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Business Intelligence

13 Best Free and Open Source Linux Business Intelligence Software

November 1, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, Office, Productivity, Roundup

A business intelligence platform includes three layers: a database layer, a business intelligence layer, and an analytics/performance management layer. Here’s our roundup of the best business intelligence software.

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OCR Tools

Document Scanner – GNOME based tool

October 31, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Document Scanner lets you capture images using image scanners (e.g. flatbed scanners) that have suitable SANE drivers installed.

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PDF

npdfr – command-line PDF reader

October 27, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

npdfr (ncurses PDF reader) is a command-line PDF reader prioritizing fast searches.

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Document viewer

mpls – Markdown Preview Language Server

October 23, 2025 Steve Emms Documents

Markdown Preview Language Server (mpls) is a language server designed to enhance your Markdown editing experience.

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Database

PRQL – modern language for transforming data

October 22, 2025 Steve Emms Documents

PRQL is a modern language for transforming data – a simple, powerful, pipelined SQL replacement. It’s readable, explicit and declarative.

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Files

Jimmy – convert your notes to Markdown

October 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Documents, TUI

Jimmy is a tool to convert your notes from different formats to Markdown. It has both a CLI and TUI.

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Business Intelligence

Rill – operational BI tool

October 20, 2025 Steve Emms Documents

For data consumers, Rill ensures reliable, fast-loading dashboards with accurate, real-time metrics.

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Text Editor

Scratchmark – organized Markdown editor

October 19, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Scratchmark is an organized Markdown editor designed for note keeping and writing. It’s intended to become a spiritual successor to ThiefMD. This is free and open source software. Website: github.com/sevonj/scratchmark Support: Developer: Sevonj License: GNU General Public License v3.0 Scratchmark

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Files

Letters – word processor for GNOME

October 16, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Letters is a modern, minimalist word processor for the GNOME desktop, with support for reading and writing DOCX, ODT, MD and HTML

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ebook reader

3 Free and Open Source CLI ebook Readers

October 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Documents, Productivity, Roundup, Software

This article showcases CLI ebook readers for Linux. We only feature free and open source software here.

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Database

GreptimeDB – cloud-native database

October 9, 2025 Steve Emms Database, Documents

GreptimeDB is a cloud-native database purpose-built for the unified collection and analysis of observability data (metrics, logs, and traces).

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Document Management Systems

Paperless-ngx – document management system

October 9, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Paperless-ngx is a document management system that transforms your physical documents into a searchable online archive.

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Best Free and Open Source Compact Editors

16 Free and Open Source Simple GUI Based Linux Text Editors

October 5, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup

A text editor is software used for editing plain text files. This type of software has many different uses.

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Text Editor

moe – command-line editor inspired by Vim

October 2, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

moe is a command line based editor inspired by Vim written in Nim.

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Writing Tools

15 Best Free and Open Source Linux Tools for Novelists

September 30, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, Education, Roundup

The software featured in this article is designed to meet the specialised needs of a budding novelist.

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ebook reader

15 Best Free and Open Source GUI ebook Readers

September 21, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup

An electronic book (ebook) is a text and image-based publication which can be read on a computer or other digital devices.

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Text Editor

pyvim – implementation of Vim in Python

September 21, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

pyvim is an implementation of Vim in Python. There are no C extensions.

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Hex Editor

7 Best Free and Open Source Linux Console Hex Editors

September 20, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup, TUI

A hex editor is a special type of editor that can open any type of file and display its contents, byte by byte.

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PDF

apvlv – document viewer

September 20, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

apvlv is a PDF/EPUB/TXT/FB2/MOBI/CBZ/HTML …viewer and it behaves like the Vim text editor.

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Hex Editor

hx – hex editor for the terminal

September 20, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

hx is a hex editor using plain C and POSIX libs. The project’s code is somewhat influenced by the kilo project.

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