| Monday, August 26, 2013: Searching for a Linux software? Well here your search ends, we present to you a complete list of Linux compatible software for anything and everything! Have fun reading:
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Anti-virus Software:
Avast!: A Linux software offering of the popular Avast antivirus scanner.http://www.avast.com/linux-home-edition
Clam AntiVirus: The original open source virus scanner. http://www.clamav.net/
AVG: A version of AVG’s Virus Scanner for Linux. http://free.avg.com/us-en/download.prd-alf
Archive Manager:
Ark: A feature-rich archive manager for KDE. http://utils.kde.org/projects/ark/
File Roller: The default archive manager in GNOME. http://fileroller.sourceforge.net/
Tar: Provides the ability to create tar archives, as well as various other kinds of manipulation. http://www.gnu.org/s/tar/
Audio:
OggConvert: converts most formats of the media files into the open source OGG format.http://oggconvert.tristanb.net/
Audacity: A powerful cross platform audio recorder and editor.http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Banshee: A great music manager similar to iTunes. http://www.banshee.fm/
Mixxx: Fantastic audio mixing Linux software that is ideal for DJ environments.http://www.mixxx.org/
Backup Applications:
CrashPlan: An excellent, sophisticated backup program. http://www.crashplan.com
Rsync: A configurable console-based synchronization program that is commonly used in backup situations. http://rsync.samba.org
Fwbackups: A flexible backup program which can backup to another computer.http://www.diffingo.com/oss/fwbackups
Browsers:
Google Chrome/Chromium: A great browser from Google based on open source projects.http://www.google.com/chrome
Firefox: The world’s most popular open source web browser. http://www.firefox.com/
reKonq: A refreshed default KDE browser which sports an uncluttered interface.http://rekonq.kde.org/
Opera: The “fastest and most advanced” browser available today. http://www.opera.com/
Communication:
Kopete: Great IM Linux software for KDE. http://kopete.kde.org/
Emesene: Linux Chat software which connects the user to different networks like MSN, Gtalk, Facebook chat, Jabber and others. http://blog.emesene.org/p/downloads.html
Pidgin: The most popular open source cross-platform IM program. http://www.pidgin.im/
Skype: If the most popular VoIP desktop client is on Linux we can’t afford to miss this!http://www.skype.com/intl/en/home
Desktop Environment:
GNOME: The most widely used GTK desktop environment. http://www.gnome.org/
KDE: A beautifully flashy desktop environment based on Qt. http://www.kde.org/
Enlightenment: A desktop environment that is lightweight yet aesthetically good-looking.http://www.enlightenment.org/
Xfce: A lightweight but highly capable GTK desktop environment that still makes use of panels by default. http://www.xfce.org/
Razor-qt: A lightweight desktop environment based on Qt, the same technology which KDE uses. http://razor-qt.org/
Download Managers:
Miro: Helps downloading torrents and online videos. http://www.getmiro.com/
Wget: A Non-interactive commandline tool which helps retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. http://www.gnu.org/s/wget/
Uget: A Free and open source download manager. http://urlget.sourceforge.net/
Transmission: Torrent download software for Linux. http://www.transmissionbt.com/
DVD/CD Tools:
K3b: The CD/DVD Kreator for Linux. http://www.k3b.org/
Gmount ISO: A simple program to mount ISO files to folders. https://launchpad.net/gmount-iso
Brasero: A utility to burn CDs. http://projects.gnome.org/brasero/
Editor Tools:
Vim: An extremely customizable and complex editor for the terminal with tonns of features. http://www.vim.org/
Gedit: A powerful editor out-of-the-box, and a favorite among many GNOME users.http://projects.gnome.org/gedit/
Leafpad: A simple GTK+ text editor that emphasizes simplicity.http://tarot.freeshell.org/leafpad/
Bluefish: Editor for programmers with focus on dynamic and interactive websites.http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/index.html
Email Clients:
Thunderbird: Most popular cross-platform open source email client.http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/
Claws Mail: A user-friendly, lightweight, and fast email client. http://www.claws-mail.org/
Evolution: A great email and calendar program for GNOME. http://projects.gnome.org/evolution/
Firewall Applications:
Mondo Rescue: A capable disk recovery toolkit. http://gufw.tuxfamily.org/
Firestarter: A good quality firewall with graphical interface http://www.fs-security.com/
Office:
Libre Office: An enhanced office suite based off of OpenOffice. http://www.libreoffice.org/
Abiword: A lightweight word processor, usually replaces full office suites.http://www.abisource.com/
OpenOffice: The original open source office suite. http://www.openoffice.org/
Read more Office alternatives at:
http://www.efytimes.com/e1/creativenews.asp?edid=104251
Pictures:
Inkscape: A SVG file editor. http://inkscape.org/
GIMP: The most popular open source image editor. http://www.gimp.org/
Darktable: A sophisticated program that works with digital negatives and RAW pictures.http://www.darktable.org/
F-Spot: A photo manager with neat simple features. http://f-spot.org/
Productivity Tools:
Tomboy: An amazing note-taking Linux application. http://projects.gnome.org/tomboy/?pagewanted=all
Hamster Time Tracker: Tracks the total time you spend on a project.http://projecthamster.wordpress.com/
Shutter: An advanced and brilliant screenshot tool. http://shutter-project.org/
Dropbox: One of the best Linux file synchronization tools. http://www.dropbox.com/
Gnome Tweak Tool: Helps in easy configuration of advanced settings while using Gnome Shell. http://live.gnome.org/GnomeTweakTool
Wunderlist: A Linux software for clean and crisp to-do list which syncs on their own servers. http://www.wunderlist.com/
System Maintenance:
Ubuntu-Tweak: A great control panel to manage many features in Ubuntu.http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnome-system-monitor/
System Monitor: Simple and interesting Linux software to view systems stats.http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnome-system-monitor/
Video:
VLC Media Player: A media player that can handle virtually everything.http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
Openshot: An innovative video editor with 3D effects. http://www.openshotvideo.com/
Pitivi: A simple and easy-to-use video editor for GNOME. http://www.pitivi.org/
Blender: Highly advanced 3D content creation software that has created numerous open source video games and movies. http://www.blender.org/
Atithya Amaresh, EFYTIMES News Network |
