Skip to content
LinuxLinks

LinuxLinks

The Linux Portal Site

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

Search Results for: essential system tools

clrsync – color scheme manager

December 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, GUI

clrsync allows to define color palettes once and apply them consistently to all configurable applications.

Read more
File Managers

FolderHost – share files

December 26, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

FolderHost is a self-hosted cloud platform in a single binary. Share files, collaborate in real-time, and manage users with zero dependencies.

Read more
Folder

Veretino – folder integrity checker

December 26, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Veretino lets you verify the integrity of both individual files and entire lists. Analyze the contents of folders, calculate checksums, and more.

Read more
YouTube

MeTube – self-hosted YouTube downloader

December 26, 2025 Steve Emms Multimedia, Web Apps

MeTube is a Web GUI for youtube-dl (using the yt-dlp fork) with playlist support. Download videos from YouTube and dozens of other sites.

Read more
Machine Learning in Linux

Toad – unified interface for AI

December 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific, TUI

Toad is a unified interface for AI in your terminal. Run coding agents seamlessly under a single beautiful terminal UI.

Read more
dna-medical

16 Best Free and Open Source Linux Medical Imaging Software

December 26, 2025 Steve Emms Roundup, Scientific

Medical imaging is an essential, non-invasive, routine activity performed by radiographers and radiologic technologists.

Read more
Linux

fortty – terminal emulator

December 26, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity, Utilities

fortty is a new GPU-accelerated terminal emulator.

Read more
Network

e2c – AWS EC2 Terminal UI Manager

December 26, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

e2c is a terminal-based UI application for managing AWS EC2 instances, inspired by k9s for Kubernetes and e1s for ECS.

Read more
Files

mdfried – Markdown viewer

December 25, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

mdfried is a markdown viewer for the terminal that renders headers as Bigger Text than the rest.

Read more
ebook reader

Bookokrat – terminal-based EPUB reader

December 25, 2025 Steve Emms Documents

Bookokrat is a terminal-based EPUB reader with a split-view library and reader, full MathML and image rendering

Read more
Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft

WinBoat – Windows for penguins

December 25, 2025 Steve Emms GUI

WinBoat is an Electron app which allows you to run Windows apps on Linux using a containerized approach.

Read more
SQL

Blip – MySQL monitor

December 25, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Database, Documents

Blip is a MySQL monitor: it collects and reports metrics from MySQL to monitoring platforms like Datadog.

Read more
Static Site Generator

Gitmal – static page generator for Git repositories

December 25, 2025 Eilidih Parris Web Apps

Gitmal is a static page generator for Git repositories. Gitmal generates static HTML pages with files, commits, code highlighting, and markdown rendering.

Read more
Video Games

liskvork – modern multi-platform gomoku game server

December 25, 2025 Steve Emms Games

liskvork is a modern multi-platform gomoku game server that runs under Linux, *BSD, macOS, and Windows.

Read more
Coding

sticks – modern, lightweight CLI tool for managing C and C++ projects

December 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

sticks is published under the MIT license.

Read more
Network

Nekobox – GUI proxy utility

December 24, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Nekobox is a cross-platform GUI proxy utility powered by Sing-box. It supports Linux and Windows.

Read more
Sports Games

Golazo – follow football games

December 24, 2025 Steve Emms Games, TUI

Golazo is a minimalist terminal user interface (TUI) for following football matches in real-time.

Read more
Selection of utilities

nak – nostr army knife

December 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

nak is the nostr army knife command-line tool. This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.

Read more
Albania

PixelTerm-C – terminal image viewer

December 24, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, TUI

PixelTerm-C is a high-performance terminal image browser written in C, based on the Chafa library.

Read more
Git Clients

fuss – quick staging dirty git files

December 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

fuss is an interactive tree utility for complete git workflows, written in modern Fortran.

Read more

Posts pagination

«Previous Posts 1 … 49 50 51 52 53 … 316 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

  • Jbee on fooyin’s release 0.10.x adds important improvements
  • Steve Emms on fooyin’s release 0.10.x adds important improvements
  • pigeonskiller on DDRescue-GUI – frontend for ddrescue
  • Luke Baker on fooyin’s release 0.10.x adds important improvements
  • Add on fooyin’s release 0.10.x adds important improvements
  • Steve Emms on audapolis – Linux editor for spoken-word media with transcription
  • Torin Doyle on audapolis – Linux editor for spoken-word media with transcription
  • Steve Emms on Active Linux Distributions
  • NathanT on Active Linux Distributions
  • Steve Emms on 11 Best Free and Open Source Graphical Download Managers

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.

Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus laptop
BOSGAME M6 HX370 – AMD
BOSGAME M4 Plus – AMD
Minisforum AI X1 Pro – AMD
Minisforum UM890 Pro – AMD
Volla Phone Quintus with UT (ARM)
HP ProBook 440 G8 Refurb – Intel
ASRock NUC BOX-255H – Intel
Aiffro K100 All-SSD NAS – Intel
Orange Pi 6 Plus (ARM)
Orange Pi R2S (RISC-V)
Orange Pi RV2 (RISC-V)
Orange Pi 5 Ultra and Max (ARM)
Raspberry Pi 5 (ARM)

Other 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

  • Makie – interactive data visualizations and plotting
  • Embroiderly – cross-platform desktop application for designing cross-stitch patterns
  • 13 Best Free and Open Source Sticky Note Applications
  • Grocy – ERP beyond your fridge
  • Glyphr Studio – web-based font editor
  • LinSticky – modern sticky notes application
  • OpenBosniana OS – Debian-based Linux distribution
  • 8 Best Free and Open Source Text Expander Tools
  • PicSharp – cross-platform image compression
  • 21 Best Free and Open Source Linux Earth Science 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.