Wednesday 25 January 2012

The Best Of Linux Software

On this page, you will find the best 100 Linux applicationsfor all your needs.
We’ve taken the effort to categorize the apps and picked only those we believe to be the best ones and which will most likely be useful to you.
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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