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Dolphin
A file manager for KDE (by default) and good for other desktop environments such as GNOME as well, focusing on usability with navigation bar, view properties, split of views, dockable panels and many other useful features.
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FSlint
A convenient tool with both GUI and command lines modes to detect duplicate files and reclaim disk space. It also helps to identify unwanted or problematic file names, temporary files, bad symlinks, empty directories, nonstripped binaries and redundant whitespaces.
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Clonezilla
Saves and restores only used blocks in the harddisk and increases the close efficiency. The version of Clonezilla Live is suitable for single machine backup and restore. (Review)
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G4U ("Ghosting for Unix")
"Not only can it clone disk to disk (any size) and copy disk partitions, it can also create and restore image files both locally and from an FTP site, if the workstation is connected to a wired network with a DCHP service." (Review)
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LuckyBackup
A useful tool to safely back up your data that you've changed in a source directory to a destination directory, or create multiple backup snapshots to a specific date and time. You can also use it to sync any directories to keep files identical on various devices.
Other features include options to exclude certain files, setting up profiles, scheduling and simulation controls.
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Areca Backup
"Areca supports the typical full, mirror, incremental, and differential backup methods with several additional “storage modes” including a delta block mode. For compressed archives, it uses both Zip and Zip 64 with the choice of just about any encoding algorithm your heart desires. It allows you to place each backup in a single Zip archive, or a separate Zip for each file. Zip archives can be automatically split at any size you choose." (Review)
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 FreeFileSync
"A solid application with very clear and informative interface. The preview is very easy to understand, file collisions and deletions are readily recognizable.
If you require a sync program that can copy files that are in use or locked, it has you covered there too!" (Review)
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Grsync
A graphical user interface for rsync and an effective tool to synchronize folders, files and make backups with support for sessions, simulation, execution, checksum, logging as well as other basic and advanced options for you to choose.
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PeaZip
"Easy to use and very versatile, capable of creating 7Z, ARC, BZ2, GZ, PAQ/ZPAQ, PEA, QUAD/BALZ, TAR, UPX, ZIP files and extracting from 98 archive types." (Review)
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File Roller and Ark
Both archive managers designed respectively for GNOME and KDE desktop environments to create archives, view or extract files from archives, work as front-ends to command-line archivers supporting various file formats.
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GParted
"A GNOME partition editor for resizing (enlarging or shrinking), creating or deleting, moving or copying partitions on a hard disk, creating a partition table, enabling or disabling partition flags such as boot and hidden." (Review)
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Parted Magic
"Employs core programs of GParted and GNU Parted to handle partitioning tasks and can be run from a live CD, DVD or USB flash drive." (Review)
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TestDisk
"A console application designed for data recovery. It can be used to fix partition table, recover deleted partitions or copy files from deleted partitions." (Review)
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 TrueCrypt
"TrueCrypt is a powerful, flexible and highly-effective encryption program to encrypt files, folders or entire drives. Use this seasoned, widely-used encryption program when you want an encrypted container that mounts as a virtual drive.
It's one of those freeware programs that is far superior to commercial software and its open source status allows the all-important peer review of the source code required for a trustworthy encryption program." (Review)
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GNU Privacy Assistant (GPA)
A useful tool with the graphical user interface for the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG or GPG) to encrypt, decrypt, sign files, verify signatures and manage the private and public keys.
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Dropbox
"Provides 2 GB free space for backing up and sharing your files, works similar to any other folder of your computer—after installation, simply drag and drop files/folders to Dropbox you want to backup, share or sync with other computer." (Review)
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 UltraCopier
"UltraCopier has some pretty exciting features including an excellent file resume option, which allows for resuming of a file transfer from a disconnected USB key. If you're in the middle of a file transfer from a USB key and it somehow becomes disconnected, when you plug it in again all you have to do is to hit resume and it will pick up where you left off!
It has also other useful options such as speed limitation and searching through the copy list. And as far as looks go, UltraCopier is a much more visually attractive copier replacement." (Review)
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Unstoppable Copier
"Excellent for copying information from scratched CD's, DVD's and corrupted files from the hard drives." (Review)
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5. Best Free Disk and File Tools for Linux
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LuckyBackup
Candidate for a Linux back up utility
I have been using FreeFileSync as a back up tool synchronizing my personal files weekly. I finally needed a reason to restore a folder I accidentally erased. I loaded FreeFileSync and switched directions to restore and executed the task. Results were a complete disaster. I thought I had done everything correctly and could not tell exactly what went wrong. I kind of feel the GUI although looks straight forward can be a bit tricky. Luckily I had made an Image and restored my system.
After doing some searching I found LuckyBackup:
http://www.liberiangeek.net/2011/02/schedule-backup-luckybackup-ubuntu-1...
Very nice and easy to use. When I did a test to restore, it worked perfectly.
There doesn't seem to be a great deal of free Linux backup utilities but so far LuckyBackup seems to work well and a possible candidate for Best Free Software For Linux list.
Cheers
I'm looking for a simple package for home use and wonder if anyone know such solution.
I want to use a small 7" touch pad with Linux. This unit will be installed right inside the entrance door and the whole family should use it to remember things when the arrive or leave the house.
