Skip to content
LinuxLinks

LinuxLinks

Best Free Linux Software & Open Source Reviews

  • Home
  • Software
  • Hardware
  • Reviews
  • Series
  • Search

Category: Utilities

6 Best Free and Open Source OCR Screen Capture Tools

February 7, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup, Utilities

This article highlights OCR powered screen-capture tools to capture information instead of images.

Read more
Selection of utilities

dekl – declarative package and dotfile management for Arch Linux

February 7, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dekl allows you to define your system’s packages and configuration in YAML files, making your setup reproducible and version-controllable.

Read more
Diff Tools

riff – wrapper around diff

February 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Riff is a wrapper around diff that highlights which parts of lines have changed.

Read more
Files

FAT – modern TUI-based file and archive viewer

February 3, 2026 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI, Utilities

FAT is designed for developers and power users who want to quickly inspect files and peek inside archives.

Read more
Small Image Tools

13 Small Image Tools that Pack a Real Punch

February 3, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup, Utilities

Linux offers a vast collection of open source small utilities that perform functions ranging from the obvious to the bizarre.

Read more
Best Free and Open Source Proof Assistants

5 Best Free and Open Source Proof Assistants

February 2, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Scientific, Utilities

A proof assistant or interactive theorem prover is a software tool to assist with the development of formal proofs by human-machine collaboration.

Read more

8N1Term – serial terminal

February 2, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

8N1Term is billed as a next-generation serial terminal that removes ASCII table lookup.

Read more
process

Hexus – process manager

February 2, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Hexus is a process manager built using .NET 10 designed to work on Linux and Windows seamlessly.

Read more
Virtual Keyboard

11 Best Free and Open Source Virtual Keyboards

February 1, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

The software displays a visual keyboard with all the standard keys.

Read more
Virtual Keyboard

wvkbd – on-screen keyboard for wlroots

February 1, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

wvkbd aims to deliver a minimal but practically usable implementation of a wlroots on-screen keyboard in legible C.

Read more
Selection of utilities

Stratis – local storage management

February 1, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

Stratis is a tool to easily configure pools and filesystems with enhanced storage functionality.

Read more
JSON Tools

qq – jq but an interoperable configuration format transcoder

February 1, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

qq is multi modal, and can be used as a replacement for jq or be interacted with via a REPL.

Read more
SSD

NoxDir – visualize file system usage

January 31, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

NoxDir is a high-performance, cross-platform command-line tool for visualizing and exploring your file system usage.

Read more

colorstorm – TUI to generate color themes for Vim, VSCode, and Sublime

January 31, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

colorstorm is a command line TUI to generate color themes for Vim, VSCode, and Sublime.

Read more
Fonts

Geist – typeface designed for developers and designers

January 31, 2026 Steve Emms Utilities

Geist embodies design principles of simplicity, minimalism, and speed, drawing inspiration from the renowned Swiss design movement.

Read more
Password Manager

Pass-CLI – password and API key manager

January 30, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Pass-CLI is a fast, secure password and API key manager that stores credentials locally with AES-256-GCM encryption.

Read more
Selection of utilities

oq – terminal-based OpenAPI Spec (OAS) viewer

January 30, 2026 Steve Emms TUI, Utilities

oq is a terminal-based OpenAPI Spec (OAS) viewer. It’s written in the Go language.

Read more
process

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: stow

January 30, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Roundup, Utilities

Stow is a symlink farm manager which takes distinct sets of software and/or data located in separate directories on the filesystem.

Read more
Image of Files

gump – smarter cd command

January 29, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

gump is a directory jumper using frecency. Type directory fragments, land where you meant.

Read more
Fonts

Best Free and Open Source Fonts for Linux

January 29, 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.

Read more

Posts pagination

«Previous Posts 1 … 18 19 20 21 22 … 92 Next Posts»

Best Free Software

Document Management Systems
Documents
Web Browsers
Internet
Education
Education
Internet Radio
Audio
YouTube Tools
Video
Paint Palette
Graphics
System Administration
Admin
Docks
Desktop
Productivity
Productivity
Genome Browsers - Web Based
Science
Games
Games
Vulnerability detection
Security
Replacements for du
Utilities
Object Relational Mapping
Coding
Stockmarket
Finance
Web Delivery
Web Apps
Crafting
Other
Programming Books
Books

Data Science

Data ScienceTake our free interactive courses in data science. There are courses for Python using pandas and plotnine and R using ggplot2.

