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The Best 100 linux Software


On this page, you will find the best 100 Linux applications for 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. Download
Clam AntiVirus
The original open source virus scanner. Download
AVG
A version of AVG’s Virus Scanner for Linux. Download
BitDefender
Powerful virus protection with a free license for personal use. Download



GUFW
A graphical interface for the UFW firewall. Download
Shorewall
An app to make managing iptables easier. Download
Firestarter
A good quality firewall with graphical interface. Download



Mondo Rescue
A capable disk recovery toolkit. Download
TestDisk
A utility to recover lost partitions. Download
safecopy
A utility that extracts data from damaged areas and replaces dd. Download
PhotoRec
A video, document, and archive recovery utility. Download
ddrescue
A simple data recovery utility. Download



CrashPlan
An excellent, sophisticated backup program. Download
BackupPC
An open source backup system with web interface. Download
Deja Dup
An extremely simple but effective backup program. Download
LuckyBackup
A simple backup program for quick and easy protection. Download



Ubuntu-Tweak
A great control panel to manage many features in Ubuntu. Download
System Monitor
A simple and interesting way to view systems stats. Download




Google Chrome/Chromium
A great browser from Google based on open source projects. Download
Firefox
The world’s most popular open source web browser. Download
Midori
A lightweight webkit browser. Download
Opera
The “fastest and most advanced” browser available today. Download
Epiphany
A simple web browser that is commonly shipped with GNOME. Download
Konquerer
The default web browser of the KDE desktop environment. Download
Links
Links is text WWW browser with tables and frames. It runs on Linux, Unix, OS/2 and Windows. Download



Thunderbird
Most popular cross-platform open source email client. Download
Claws Mail
A user-friendly, lightweight, and fast email client. Download
Evolution
A great email and calendar program for GNOME. Download
KMail
A full-featured email client specifically for KDE. Download



Kopete
A great IM program for KDE. Download
Pidgin
the most popular open source cross-platform IM program. Download
XChat
An easy to use IRC client. Download
Empathy
An IM client similar to Pidgin, for shipping with GNOME. Download
TeamSpeak 3
Great multi-platform voice chat program. Download
Gwibber
A straight-forward social messaging app. Download
Liferea
An easy-to-use and effective RSS feed reader. Download
Emesene
A chat program that allows you to connect to different networks like MSN, Gtalk, Facebook chat, Jabber and others. Download
Skype
The most popular VoIP desktop client. Download



Inkscape
A great editor for SVG files. Download
Shotwell
A simple photo manager for GNOME. Download
F-Spot
A photo manager like Shotwell but with more features. Download
Cheese Photo Booth
Take pictures with many funky effects. Download
GIMP
The most popular open source image editor. Download
Scribus
A great desktop publishing program with many features. Download
digiKam
An advanced digital photo management application for Linux, Windows, and Mac-OSX. Download



Banshee
A great iTunes-like music manager. Download
Rhythmbox
Similar to iTunes and doesn’t depend on Mono. Download
MPlayer
A very capable media player. Download
OggConvert
Able to convert most media types into the open source OGG format. Download
Sound Juicer
Rips music off of your CDs into MP3s. Download
Amarok
A great music manager for the KDE desktop environment. Download



VLC Media Player
A media player that can handle virtually everything. Download
Kdenlive
An elaborate non-linear video editor for KDE. Download
Openshot
An innovative video editor with 3D effects. Download
Pitivi
A simple and easy-to-use video editor for GNOME. Download
Totem
A simple media player for common formats. Download
Hulu Desktop
A good desktop counterpart for Hulu videos. Download



GParted
The most popular partition editor for Linux. Download
Nautilus
Default file navigator for GNOME. Download
Dolphin
Default file navigator for KDE with social media features. Download
Thunar
A lightweight file navigator for XFCE. Download
Krusader
An advanced two-pane file navigator commonly used with KDE. Download
Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer
A graphical, menu-driven viewer that you can use to view and monitor your disk usage and folder structure. Download
GNU Midnight Commander File Manager
GNU Midnight Commander is a file manager for free operating systems. Download



