Huge List of the Best Open-Source Apps

[TheWiseNoob]

Top 100 Open-Source Linux Apps


Currently at 92/100 apps


Once it hits 100, only apps much better than others listed will be put on the list and the least popular will be removed.

I made this list because I realized how long it took, for me, to discover even a small portion of these apps when I first started using Linux. Hopefully someone new to Linux or looking for programs they have never used finds this helpful.

The "Installation" part of this list is currently incomplete. All of the application names lead to its project site. Posting how to install one of these programs, another program you think should be on this list, a revision I should make to the organization of the list, or notifying me of any mistake/broken link on the list would help me a lot. I will be constantly updating this. Enjoy!



BitTorrent Clients




Azureus (http://azureus.sourceforge.net/)
Java-based BitTorrent client for both beginners and advanced users. There as features included, such as, multiple torrent downloads, advanced seeding rules, pausing a torrent, importing torrents, and much, much more.

INSTALLATION

Open Synaptic Package Manager and serach for "azureus". Mark the program named "azureus" for installation. Click apply.

~Visit Site~ (http://azureus.sourceforge.net/)


Deluge (http://deluge-torrent.org/downloads)
A very lightweight, BitTorrent client using GTK and python. It is one of the most rapidly developing clients and is very comparable to µTorrent. Integrates well with the GNOME desktop environment.

INSTALLATION

Open Synaptic Package Manager and serach for "deluge-torrent". Mark the program named "deluge-torrent" for installation. Click apply.

~Visit Site~ (http://deluge-torrent.org/downloads)


KTorrent (http://ktorrent.org/)
A BitTorrent client for KDE. It is very lightweight and has many of the features that most BitTorrent clients include. Though it is still missing many key features, is under heavy development.

INSTALLATION

Open Synaptic Package Manager and serach for "ktorrent". Mark the program named "ktorrent" for installation. Click apply.

~Visit Site~ (http://ktorrent.org/)


rTorrent (http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/)





EyeCandy




Avant Window Navigator(AWN) (http://code.google.com/p/avant-window-navigator/)
A dock-like bar which sits at the bottom of the screen tracking open windows. It requires a compositor to be running, or it will not display properly. Has stcks feature, like in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.

INSTALLATION


First, open terminal so you can edit your sources.list:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
and add these two lines:

deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/syzygy42/ feisty avant-window-navigator
deb-src http://download.tuxfamily.org/syzygy42/ feisty avant-window-navigator



Now enter:

wget http://download.tuxfamily.org/syzygy42/8434D43A.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade



To install AWN, enter:

sudo apt-get install avant-window-navigator-bzr


~Visit Site~ (http://code.google.com/p/avant-window-navigator/)


Compiz Fusion (http://compiz.org/)
A compositing window managers for the X Window System that is able to take advantage of OpenGL acceleration. The integration allows it to perform compositing effects in window management, such as a minimization effect and a cube workspace. It was created from the remerging of Beryl into Compiz.

INSTALLATION


Enter this first:

sudo apt-get -y remove compiz-core desktop-effects
This will remove any older/broken installs of Compiz Fusion.



If you are using Gutsy, skip to step 4. Do this to edit your sources.list:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
and add these two lines:

deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/3v1deb feisty eyecandy
deb-src http://download.tuxfamily.org/3v1deb feisty eyecandy
You can now close Gedit.



Next, enter this:

wget http://download.tuxfamily.org/3v1deb/DD800CD9.gpg
Then this:

sudo apt-key add DD800CD9.gpg

sudo apt-get upgrade



Now enter this to install to install Compiz Fusion:

sudo apt-get -y install compiz compiz-gnome compizconfig-settings-manager compiz-fusion-plugins-extra libcompizconfig-backend-gconf



To start Compiz Fusion, enter this in Terminal or Run:

compiz --replace
You can edit Compiz Fusion settings by going to System -- Preferences -- Compiz Config Settings Manager .



~Visit Site~ (http://compiz.org/)


Emerald (http://www.beryl-project.org/)
A window decorator for Compiz Fusion and Beryl. A much more extensive decorator than Metacity.

INSTALLATION

Open Synaptic Package Manager and serach for "emerald". Mark the program named "emerald" for installation. Click apply.

~Visit Site~ (http://www.beryl-project.org/)


gDesklets (http://www.gdesklets.de/)
Tiny applets that sit on your desktop in a symbiotic relationship of eye candy and usefulness. You can populate your desktop with status meters, icon bars,weather sensors, news tickers, and whatever else you can imagine. gDesklets does not require a compositor to work correctly.

INSTALLATION

Open Synaptic Package Manager and serach for "gdesklets". Mark the program named "gdesklets" for installation. Click apply.

~Visit Site~ (http://www.gdesklets.de/)


Screenlets (http://screenlets.org/index.php/Home)
Screenlets are small, owner-drawn applications written in Python. They are a form of eyecandy that are easy to create and can be used as Widgets. They help create a Mac-Like Desktop Environment.

