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Best Free and Open Source Compact Editors

15 Free and Open Source Simple GUI Based Linux Text Editors

May 14, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup

A text editor is software used for editing plain text files. This type of software has many different uses.

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Wiki Engines

Docmost is a collaborative wiki and documentation software

May 14, 2025 Steve Emms Web Apps

Designed for seamless real-time collaboration, multiple users can work on the same page at the same time in real-time

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Notes

AppFlowy is an open source alternative to Notion

May 14, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity

Bring projects, wikis, and teams together with AI. AppFlowy is the AI collaborative workspace without losing control of your data.

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Bookmark manager tool

crumbs is a bookmarking system for the command line

May 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

crumbs is a command-line utility for the shell, for storing commands under a meaningful name in a hierarchy.

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Manage creative assets

Blackbody is a thermogram viewer

May 14, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

It allows viewing FLIR and TIFF images, giving control over the render settings.

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Email

Gray Duck Mail – modern group email discussion lists

May 14, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Gray Duck Mail is an alternative to email discussion group software such as Mailman and Sympa.

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Linux Distributions

FreeBSD is an operating system powering servers and desktops

May 14, 2025 Erik Karlsson Distro

FreeBSD is an operating system for a variety of platforms which focuses on features, speed, and stability.

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Email

Mlmmj is a simple and slim mailing list manager

May 14, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Mlmmj is a simple and slim mailing list manager (MLM) inspired by ezmlm. It works with many different Mail Transport Agents (MTAs).

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Start up

grub-editor is a GUI application to edit grub configurations

May 13, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, System Software

grub-editor is a GUI application to edit grub configurations. It works by editing the /etc/default/grub file.

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Embroidery

SymbolEditor is a cross stitch symbol editor

May 13, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Other

SymbolEditor is a program that can create libraries of QPainterPath objects with hints on how to render them.

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