Open Source Linux Design Software
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View 13 business solutionsBrowse free open source Design software and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Design software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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MongoDB Atlas runs apps anywhereMongoDB Atlas gives you the freedom to build and run modern applications anywhere—across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. With global availability in over 115 regions, Atlas lets you deploy close to your users, meet compliance needs, and scale with confidence across any geography.
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Font Awesome
Get vector icons and social logos for your website or blog
Font Awesome was created in a successful Kickstarter and is an easy way for web developers to add icons and logos to their website. There is both a free version and a pro version for extra features and icons. You can support the developers by buying a custom FontAwesome T-Shirt! https://fontawesome.com/shirts -
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MicroG RE
GmsCore fork for ReVanced with Material You, features and improvements
GmsCore fork designed for ReVanced with Material You design, along with some improvements and features. -
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Penpot
The first open source design and prototyping tool
Penpot is the first open-source design and prototyping platform for product teams that allows true collaboration between designers and developers. What will designers and developers find in Penpot? - Powerful UI tool for the team. All stakeholders can access a complete set of interactive prototypes, design systems, components, feedback loop and pixel designs. - Design and development collaborate for real. Penpot brings both code-ready design capabilities and the familiarity of developer tools to the same workspace. - Open Standards for the design work. This means zero vendor lock-in and high interoperability. - Unique Flex Layout that allows you to create flexible designs that can adapt automatically -
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QuickPic Gallery Mod
QuickPic Gallery Mod
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Curtain LogTrace File Activity MonitoringCurtain LogTrace File Activity Monitoring is an enterprise file activity monitoring solution. It tracks user actions: create, copy, move, delete, rename, print, open, close, save. Includes source/destination paths and disk type. Perfect for monitoring user file activities.
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WhiteSur GTK Theme
MacOS like theme for all gtk based desktops
WhiteSur-gtk-theme brings a macOS Big Sur–inspired look to Linux desktops by providing a polished GTK theme with light and dark variants, rounded shapes, and refined translucency. It includes assets and installer scripts to apply the theme across GTK applications and desktop shells that support GTK theming, aiming for a cohesive, high-contrast interface. The project pays attention to details like window controls, titlebars, selection states, and widget hover effects so apps feel consistent from toolkits to system settings. Configuration options typically allow tweaking accents and choosing variants that match different desktop environments and icon sets. Documentation guides users through installing prerequisites, applying the theme, and resolving common edge cases across distributions. For Linux users who prefer Apple’s visual style but want open platforms, WhiteSur offers a maintained, community-driven path to a modern, visually unified desktop. -
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DB Designer Fork is a fork of the fabFORCE DBDesigner 4. It integrates entity relationship design,front-end (you can run queries) and SQL exporting.DB Designer Fork generates SQL scripts for Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, FireBird, SQLite and PostgreSQL.
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Materialize
Materialize, a web framework based on Material Design
Materialize, a CSS Framework based on Material Design. Using VanillaJS and as less dependencies as possible to keep it fast and simple. We use TypeScript since it builds upon JavaScript and enhances the type- and code safety. You don't have to learn or integrate any new or crappy stuff. The goal here is to stick to the roots. Just copy and paste from the documentation and you are good to go. Most of the Features work event without JavaScript. Components should be useable by mobile devices and easily accessible by keyboard too. Try it out. User-centric approach with established design principles mainly from Google's Material guidelines. Our Components should work on nearly every device with a monitor. User-centric approach with many members all around the world, which helps bring Materialize forward and improve usability for everyone on the web. You can be a part too. -
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Java Design Patterns
Design patterns implemented in Java
A comprehensive, community-maintained collection of design pattern implementations in Java, offering well-documented, educational examples to help developers understand and apply common architectural solutions. All designs should be as simple as possible. You should start with KISS, YAGNI, and Do The Simplest Thing That Could Possibly Work principles. Complexity and patterns should only be introduced when they are needed for practical extensibility. The design patterns are now available as an e-book. Design patterns can speed up the development process by providing tested, proven development paradigms. -
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Pinta
Simple GTK# Paint Program
Pinta is a free, open-source program for drawing and image editing. Its goal is to provide users with a simple yet powerful way to draw and manipulate images on Linux, Mac, Windows, and BSD. Use easy drawing tools to draw freehand, lines, rectangles, ellipses, and more. Pinta includes over 35 adjustments and effects for tweaking your images. Use Pinta in your language. Pinta is at least partially translated into over 55 languages. Don't be afraid to experiment, Pinta tracks your full history so you can always undo. Use layers to help separate and group elements of your image for easy editing. Like docked windows? No problem. Floating windows? No problem. You can even mix and match. Original Pinta code is licensed under the MIT License, see license-mit.txt for the MIT License. Code from Paint.Net 3.36 is used under the MIT License and retains the original headers on source files. -
Boon: The Agile Referral Hiring PlatformBoon's agile referral platform expands your recruiting power through AI, automation, integrations, and gamification.