INSTALLATION


This application requires you to have a compositor, like Compiz Fusion or Beryl, for it to work properly.
Download the latest screenlets source from the Screenlets Download Page (http://screenlets.org/index.php/Download). Extract the folder, in the archive, to your Desktop and rename it to screenlets.



Open terminal and enter:

cd Desktop/screenlets



Then enter:

sudo make install
Screenlets is now installed.



To install the menu items, using the same terminal window, enter:

sudo make menu
The menu items are now installed and there should be a "Screenlets" directory in you Applications Menu now.
You must start each screenlet individually. There are 3rd-party screenlets located at the Screenlets Download Page (http://screenlets.org/index.php/Download).


~Visit Site~ (http://screenlets.org/index.php/Home)






File Browser/Search




Affinity (http://code.google.com/p/affinity-search/)


Appfinder (http://www.xfce.org/projects/xfce4-appfinder)
An application finder for the GNOME or Xfce4 Desktop Environment. It will search for installed applications on your system.

INSTALLATION

Open Synaptic Package Manager and serach for "xfce4-appfinder". Mark the program named "xfce4-appfinder" for installation. Click apply.

~Visit Site~ (http://www.xfce.org/projects/xfce4-appfinder)


Beagle (http://beagle-project.org/Main_Page)
A desktop search utility for indexing and searching user's data. At the moment, it can index filesystems, Pidgin logs, Evolution data, RSS and many more.

INSTALLATION

Open Synaptic Package Manager and serach for "beagle". Mark the program named "beagle" for installation. Click apply.

~Visit Site~ (http://beagle-project.org/Main_Page)


Nautilus (http://www.gnome.org/projects/nautilus/)
The official file manager for the GNOME desktop. It allows to browse directories, preview files and launch applications associated with them. It is also responsible for handling the icons on the GNOME desktop. It works on local and remote filesystems.

INSTALLATION

Installed by default on Ubuntu. The source can be found here (http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/nautilus/2.12/nautilus-2.12.0.tar.gz).

~Visit Site~ (http://www.gnome.org/projects/nautilus/)


Thunar (http://thunar.xfce.org/index.html)
The file manager designed to be the default file manager of Xfce 4.4 It has been designed to be fast and easy to use.

INSTALLATION

Open Synaptic Package Manager and serach for "thunar". Mark the program named "thunar" for installation. Click apply.

~Visit Site~ (http://thunar.xfce.org/index.html)






Games




Alien Arena 2007 (http://red.planetarena.org/)

INSTALLATION

Open Synaptic Package Manager and serach for "alien-arena". Mark the program named "alien-arena" for installation. Click apply.

~Visit Site~ (http://red.planetarena.org/)

Battle for Wesnoth (http://www.wesnoth.org/)


Frets On Fire (http://fretsonfire.sourceforge.net/)


Neverball (http://icculus.org/neverball/)


Nexuiz (http://alientrap.org/nexuiz/)


Open Arena (http://openarena.ws/?)


Sauerbraten (http://sauerbraten.org/)


Stepmania (http://stepmania.com)


Scorched 3D (http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/)


Tremulous (http://www.tremulous.net/)






Graphics and Text Viewers/Editors




Amaya (http://www.w3.org/Amaya/)


Abiword (http://www.abisource.com/)


Blender (http://www.blender.org/)


Bluefish (http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/)


F-Spot (http://f-spot.org/Main_Page)


Gedit (http://www.gnome.org/projects/gedit/)


The GIMP (http://www.gimp.org/)


Gnumeric Spreadsheet (http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/)


GNU Paint (http://gpaint.sourceforge.net/)


Inkscape (http://www.inkscape.org/)


Kolourpaint (http://kolourpaint.sourceforge.net/)


OpenOffice.org (http://openoffice.org)


Scribus (http://www.scribus.net/)


Zim Desktop Wiki (http://pardus-larus.student.utwente.nl/~pardus/projects/zim/)






Music and Video Players




Amarok (http://amarok.kde.org/)


Audacious (http://audacious-media-player.org/Main_Page)


Banshee (http://banshee-project.org/Main_Page)


Cheese (http://live.gnome.org/Cheese)


Totem (http://www.gnome.org/projects/totem/)


Exaile (http://exaile.org/)


gmusicbrowser (http://squentin.free.fr/gmusicbrowser/gmusicbrowser.html)


Kaffeine (http://hftom.free.fr/)


Listen (http://www.listen-project.org/)


Miro (http://www.getmiro.com/)


MythTV (http://mythtv.org/)


Rhythmbox (http://www.gnome.org/projects/rhythmbox/)


Songbird (http://www.songbirdnest.com/)


VideoLAN Client(VLC) (http://www.videolan.org/)


XMMS2 (http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Main_Page)






Network Programs




aKregator (http://akregator.kde.org/)


