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Text Editor

pnana – modern terminal text editor

February 4, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

pnana is a modern terminal text editor built with FTXUI, inspired by Nano, Micro, and Sublime Text.

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ebook reader

Lue – terminal eBook reader with text-to-speech

February 2, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

Lue is a terminal eBook Reader with audiobook-quality Text-to-Speech.

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PDF

miro – PDF viewer

January 30, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

miro is a native pdf viewer for Linux (Wayland/X11), macOS, and Windows with configurable keybindings.

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Groupware

9 Best Free and Open Source Groupware Software

January 29, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, Productivity, Roundup

Groupware software is designed to enable users to collaborate, regardless of location, via the internet or a corporate intranet.

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Typesetting Tools

5 Handy Free Linux Typesetting Systems

January 29, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup

Typesetting systems let you generate high quality documentation including books with minimal effort.

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Files

hygg – minimalistic Vim-like TUI document reader

January 29, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

hygg is a minimalistic Vim-like TUI document reader.

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Database

12 Best Free and Open Source Linux Graph Databases

January 26, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup

A graph database stores nodes and relationships instead of tables, or documents. We recommend the best graph databases.

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OCR Tools

8 Best Free and Open Source OCR Systems

January 25, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup

We pick out useful OCR systems.

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Text Editor

Great Open Source Collaborative Editing Tools

January 24, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup

This article highlights our favourite free and open source tools to collaborate on documents in real time.

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Reference Management

Gorae – TUI librarian for PDFs and EPUBs

January 22, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

Gorae is a terminal-first TUI librarian for PDFs and EPUBs—fast browsing, solid metadata, quick search, and mouse support.

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SQL

sqlfmt – SQL formatter

January 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Database, Documents

sqlfmt formats your dbt SQL files. It is similar in nature to black, gofmt, and rustfmt (but for SQL).

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Best Free and Open Source HTML Editors

7 Best Free and Open Source Linux HTML Editors

January 19, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup, Utilities

An HTML editor is computer software for creating web pages.

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PDF

dodo – fast and configurable PDF viewer

January 19, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

dodo is billed as a fast, keyboard-friendly PDF reader built for smooth reading, quick navigation, and deep customization.

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Text Editor

aretext – minimalist text editor

January 17, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

aretext is a minimalist text editor with vim-compatible key bindings.

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Files

BigEdit – streaming TUI editor

January 14, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

BigEdit is a streaming TUI editor for very large files. Edit multi-gigabyte files without loading them into memory.

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Text Editor

21 Best Free and Open Source Linux Markdown Editors

January 12, 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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Software

9 Best Free and Open Source Linux Caching Systems

January 11, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup, System Software

Caches are employed in a variety of different ways. Here’s our recommended free and open source caching systems.

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Text Editor

jrnlc – plain-text terminal journal

January 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

jrnlc is a personal project built to be simple, fast, and predictable. It stores journal entries in a plain-text file

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Hex Editor

bvi – hex editor

January 4, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

The bvi is a display-oriented editor for binary files (hex editor), based on the vi text editor.

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Files

Ekphos – terminal-based research tool

January 4, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

Ekphos is a lightweight, fast, terminal-based markdown research tool built with Rust.

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