Main problem is to have a user interface that fit a small 7" pad as it's made for communicating through touch. Hopefully the to-do-list can be updated from external PC inhouse, but no demand. It should also be easy to connect to another PC or internet to see the weather prognoses, etc by an icon to switch to another application.
Anyone knows any software that can be used for such small touch pad.
Joje (Norway)
If it has enough storage capacity you may want to try Linux mint. I am partial to Mint 'Julia' but Mint 11 is available although it uses gnome 3 which is not my cup-of-tea. Look here: linuxmint.com/
There is Puppy Linux which is small in size but may not be suitable for people new to linux. Look here: http://www.puppylinux.com/
Further info on linux platforms can be found here: http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major
Hope this helps get you started
Good luck
Thanks.
I was in fact thinking of Mint, but have no replay from supplier of the pad if they have testes their hardware with this or other Linux versions (I do not want to use Android).
But as you say I'm rather new to Linux and want to start up with som "fail safe" :-D solution.
Thnaks for your suggestion. I will look into Mint and at the same time an Application software with a very simple user interface (mainly graphic).
Added LuckyBackup to the list and thanks Wdhpr for recommending this software.
The guy from Liberian Geeksays states their are allot of linux backup utilities. For starters Mint has one installed by default and its very limited. I also disagree that there are a many of them. From what I can tell many use resync as their core. Where as Window's has a ton of backup software.
Perhaps I need to look harder :\
GnomeDo should be added to this list as a competitor to Launchy, and DesktopNova should be added as a competitor to Wally.
Good suggestions Shuey. Both GNOME Do and DesktopNova are now added to the list.
Comodo antivirus for linux, realtime scanning, free software!
This is still in beta and therefore not recommended for general use. Also, there is a requirement to sign in to the Comodo forum for access. If this has now changed, please provide a link here otherwise nothing further will happen with this at this stage.
I am looking for a way to search for files from within Mint 12 GUI. This site recomends Google desktop but it has been discontinued. Any other sugestions?
Try this link. It should give you several options:
http://tuxradar.com/content/best-linux-desktop-search-tools
Update: Replaced Google Desktop Search with Recoll.
Please add Best Single File Encryption Software category.
Good suggestion Panzer. Any good applications in your mind?
Update: added GNU Privacy Assistant.
Not at the moment.
Hello, I have created a lot of image or flash videos, on my hard drive. When I burn these images on a DVD disc ,I am unable to play these discs on other electronic devices. Does anyone have a suggestion on how i can convert these images to playable disc?
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I'm surprised there havent been arguments over the opening line, but that's good.
It might be worth mentioning (atleast briefly) the difference between free/libre software and free-of-charge software (and clarifying what you're listing... though most seems to be libre some things are not: Opera isn't and truecrypt is highly debatable in this regard).
Still... generally a good list - though a few I'd recommend considering.
* Exaile - music player, similar to clementine already mentioned, but imho a more comfortable GUI.
* Kdenlive - video editor, this is a big one imho because it's the most intuitive editor I've found yet yet supports a wide range of formats (input and output). Yes, it requires KDE libraries but so does Amarok which (imho, deservedly) makes your list.
* The browsers you have on your list are quite heavy, full featured browsers. That's fine, but when linux on netbooks is seeming to gain a little in popularity, a lighter browser mightn't be a bad idea (atleast for when needing to run alongside other apps, especially office-suites as many students would have to). Midori sadly seems somewhat crash prone on many distro's (though it's working fine on my gentoo machine) which is a shame as it's otherwise a nice browser - Epiphany is a touch heavier, but seems much more stable.
* Claws mail is worth mentioning as another good email-client, though not many people seem to use email-clients anymore.
* Deluge - my favourite torrent client. Vuze can't touch it, imho.
Kdenlive includes a feature to create basic dvd's (including menus), perhaps take a look and see if it suits your needs...
Afterall, it's free (and libre) so won't cost you any money (or freedom).
One of many reasons to love linux (imho) is this fact - you can try new packages without worrying that you'll waste your money (or install something dodgy) if it doesn't fulfil your needs.
Best Dock contenders:
Cairo Dock
http://glx-dock.org/
Avant Window Navigator:
http://wiki.awn-project.org/
Best Network Protocol Analyzer:
Wireshark
http://www.wireshark.org/download.html (bottom right)
F.Lux for Linux - Redshift:
http://jonls.dk/redshift/
Thanks Panzer for good suggestions. Cairo Dock is now added to the list.
Best Free Anonymous Surfing Service for Linux:
I suggest adding SecurityKiss to this list. I've been happily using it for awhile on Windows (thanks to techsupportalert advice). The free service has recently been made available for Linux and it works great there as well (Xubuntu 11.10). Easy to set up, easy to use, fast, and reliable. Same restrictions as on Windows (300MB/day).
http://www.securitykiss.com/resources/download/linux/
Its good to see you included Pinta. I installed about a week ago and I was impressed to find how closely it resembled Paint.net.
Why not Jdownloader ?
@vin100, JDownloader is mentioned, but currently not rated, in the section of "Other Download Managers" at Best Free Download Manager. Hope this helps.
Glad that you like it Wdhpr.
Users should be wary of jDownloader (notice the difference in spelling) which has a red rated site by WOT (Web Of Trust)and is a scam product.
http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/jdownloader.com?src=addon-warn-viewsc
Webilder is an awesome wall paper changer that downloads pictures from Flickr and Webshots.