Free and Open Source Software

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Dec 01, 2025

• text - R-package for analyzing natural language with transformers-based large language models - LinuxLinks

  text is an R package for analyzing natural language with transformers-based large language models. The text package is part of the R Language Analysis Suite, including talk, text and topics.

  talk transforms voice recordings into text, audio features, or embeddings. text provides many language tasks such as converting digital text into word embeddings. talk and text offer access to Large Language Models from Hugging Face. topics visualizes language patterns into topics to generate psychological insights.

  This is free and open source software.

• YAPF - Python formatter based on clang-format - LinuxLinks

  The ultimate goal is that the code YAPF produces is as good as the code that a programmer would write if they were following the style guide.

  The formatting style used by YAPF is configurable and there are many “knobs” that can be used to tune how YAPF does formatting.

  This is free and open source software.

• JBang - write and run Java scripts - LinuxLinks

  JBang makes it easy to write and run Java scripts without traditional project setup.

  It handles:

• facsimile - terminal text editor - LinuxLinks

  facsimile is a terminal text editor written in Fortran. It offers VSCode-style keybindings.

  facsimile runs under Linux and macOS.

  This is free and open source software.

• MatteriaTrack - mystical Final Fantasy-themed CLI time tracker - LinuxLinks

  MatteriaTrack is a mystical Final Fantasy-themed CLI time tracker for power users.

  This is free and open source software.

• MajUSB Bootable Creator - USB bootable drives - LinuxLinks

  MajUSB Bootable Creator is a modern, cross-platform USB bootable drive creator written in Rust with a GTK4 GUI.

  Easily write Linux or Windows ISO images to USB drives with real-time progress, robust error handling, and a polished, user-friendly interface.

  This is free and open source software.

• venera - comic app - LinuxLinks

  venera is a comic reader that support reading local and network comics.

  This is free and open source software.

• AltSendme - send files and folders anywhere in the world - LinuxLinks

  AltSendme is a file transfer tool that harnesses the power of cutting-edge peer-to-peer networking, letting you transfer files directly without storing them on cloud servers.

  This is cross-platform software running under Linux, macOS, and Windows.

  This is free and open source software.

• Lobster - statically typed programming language - LinuxLinks

  Lobster is a statically typed programming language with a Python-esque syntax that combines the advantages of an expressive type system and compile-time memory management with a very lightweight, friendly and terse syntax, by doing most of the heavy lifting for you.

  This is free and open source software.

• grok - tool like UNIX grep on steroids - LinuxLinks

  grok is a tool like UNIX grep on steroids. Often regular expressions become huge and vague. To resolve this situation macros or grok could be applied. Grok is a peculiar regular expression’s macros name. This term taken from logstash project.

  Macros looks like named reference to a regular expression that may be rather complex expression. This regular expression can contain references to other groks and so on. Using groks you can make complex regular expressions from simple ones.

  This is free and open source software.

• Print(Notes) - Markdown notes app - LinuxLinks

  Print(Notes) is a cross-platform markdown notes app inspired by Google Keep and Obsidian, made with Flutter.

  This is free and open source software.

• Horizon - opinionated fork of F-Chat Rising - LinuxLinks

  Horizon is an opinionated fork of F-Chat Rising, a defunct heavily customized version of the mainline F-Chat 3.0 client.

  This is free and open source software.

• labelme - image polygonal annotation - LinuxLinks

  Labelme is a graphical image annotation tool. It’s written in Python and uses Qt for its graphical interface.

  This is free and open source software.

• Seabird - Kubernetes IDE designed for the GNOME desktop - LinuxLinks

  Seabird is a native desktop app that simplifies working with Kubernetes.

  Explore and manage your clusters with a simple and intuitive interface. Equipped with essential features such as a terminal for executing commands, monitoring through logs and metrics, and a resource editor that conveniently places the API reference at your fingertips.

  This is open source software.

• Aurynk - Android device manager for Linux - LinuxLinks

  Aurynk (Aura + Sync, pronounced “aw-rink”) makes managing your Android devices from Linux simple and wireless. No more cables, no more complicated setup – just scan a QR code and you’re connected.

  This is free and open source software.

• Koreo - platform engineering toolkit for Kubernetes - LinuxLinks

  On their own Functions do nothing, but they are the foundation of the system. The define component-specific control loops in a well-structured, but powerful way.

  Koreo supports restart-free, hot-reloading of Workflows, Functions, ResourceTemplates, and FunctionTests. This enables rapid development and testing of your systems without complex build/deploy processes.

  This is free and open source software.

• 7 Best Free and Open Source Process Memory Tools - LinuxLinks

  In this roundup we focus on useful tools that help you work out the amount of memory used by programs. Some of the tools focus on the visualisation of memory usage, others follow a more traditional approach.

  There’s a wide range of tools available 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.

• goup - Go version manager - LinuxLinks

  goup is an elegant Go version manager.

  This is free and open source software.

• Parm - cross-platform binary installer - LinuxLinks

  Parm directly downloads binaries provided by GitHub repository releases and includes niceties such as symlinking binaries to PATH and checking for updates.

  Parm uses the GitHub REST API to find and install packages. Theoretically, this means you can install any program off of GitHub, so you are responsible for the packages you install.

  This is free and open source software.

• ty - Python type checker - LinuxLinks

  ty is an extremely fast Python type checker and language server, written in Rust.

  This is free and open source software.