Best Free and Open Source Software

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Sep 07, 2025

• 6 Useful Free and Open Source Linux WhatsApp Clients - LinuxLinks

  WhatsApp is a hugely popular, free, proprietary messaging, social media, and voice-over-IP (VoIP) service that lets users send text, voice messages, and video messages, as well as make voice and video calls over an internet connection. WhatsApp’s client application runs on mobile devices, and can be accessed from computers

  The service offers an easy way to stay connected with loved ones – through photos, phone calls and video calls, as well as messages.

  In this roundup, we look at unofficial Linux clients that let you use the WhatsApp service.

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

• hindent - extensible Haskell pretty printer - LinuxLinks

  hindent is an extensible Haskell pretty printer. It’s both a library and an executable.

  This is free and open source software.

• Notorious - keyboard centric notes - LinuxLinks

  Notorious is a keyboard centric notes app.

  This is free and open source software.

• Zpm - Zsh plugin manager - LinuxLinks

  Zpm is a plugin manager for Zsh that combines the imperative and declarative approach.

  At first run, zpm will do complex logic and generate cache, after that will be used cache only, so it makes this framework to be very fast.

  This is free and open source software.