August 2025 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.
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tidyall – all-in-one code tidier and validator
tidyall is your all-in-one code tidier and validator bringing together a variety of code tidiers and validators.
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FUSS – Debian-based Linux distribution
FUSS is an open source operating system based on the Debian Linux distribution.
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Atom Chess – chess engine built using Stockfish and Electron
Engine Analysis is performed with Stockfish 17 with the ability to change depth.
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File Browser – web file browser
File Browser provides a file managing interface within a specified directory. Upload, delete, preview and edit your files.
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Super-linter – collection of linters and code analyzers
Super-linter is a ready-to-run collection of linters and code analyzers, to help validate and fix your source code.
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Hoodik – cloud storage solution
Hoodik is a lightweight, secure, and self-hosted cloud storage solution.
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Quadrapassel – falling-block game
Quadrapassel is a derivative of a classic falling-block game.
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15 Best Free and Open Source Linux Ham Radio Tools
Ham radio is a popular hobby and service bringing people, electronics and communication together. We pick our favorite ham radio tools.
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MegaLinter – analyzes the consistency of your code
MegaLinter is a tool for CI/CD workflows that analyzes the consistency of your code, IAC, configuration, and scripts
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14 Best Free and Open Source Linux Video Converters
The best video converters make the process simple, and support a wide number of different codecs and formats.
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lyrus – cmus lyric player
lyrus is a fully fledged cmus, mpd lyric player automatic lyrics fetcher.
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DuckRun – chrome dino game clone
DuckRun is a little game about a duck who loves to hop and wants to collect some coins. It’s made with the Godot game engine.
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Fedinspect – analyse Fediverse servers
Fedinspect is a GNOME application to enable developers to inspect and analyse fediverse server configurations.
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Diurnals – get daily Todoist notifications
Diurnals lets you receive a daily popup to notify about upcoming Todoist tasks. It’s simple and easy to configure.
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ownCloud – content collaboration, file-sharing, and file-syncing
ownCloud is a software system that offers file hosting services. It’s free and open source software widely used.
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7 Best Free and Open Source Zsh Configuration Frameworks
We highly recommend installing a framework with Zsh as it makes dealing with configuration, plugins and themes a lot more straightforward.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: less
This article spotlights alternative tools to less. All of the tools are free and open source and sport a command-line interface.
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remarklint – check Markdown code style
remark is an ecosystem of plugins that work with markdown as structured data, specifically ASTs (abstract syntax trees).
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KLog – ham radio logger
KLog provides general purpose ham radio DX logging support.
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