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While you can get the Linux system and use it for free, you can also run on the system a wide range of free applications such as well-known and commonly-used software including Firefox web browser and the LibreOffice application suite. Among various free applications, here you might find the best free software for Linux, including those products reviewed and recommended by our editors in the various sections. Other programs that work as potential alternatives to Windows applications or even perform better than them are also listed here for the benefit of users who migrate from Windows to Linux or run dual systems on their computers. |
Linux, occasionally referred to as GNU/Linux, is an open source and free operating system predominantly known for its use in servers, but has increasingly become commonplace in desktop, notebook and netbook computers in recent years after newer and enhanced versions of Linux distributions, Ubuntu or Linux Mint for example, are developed and offered free to users.|
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This list of Best Free Software for Linux now includes 144 applications in 97 categories. To read brief descriptions of the applications, click a page number or a category icon below.
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Page 2. Home and Office
Page 3. Image Tools
Page 4. Multimedia
Page 5. Disk and File Tools
Page 6. Desktop and System
Page 7. Security and Privacy
Page 8. Internet and eMail
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A good suggestion Stuartz. Added to the list.
Hello, grsync http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grsync is a great tool for syncing directories. Luckybackup & Backintime proved unreliable for me, both copied my home dir to a removeable drive but many random files were copied as 0 bytes even though both apps reported the process completed successfully.
Grsync has worked flawlessly every time, copying the same files to the same drive.
Thanks RichardUK for suggesting Grsync. It's now added to the list.
Comix:
http://comix.sourceforge.net/
In the section "Best Free Music Player and Organizer for Linux", you should consider Gmusicbrowser ( http://gmusicbrowser.org/ ) much better than the one mentioned
A good comic book reader and added to the list.
Comix is discontinued. MComix is the successive project.
Monsterwm is a minimal, lightweight, tiny but monsterous dynamic tiling window manager. It provides a set of different layout modes, including floating mode support. Each virtual desktop has its own properties, unaffected by other desktops' settings.
https://github.com/c00kiemon5ter/monsterwm#readme
Tough article to write, nice job!
Some things that may be worth considering:
* Empathy as well as Pidgin
* Adobe Reader (http://www.adobe.com/products/reader.html)
* Revise image viewer. XnView as newest version is more heavyduty than its image viewing roots (XnViewMP.. or multiplatform).. theres dozens of good ones. Mirage. Geeqie. Gwenview. Gthumb. (yep I'm a GNOME user apologies)
* fre:ac used to be BonkEnc, and is a worthy CD ripper
* Shoutouts to proprietary Picasa but not the comparable Shotwell or F-Spot? For shame! =)
thats all
thanks author (would scroll up but im too lazy~!)
K. Slider
Gnome Pie (similar to Magic Formation on Windows) for best circular application launcher:
http://www.simonschneegans.de/?page_id=12
Synapse is a semantic launcher written in Vala that you can use to start applications as well as find and access relevant documents and files by making use of the Zeitgeist engine:
https://launchpad.net/synapse-project
Snort:
http://www.snort.org/
SciDAVis:
http://scidavis.sourceforge.net/
Praat:
http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/
youtube-dl:
http://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/
MiniTube:
http://flavio.tordini.org/minitube
Musique:
http://flavio.tordini.org/musique
Kile:
http://kile.sourceforge.net/
Lyx:
http://www.lyx.org/
TestDisk&PhotoRec:
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/
NMap:
http://nmap.org/
Safecopy is a data recovery tool which tries to extract as much data as possible from a problematic (i.e. damaged sectors) source - like floppy drives, harddisk partitions, CDs, tape devices, ..., where other tools like dd would fail doe to I/O errors:
http://safecopy.sourceforge.net/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/safecopy/
Gloobus:
https://launchpad.net/gloobus
Meerkartor - OpenStreetMap editor:
http://merkaartor.be/
Thanks Panzer, K Slider and vin100 for the various suggestions. I'm looking into them and will add those which are best for the list.
Maybe you should add some micro-blogging clients, as Hotot for Twitter :)
XNoise:
http://www.xnoise-media-player.com/
Texmaker:
http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/
Tomahawk:
http://www.tomahawk-player.org/index.html
Guayadeque:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/guayadeque/
I used to be an Audacity fanatic, but I just downloaded and played with OcenAudio, and I am impressed. It does have a slightly different set of toys beyond the usual filters and editing tools; it seems to be better at the more mathematical stuff if you need that. The FFT is fast! And you can generate sweeps and DTMF tones, very useful. It runs natively on Linux (and inferior operating systems). It's 9 MB, not so bad.
DeaDBeeF:
http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net/
For faster downloads on uGet, install aria2 from the synaptic package manager and go to edit->settings->plugins in uGet and enable aria2 :)
I think Krusader is more powerful and offers more features than Dolphin in the file manager section and would certainly please you if you're a power user.
Gmail Backup:
http://gmvault.org/
Duplicity backs directories by producing encrypted tar-format volumes and uploading them to a remote or local file server. Because duplicity uses librsync, the incremental archives are space efficient and only record the parts of files that have changed since the last backup:
http://duplicity.nongnu.org/
NitroShare is an a network file-sharing application that makes sending a file to another machine on the local network as easy as dragging-and-dropping:
https://launchpad.net/nitroshare/
https://github.com/benjaminoakes/maid
F.lux for Linux (similar to Redshift):
http://stereopsis.com/flux/linux.html
Unfortunately aria2 didn't work well in uGet when tested. Has anyone got his sorted out?
https://code.launchpad.net/~fioan89/slidewall/quickly_trunk