Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Dec 11, 2025

• Termagotchi - terminal-based Tamagotchi simulation - LinuxLinks

  Termagotchi is a terminal-based Tamagotchi simulation written in Go, featuring a simple and hacky TUI interface.

  This is free and open source software.

• Blarock - simple music player - LinuxLinks

  Linux offers a huge array of open source music players. And many of them are high quality. I’ve reviewed the vast majority for LinuxLinks, but I’m endeavoring to explore every free music player in case there’s an undiscovered gem.

  Blarock caught my attention as its first release is was available on Flathub.

• Tyr - intelligent file organization powered by machine learning - LinuxLinks

  Tyr is a fast file organizer built in Rust that automatically categorizes and groups your files.

  Unlike traditional organizers that only look at file extensions, Tyr uses machine learning algorithms to understand relationships between files and intelligently organize them.

  This is free and open source software.

• MDNS Scanner - scan networks - LinuxLinks

  MDNS Scanner scans a network and create a list of IPs and associated hostnames, including mDNS hostnames and other aliases.

  This is cross-platform software that runs under Linux, macOS, Windows.

  MDNS Scanner is free and open source software.

• zur - AUR helper - LinuxLinks

  aur is just another AUR helper. The AUR is a community-driven repository for Arch Linux users that contains package build scripts (PKGBUILDs) for software not in the official repositories.

  This is free and open source software.