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Best Free and Open Source Software: May 2025 Updates

June 1, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Software

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

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Automation

Compress is text compression for generating keyboard expansions

May 31, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Compress is a tool for automatically creating typing shortcuts from a corpus of your own writing.

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Video-Emulators

Supermodel emulates Sega’s Model 3 arcade platform

May 31, 2025 Steve Emms Emulators, Games

Supermodel emulates Sega’s Model 3 arcade platform, allowing you to play a number of ground-breaking arcade classics on your PC.

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Automation

espansoGUI is a GUI for espanso

May 31, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

espansoGUI is a GUI for espanso created with Rust and Iced.

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Writing Tools

Writernote takes notes in an intelligent way

May 31, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Writernote allows you to take notes in an intelligent way. Record audio as you write, and listen to it again seeing what you have written.

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Font Tools

6 Best Free and Open Source Font Editors

May 31, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

This article focuses on the finest font editors. Linux users may not have a plethora of fonts, but there are many lovely and usable fonts.

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Shell prompt

slimzsh is a small, usable configuration for Zsh

May 31, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

slimzsh is a small, usable configuration for Zsh. It enables all the awesomeness of Zsh with a small and tidy config.

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Linux Distributions

DragonFly BSD is a UNIX-like operating system

May 31, 2025 Erik Karlsson Distro

DragonFly belongs to the same class of operating systems as other BSD-derived systems and Linux. It is based on the same UNIX ideals and APIs.

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Shell prompt

Oh My Posh is a prompt theme engine for any shell

May 30, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Oh My Posh is a custom prompt engine for any shell that has the ability to adjust the prompt string with a function or variable.

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Manage creative assets

Gradia lets you quickly edit images for social media

May 30, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics

Gradia allows you to quickly modify screenshots of application windows to put them better in context.

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