mbake is a Makefile formatter and linter that offers smart formatting: Tabs for recipes, consistent spacing, line continuation cleanup.
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Document Scanner – GNOME based tool
Document Scanner lets you capture images using image scanners (e.g. flatbed scanners) that have suitable SANE drivers installed.
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Best Free and Open Source Software: October 2025 Updates
October 2025 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.
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SLADE3 – modern editor for Doom-engine based games
SLADE3 is a modern editor for Doom-engine based games and source ports. It can view, modify, and write many different game-specific formats.
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Karapulse – karaoke player
Karapulse is a Linux karaoke player supporting CDG/MP3 as well as video files.
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Shimmy – lightweight OpenAI API server
Shimmy is a 4.8MB single-binary that provides 100% OpenAI-compatible endpoints for GGUF models.
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Gamepad Mirror – visualize gamepad inputs
Gamepad Mirror is a simple application to visualize a gamepad’s input. It’s written in JavaScript.
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16 Best Free and Open Source Linux Serial Terminals
A serial terminal is software that allows communication with devices through a serial port, often used for debugging embedded systems.
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Hydraulics Channel GVF – compute water surface profiles
Hydraulics Channel GVF computes water surface profiles in a prismatic channel for gradually varied flow.
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Share Preview – test social media cards locally
Share Preview lets you review and debug websites metadata tags for social media share.
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Draughts – comprehensive draughts (checkers) game
Draughts is a comprehensive checkers/draughts game featuring 16 international game variants, multiple AI difficulty levels
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Mangal – CLI manga downloader
Mangal is billed as an advanced CLI manga downloader.
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httm – file-level Time Machine-like tool
httm is an interactive, file-level Time Machine-like tool for ZFS/btrfs/nilfs2 (and even Time Machine and Restic backups).
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Stakpak – terminal-native DevOps Agent
Stakpak can run commands, edit files, search docs, and more. It has security super powers, and generates high quality IaC.
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Animu – watch anime
Animu is an easy to use desktop application for watching anime. This is free and open source software written in TypeScript.
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RustNet – cross-platform network monitoring tool
RustNet provides real-time visibility into network connections with detailed state information, connection lifecycle management, and more.
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Stasis – modern Wayland idle manager
Stasis is a modern Wayland idle manager that knows when to step back. It’s written in the Rust language.
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mpls – Markdown Preview Language Server
Markdown Preview Language Server (mpls) is a language server designed to enhance your Markdown editing experience.
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sshmate – simplify interactions with SSH servers
sshmate is a tool to simplify interactions with SSH servers, offering an easy way to connect to servers by assigning a name to an address.
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OpenICE – data transparency project
OpenICE is an independent data transparency project tracking U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention statistics.
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