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Vieb
Vim bindings for the web by design
Free, open source, fast and secure. Local first adblocking, auto-complete, AMP protection, custom redirects and more, all without web requests. Privacy with strict permission system, navigator overrides, custom useragent, custom WebRTC policy and more. Accessible with custom themes, full interface & fontsize scaling, page zooming, spellcheck and mouse support. Security settings with permissions, cache usage, cookie management, (auto-)download settings and more. Window splitting with buffer, split, Vexplore and Ctrl-w bindings, for multi-window browsing. Map commands for completely custom keyboard sequences, keystrokes, commands and actions. Viebrc config file for all custom/Vim/Vieb commands to configure settings permanently. Set command for runtime setting configuration exactly like Vim. Vim-compatible options: showcmd, timeout, colorscheme, maxmapdepth, spelllang, splitright, smartcase etc. Container tabs with colored grouping, auto-clearing. -
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Reverie
A ridiculously elegant Jekyll theme
Reverie is a Jekyll-powered theme that is simple and opinionated. It's actually a fork of Jekyll-now with some additional features and personal touches which I've implemented to suit my needs for my blog. This is a plug-and-play Jekyll theme best suited to use on GitHub Pages (or Cloudflare Pages if you want to have your repository private) without even setting up a local environment. -
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System Design Primer
Learn how to design large-scale systems
System Design Primer is a curated, open source collection of resources that helps engineers learn how to design large-scale systems. The project is structured as a comprehensive guide covering core system design concepts, trade-offs, and patterns necessary for building scalable, reliable, and maintainable systems. It offers both theoretical foundations—such as scalability principles, the CAP theorem, and consistency models—and practical exercises, including real-world system design interview questions with sample solutions, diagrams, and code. The repository also contains study guides for short, medium, and long interview timelines, allowing learners to focus on both breadth and depth depending on their preparation needs. In addition, it includes flashcard decks designed to reinforce learning through spaced repetition, making it easier to retain key system design knowledge. -
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ReacType
Prototyping Tool for exporting React/Typescript Applications!
ReacType is a rapid prototyping tool built on Electron that allows users visualize their application architecture dynamically, employing a drag-and-drop canvas display and an interactive, real-time component code preview that can be exported as a React app for developers employing React component architecture alongside the comprehensive type-checking of TypeScript. In other words, you can draw prototypes and export React / TypeScript code! After opening the dmg and dragging ReacType into your Applications folder, ctrl+click the icon and select 'Open' from the context menu to run the app. This extra step is necessary since we don't have an Apple developer license yet. If you are given a warning that Apple could not scan the app. Users can now manage state dynamically within nested components using React Hooks within the state manager tab. For a selected component, users can see a list of available props from the parent, add props, and delete props in case they are not required later on. -
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Styled Components
Visual primitives for the component age
Visual primitives for the component age. Use the best bits of ES6 and CSS to style your apps without stress. Utilising tagged template literals (a recent addition to JavaScript) and the power of CSS, styled-components allows you to write actual CSS code to style your components. It also removes the mapping between components and styles, using components as a low-level styling construct could not be easier! Alternatively, you may use style objects. This allows for easy porting of CSS from inline styles, while still supporting the more advanced styled-components capabilities like component selectors and media queries. styled-components is compatible with both React (for web) and React Native, meaning it's the perfect choice even for truly universal apps! If you're using tooling that has babel-plugin-macros set up, you can switch to the styled-components/macro import path instead to gain the effects of the babel plugin without further setup. -
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Chirpy Jekyll Theme
A minimal, responsive and feature-rich Jekyll theme
A minimal, responsive and feature-rich Jekyll theme for technical writing. -
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Orchis theme
Material Design theme for GNOME/GTK based desktop environments
