Best Free and Open Source Software

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Oct 19, 2025

• 11 Best Free and Open Source OpenAPI Linter Tools - LinuxLinks

  Linters are useful tools for maintaining code quality and consistency in your OpenAPI projects. They analyze code for potential issues, enforce coding standards, and help catch errors before they are pushed into production. Linters are not necessarily a quick fix, can be a distraction, and it’s not inconceivable that they may not be helpful with old, large code bases.

  OpenAPI is an industry standard to describe HTTP APIs. When using OpenAPI in your project, you can leverage other tools to help you generate documentation, code, tests, mock results, or even deploy your API. This article picks some useful tools to help you validate OpenAPI in your project.

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

• 10 Best Free and Open Source Web-Based Food and Drink Software - LinuxLinks

  Richard Stallman, an American software freedom activist, has profound views on what freedoms should be provided in software. He strongly believes that free software should be regarded in the same way as free speech and not free beer. Rest assured, this article is not going to become embroiled in an ideological debate, but instead focuses on a subject which really is essential for life itself.

  The necessary requirements for life are physical conditions which can sustain life, nutrients and energy source, and water. This article relates to the last two requirements. Linux software can play a key part in helping to improve our health and quality of life. If you want to stay fit, part of the solution is to ensure that you are eating the right types of food in the right quantity. Nutrition analysis is important to ensure that you have a healthy balanced diet containing a variety of foods including fruit, vegetables and lots of starchy foods.

  This roundup focuses on the finest web-based food and drink software for Linux. Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion. Graphical and terminal based Linux software is explored in this separate roundup.

• wyeb - vim-like webkit2gtk web browser - LinuxLinks

  wyeb is a vim-like webkit2gtk web browser. wyeb is inspired by dwb and luakit, so basically usage is similar to them.

  This is free and open source software.

• Anagramarama - make words from a jumble of letters - LinuxLinks

  Anagramarama is a simple wordgame in which one tries to guess all the different permutations of a scrambled word which form another word within the time limit.

  Guess the original word and you move on to the next level.

  This is free and open source software.

• HTTPDirFS - HTTP Directory Filesystem - LinuxLinks

  There is a permanent cache system which can cache all the file segments you have downloaded, so you don’t need to these segments again if you access them later. This feature is triggered by the --cache flag.

  There is support for Airsonic / Subsonic server. This allows you to mount a remote music collection locally.

  If you only want to access a single file, there is also a simplified Single File Mode. This can be especially useful if the web server does not present a HTTP directory listing.

  This is free and open source software.

• ssh3 - faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3 - LinuxLinks

  SSH3 is a complete revisit of the SSH protocol, mapping its semantics on top of the HTTP mechanisms.

  While SSH3 shows promise for faster session establishment, it is still at an early proof-of-concept stage.

  This is free and open source software.

• DOSBox Staging - DOS/x86 emulator with advanced features - LinuxLinks

  DOSBox Staging is a modern continuation of DOSBox with advanced features and current development practices.

  It emulates an Intel x86 PC running the MS-DOS operating system with the primary aim of running games, but most application programs will work as well. It is meant as a (mostly) drop-in replacement for older DOSBox versions. Your existing configurations will continue to work, but you will have access to many advanced features.

  This is free and open source software.