Lightning Image Viewer (LIV) is billed as a desktop image (previewer) with some notable UX features.
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7 Useful Free and Open Source S3 File Systems and Tools
This roundup focuses on software that turns S3 into a convenient file system. We also include a few useful S3 utilities.
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5 Useful Free and Open Source TUI Notes Apps
There is a wide range of competent note taking software for Linux. This article focuses on apps that have a Text User Interface (TUI).
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cull – reclaim precious disk space
cull is a program written in Go that helps you clean up your system. It’s a lovely small utility. Give it a whirl!
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NoctaVox – TUI music player for local music
NoctaVox recently caught my attention. It’s billed as a lightweight, plug and play TUI music player for local music.
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3 Useful Free and Open Source Haskell TUI Frameworks
The software featured in this roundup helps developers create TUI programs. All the software featured is written in Haskell.
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3 Useful Free and Open Source YAML Code Formatters
This roundup selects some useful code formatters for YAML developers.
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Linux Candy: sigye – terminal clock
sigye is a terminal clock with ASCII art fonts. The name “sigye” (시계) means “clock” in Korean. It also offers Pomodoro functionality
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Ampere – lightweight music player
Ampere is a GUI-based playlist-based audio player written in Python and Qt. It’s free and open source software.
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ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H Running Linux: BIOS
In this article in the series I’ll show you many of the BIOS options that are available with the ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H.
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Pipeline – watch YouTube and PeerTube videos
Access YouTube content without using a web browser. Pipeline goes one step further by letting you also view PeerTube content.
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Best Free and Open Source Software: January 2026 Updates
January 2026 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.
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5 Useful Free and Open Source Rust TUI frameworks
The software featured in this roundup helps developers create TUI programs. All the software featured is written in Rust.
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Linux Candy: asciify – turn images into attractive ASCII art
asciify is a CLI tool that converts images into ASCII art. It’s part of our Linux Candy series.
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Volla Phone Quintus running Volla OS: Introduction to the Series
This series looks at Volla OS, an Android operating system which has been de-googled. All your data is yours.
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Hummingbird – modern music player
Hummingbird is a cross-platform Rust-based music player with basic functionality already implemented. It’s worth checking out!
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Minisforum AI X1 Pro running Linux: BIOS
In this article in the series I’ll show you many of the BIOS options that are available with the Minisforum AI X1 Pro.
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Site Updates: Our Plans
I’m delighted to discuss our updated plans with the Linux community!
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13 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Calendar Tools
Here’s our verdict on the finest free and open source terminal-based calendar software.
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hapless – run and manage background processes
hapless is a small utility that lets you easily run and manage background processes.
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PRS – web security scanner
PRS is a CLI-based scanner focused on safe assessment of web targets.
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CasterSoundboard – podcasting tool
CasterSoundboard is a soundboard for hot-keying and playing back sounds. It’s designed for podcasting.
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TFCBM – clipboard manager
TFCBM is a clipboard manager for Linux. It keeps a searchable history of everything you copy.
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Squall – TUI SQLite viewer and editor
Squall is a SQLite viewer and editor that runs in your terminal. Squall is written in Python and uses the Textual package.
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typos – source code spell checker
typos finds and corrects spelling mistakes among source code: Fast enough to run on monorepos. Low false positives so you can run on PRs.
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Runa – GUI package manager for the AUR
Runa is a graphical AUR (Arch User Repository) package manager for Linux. It works on any desktop environment that supports GTK3.
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rgrc – Rusty Generic Colouriser
rgrc is a fast,Rust-based command-line tool that colorizes the output of other commands using regex-based rules.
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Dealve – find game deals
Dealve simplifies finding the best game deals across Steam, GOG, Humble Bundle, Epic Games, and more.
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AIRCTL – WiFi management tool
AIRCTL provides a clean interface to scan, connect, and manage wireless networks.
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GPU-Viewer – frontend to glxinfo, vulkaninfo, clinfo and es2_info
GPU-Viewer aims to capture all the important details of glxinfo, vulkaninfo and clinfo in a GUI.
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stardial – space-anime themed terminal clock
stardial is a space-anime themed terminal clock, with starfield backgrounds, themes, and gentle effects.
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JocalSend – TUI LocalSend implementation
JocalSend is an implementation of the LocalSend protocol that uses Ratatui to provide an interactive terminal-based application.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: ps
We explore free and open source alternatives to ps, a command that reports a snapshot of the current processes.
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rsecure – AES-GCM file encryption and decryption tool
rsecure is a command-line tool for AES-GCM file encryption and decryption. Aimed at protecting sensitive files, backups, and personal data.
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flux – search, monitor, and nuke processes
flux strips away the clutter and focuses on what matters: quickly finding, monitoring, and acting on processes.
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5 Best Free and Open Source Digital Asset Management Software
Digital asset management (DAM) allows organization to obtain greater value from creative digital assets like images and videos by making them easy to organize, access, catalogue, find, retrieve and distribute.
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lule – ANSI color generator
lule is a command line tool to set 255 colors on tty’s and other places that use ANSI colors.
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10 Best Free and Open Source Audio Converters
To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 10 high quality free and open source Linux audio converters.
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