Skip to content

LinuxLinks

The Linux Portal Site

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

Tag: Lua

XMPP

Prosody – modern XMPP communication server

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Prosody is a modern XMPP communication server. It aims to be easy to set up and configure, and efficient with system resources.

Read more
Text Editor

Textadept – text editor software

November 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

Textadept is a fast, minimalist, and extensible cross-platform text editor for programmers. Version also available for the terminal.

Read more
Application Servers

Tarantool – fast, scalable, and reliable in-memory computing platform

November 7, 2023 Eilidih Parris Web Apps

Tarantool is an in-memory database and application server written in Lua and C.

Read more
Web Browsers

Luakit – fast, extensible, and customizable WebKit-based web browser

November 5, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

Luakit is a highly configurable browser framework based on the WebKit web content engine and the GTK+ toolkit.

Read more
Simulation Games

NAEV – game about space exploration, trade and combat

November 3, 2023 Steve Emms Games

NAEV is a 2D space trading and combat game. It is inspired by Ambrosia Software’s classic game, Escape Velocity.

Read more
Turn Based Strategy Games

HedgeWars – funny and addictive free game

November 3, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Hedgewars is a Worms-like turn based strategy game where the real buzz is from watching the devastation caused by pesky hedgehogs with awesome weapons.

Read more
Real-Time Strategy Games

Zero-K – massive robot armies fighting in an endless conflict

November 1, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Zero-K is an exciting real-time strategy game in which massive robot armies fight in an endless conflict.

Read more
Real-Time Strategy Games

Widelands – real-time strategy game

November 1, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Widelands is an economic and military simulation game aiming for gameplay similar to Settlers II by BlueByte.

Read more
Real-Time Strategy Games

Bos Wars – free futuristic real time strategy game

November 1, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Bos Wars is a futuristic real time strategy game (RTS). In a RTS game, the player has to combat his enemies while developing his war economy.

Read more
Video Games

Spring – RTS game engine

October 30, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Spring (previously known as TA Spring) is a project to create the best Real-time Strategy (RTS) game engine ever. It has three main goals.

Read more

DoomRL – D**m, the Roguelike

October 29, 2023 Steve Emms Games

DoomRL (Doom, the Roguelike) is a fast and furious coffee-break Roguelike game, that is heavily inspired by the popular first person shooter game Doom.

Read more
Development Tools

Vanilla – OpenResty Lua MVC web framework

October 28, 2023 Eilidih Parris Programming

Vanilla is an OpenResty Lua MVC web framework. Vanilla is free and open source software written in Perl and Lua.

Read more
Development Tools

Orbit – MVC web framework for Lua

October 28, 2023 Eilidih Parris Programming

Orbit is an MVC web framework for Lua. Orbit is free and open source software. The project is not under active development.

Read more
Development Tools

Luvit – Node.JS for the Lua Inventor

October 28, 2023 Eilidih Parris Programming

Luvit is a collection of packages and modules implements a node.js style API for the luvi/lit runtime.

Read more
Development Tools

Turbo – framework built for LuaJIT 2

October 28, 2023 Eilidih Parris Programming

Turbo is a framework built for LuaJIT 2 to simplify the task of building fast and scalable network applications.

Read more
Development Tools

Lapis – web framework for Lua/MoonScript supporting OpenResty or http.server

October 28, 2023 Eilidih Parris Programming

Lapis is a framework for building web applications using MoonScript or Lua that runs inside of a customized version of Nginx called OpenResty.

Read more
Development Tools

OpenResty – turns Nginx into a Full-Fledged Scriptable Web Platform

October 28, 2023 Eilidih Parris Programming

OpenResty is a full-fledged web application server. It bundles the standard Nginx core, 3rd-party Nginx modules, and external dependencies.

Read more
Development Tools

Sailor – Lua MVC web framework

October 28, 2023 Eilidih Parris Programming

Sailor is a Lua MVC web framework. It is compatible with Apache with mod_lua or mod_pLua, Nginx with ngx_lua, Lwan, Lighttpd with mod_magnet.

Read more
Platform Games

Mr. Rescue – arcade styled 2d action game

October 28, 2023 Steve Emms Games

Mr. Rescue is an arcade styled 2D action game centered around evacuating civilians from burning buildings.

Read more
Static Site Generators

Luapress – simple and fast static site/blog generator

October 27, 2023 Eilidih Parris Web Apps

Luapress is yet another static site generator, written in Lua, with posts in Markdown.

Read more

Posts pagination

«Previous Posts 1 2 3 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

  • Steve Emms on Imagot – image viewer
  • Torin Doyle on Imagot – image viewer
  • Torin Doyle on Quarkos – Ubuntu-based Linux distribution
  • Steve Emms on flix-cli – movie scraper
  • Torin Doyle on flix-cli – movie scraper
  • Grant on 23 Best Free and Open Source GUI Internet Radio Software
  • Steve Emms on 23 Best Free and Open Source GUI Internet Radio Software
  • Don on 23 Best Free and Open Source GUI Internet Radio Software
  • Bob D on AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 NPU in Linux: Gaia – Run LLM Agents
  • Paul on AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 NPU in Linux: Gaia – Run LLM Agents

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.

BOSGAME M4 Plus – AMD Ryzen
Minisforum AI X1 Pro – AMD Ryzen
Volla Phone Quintus with UT (ARM)
ASRock NUC BOX-255H (x86_64)
Aiffro K100 All-SSD NAS (x86_64)
Radxa Cubie A7A (ARM)
Radxa ROCK 5T (ARM)
Radxa ROCK 4D (ARM)
Firefly AIBOX-3588S (ARM)
Banana Pi BPI-F3 (RISC-V)
Orange Pi R2S (RISC-V)
Orange Pi RV2 (RISC-V)
Orange Pi 5 Ultra and Max (ARM)
Raspberry Pi 5 (ARM)

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

  • Minisforum UM890 Pro Mini PC Running Linux – Introduction to the Series
  • 16 Best Free and Open Source Linux Voice Over IP (VoIP) Software
  • powersupply – display power status of phones
  • textTinyR – text processing for small or big data
  • Lotti – AI-powered context manager
  • sentimentr – dictionary based sentiment analysis
  • 9 Best Free and Open Source Linux Astrology Software
  • topicmodels – interface to LDA and CTM models
  • eastwood – Clojure lint tool
  • Talos Linux – Kubernetes optimized Linux distro

Desktops

9 Best Desktops
24 KDE Themes
33 KDE Widgets
42 GNOME Extensions
Pantheon, Trinity, LXDE

Archives

Related

Contact us
Link us
FAQ
ForFOSS.com
OSSBlog.org
Privacy Policy

© LinuxLinks 1998-2025: Designed by LinuxLinks.