Merkato is a modern financial data tracker that brings market information directly to your desktop.
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Author: Steve Emms
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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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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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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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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Xapers – personal journal article management system
Xapers is a personal document indexing system, geared towards academic journal articles. It’s written in Python.
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Minisforum AI X1 Pro running Linux: Dual Booting Bluetooth Issues
Having an issue with Bluetooth when dual booting? I look at an easy fix for the Minisforum AI X1 Pro mini PC.
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SSH Manager TUI – terminal-based SSH connection manager
SSH Manager TUI is a terminal-based SSH connection manager with a modern color interface, designed to simplify managing multiple SSH profiles.
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zomodoro – simple pomodoro
zomodoro is a simple pomodoro made with Qt.
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BibMan – TUI bibliography manager
BibMan is a TUI bibliography manager. Its goal is to support basis features as a general bibliography manager.
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Gamepad Mirror – visualize gamepad inputs
Gamepad Mirror is a simple application to visualize a gamepad’s input. It’s written in JavaScript.
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Useful Ubuntu Touch Apps – Music Recognition
Music Recognition is a free and open source application for Ubuntu Touch that that provides a similar function to Shazam.
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mtr-gtk – network diagnostic tool
mtr-gtk combines the functionality of the ‘traceroute’ and ‘ping’ programs in a single network diagnostic tool.
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Whispering – speech recognition tool
Press shortcut → speak → get text. Desktop transcription that cuts out the middleman.
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