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Linuxtopia is an online resource offering free technical books and how-to guides on Linux and open source technology, covering programming, scripting, system administration, security, virtualization, web development and related topics. The site also lists an eBook store and guides for Eclipse and Postfix.
LinuxTracker is a community torrent tracker focused on Linux distributions and related open-source releases. The site lists torrents such as Ubuntu desktop and server images, and provides tracker statistics and RSS feeds.
Lishogi is a free, open-source online shogi server. Users can play shogi against the computer, friends or random opponents without registration, ads or plugins, and the site also offers tournaments, studies, puzzles, variants and analysis tools.
List of Encyclopedias helps explore knowledge, places, timelines, entities, or reference information from open sources.
LiteLLM is an open-source library that provides a single, unified interface to call over 100 LLMs using the OpenAI format. It includes a Python SDK whose completion() function uses the same arguments across providers and returns responses in the OpenAI Chat Completions format, plus a self-hosted gateway with virtual keys, cost tracking and an admin UI.
LittleLink is an open source, do-it-yourself alternative to Linktree for creating link-in-bio pages. It includes over 100 branded button options, supports light, dark, and automatic themes, and follows best practices for SEO, accessibility, and performance, with no required frameworks or JavaScript.
LittleSis is a free, open-source public accountability research platform operated by the nonprofit Public Accountability Initiative. It hosts a database mapping connections between influential figures in business and government, provides a power research toolkit for community organizers, runs trainings on strategic power research for researchers, activists and journalists, and publishes reports on corporate and elite influence, fossil fuel finance and related accountability issues.
Lively is a free, open-source animated desktop wallpaper and screensaver software for Windows. It supports custom animated wallpapers, automatically pauses when fullscreen applications or games are running, and works with ultrawide and multi-monitor setups. It includes tools for creating music visualizers and widgets, and has a modern Windows 11-style user interface.
LlamaChat is a free, open-source macOS application for chatting with LLaMA, Alpaca and GPT4All models running locally on a Mac. It can import raw PyTorch model checkpoints or pre-converted .ggml model files. The application is powered by llama.cpp and llama.swift and is not distributed with any model files.
LMMS is a free, open source, multiplatform digital audio workstation for making music on a computer. It also hosts a Sharing Platform where users share projects, samples, presets, tutorials and other content.
LocalAI is described as an open source AI engine that runs models, including LLMs, vision, voice, image and video, on any hardware without a GPU. It presents itself as a drop-in replacement for most upstream APIs and includes a built-in agent platform powered by LocalAGI, whose agents can reason, use tools and maintain memory. Image generation with Stable diffusion on CPU is also supported.
Localforge is a free, open-source desktop GUI for Codex AI, Claude and other LLMs. It runs locally and lets autonomous agent loops edit files, run tests and work on large multi-file codebase tasks. It supports swapping providers and storing prompt templates, and is distributed under the MIT license.
A links page listing resources related to running local language models. It gathers guides, including a quick start guide for running models locally, model sources such as HuggingFace for current quants, and inferencing frontends including Text Gen WebUI.
LocalSend is a free, open-source, cross-platform tool for sharing files to nearby devices over a local network without the cloud. It is available for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS, requires no account or login, and uses end-to-end encryption. Transfers work offline at WiFi speeds.
Lockdown Privacy offers a firewall and a Secure Tunnel VPN for blocking trackers, ads and badware in apps. The firewall is described as open source and on-device. The site states the products are Openly Operated and provide transparency into data handling. The listing covers iPhone, iPad and Mac.
Lojban.io is a free and open-source platform for studying Lojban, an artificial spoken language built over more than 60 years. Its grammar is based on simple rules, and its linguistic features are inspired by predicate logic. The site offers courses, decks and resources, and it also links to a community Discord server.
The London Datastore is a free and open data-sharing portal providing access to data about the capital, with over a thousand datasets for citizens, businesses, researchers and developers. The beta Data for London Library, launched in 2025, offers search across London data sources and links to additional datasets.
Looking Glass is open-source software for responsive, low-latency display and input, released under the GPL 2.0 licence. It brings a Windows desktop into a Linux window and is used with a KVM VGA PCI pass-through configuration without an attached physical monitor, keyboard or mouse.
LoopVid is a browser-based tool for viewing submitted videos, with handling done via JavaScript in the user's browser. The site states that its server only sees a request for the front page. It notes it does not cover requests made to its blog, and it says the software is free with downloadable source code.
Lord Byron and his Times is a growing digital archive of books, pamphlets and periodical essays illustrating the causes and controversies surrounding Byron and his contemporaries. It uses notes, commentary and links to show relationships among readers and writers, and database technology to track personages across documents. Documents are made available under a Creative Commons license for free circulation and reuse with acknowledgement of the source.
LubeLogger is a self-hosted, open-source vehicle maintenance records and fuel mileage tracker. It tracks vehicle expenses by year, month, and category, records work done on vehicles, and attaches documents such as invoices and receipts. It tracks fuel economy in MPG, UK MPG, L/100KM, and KM/L, and supports recurring reminders based on date, odometer, or whichever comes first.
Lucas Chess is an open source chess program developed with Python and PySide2 for training, playing and competing on a PC. It includes 57 prepared engines with levels from 0 to 3600 elo, and other UCI engines can be added. The program offers trainings, tournaments and PGN database tools.
lucide-animated is a free open-source collection of over 350 animated React icons built with Motion and Lucide. The icons are MIT licensed, copy-paste ready and fully customizable SVG icons with smooth animations.
LuLu is a free, open-source macOS firewall that blocks unknown outgoing network connections. It alerts users when a new or unauthorized outgoing connection is created, which may indicate a newly installed application or malware. Installation requires manual approval of its System Extension and Network Filter through macOS, and it runs from the status bar, starting automatically at login.
