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Best Free and Open Source Software: August 2025 Updates

August 2025 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

This article spotlights alternative tools to less. All of the tools are free and open source and sport a command-line interface.

This article spotlights alternative tools to more.

Our popular series on the best free and open source Linux software, hardware, programming, Android, and much more.

We explore free and open source alternatives to ps, a command that reports a snapshot of the current processes.

rqlite combines the simplicity of SQLite with a fault-tolerant, highly available system.

This article spotlights alternative tools to tree, a utility that lists the contents of directories in a tree-like format.

cat derives its name from concatenation and provides other nifty options too. This article spotlights alternative tools to cat.

Stimulator prevents the desktop environment (DE) from sleeping. It should work regardless of the used DE thanks to the Inhibit portal.

July 2025 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.