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avast! A Linux offering of the popular Avast antivirus scanner. | Clam AntiVirus The original open source virus scanner. | AVG A version of AVG’s Virus Scanner for Linux. | |||
BitDefender Powerful virus protection with a free license for personal use. |
GUFW A graphical interface for the UFW firewall. | Shorewall An app to make managing iptables easier. | Firestarter A good quality firewall with graphical interface. |
Mondo Rescue A capable disk recovery toolkit. | TestDisk A utility to recover lost partitions. | safecopy A utility that extracts data from damaged areas and replaces dd. | |||
PhotoRec A video, document, and archive recovery utility. | ddrescue A simple data recovery utility. |
CrashPlan An excellent, sophisticated backup program. | BackupPC An open source backup system with web interface. | Deja Dup An extremely simple but effective backup program. | |||
LuckyBackup A simple backup program for quick and easy protection. |
Ubuntu-Tweak A great control panel to manage many features in Ubuntu. | System Monitor A simple and interesting way to view systems stats. |
Google Chrome/Chromium A great browser from Google based on open source projects. | Firefox The world’s most popular open source web browser. | Midori A lightweight webkit browser. | |||
Opera The “fastest and most advanced” browser available today. | Epiphany A simple web browser that is commonly shipped with GNOME. | Konquerer The default web browser of the KDE desktop environment. | |||
Links Links is text WWW browser with tables and frames. It runs on Linux, Unix, OS/2 and Windows. |
Thunderbird Most popular cross-platform open source email client. | Claws Mail A user-friendly, lightweight, and fast email client. | Evolution A great email and calendar program for GNOME. | |||
KMail A full-featured email client specifically for KDE. |
Kopete A great IM program for KDE. | Pidgin the most popular open source cross-platform IM program. | XChat An easy to use IRC client. | |||
Empathy An IM client similar to Pidgin, for shipping with GNOME. | TeamSpeak 3 Great multi-platform voice chat program. | Gwibber A straight-forward social messaging app. | |||
Liferea An easy-to-use and effective RSS feed reader. | Emesene A chat program that allows you to connect to different networks like MSN, Gtalk, Facebook chat, Jabber and others. | Skype The most popular VoIP desktop client. |
Inkscape A great editor for SVG files. | Shotwell A simple photo manager for GNOME. | F-Spot A photo manager like Shotwell but with more features. | |||
Cheese Photo Booth Take pictures with many funky effects. | GIMP The most popular open source image editor. | Scribus A great desktop publishing program with many features. | |||
Picasa Manage and edit your photos with a Google twist. | digiKam An advanced digital photo management application for Linux, Windows, and Mac-OSX. |
Banshee A great iTunes-like music manager. | Rhythmbox Similar to iTunes and doesn’t depend on Mono. | MPlayer A very capable media player. | |||
OggConvert Able to convert most media types into the open source OGG format. | Sound Juicer Rips music off of your CDs into MP3s. | Amarok A great music manager for the KDE desktop environment. |
VLC Media Player A media player that can handle virtually everything. | Kdenlive An elaborate non-linear video editor for KDE. | Openshot An innovative video editor with 3D effects. | |||
Pitivi A simple and easy-to-use video editor for GNOME. | Totem A simple media player for common formats. | Hulu Desktop A good desktop counterpart for Hulu videos. |
GParted The most popular partition editor for Linux. | Nautilus Default file navigator for GNOME. | Dolphin Default file navigator for KDE with social media features. | |||
Thunar A lightweight file navigator for XFCE. | Krusader An advanced two-pane file navigator commonly used with KDE. | Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer A graphical, menu-driven viewer that you can use to view and monitor your disk usage and folder structure. | |||
GNU Midnight Commander File Manager GNU Midnight Commander is a file manager for free operating systems. |
