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Best Free and Open Source Fonts for Linux

July 19, 2026 Luke Baker Roundup, Utilities

A computer font is implemented as a digital data file containing a set of graphically related glyphs. We recommend the best Linux fonts.

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BM – minimalist terminal music player

July 6, 2026 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, TUI

BM is a modern terminal music player with directory browsing, album artwork, fuzzy search, playlists and MPRIS2 support.

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Text Editor

28 Best Free and Open Source Linux Markdown Editors

June 29, 2026 Luke Baker Documents, Roundup, Utilities

Markdown is a plain text formatting syntax created by John Gruber in 2004. We feature our recommended open source Markdown editors.

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Music

38 Best Free and Open Source Graphical Music Players

June 27, 2026 Luke Baker Multimedia, Roundup

We recommend the best free and open source music players. There are an amazing range of music players to choose from.

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fooyin

fooyin v0.11 released with internet radio browsing and much more

June 23, 2026 Luke Baker GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

fooyin v0.11.0 adds internet radio browsing, spectrum visualisations, playlist improvements, layout refinements, and better playback handling.

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16 Best Free and Open Source Pixel Art Editors

May 18, 2026 Luke Baker Graphics, Roundup

Pixel art is a form of digital art drawn with graphical software where images are built using pixels as the only building block. We recommend the best free and open source pixel art editors.

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Music

10 Best Free and Open Source Graphical MPD Clients

April 30, 2026 Luke Baker Multimedia, Roundup

MPD is a powerful server-side application for playing music. We recommend our favourite open source graphical MPD clients.

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Deezer

Daphne – audio player and music library manager for Linux

April 1, 2026 Luke Baker GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

Daphne Music Player is a modern Linux music player that gets most of the fundamentals right.

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fooyin

fooyin’s release 0.10.x adds important improvements

March 28, 2026 Luke Baker GUI, Multimedia, News

Many users consider fooyin to be the best open source music player available for Linux. Its worth checking out the new release!

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Audio Editors

17 Best Free and Open Source Linux Audio Editors

March 27, 2026 Luke Baker Multimedia, Roundup

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 16 high quality free and open source audio editors.

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Music

9 Best Free and Open Source Web-Based MPD Clients

March 19, 2026 Luke Baker Multimedia, Roundup, Web Apps

MPD is a powerful server-side application for playing music. Here’s our verdict on the finest web-based MPD clients.

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Music

13 Best Free and Open Source Linux Music Servers

March 9, 2026 Luke Baker Multimedia, Roundup, System Software

We present the finest free and open source music servers.

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Fonts

Iosevka – open source typeface family

March 2, 2026 Luke Baker Utilities

Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif + slab-serif, monospace + quasi‑proportional typeface family

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Sound System

6 Best Free and Open Source Sound Systems

February 27, 2026 Luke Baker Multimedia, Roundup

A sound system is software that manages the use of and access to audio devices (usually a sound card). It commonly runs as a background process.

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Music

13 Best Free and Open Source Linux Music Tag Editors

February 23, 2026 Luke Baker Multimedia, Roundup

Tag editors are frequently used to correct and organise multimedia files and they support popular digital audio formats.

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Ampere – lightweight music player

February 5, 2026 Luke Baker GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

Ampere is a GUI-based playlist-based audio player written in Python and Qt. It’s free and open source software.

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Music

Hummingbird – modern music player

January 28, 2026 Luke Baker GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

Hummingbird is a cross-platform Rust-based music player with basic functionality already implemented. It’s worth checking out!

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Musical instruments

daph – terminal-based music player

January 26, 2026 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, TUI

daph is a terminal-based music player for Linux. It’s written in the popular Rust language and published under an open source license.

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Music

Musicat – desktop music player

January 12, 2026 Luke Baker GUI, Multimedia, Reviews

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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Music player

namp – terminal-based music player

December 30, 2025 Luke Baker Multimedia, Reviews, TUI

namp is a minimalistic terminal-based MP3 player for Linux and macOS, implemented in C++ / Qt.

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