Free and Open Source Software

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Sep 15, 2025

• Looksyk - simple personal knowledge platform - LinuxLinks

  Looksyk is a simple personal knowledge platform with a focus on clean markdown files, simple queries and a journal.

  This is free and open source software.

• Pamac - Gtk and CLI front ends of libpamac - LinuxLinks

  Pamac is a GTK and CLI front ends of libpamac.

  This frontend is designed for the Manjaro Linux distribution.

  This is free and open source software.

• clang-tidy - clang-based linter tool - LinuxLinks

  clang-tidy originated as part of the LLVM project, leveraging the Clang compiler’s robust parsing and semantic analysis capabilities. It was developed to provide a powerful, open-source alternative to commercial static analysis tools for C, C++, and Objective-C, enabling deeper code insights and seamless integration into CI/CD pipelines. Its development is ongoing, with new checks and features continually added by the community.

  This is free and open source software.

• 4 Useful Free and Open Source Distrobox GUI Tools - LinuxLinks

  Distrobox integrates these containers within your host system. Among other things, this means you share the HOME directory of the user, external storage, graphical apps (X11/Wayland), audio, systemd journal, even down to things like aliases in your shell. This is a real time-saver from a configuration perspective.

  This article picks some useful tools to help you manage Distrobox containers.

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

• Tuwunel - high performance Matrix homeserver - LinuxLinks

  Tuwunel is a featureful Matrix homeserver you can use instead of Synapse with your favorite client, bridge or bot.

  It is written entirely in Rust to be a scalable, lightweight, low-cost, community-driven alternative covering all but the most niche uses. This project is the official successor to conduwuit, which was a featureful and high-performance fork of Conduit,

  This is free and open source software.

• LazySSH - terminal-based interactive SSH manager - LinuxLinks

  LazySSH is a terminal-based, interactive SSH manager inspired by tools like lazydocker and k9s — but built for managing your fleet of servers directly from your terminal.

  With LazySSH, you can quickly navigate, connect, manage, and transfer files between your local machine and any server defined in your ~/.ssh/config. No more remembering IP addresses or running long scp commands — just a clean, keyboard-driven UI.

  This is free and open source software.