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avast! A Linux offering of the popular Avast antivirus scanner. Download |
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Clam AntiVirus The original open source virus scanner. Download |
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AVG A version of AVG’s Virus Scanner for Linux. Download |
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Kaspersky Kaspersky antivirus software for Linux workstations. Download |
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BitDefender Powerful virus protection with a free license for personal use. Download |
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GUFW A graphical interface for the UFW firewall. Download |
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Shorewall An app to make managing iptables easier. Download |
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Firestarter A good quality firewall with graphical interface. Download |
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Mondo Rescue A capable disk recovery toolkit. Download |
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TestDisk A utility to recover lost partitions. Download |
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safecopy A utility that extracts data from damaged areas and replaces dd. Download |
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PhotoRec A video, document, and archive recovery utility. Download |
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ddrescue A simple data recovery utility. Download |
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CrashPlan An excellent, sophisticated backup program. Download |
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BackupPC An open source backup system with web interface. Download |
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Deja Dup An extremely simple but effective backup program. Download |
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LuckyBackup A simple backup program for quick and easy protection. Download |
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Ubuntu-Tweak A great control panel to manage many features in Ubuntu. Download |
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System Monitor A simple and interesting way to view systems stats. Download |
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Google Chrome/Chromium A great browser from Google based on open source projects. Download |
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Firefox The world’s most popular open source web browser. Download |
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Midori A lightweight webkit browser. Download |
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Opera The “fastest and most advanced” browser available today. Download |
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Epiphany A simple web browser that is commonly shipped with GNOME. Download |
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Konquerer The default web browser of the KDE desktop environment. Download |
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Thunderbird Most popular cross-platform open source email client. Download |
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Claws Mail A user-friendly, lightweight, and fast email client. Download |
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Evolution A great email and calendar program for GNOME. Download |
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KMail A full-featured email client specifically for KDE. Download |
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Kopete A great IM program for KDE. Download |
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Pidgin the most popular open source cross-platform IM program. Download |
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XChat An easy to use IRC client. Download |
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Empathy An IM client similar to Pidgin, for shipping with GNOME. Download |
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TeamSpeak 3 Great multi-platform voice chat program. Download |
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Gwibber A straight-forward social messaging app. Download |
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Liferea An easy-to-use and effective RSS feed reader. Download |
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Inkscape A great editor for SVG files. Download |
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Shotwell A simple photo manager for GNOME. Download |
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F-Spot A photo manager like Shotwell but with more features. Download |
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Cheese Photo Booth Take pictures with many funky effects. Download |
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GIMP The most popular open source image editor. Download |
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Scribus A great desktop publishing program with many features. Download |
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Picasa Manage and edit your photos with a Google twist. Download |
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Banshee A great iTunes-like music manager. Download |
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Rhythmbox Similar to iTunes and doesn’t depend on Mono. Download |
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MPlayer A very capable media player. Download |
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OggConvert Able to convert most media types into the open source OGG format. Download |
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Sound Juicer Rips music off of your CDs into MP3s. Download |
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Amarok A great music manager for the KDE desktop environment. Download |
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MPlayer A very capable media player. Handles many file types like VLC. Download |
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VLC Media Player A media player that can handle virtually everything. Download |
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Kdenlive An elaborate non-linear video editor for KDE. Download |
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Openshot An innovative video editor with 3D effects. Download |
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Pitivi A simple and easy-to-use video editor for GNOME. Download |
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Totem A simple media player for common formats. Download |
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Hulu Desktop A good desktop counterpart for Hulu videos. Download |
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GParted The most popular partition editor for Linux. Download |
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Nautilus Default file navigator for GNOME. Download |
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Dolphin Default file navigator for KDE with social media features. Download |
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Thunar A lightweight file navigator for XFCE. Download |
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Krusader An advanced two-pane file navigator commonly used with KDE. Download |
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LibreOffice An enhanced office suite based off of OpenOffice. Download |
