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6 Best Free and Open Source C and C++ Linter Tools

November 8, 2025 Eilidih Parris Programming, Roundup

This article picks some useful tools to help you fix C and C++ code.

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VoIP

Calls – make phone and SIP calls

November 7, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

Calls is a simple, elegant phone dialer and call handler for GNOME.

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Chat

Xaric – IRC client

November 7, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

Xaric is a UNIX irc client similar to (and forked from) BitchX and ircII.

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wolfSSH – small, fast, portable SSH implementation

November 7, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

wolfSSH is a small, fast, portable SSH implementation, including support for SCP and SFTP.

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Swirc – console based ICB and IRC client

November 7, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

Swirc is a BSD licensed, console based and lightweight ICB and IRC client written in C/C++, whose goals are to be portable and secure.

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Remote Display

Dropbear – lightweight SSH server

November 7, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

Dropbear is a smallish SSH server and client that’s written in the C language.

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Chat

rirc – terminal-based IRC client

November 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

rirc is a minimalistic IRC client written in the C programming language.

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SSD

dut – disk usage calculator

November 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

By default, dut will output a tree of the biggest directories it finds under your current directory.

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System Administration

asroot – simpler alternative to sudo and doas

November 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

asroot is a command-line utility to run a process as the root user. It’s written in the C language

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Chat

insomnia – frontend for the hii IRC client

November 3, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, TUI

insomnia is a collection of small programs and scripts connected using tmux to create a simple irssi-like text-based user interface for hii.

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Groupware

kirc – tiny IRC client

November 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

kirc is an extremely fast and simple IRC client designed with portability in mind.

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Book

mod_dav – Apache Module for WebDAV

November 1, 2025 Steve Emms Web Apps

mod_dav provides class 1 and class 2 WebDAV (‘Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning’) functionality for Apache.

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Machine Learning in Linux

Shimmy – lightweight OpenAI API server

October 29, 2025 Steve Emms Scientific

Shimmy is a 4.8MB single-binary that provides 100% OpenAI-compatible endpoints for GGUF models.

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Selection of utilities

mtr085 – full screen ncurses traceroute tool

October 29, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

mtr combines the functionality of the traceroute and ping programs in a single network diagnostic tool.

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Yesser Calculator – extensible calculator

October 21, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Yesser Calculator is an extensible calculator app made using .NET and Avalonia.

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Selection of utilities

Dinfo – detailed information about a directory

October 20, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

Dinfo (Directory Info) is a C# tool that provides detailed information about a directory.

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Web Browsers

wyeb – vim-like webkit2gtk web browser

October 19, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Internet

wyeb is a vim-like webkit2gtk web browser. wyeb is inspired by dwb and luakit, so basically usage is similar to them.

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Game Tools

Anagramarama – make words from a jumble of letters

October 18, 2025 Steve Emms Games, GUI

Anagramarama is a simple wordgame. Guess all the different permutations of a scrambled word which form another word within the time limit.

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Archive Manager

HTTPDirFS – HTTP Directory Filesystem

October 18, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Web Apps

HTTPDirFS is a filesystem which allows you to mount HTTP directory listings or a single file, with a permanent cache.

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TinySSH – minimalistic SSH server

October 17, 2025 Steve Emms Internet

tinysshd is a minimalistic SSH server which implements only a subset of SSHv2 features.

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