Best Free and Open Source Software

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Mar 07, 2025

• Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Salesforce Quip - LinuxLinks

  Quip is a collaborative productivity software package. It lets groups of people to create and edit documents and spreadsheets collaboratively.

  Quip is proprietary software. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives for Linux.

• 22 Best Free and Open Source Linux System Monitoring Tools - LinuxLinks

  To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 22 Linux system monitoring tools. Hopefully, there will be something of interest here for anyone who wants to monitor a specific service or situation.

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

• dprox - lightweight DNS proxy server - LinuxLinks

  It’s created as a drop-in replacement of dnsmasq to work with dnsmasq-china-list, enhancing overall lookup performance over extensive domain lists. Currently, only a small subset of dnsmasq options is implemented: just enough to seamlessly work with dnsmasq-china-list and hosts-blocklists.

  This is free and open source software.

• wayclip - access the Wayland clipboard - LinuxLinks

  wayclip distinguishes itself from other Wayland clipboard utilities in the following ways:

  small – the whole codebase is less than 300 lines (excluding whitespace). Unixy – all it does is copy and paste; other functions are for other programs no dynamic memory allocation

  This is free and open source software.

• Qtcord - Discord client built with Qt - LinuxLinks

  Qtcord is a Discord client built with Qt aiming to bring a lightweight, native experience.

  This is free and open source software.

• boom - manage text snippets - LinuxLinks

  boom manages your text snippets on the command line.

  You can stash away text like URLs, canned responses, and important notes and then quickly copy them onto your clipboard, ready for pasting.

  This is free and open source software.

• Newsraft - feed reader for terminal - LinuxLinks

  Pager menu will display some details about selected item and render its content if it was provided by feed. Usually feed item entries have a links section with one link pointing to a related web page and several links that were mentioned in the item’s content. You can copy these links into your clipboard with y key and open them in your web browser with o key. To target a key action to link with a specific index you have to prefix your key with this index. For example, 5y will copy fifth link and 17o will open seventeenth link in the web browser. You can also setup custom command bindings to execute any commands with these links.

  This is free and open source software.