internet breaks.
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coBib – console bibliography
coBib is a simple, console-based bibliography management tool.
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13 Best Free and Open Source Linux Business Intelligence Software
A business intelligence platform includes three layers: a database layer, a business intelligence layer, and an analytics/performance management layer. Here’s our roundup of the best business intelligence software.
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SSHM – transforms how you manage and connect to SSH hosts
SSHM is a command-line tool that transforms how you manage and connect to your SSH hosts.
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Document Scanner – GNOME based tool
Document Scanner lets you capture images using image scanners (e.g. flatbed scanners) that have suitable SANE drivers installed.
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Merkato – monitor stocks and currencies
Merkato is a modern financial data tracker that brings market information directly to your desktop.
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Best Free and Open Source Software: October 2025 Updates
October 2025 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.
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Easy Flatpak – manage flatpaks with a simple GUI
Easy Flatpak helps you install Flatpak apps in a user-friendly way. The tool has recipes for some of them to install them even better.
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bibiman – TUI for fast and simple interaction with a BibLaTeX database
bibiman is a simple terminal user interface for handling your BibLaTeX database as part of a terminal-based scientific workflow.
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17 Best Free and Open Source Email Servers
Here’s our verdict on free and open source email servers. We recommend Exim, OpenSMTPD, mox, DBMail, WildDuck, and Stalwart.
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SLADE3 – modern editor for Doom-engine based games
SLADE3 is a modern editor for Doom-engine based games and source ports. It can view, modify, and write many different game-specific formats.
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hyprwhspr – native speech-to-text
hyprwhspr is a native speech-to-text designed for Arch / Omarchy. It aims to provide fast, accurate and easy system-wide dictation.
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Karapulse – karaoke player
Karapulse is a Linux karaoke player supporting CDG/MP3 as well as video files.
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bibman – CLI/TUI bibliography manager
bibman is a CLI/TUI bibliography manager. It does not use a database but stores every bibliographic entry as a separate text file.
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sshtool – simple interactive SSH session manager
sshtool is a simple interactive SSH session manager with encrypted configuration storage using GPG.
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20 Best Free and Open Source Audio Analyzers
This article examines audio analyzers. This type of software lets you visualize audio spectrum for real-time signals. Some of the programs also lets you analyze amplitude and phase spectrum as well.
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Shimmy – lightweight OpenAI API server
Shimmy is a 4.8MB single-binary that provides 100% OpenAI-compatible endpoints for GGUF models.
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9 Best Free and Open Source Diary Software
This article identifies flexible and useful diary tools for the Linux desktop. Free and open source software only.
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mtr085 – full screen ncurses traceroute tool
mtr combines the functionality of the traceroute and ping programs in a single network diagnostic tool.
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