Feedback: Lesser Known Free and Open Source Linux Software

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In the comments section below, please share details of your favorite open source software that often goes by unnoticed by other users.

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  • The program must run natively under Linux.
  • The program must be fairly unknown.
  • The program must be free (here we mean no charge) and published under an open source license approved by the Open Source Initiative e.g. GPL, MIT, BSD, Apache, MPL, etc.

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Ash
Ash
4 months ago

I use docfd quite a bit. It’s a TUI multiline fuzzy document finder. Saves me time.

Trickster
Trickster
4 months ago

Is it just 1 suggestion?

For starters, I think Meli is worth coverage. It’s a lovely email. client. And navi is a rather special interactive cheatsheet tool. I couldn’t find either of them on your search page.

Psyko
Psyko
4 months ago

I add 3 indispensable that I can not miss:

Feeling Finder: adds countless emoticons anywhere, works like a clipboard, ideal for adding emoticons on websites, forums and anywhere on the net or almost…

Apk Editor Studio: modifies any apk and allows you to extract its content. Personally I use it (apart from modifying apk) to extract icons from apk packages and use them in any system, including Linux.

Lagrange: web browser for the Gemini protocol, one of the big surprises, with the latest changes have turned this browser into an ally for this protocol.

Fabio
Fabio
4 months ago

I like to use TagSpaces for relating bookmarks, general files, photos and notes. It helps me a lot when researching places to visit and to write for my personal blog.

Torin Doyle
Torin Doyle
4 months ago

Hi James. I like gworldclock. It displays time & date in specified time zones. It’s in the Debian repos.

Torin Doyle
Torin Doyle
4 months ago

For any software mentioned, please give links or mention what Distro repos they’re in. Thanks.

Zirias
Zirias
21 days ago

Suggesting Xmoji – disclaimer, I’m the author of that one and you’ll find the code on my github account, Zirias.

It’s yet another virtual emoji keyboard, or, emoji picker. It’s X11 only, offers two ways to “enter” emojis: Inject them using faked keyboard input events or take them into X11’s “primary selection” (middle mouse button to “paste”). It’s lightweight with minimal dependencies, written in pure POSIX C, no toolkit used, and doesn’t require any “input method” service either.

Packages only exist for FreeBSD and NetBSD so far (in the official repositories), maybe someone will step in eventually and create packages for some major Linux distribution 😉 Building locally should be easy though, documented in the README.