LibreOffice An enhanced office suite based off of OpenOffice. | OpenOffice The original open source office suite. | Abiword A lightweight word processor, usually replaces full office suites. | |||
Gnumeric A great lightweight replacement for spreadsheet programs. | Xournal Take notes or annotate with high detail. | KOffice The default office suite for the KDE desktop environment. | |||
PyRoom Write anything without any distractions. |
Tomboy A great note-taking application. | Gnote Gnote is a port of Tomboy to C++. | Hamster Time Tracker Tracks the time you spend on projects. | |||
Gnome-Do A quick way to launching your applications. | Docky One of the best docks around. | Avant Window Navigator A good dock alternative to Docky. | |||
Cairo Another dock alternative to Docky and AWN. | Shutter An amazingly advanced screenshot tool. | Dropbox The top file synchronization tool, for Linux. |
GNOME The most widely used GTK desktop environment. | KDE A beautifully flashy desktop environment based on Qt. | LXDE An extremely lightweight desktop environment to maximize performance. | |||
Enlightenment A desktop environment that is lightweight yet aesthetically good-looking. | Xmonad A simple tiling window manager that allows great customization. | Openbox A very bare-bone desktop environment that uses almost no resources on its own. |
File Roller The default archive manager in GNOME. | Ark A feature-rich archive manager for KDE. | Tar Provides the ability to create tar archives, as well as various other kinds of manipulation. |
Brasero A utility to burn CDs. | Gmount ISO A simple program to mount ISO files to folders. | K3b The CD/DVD Kreator for Linux. |
Transmission A program for downloading torrents. | Deluge An awesome but unappreciated cross-platform BitTorrent client. | Miro Download torrents and online videos. | |||
Uget Free, open source download manager. | Wget Non-interactive commandline tool for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. |
Urban Terror A popular first person shooter with good performance. | Alien Arena High detail first person shooter with sci-fi attitude. | Warzone 2100 Futuristic real time strategy game for survival. | |||
FlightGear The best open source cross-platform flight simulator. | Extreme Tux Racer A fun game to slide Tux down hills and collect fish. | Nexuiz Another high detail, futuristic first person shooter. | |||
Supertuxkart A racing game similar to Mario Kart. | The Mana World A fictional open source MMORPG. | openBVE A fantastic open source train simulator. | |||
Pingus A lemmings-like game with a good number of levels. |
LastPass Cross-browser and cross-OS online password manager. | KeePassX Open source password manager to stores passwords locally and encrypted. | TrueCrypt An open source solution to great file encryption. | |||
GnuCash Manages your money in multiple accounts and currencies. | Redshift Changes the color temperature of your screen to prevent tired eyes. | WINE A compatibility layer for some Windows programs. | |||
Compiz The best desktop effects on Linux. | Eclipse A full featured programming IDE. | Geany A lightweight programming code editor. | |||
KMyMoney Another money management program with KDE integration. | Kwin Great-looking desktop effects, commonly used on KDE desktops. | DraftSight A 2D CAD editor, one of the few for Linux. | |||
BleachBit BleachBit quickly frees disk space and tirelessly guards your privacy. |
Emacs An extremely customizable editor that does more than just plain text. | Vim A more complex editor for the terminal with plenty of features. | Nano A simple, uncomplicated editor for the terminal. | |||
Gedit A powerful editor out-of-the-box, and a favorite among many GNOME users. | Bluefish Editor for programmers with focus on dynamic and interactive websites. | Leafpad A simple GTK+ text editor that emphasizes simplicity. |
Ubuntu 11.04 GNOME with Unity Shell. Best for beginners. | Fedora 15 GNOME 3 with Gnome Shell. Extremely customizable, usable but more for Linux enthusiasts. | openSUSE 11.4 KDE 4.6. A sturdy distro with some more proprietary compatibility. | |||
Arch Linux Any desktop environment. Lets you completely build up your own distro from the start. | Linux Mint 11 Gnome 2. Also great for beginners; Ubuntu with some usability and aesthetics fixes. |
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