The shell is a program that takes commands from the keyboard and gives them to the operating system to perform. We recommend the finest free and open source shells.
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12 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Internet Radio Apps
This article recommends our favourite terminal-based internet radio apps. Free and open source software only.
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8 Best Free and Open Source Emacs-Like Text Editors
The original program was written in 1976 as a set of macros for an existing text editor called TECO.
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10 Best Free and Open Source Subtitle Editors
A subtitle editor is software that lets users create and edit subtitles. We pick the finest open source software.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Analytics
Google Analytics is an exceptional platform for both website and mobile app analytics. What are the best free and open source alternatives?
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10 Best Free and Open Source OCR Tools
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the conversion of scanned images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text into searchable, editable documents.
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Best Free and Open Source Software: March 2025 Updates
March 2025 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: dd
This article spotlights alternative tools to dd, a popular utility to convert and copy a file.
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14 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based News Aggregators
A news aggregator is software which collect news, weblog posts, and other information. We recommend the best terminal-based news aggregators.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: man
A Linux system comes with a whole collection of system reference manuals (known as man pages). There’s a man page for each command or program.
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11 Best Free and Open Source Accountancy Software
Accountancy is the measurement, processing, and communication of financial and non financial information about economic entities.
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23 Best Free and Open Source Linux Bioinformatics Tools
This article identifies our favourite tools which are extremely useful for anyone interested in sequence analysis, molecular modelling, molecular dynamics, phylogenetic analysis and more.
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9 Best Free and Open Source Google Analytics Alternatives
Web analytics is the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of internet data.
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8 Best Free and Open Source Font Viewers
This article highlights useful tools to view your fonts. We only feature free and open source software in this article.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: find
This article spotlights alternative tools to find.
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11 Useful Bluetooth Tools for Linux
We recommend a variety of different Bluetooth tools besides BlueZ, the official implementation of the Bluetooth protocol stack.
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11 Best Free and Open Source Graphical Email Clients
We feature our recommended graphical email clients. They are all free and open source goodness.
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8 Best Free and Open Source Linux Anti-Spam Tools
There are a number of techniques that help fight the tide of spam. These include whitelisting, spam buckets, Bayesian filtering, fuzzy logic techniques, and attachment scanning.
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Best Free and Open Source Visual Automation Tools
This article looks at software which provides a graphical user interface for automating desktop tasks.
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12 Best Free and Open Source Solutions for Home Automation
Home automation software lets you control and monitor common home and office appliances using a computer.
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