Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Feb 07, 2025

• Encpipe - encryption tool - LinuxLinks

  Encpipe is billed as the simplest encryption tool in the world.

  This is free and open source software.

• Rouge - elegant, extendable code highlighter - LinuxLinks

  Rouge is a pure Ruby syntax highlighter. It can highlight over 200 different languages, and output HTML or ANSI 256-color text.

  Its HTML output is compatible with stylesheets designed for Pygments.

  This is free and open source software.

• CoBang - QR code and barcode snanner - LinuxLinks

  CoBang is a native QR Code and barcode scanner application for the Linux desktop.

  While the program is targeted at Wayland, it also runs under X11.

  This is free and open source software.

• PixelViewer - cross-platform image viewer - LinuxLinks

  PixelViewer is a cross-platform image viewer supports reading raw Luminance/YUV/RGB/ARGB/Bayer pixels data from file and rendering it.

  This is free and open source software.

• vv - image viewer for sixel terminals - LinuxLinks

  vv is different from the vast majority of image viewers. It’s a small command-line program to view images from the terminal. Not only does it display images in a terminal, it also supports the Kitty Graphics Protocol. This allows you to view high resolution images direct in a terminal. And the software also lets you watch animations within the terminal.

  vv is free and open source software written in C++.

• Boxes - view, access, and manage remote and virtual systems - LinuxLinks

  Boxes is targeted towards a typical desktop end-user who wants either a very safe and easy way to try out new operating systems or new (potentially unstable) versions of her/his favorite operating system(s), or needs to connect to a remote machine (home-office connection being a typical use-case). For this reason, Boxes does not provide many of the advanced options to tweak virtual machines provided by virt-manager. Instead, Boxes focuses on getting things working out of the box with very little input from user.

  This is free and open source software.

• sesdiff - generates a shortest edit script - LinuxLinks

  There is also a python binding available if you want to use sesdiff from Python.

  It was written to build lemmatisers.

  This is free and open source software.

• XEphem - Serious Interactive Astronomical Software Ephemeris - LinuxLinks

  XEphem is a Motif based ephemeris and planetarium program for Unix-like operating systems including Linux.

  This is free and open source software.