Tux Machines

Free and Open Source Software

Posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Dec 12, 2025

Backmey - desktop backup tool - LinuxLinks

Backmey lets you backup what matters, restore anywhere. Configs, themes, fonts, browsers, and packages. It’s a cross-distro tool.

This is free and open source software.

uncover - quickly discover exposed hosts on the internet - LinuxLinks

uncover is a go wrapper using APIs of well known search engines to quickly discover exposed hosts on the internet. It is built with automation in mind, so you can query it and utilize the results with your current pipeline tools.

This is free and open source software.

hypruler - measure anything on your screen - LinuxLinks

hypruler is a utility to measure anything on your screen. It’s built for Linux and Hyprland.

It needs a wlroots-based compositor (Hyprland, Sway, etc.) and wlr-screencopy-unstable-v1 protocol support.

This is free and open source software.

Topiary - uniform formatter for simple languages - LinuxLinks

Topiary is designed for formatter authors and formatter users. Authors can create a formatter for a language without having to write their own formatting engine or even their own parser. Users benefit from uniform code style and, potentially, the convenience of using a single formatter tool, across multiple languages over their codebases, each with comparable styles applied.

This is free and open source software.

Nicolino - tiny static site generator - LinuxLinks

Nicolino is billed as a performant, tiny, static site generator.

This is free and open source software.

Jujutsu - powerful version control system for software projects - LinuxLinks

Jujutsu is unlike most other systems, because internally it abstracts the user interface and version control algorithms from the storage systems used to serve your content. This allows it to serve as a VCS with many possible physical backends, that may have their own data or networking models—like Mercurial or Breezy, or hybrid systems like Google’s cloud-based design, Piper/CitC.

This is free and open source software.

lumus - read PDF files directly in your terminal - LinuxLinks

Lumus is a command-line tool written in Go that allows you to read PDF files directly in your terminal.

It provides a minimalistic and distraction-free reading experience, making it ideal for reading documents in pdf format.

This is free and open source software.

Crycco - documentation generator - LinuxLinks

Crycco also supports the “literate” variant of languages, where everything is a comment except things indented 4 spaces or more, which are code. Those files should have a double .ext.md extension.

It’s a very simple tool but it can be used to good effect in a number of situations. Consider a tool that uses a YAML file as configuration.

This is free and open source software.

sftpman-iced - GUI tool for sshfs and SFTP filesystems - LinuxLinks

sftpman-iced is a GUI application for Linux systems that makes it easy to setup and mount sshfs/SFTP filesystems.

It’s a GUI frontend to the sftpman command line application and library (libsftpman)

This is free and open source software.

Flyway - database migration tool - LinuxLinks

Flyway lets you evolve your database schema easily and reliably across all your instances.

It supports a large number of databases: Aurora MySQL, Aurora PostgreSQL, Azure Synapse, Clickhouse, CockroachDB, Databricks, DB2, Derby, Firebird, Google BigQuery, Google Cloud Spanner, H2, HSQLDB, Informix, MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Oracle, Percona XtraDB Cluster, PostgreSQL, Redshift, SAP HANA (Including SAP HANA Cloud), SingleStoreDB, Snowflake, SQLite, SQL Server, Sybase ASE, TiDB, TimescaleDB, YugabyteDB.

This is free and open source software.

TTDL - Terminal ToDo List - LinuxLinks

TTDL is a CLI tool to manage todo lists in todo.txt format.

This is free and open source software which runs under Linux and Windows.

Hourglass - simple time keeping application - LinuxLinks

Hourglass is a simple time keeping application designed for elementary OS. It also works with other distributions.

This is free and open source software.

meow - renders text using your existing Neovim configuration - LinuxLinks

meow is a command line tool that aims to be a replacement for cat/bat with better highlighting.

This is free and open source software.

numr - text calculator for natural language expressions - LinuxLinks

numr is a text calculator for natural language expressions with a vim-style TUI.

This is free and open source software.