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6 Best Free and Open Source Tox Clients

June 30, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Multimedia, Roundup

Tox is a peer-to-peer instant-messaging and video-calling protocol that offers end-to-end encryption. We recommend the finest Tox clients.

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Static Site Generators

7 Best Free and Open Source Haskell Static Site Generators

June 30, 2026 Eilidih Parris Internet, Roundup, Web Apps

All of these tools are released under a freely distributable license.

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File Managers

21 Best Free and Open Source Orthodox Linux File Managers

June 30, 2026 Steve Emms Productivity, Roundup, Utilities

Orthodox file managers are one of the older families of file managers.

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Internet Forum Software

16 Best Free and Open Source Linux Internet Forum Software

June 30, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, Web Apps

An internet forum application is a discussion platform where individuals hold conversations in the form of posted messages.

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Text Editor

28 Best Free and Open Source Linux Markdown Editors

June 29, 2026 Luke Baker Documents, Roundup, Utilities

Markdown is a plain text formatting syntax created by John Gruber in 2004. We feature our recommended open source Markdown editors.

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Software

11 Best Free and Open Source Linux Caching Systems

June 29, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup, System Software

Caches are employed in a variety of different ways. Here’s our recommended free and open source caching systems.

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Cloud

9 Best Free and Open Source Google Drive Clients

June 28, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, System Software

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 6 high quality open source Google Drive clients.

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Music

38 Best Free and Open Source Graphical Music Players

June 27, 2026 Luke Baker Multimedia, Roundup

We recommend the best free and open source music players. There are an amazing range of music players to choose from.

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Menu

6 Small Free and Open Source Console Menu Utilities

June 27, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Roundup

This article looks at six tiny utilities that offer menu facilities.

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13 Best Free and Open Source Graphical BitTorrent Clients

June 27, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup

BitTorrent, also referred to as simply torrent, is an internet transfer protocol for peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P).

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PaaS

16 Best Free and Open Source PaaS Cloud Computing Stacks

June 27, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Roundup, System Software

Along with Software as a Service (SaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), PaaS is a service model of cloud computing.

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ebook reader

11 Best Free and Open Source eBook Tools

June 26, 2026 Steve Emms Productivity, Roundup, Utilities

An electronic book (commonly abbreviated e-book) is a text and image-based publication which can be read on a computer or other digital devices such as an e-book reader.

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ebook reader

10 Best Free and Open Source eBook Web Apps

June 25, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Web Apps

This article selects our pick of the available eBook web apps. We only explore free and open source software here.

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Personal finance

13 Best Free and Open Source Desktop Personal Finance Tools

June 24, 2026 Steve Emms Financial, Roundup

We focus on the best desktop personal finance software for Linux. We only feature open source goodness.

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SQL

18 Excellent Free and Open Source Linux Relational Databases

June 24, 2026 Steve Emms Big Data, Documents, Office, Roundup

A relational database matches data using common characteristics found within the data set. The resulting groups of data are organized and are much easier for people to understand.

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Database

16 Best Free and Open Source Linux Document-Oriented Databases

June 23, 2026 Steve Emms Database, Documents, Office, Roundup

We pick databases which can offer better performance in your application as well as quicker development time.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: date

June 22, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Software

This article spotlights alternative tools to date, a utility that prints or sets the system date and time.

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cut command

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: cut

June 22, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to cut.

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Laboratory

Increasing Lab Efficiency with an Open Source LIMS

June 22, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Scientific

A Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) is a software-based laboratory and information management system that provides streamlined workflow automation and management.

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Clipboard

15 Best Free and Open Source GUI Clipboard Managers

June 21, 2026 Steve Emms Roundup, Utilities

Linux has a number of proficient clipboard managers. We make our recommendations – all free and open source.

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