Get up to speed in 20 minutes. No programming knowledge is required.

Recent Comments

  • Steve Emms on 24 Best Free and Open Source Console Linux File Managers
  • pigeonskiller on 24 Best Free and Open Source Console Linux File Managers
  • Steve Emms on 4 Best Free and Open Source F# Static Site Generators
  • exyone on 4 Best Free and Open Source F# Static Site Generators
  • Steve Emms on 4 Best Free and Open Source F# Static Site Generators
  • exyone on 4 Best Free and Open Source F# Static Site Generators
  • Eilidih Parris on 14 Lightweight Markup Languages
  • Pietro on 14 Lightweight Markup Languages
  • Steve Emms on 16 Best Free and Open Source Linux Document-Oriented Databases
  • pigeonskiller on 16 Best Free and Open Source Linux Document-Oriented Databases

Programming Books

Read our curated lists of great free programming books. Learn Java, C, Python, C++, C#, JavaScript, PHP, and many more languages.

Alternatively, check out our series of great free programming tutorials.

Feedback

Help expand our coverage of Linux software by completing our:

  • Open-source software form
  • Linux distro form

Your feedback is very much appreciated. Complete our contact form.

Support Us


Donate
to LinuxLinks

Thank you for supporting LinuxLinks. If you like our site, the best way to ensure it remains available is to make a donation.

Small Devices

We’re publishing a series of articles for each of these Linux-based phones, Mini PCs, SBCs, and NAS devices.

BOSGAME VTA-439 – AMD
Minisforum M2 Panther Lake
Minisforum MS-02 Mini Workstation
BOSGAME M7 285H – Intel
Minisforum MS-R1 Mini Workstation
Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus laptop
BOSGAME M6 HX370 – AMD
BOSGAME M4 Plus – AMD
Minisforum AI X1 Pro – AMD
Minisforum UM890 Pro – AMD
PELADN WO4 5600H – AMD
Volla Phone Quintus with UT (ARM)
HP ProBook 440 G8 Refurb – Intel
ASRock NUC BOX-255H – Intel

SBC series are available on our Series landing page.

Replace Proprietary Software

Migrate from large multinational software companies and embrace free and open source solutions.

Google
Google
Microsoft
Microsoft
Apple
Apple
Adobe
Adobe
IBM
IBM
Autodesk
Autodesk
Oracle
Oracle
Atlassian
Atlassian
Corel
Corel
Cisco
Cisco
Intuit
Intuit
SAS
SAS
Progress
Progress
Salesforce
Salesforce
Citrix
Citrix

Reviews

ReviewsWe’ve written tons of in-depth and completely impartial reviews of open source software. Read our reviews.

New to Linux?

NewbieBegin your Linux journey with our easy-to-understand guide designed for newcomers.

Mega Compilations

100 GUI Apps
100 TUI Apps
100 CLI Apps

Recent Posts

  • Ginger Wallet – Bitcoin-only desktop wallet
  • Minisforum MKB i83 wireless mechanical keyboard review
  • LightuePress – static site generator
  • 6 Best Free and Open Source Tox Clients
  • Compose Rules – static analysis rules for Jetpack Compose project
  • 7 Best Free and Open Source Haskell Static Site Generators
  • TRIfA Material – desktop messaging client
  • 21 Best Free and Open Source Orthodox Linux File Managers
  • Emanote – creates structured websites from plain-text notes
  • 16 Best Free and Open Source Linux Internet Forum Software

Desktops

9 Best Desktops
24 KDE Themes
33 KDE Widgets
42 GNOME Extensions
Pantheon, Trinity, LXDE

Archives

Related

Contact us
Link us
FAQ
Comment FAQ
ForFOSS.com
OSSBlog.org
Privacy Policy

© LinuxLinks 1998-2026: Designed by LinuxLinks.