Merkato is a GNOME financial tracker for stocks, currencies and crypto with heatmaps, watchlists, price alerts and delayed quotes.
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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 – graphical application management utility
Easy Flatpak offers graphical application management with guided installation recipes, version control, backups and maintenance tools.
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bibiman – terminal interface for BibLaTeX bibliographies
Manage BibLaTeX references with bibiman’s terminal interface, fuzzy search, PDF links, notes, DOI lookup and citation-key formatting.
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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 and TUI bibliography manager
bibman manages bibliography entries and attached documents as individual files, with a terminal interface and Pandoc-based format support.
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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 – enhanced terminal network route analyser
mtr085 extends mtr with Unicode latency histograms, internationalised domain names, translations and additional network address information.
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Xapers – personal journal article indexing and management
Xapers indexes academic PDFs and bibliographic metadata for full-text searching, tagging, document retrieval, and BibTeX export.
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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 – keyboard-driven TUI bibliography manager
BibMan is a keyboard-driven terminal bibliography manager with BibTeX editing, paper collections, tagging, PDF access, and notes.
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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 – graphical network route diagnostics
mtr-gtk provides a graphical interface for continuous route tracing, hop-level packet-loss measurements and network latency statistics.
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Epicenter – speech recognition tool
Press shortcut → speak → get text. Desktop transcription that cuts out the middleman.
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