Best Free and Open Source Software

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Aug 31, 2025

• Garage - S3-compatible distributed object storage service - LinuxLinks

  Garage is an S3-compatible distributed object storage service designed for self-hosting at a small-to-medium scale.

  Garage is designed for storage clusters composed of nodes running at different physical locations, in order to easily provide a storage service that replicates data at these different locations and stays available even when some servers are unreachable. Garage also focuses on being lightweight, easy to operate, and highly resilient to machine failures.

  This is free and open source software.

• Best Free and Open Source Software: August 2025 Updates - LinuxLinks

  Here are the latest updates to our compilation of recommended software. We’ve maintained the number of roundups this month despite focusing more on hardware reviews. And we’ve got extra hardware series starting tomorrow.

  Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion. Open source software at its finest.

• tidyall - all-in-one code tidier and validator - LinuxLinks

  There are a lot of great code tidiers and validators out there. tidyall makes them available from a single unified interface.

  You can run tidyall on a single file or on an entire project hierarchy, and configure which tidiers/validators are applied to which files. tidyall will back up files beforehand, and for efficiency will only consider files that have changed since they were last processed.

  A tidier transforms a file so as to improve its appearance without changing its semantics. Examples include perltidy, podtidy and js-beautify.

  A validator analyzes a file for some definition of correctness. Examples include perlcritic, podchecker and jshint.

  Many tidiers are also validators, e.g. perltidy will throw an error on badly formed Perl.

• 16 Best Free and Open Source Linux Chess Apps - LinuxLinks

  Linux chess software generally is separated into a “front end” application and a “chess engine”. There is a wide range of chess-playing software for Linux, which can defeat most master players under tournament conditions. Computer chess has been a phenomenal success, aiding chess analysis, and allowing players to play when no human opponents are available. Other types of chess software include chess databases and tournament managers. Chess databases provide a convenient way to store your own games, a time-efficient method to study, and offers access to statistics about your own games and of titled chess players.

  To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 16 top chess applications, identifying our favorite front ends. All of these tools are released under a freely distributable license.

• Atom Chess - chess engine built using Stockfish and Electron - LinuxLinks

  Atom Chess is a chess engine built using Stockfish and Electron.

  Features include:

  Engine Analysis with Stockfish 17 with ability to change depth. Eval bar to quickly visualize which side is winning. Engine score with top 3 continuations. “Best Move” arrows to quickly show what the best move is. Ability to add comments to the move list. Save and load games locally into your own database. Cross-platform support – runs under Linux and Windows.

• File Browser - web file browser - LinuxLinks

  File Browser provides a file managing interface within a specified directory and it can be used to upload, delete, preview and edit your files. It is a create-your-own-cloud-kind of software where you can just install it on your server, direct it to a path and access your files through a nice web interface.

  File Browser is a single binary and can be used as standalone executable. However, it is also available as a Docker image.

  This is free and open source software.