LibreOffice
An enhanced office suite based off of OpenOffice. Download
OpenOffice
The original open source office suite. Download
Abiword
A lightweight word processor, usually replaces full office suites. Download
Gnumeric
A great lightweight replacement for spreadsheet programs. Download
Xournal
Take notes or annotate with high detail. Download
KOffice
The default office suite for the KDE desktop environment. Download
PyRoom
Write anything without any distractions. Download



Tomboy
A great note-taking application. Download
Gnote
Gnote is a port of Tomboy to C++. Download
Hamster Time Tracker
Tracks the time you spend on projects. Download
Gnome-Do
A quick way to launching your applications. Download
Docky
One of the best docks around. Download
Avant Window Navigator
A good dock alternative to Docky. Download
Cairo
Another dock alternative to Docky and AWN. Download
Shutter
An amazingly advanced screenshot tool. Download
Dropbox
The top file synchronization tool, for Linux. Download



GNOME
The most widely used GTK desktop environment. Download
KDE
A beautifully flashy desktop environment based on Qt. Download
LXDE
An extremely lightweight desktop environment to maximize performance. Download
Enlightenment
A desktop environment that is lightweight yet aesthetically good-looking. Download
Xmonad
A simple tiling window manager that allows great customization. Download
Openbox
A very bare-bone desktop environment that uses almost no resources on its own. Download



File Roller
The default archive manager in GNOME. Download
Ark
A feature-rich archive manager for KDE. Download
Tar
Provides the ability to create tar archives, as well as various other kinds of manipulation. Download



Brasero
A utility to burn CDs. Download
Gmount ISO
A simple program to mount ISO files to folders. Download
K3b
The CD/DVD Kreator for Linux. Download



Transmission
A program for downloading torrents. Download
Deluge
An awesome but unappreciated cross-platform BitTorrent client. Download
Miro
Download torrents and online videos. Download
Uget
Free, open source download manager. Download
Wget
Non-interactive commandline tool for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. Download



Urban Terror
A popular first person shooter with good performance. Download
Alien Arena
High detail first person shooter with sci-fi attitude. Download
Warzone 2100
Futuristic real time strategy game for survival. Download
FlightGear
The best open source cross-platform flight simulator. Download
Extreme Tux Racer
A fun game to slide Tux down hills and collect fish. Download
Nexuiz
Another high detail, futuristic first person shooter. Download
Supertuxkart
A racing game similar to Mario Kart. Download
The Mana World
A fictional open source MMORPG. Download
openBVE
A fantastic open source train simulator. Download
Pingus
A lemmings-like game with a good number of levels. Download



LastPass
Cross-browser and cross-OS online password manager. Download
KeePassX
Open source password manager to stores passwords locally and encrypted. Download
TrueCrypt
An open source solution to great file encryption. Download
GnuCash
Manages your money in multiple accounts and currencies. Download
Redshift
Changes the color temperature of your screen to prevent tired eyes. Download
WINE
A compatibility layer for some Windows programs. Download
Compiz
The best desktop effects on Linux. Download
Eclipse
A full featured programming IDE. Download
Geany
A lightweight programming code editor. Download
KMyMoney
Another money management program with KDE integration. Download
Kwin
Great-looking desktop effects, commonly used on KDE desktops. Download
DraftSight
A 2D CAD editor, one of the few for Linux. Download
BleachBit
BleachBit quickly frees disk space and tirelessly guards your privacy. Download


Emacs
An extremely customizable editor that does more than just plain text. Download
Vim
A more complex editor for the terminal with plenty of features. Download
Nano
A simple, uncomplicated editor for the terminal. Download
Gedit
A powerful editor out-of-the-box, and a favorite among many GNOME users. Download
Bluefish
Editor for programmers with focus on dynamic and interactive websites. Download
Leafpad
A simple GTK+ text editor that emphasizes simplicity. Download


Ubuntu 11.04
GNOME with Unity Shell. Best for beginners. Download
Fedora 15
GNOME 3 with Gnome Shell. Extremely customizable, usable but more for Linux enthusiasts. Download
openSUSE 11.4
KDE 4.6. A sturdy distro with some more proprietary compatibility. Download
Arch Linux
Any desktop environment. Lets you completely build up your own distro from the start. Download
Linux Mint 11
Gnome 2. Also great for beginners; Ubuntu with some usability and aesthetics fixes. Download

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