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OpenOffice The original open source office suite. Download |
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Abiword A lightweight word processor, usually replaces full office suites. Download |
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Gnumeric A great lightweight replacement for spreadsheet programs. Download |
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Xournal Take notes or annotate with high detail. Download |
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KOffice The default office suite for the KDE desktop environment. Download |
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PyRoom Write anything without any distractions. Download |
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Tomboy A great note-taking application. Download |
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Gnote Gnote is a port of Tomboy to C++. Download |
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Hamster Time Tracker Tracks the time you spend on projects. Download |
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Gnome-Do A quick way to launching your applications. Download |
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Docky One of the best docks around. Download |
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Avant Window Navigator A good dock alternative to Docky. Download |
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Cairo Another dock alternative to Docky and AWN. Download |
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Shutter An amazingly advanced screenshot tool. Download |
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Dropbox The top file synchronization tool, for Linux. Download |
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GNOME The most widely used GTK desktop environment. Download |
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KDE A beautifully flashy desktop environment based on Qt. Download |
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LXDE An extremely lightweight desktop environment to maximize performance. Download |
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Enlightenment A desktop environment that is lightweight yet aesthetically good-looking. Download |
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Xmonad A simple tiling window manager that allows great customization. Download |
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Openbox A very bare-bone desktop environment that uses almost no resources on its own. Download |
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File Roller The default archive manager in GNOME. Download |
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Ark A feature-rich archive manager for KDE. Download |
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Brasero A utility to burn CDs. Download |
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Gmount ISO A simple program to mount ISO files to folders. Download |
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Transmission A program for downloading torrents. Download |
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Deluge An awesome but unappreciated cross-platform BitTorrent client. Download |
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Miro Download torrents and online videos. Download |
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Urban Terror A popular first person shooter with good performance. Download |
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Alien Arena High detail first person shooter with sci-fi attitude. Download |
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Warzone 2100 Futuristic real time strategy game for survival. Download |
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FlightGear The best open source cross-platform flight simulator. Download |
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Extreme Tux Racer A fun game to slide Tux down hills and collect fish. Download |
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Nexuiz Another high detail, futuristic first person shooter. Download |
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Supertuxkart A racing game similar to Mario Kart. Download |
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The Mana World A fictional open source MMORPG. Download |
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openBVE A fantastic open source train simulator. Download |
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Pingus A lemmings-like game with a good number of levels. Download |
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LastPass Cross-browser and cross-OS online password manager. Download |
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KeePassX Open source password manager to stores passwords locally and encrypted. Download |
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TrueCrypt An open source solution to great file encryption. Download |
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GnuCash Manages your money in multiple accounts and currencies. Download |
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Redshift Changes the color temperature of your screen to prevent tired eyes. Download |
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WINE A compatibility layer for some Windows programs. Download |
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Compiz The best desktop effects on Linux. Download |
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Eclipse A full featured programming IDE. Download |
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Geany A lightweight programming code editor. Download |
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KMyMoney Another money management program with KDE integration. Download |
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Kwin Great-looking desktop effects, commonly used on KDE desktops. Download |
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DraftSight A 2D CAD editor, one of the few for Linux. Download |
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Emacs An extremely customizable editor that does more than just plain text. Download |
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Vim A more complex editor for the terminal with plenty of features. Download |
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Nano A simple, uncomplicated editor for the terminal. Download |
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Gedit A powerful editor out-of-the-box, and a favorite among many GNOME users. Download |
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Bluefish Editor for programmers with focus on dynamic and interactive websites. Download |
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Ubuntu 11.04 GNOME with Unity Shell. Best for beginners. Download |
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Fedora 15 GNOME 3 with Gnome Shell. Extremely customizable, usable but more for Linux enthusiasts. Download |
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openSUSE 11.4 KDE 4.6. A sturdy distro with some more proprietary compatibility. Download |
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Arch Linux Any desktop environment. Lets you completely build up your own distro from the start. Download |
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Linux Mint 11 Gnome 2. Also great for beginners; Ubuntu with some usability and aesthetics fixes. Download
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