Best Free and Open Source Software

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Feb 23, 2025

• Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Files - LinuxLinks

  Files is a file management app developed by Google for file browsing, media consumption, storage clean-up and offline file transfer.

  Files is proprietary software and only available for Android. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives for Linux.

• Wordle CLI - play Wordle in your command line - LinuxLinks

  Wordle CLI is a command-line program that lets you play the famous Wordle puzzle game.

  Once you’re on the finish screen you can use the → key to view your statistics for the chosen Wordle type.

  This is free and open source software.

• Fibbo - web-based game engine - LinuxLinks

  Fibbo exposes a simple object-oriented API that allows you to create and manipulate objects in a scene, both in 2D or 3D. You can add objects to the scene, move them around, rotate them, and much more.

  This is free and open source software.

• Shinken - flexible and scalable monitoring framework - LinuxLinks

  Shinken is backwards-compatible with the Nagios configuration standard and plugins. It works on any operating system and architecture that supports Python,

  This is free and open source software.

• Kickpad - experimental kick drum audio sample generator - LinuxLinks

  Kickpad is an experimental kick drum audio sample generator.

  This is free and open source software.

• Teable - manage your data and connect your team - LinuxLinks

  Teable uses a simple, spreadsheet-like interface to create powerful database applications without any coding skills. Collaborate with your team in real-time, and scale to millions of rows.

  This is free and open source software.

• Equibop - snappy Discord app - LinuxLinks

  Equibop is a cross-platform Vesktop Fork desktop app aiming to give you extra plugins but still give you a snappier Discord experience, with Equicord pre-installed.

  This is free and open source software.

• ccrypt - tool for encrypting and decrypting files and streams - LinuxLinks

  Encryption and decryption depends on a keyword (or key phrase) supplied by the user. By default, the user is prompted to enter a keyword from the terminal. Keywords can consist of any number of characters, and all characters are significant (although ccrypt internally hashes the key to 256 bits). Longer keywords provide better security than short ones, since they are less likely to be discovered by exhaustive search.

  This is free and open source software.