Free and Open Source Software

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Nov 16, 2025

• Tarot Caster - view and explore tarot decks - LinuxLinks

  Tarot Canvas is a cross-platform application for viewing and exploring tarot decks. It supports decks that are compliant with the Tarot Deck Specification v1.0.

  This is free and open source software.

• paclog - Pacman log parser - LinuxLinks

  paclog is a Pacman log parser written in the Rust language.

  This is free and open source software.

• Enroute Flight Navigation - flight navigation app - LinuxLinks

  Enroute Flight Navigation is a flight navigation app for VFR pilots. The app runs primarily on mobile devices.

  It has been written by flight enthusiasts, as a project of Akaflieg Freiburg, a flight club based in Freiburg, Germany.

  It is free, open source, 100% non-commercial and does not collect user data. The desktop version of the app is hardly useful for actual navigation, but might be used to plan your next flight on the big screen.

• reflector-cacheserver - retrieve up-to-date Arch Linux mirror data - LinuxLinks

  reflector retrieves information from archlinux.org’s Mirror Status service via the JSON interface and filters servers based on user options to generate Pacman mirrorlists.

  reflector-cacheserver is a patched version of reflector to make use of the cache server support introduced in Pacman 6.1.0.

  This is free and open source software.

• Best Free and Open Source Secrets Management Software - LinuxLinks

  This type of software offers a centralized location to prevent hard-coding secrets in source code, automates processes like secret rotation, and enforces access policies to improve security and streamline workflows.

  This roundup picks the finest secrets management tools for Linux.

  Here’s our verdict captured in a legendary LinuxLinks-style ratings chart. Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion here. Note that Vault’s license is not compliant with the standard definition of open source.

• Resonance - clean and minimal API client - LinuxLinks

  Resonance is a clean and minimal API client application designed to provide an excellent user experience for testing and interacting with APIs.

  Built with Electron, it offers a modern and intuitive interface for developers.

  This is free and open source software.

• dblab - interactive client for PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite3, Oracle and SQL Server - LinuxLinks

  dblab is a fast and lightweight interactive terminal based UI application for PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite3.

  The main idea behind using Go for backend development is to utilize ability of the compiler to produce zero-dependency binaries for multiple platforms. dblab was created as an attempt to build very simple and portable application to work with local or remote PostgreSQL/MySQL/SQLite3/Oracle/SQL Server databases.

  This is free and open source software.

• process-map - visualize the virtual memory of a process - LinuxLinks

  The tool is meant to give students an easier and intuitive idea of what a process is. It isn’t a profiler or any other serious debugging tool. It doesn’t measure where CPU time is spend (a flame chart will do a much better job). It just looks at each threads instruction pointer every so often and plots that on the map. The visualization doesn’t show if the threads are actually doing work

  This is free and open source software.

• pulsemixer - CLI and curses mixer for PulseAudio - LinuxLinks

  Pulsemixer is a CLI and curses mixer for PulseAudio that’s a self-sufficient single-file Python app that doesn’t require any extra libraries.

  This is free and open source software.