Orchis-theme is a polished, Material Design–inspired GTK theme for GNOME and other GTK-based Linux desktop environments that gives your system a modern, unified visual style with soft gradients, consistent icons, and refined widget styling. It’s built to bring a high-quality aesthetic to applications, menus, dialogs, and control elements, making desktops feel more cohesive and attractive compared to default themes. The theme supports multiple color variants and sizing options, letting users tailor the look and feel to their personal preferences and desktop layouts. Installation scripts make it easy to apply the theme across supported environments and also handle compatibility with different GTK versions. Because it follows Material Design principles, Orchis strikes a balance between simplicity and visual depth, giving interfaces a fresh and contemporary appeal. -
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pastel
A command-line tool to generate, analyze, convert and manipulate color
pastel is a command-line tool to generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors. It supports many different color formats and color spaces like RGB (sRGB), HSL, CIELAB, CIELCh as well as ANSI 8-bit and 24-bit representations. pastel provides a number of commands like saturate, mix or paint. To get more information about a specific subcommand (say mix), you can call pastel mix -h or pastel help mix. Many pastel commands can be composed by piping the output of one command to another. You can also explicitly specify which colors you want to read from the input. -
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GRUB2 THEMES
Modern Design theme for Grub2
GRUB2 THEMES is an open-source collection of modern, visually appealing themes for the GRUB2 bootloader that enhance the graphical interface users see during system boot on Linux machines. Instead of the plain default GRUB menus, this project offers a set of sleek theme variants with custom backgrounds, icons, layouts, and resolutions that bring a more polished aesthetic to the early boot experience. Installation scripts provided in the repository automate applying themes to a system’s GRUB configuration, including options for different resolutions and screen sizes, and users can add custom backgrounds or tweak configurations. The repository is licensed under GPL-3.0 and has an active user base, making it one of the more popular sources for bootloader theming. It includes assets, configurations, and helper tools to simplify adoption, and supports variant customization so users can tailor the look to their preferences. -
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HTML5 Boilerplate
The web’s most popular front-end template
HTML5 Boilerplate is a popular and professional front-end template that lets you build fast, robust and adaptable web sites or applications. It’s built with the combined knowledge and effort of hundreds of developers over a span of years, creating a powerful tool in one small package. HTML5 Boilerplate comes loaded with great features, such as HTML5 support, optimized Google Analytics snippet, jQuery and Modernizr, and so much more. It supports the latest and most popular browsers and does not impose a specific development philosophy or framework, so you can code any way you want. -
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ImThemes
Dear ImGui style browser and editor written in Nim
ImThemes is a collection of themes for Dear ImGui, allowing developers to customize the appearance of their graphical user interfaces with predefined styles. -
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The Hacker theme
Hacker is a Jekyll theme for GitHub Pages
Hacker is a theme for GitHub Pages. -
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Featureless Linux Library
Linux Library on top of Libc focusing on long term support.
When computer power increases, programmers generally add more "features", thus making any performance gains in new hardware negligible. This project is an attempt to develop a library above libc that breaks out of this terrible loop. -
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Yapsy
A fat-free DIY Python plugin management toolkit.
A simple framework for plugin system development with as few dependencies as possible. It is designed to offer a set of very lean classes (plugin managers and plugin interfaces) which can easily be customised by decoration or inheritance. Yapsy v1.x supports Python2 and Python3. Its source package contains versions of the sources for both pythons. Yapsy v2+ supports Python 3 and it's development happens now on https://github.com/tibonihoo/yapsy/ Usage samples, advices and developer's documentations are available on the main website. -
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Custom CSS and JS
Custom CSS Plugin for Visual Studio Code. Based on vscode-icon
Custom CSS and JS is a Visual Studio Code extension that allows users to inject custom CSS and JavaScript into the editor interface, enabling deep visual and behavioral customization beyond what standard themes provide. The tool works by modifying VS Code’s internal styling system, allowing developers to override UI elements such as fonts, colors, spacing, and layout with their own stylesheets. This makes it possible to create highly personalized development environments tailored to individual preferences or workflows. In addition to aesthetic changes, users can also inject JavaScript to modify certain UI behaviors, effectively extending the editor’s functionality in unconventional ways. The extension is often used to implement custom themes, improve readability, or experiment with alternative interface designs. However, because it alters internal files, it may require reapplying changes after updates and can raise stability considerations.
