January 2025 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.
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Author: Steve Emms
wat offers instant, central, community-built docs
Wat is an interactive app built to drastically reduce time spent searching for syntax and code usage questions.
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Kleopatra – KDE tool for managing X.509 and OpenPGP certificates
Kleopatra is the KDE tool for managing X.509 and OpenPGP certificates in the GpgSM and GPG keyboxes and for retrieving certificates.
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xfce4-taskmanager – monitor system resources
xfce4-taskmanager is an easy to use task manager.
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Ohkami – intuitive and declarative web framework
Ohkami is an intuitive and declarative web framework for Rust.
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agg – asciinema gif generator
agg is a command-line tool for generating animated GIF files from terminal session recordings.
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5 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Matrix Clients
This roundup features the finest terminal-based Matrix clients. Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion.
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Gisto – code snippet manager
Gisto is a code snippet manager that runs on GitHub Gists and adds additional features such as searching, tagging and sharing gists
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Ement.el – Matrix client for Emacs
Ement.el is a Matrix client for Emacs. It aims to be simple, fast, featureful, and reliable, while integrating naturally with Emacs.
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halp is a CLI tool to get help with CLI tools
halp aims to help find the correct arguments for command-line tools by checking the predefined list of commonly used options/flags.
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Evisum – Enlightenment system monitor
Evisum is a system monitor using Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL).
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mlterm – multi lingual terminal emulator
Mlterm is a multilingual terminal emulator on X11. It’s written in C.
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10 Best Free and Open Source Linux Speed Reading Tools
The software featured in here is based on spritzing. Read text without moving your eyes, and therefore rapidly increase your reading speed.
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ScriptHaus – organize scripts and bash one-liners
ScriptHaus lets you run bash, Python, and JS snippets from your Markdown files directly from the command-line.
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Carapace – multi-shell multi-command argument completer
Carapace is a shell completion library (carapace-sh/carapace) as well as a binary containing a collection of shell completers.
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Acronym Decoder – explains acronyms and abbreviations
Acronym Decoder is a simple tool for quick searching of meaning for various acronyms and abbreviations. It’s written in Pascal.
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Picocrypt – small and secure encryption tool
Picocrypt is billed as a very small (hence Pico), very simple, yet very secure encryption tool that you can use to protect your files.
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mnotify – simple Matrix CLI client
mnotify is a simple CLI for the Matrix chat system. It’s written in the Rust programming language.
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LXTask – lightweight task manager for LXDE
LXTask is a lightweight and desktop-independent task manager derived from xfce4-taskmanager with all dependencies on xfce removed
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CmdCompass – collect, learn, recall terminal commands
cmdCompass is a command manager/notebook, enabling users to organize commands into collections, apply tags, define templates
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