Free and Open Source Software

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Aug 20, 2025

• render - command line reader offering better readability of web pages - LinuxLinks

  reader is for your command line what the “readability” view is for modern browsers: A lightweight tool offering better readability of web pages on the CLI.

  reader parses a web page (or an EML file) for its actual content and displays it in nicely highlighted text on the command line. In addition, reader renders embedded images from that page as colored block-renders on the terminal as well.

  This is free and open source software.

• Pomolin - minimalist Pomodoro timer - LinuxLinks

  Pomolin is billed as a simple, beautiful, and minimalist Pomodoro timer for your desktop. Designed to help you stay focused and productive, it provides an elegant and straightforward way to manage your work and break intervals.

  This is free and open source software.

• kplay - inspect messages in a Kafka topic - LinuxLinks

  kplay (short for “kafka-playground”) lets you inspect messages in a Kafka topic in a simple and deliberate manner. Using it, you can pull one or more messages on demand, peruse through them in a list, and, if needed, persist them to your local filesystem.

  kplay can display messages via two interfaces: a TUI or a webpage

  This is free and open source software.

• Moulti - assign visual collapsible blocks - LinuxLinks

  Moulti changes the way your shell scripts (bash, zsh, etc.) display their output in your terminal. Moulti enables you to assign the numerous lines emitted by your scripts to “steps”, i.e. visual, collapsible blocks featuring their own title and color.

  Moulti is a tool meant for people who write and execute shell scripts and/or Ansible playbooks. Specifically, if you find yourself scrolling up your terminal to ensure everything went fine while your script is still running, then Moulti is made for you.

  This is free and open source software.

• fooyin v0.9.1 is released - the best open source music player gets better - LinuxLinks

  fooyin is a customisable music player that strongly resembles foobar2000. Unlike foobar2000, fooyin is open source and available for Linux.

  I’ve written a few articles about this music player in the past although not for a while. That’s simply because it’s been almost a year since a new release. That’s not a criticism, just a reflection that real-life commitments can impede the development of open source software when it’s almost exclusively developed by a single individual.

• nbpreview - terminal viewer for Jupyter notebooks - LinuxLinks

  nbpreview is a terminal viewer for Jupyter notebooks. It’s like cat for ipynb files.

  nbpreview has only one required argument—FILE—which expects a Jupyter notebook (.ipynb) file path. FILE is a flexible argument. It can take:

  A Jupyter notebook (ipynb) file path. Multiple notebook paths. Take in input from stdin.

  This is free and open source software.