Best Free and Open Source Software

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Aug 10, 2025

• Save Desktop - saves your Linux desktop environment configuration - LinuxLinks

  Save Desktop lets you save your current configuration (themes, icons, wallpapers, all desktop environment settings, extensions, etc.) with one click.

  This is free and open source software.

• Flogo - programming language - LinuxLinks

  Flogo is a programming language for beginners, designed for learning programming basics within a friendly environment using flow charts.

  This is free and open source software.

• vet - curl sanity checker - LinuxLinks

  vet is a command-line tool that acts as a safety net for the common but risky curl | bash pattern.

  It lets you inspect remote scripts for changes, run them through a linter, and require your explicit approval before they can execute.

  This is free and open source software.

• 4 Best Free and Open Source Travel Planners - LinuxLinks

  This roundup focuses on software which act as a digital travel assistant. The software makes collecting all the information about your travel inside a single application easy and straightforward.

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

• cxt - extract and aggregate project context - LinuxLinks

  cxt is a command-line tool that aggregates file and directory contents into your clipboard. It’s useful for providing project context to AI chatbots in your browser like ChatGPT, Perplexity etc.

  When you’re working in the terminal and need to quickly share your project’s code structure and contents with an AI assistant, cxt makes it easy. Instead of manually copying files one by one, you can select multiple files and directories, and cxt will aggregate all their contents with clear path headers, giving the AI full context of your project structure.

  This is free and open source software.

• tree++ - tree command with icons - LinuxLinks

  Tree is a recursive directory listing program that produces a depth indented listing of files, which is colorized ala dircolors if the LS_COLORS environment variable is set and output is to tty.

  With no arguments, tree lists the files in the current directory. When directory arguments are given, tree lists all the files and/or directories found in the given directories each in turn. Upon completion of listing all files/directories found, tree returns the total number of files and/or directories listed.

  This is free and open source software.

• kat - cat command with syntax highlighting - LinuxLinks

  kat is a cat command with syntax highlighting for a variety of different programming languages.

  This is free and open source software.