Best Free and Open Source Software

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Feb 24, 2025

• 11 Best Free and Open Source CSS Front-End Frameworks - LinuxLinks

  The purpose of this article is to list the finest open source software that lets you dive into responsive design. The software presented here makes it easy to get started with responsive design. Pre-built frameworks get designers up to speed with a limited methodology rather than spending time building an intimate knowledge of CSS positioning. The code is portable, and can be output to documents in a wide array of formats.

  Here’s our recommendations summarized in a legendary LinuxLinks chart. We only cover free and open source solutions here.

• 7 Best Free and Open Source Linux CLI File Encryption Tools - LinuxLinks

  This roundup looks at the finest CLI-based file encryption tools. We explore GUI tools in this roundup. And if you’re look for tools that encrypt a whole disk, head over to this roundup.

  Here’s our verdict captured in a legendary LinuxLinks-style ratings chart. Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion here.

• Magnus - very simple screen magnifier - LinuxLinks

  Magnus is billed as a very simple screen magnifier. It’s designed for Ubuntu but runs on other Linux distributions.

  This is free and open source software.

• Asynchronous Lint Engine - LinuxLinks

  ALE makes use of NeoVim and Vim 8 job control functions and timers to run linters on the contents of text buffers and return errors as text is changed in Vim. This allows for displaying warnings and errors in files being edited in Vim before files have been saved back to a filesystem.

  ALE offers support for fixing code with command line tools in a non-blocking manner with the :ALEFix feature, supporting tools in many languages, like prettier, eslint, autopep8, and more.

• Warpinator - share files across the LAN - LinuxLinks

  Warpinator is software which lets you send and receive files across a local network.

  This is free and open source software.

• Harper - English grammar checker - LinuxLinks

  Most Harper users are catching their mistakes in Neovim, Obsidian , or Visual Studio Code.

  Not only does it take milliseconds to lint a document, take less than 1/50th of LanguageTool’s memory footprint, but it is also completely private.

  This is free and open source software.

• Haml - markup language - LinuxLinks

  Haml functions as a replacement for inline page templating systems such as PHP, ASP, and ERB, the templating language used in most Ruby on Rails applications. However, Haml avoids the need for explicitly coding HTML into the template, because it itself is a description of the HTML, with some code to generate dynamic content.

  Haml can be used in three ways: as a command-line tool, as a plugin for Ruby on Rails, and as a standalone Ruby module.

• yuki-iptv - IPTV player with EPG support - LinuxLinks

  yuki-iptv is an IPTV player with many features.

  yuki-iptv doesn’t provide content or TV channels. It needs yt-dlp.

  This is free and open source software.