Free and Open Source Software

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Dec 25, 2025

• Season's Greetings from LinuxLinks - LinuxLinks

  Everyone involved at LinuxLinks wishes you all a very Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year. May the Christmas Season bring only happiness and joy to you and your family.

  We’re gearing up for an exciting new year with a bunch of projects lined up! We’ll be broadening our range of hardware reviews and rolling out intriguing software content for all the Linux enthusiasts out there. After all, that’s what we’re all about!

• Blip - MySQL monitor - LinuxLinks

  Blip is a MySQL monitor: it collects and reports metrics from MySQL to monitoring platforms like Datadog.

  It works with all vendors and distributions of MySQL 5.7 and 8.0, on-premise and in the cloud. It has built-in support for Datadog, Splunk, and Chronosphere, and a plugin architecture to report metrics to any monitoring platform.

  This is free and open source software.

• Gitmal - static page generator for Git repositories - LinuxLinks

  Gitmal is a static page generator for Git repositories. Gitmal generates static HTML pages with files, commits, code highlighting, and markdown rendering.

  This is free and open source software.

• liskvork - modern multi-platform gomoku game server - LinuxLinks

  liskvork is a modern multi-platform gomoku game server that runs under Linux, *BSD, macOS, and Windows.

  This is free and open source software.

• sticks - modern, lightweight CLI tool for managing C and C++ projects - LinuxLinks

  sticks is a modern, lightweight CLI tool for managing C and C++ projects.

  This is free and open source software.

• BizHawk - multi-system emulator - LinuxLinks

  BizHawk is a multi-system emulator written in C#. As well as quality-of-life features for casual players, it also has recording/playback and debugging tools.

  A7800Hawk, Atari2600Hawk, C64Hawk, ChannelFHawk, ColecoHawk, GBHawk, IntelliHawk, NesHawk, O2Hawk, PCEHawk, SMSHawk, TI83Hawk, VectrexHawk, and ZXHawk are bespoke emulation cores written in C#.

  This is free and open source software.

• Nekobox - GUI proxy utility - LinuxLinks

  Nekobox is a cross-platform GUI proxy utility powered by Sing-box.

  It supports Linux and Windows.

  This is free and open source software.

• Golazo - follow football games - LinuxLinks

  Golazo is a minimalist terminal user interface (TUI) for following football matches in real-time.

  Get live match updates, finished match statistics, and minute-by-minute events directly in your terminal.

  This is free and open source software.

• PixelTerm-C - terminal image viewer - LinuxLinks

  PixelTerm-C is a high-performance terminal image browser written in C, based on the Chafa library.

  PixelTerm-C is a C implementation of the original PixelTerm application, designed to provide significantly better performance than the Python version while maintaining all the same functionality.

  By leveraging the Chafa library directly instead of using subprocess calls, we eliminate the overhead of Python interpretation and external process creation.

  This is free and open source software.

• fuss - quick staging dirty git files - LinuxLinks

  fuss is an interactive tree utility for complete git workflows, written in modern Fortran.

  This is free and open source software.

• dirmap - tool for generating a directory map - LinuxLinks

  dirmap is a tool for generating a directory map.

  It extracts a part of the document from markdown or source code of each directory and uses it as overview of the directory.

  This is free and open source software.