Best Free and Open Source Software

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Sep 07, 2025

• Flowinity - image uploader and file storage solution - LinuxLinks

  Flowinity is intended to be an out of the way image hosting server for everyone else, thus it doesn’t have features you’d regularly find in other ShareX servers, such as rich OpenGraph embeds. But instead it has unique features like Insights, and Collections.

  This is free and open source software.

• 11 Best Free and Open Source Zsh Plugin Managers - LinuxLinks

  Zsh is a powerful Unix shell that can be used as an interactive login shell and as a command interpreter for shell scripting.

  Zsh has many strengths such as interactive tab completion, regex integration, automated file searching, advanced shorthand for defining command scope, and a very rich theme engine.

  This article focuses on Zsh plugin managers. This type of software is targeted at individuals who prefer not using defaults. They wish to start with a blank configuration and configure everything manually.

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

• FileGator - powerful multi-user file manager - LinuxLinks

  FileGator has multi-user support so you can have admins and other users managing files with different access permissions, roles and home folders.

  All basic file operations are supported: copy, move, rename, edit, create, delete, preview, zip, unzip, download, upload.

  If allowed, users can download multiple files or folders at once.

  File upload supports drag&drop, progress bar, pause and resume. Upload is chunked so you should be able to upload large files regardless of your server configuration.

  This is free and open source software.

• Elephant - general purpose datasource and executor - LinuxLinks

  Elephant acts as a unified backend service that aggregates data from various sources (desktop applications, files, clipboard history, etc.) and provides a consistent interface for frontend applications like custom launchers, productivity tools, or desktop widgets.

  This is free and open source software.