Ekiga VoIP (http://ekiga.org/)


Evolution (http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution/)


FileZilla (http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/)


gFTP (http://gftp.seul.org/)


irssi (http://irssi.org/)


Kopete (http://kopete.kde.org/)


Mumble (http://mumble.sourceforge.net/)


Pidgin (http://pidgin.im)


Straw (http://www.gnome.org/projects/straw/)


Thunderbird (http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/)


XChat (http://www.xchat.org/)






Programming IDEs




Anjuta (http://anjuta.sourceforge.net/)


Code::Blocks (http://www.codeblocks.org/)


Eclipse (http://www.eclipse.org/)


Emacs (http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)


Geany (http://geany.uvena.de/)


KDevelop (http://kdevelop.org)


Netbeans (http://www.netbeans.org/)


Vim (http://www.vim.org/)


Python 2.5 (http://www.python.org/)






Sound/Video Editors and Disc Burning Utilities




Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/)


Avidemux (http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/)


DeVeDe (http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html)


GnomeBaker (http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnomebaker/)


K3B (http://k3b.plainblack.com/)


Kino (http://www.kinodv.org/)


LiVES (http://lives.sourceforge.net/)


Vive (http://vive.sourceforge.net/)






Web Browsers




Epiphany (http://www.gnome.org/projects/epiphany/)


Firefox (http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/)


Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org/)






Other Programs




AllTray (http://alltray.sourceforge.net/)


GNASH (http://www.gnashdev.org/)


Gparted (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/)


Nouveau (http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/)


Qalculate (http://qalculate.sourceforge.net/)


Tomboy Notes (http://www.gnome.org/projects/tomboy/)


WINE (http://www.winehq.org/)






I made this list because I realized how long it took, for me, to discover even a small portion of these apps when I first started using Linux. Hopefully someone new to Linux or looking for programs they have never used finds this helpful.

The "Installation" part of this list is currently incomplete. All of the application names lead to its project site. Posting how to install one of these programs, another program you think should be on this list, a revision I should make to the organization of the list, or notifying me of any mistake/broken link on the list would help me a lot. I will be constantly updating this. Enjoy!

[corney91]

I think gmusicbrowser (http://squentin.free.fr/gmusicbrowser/gmusicbrowser.html) (http://squentin.free.fr/gmusicbrowser/gmusicbrowser.html) should be added to the list.

[smartboyathome]

K3B isn't a video editor, it is a disc burner. Also, I think audacious and Kolourpaint need to be added. Scribus isn't a very good replacement to InDesign (because it 1 cannot open an InDesign document and 2 cannot import very much).

Edit: oops! I missed you including audacious.

[Dark Star]

Awesome work bro :) People try adding things instead of accusing him :p Awesome again .. Keep it up :) I'll add soon :D

[smartboyathome]

Zim Desktop Wiki needs to be added. :D

[TheWiseNoob]

-Added Songbird
-Added Zim Desktop Wiki
-Added Kolourpaint
-Added gmusicbrowser
-Group "Sound and Video Editors" changed to "Sound/Video Editors and Disc Burning Utilities"
-Added Audacious
-Updated XMMS to XMMS2

[TheWiseNoob]

Sorry for double post.

-Added Neverball, Scorched3D, and Stepmania to "Games and Emulators"
-Group "Linux Games" changed to "Games and Emulators"
-Added Alien Arena 2007 Installation Guide
-Added Emerald Installation Guide
-Added Avant Window Navigator Installation Guide
-Added Screenlets Installation Guide

[Lord Illidan]

I like the list.

Will you add Programming IDEs/Editors.

Eclipse,Kdevelop,Geany,Anjuta could all be added to that list.

Also, personally this would be better in a webpage or a wiki with each app having a link to an installation howto, as the way it's going it seems that it's getting pretty large, but nice effort.

[Fbot1]

Much better:
KDE:


BitTorrent Clients
Azureus
Qbittorrent

EyeCandy
Avant Window Navigator(AWN)
Emerald
Compiz Fusion

File Browser/Search

Games and Emulators
Battle for Wesnoth
Nexuiz
Tremulous

Graphics
Blender
Inkscape
Krita

Office
OpenOffice.org
Scribus

Text editors
Xemacs
Microemacs
Vim

Other Programming tools
CMake
GNU Debugger
GCC
Netwide Assembler

Music and Video
Amarok
Mplayer
MythTV

FTP Programs
FileZilla
gFTP

Chat
Kopete
Mumble
Pidgin

Sound/Video Editors and Disc Burning Utilities
Audacity
K3B

Web Browsers
Firefox
Konqueror
Opera

Other Programs
GNASH
Scilab


Gnome:


BitTorrent Clients
Azureus
Deluge

EyeCandy
Avant Window Navigator(AWN)
Emerald
Compiz Fusion

File Browser/Search
Beagle

Games and Emulators
Battle for Wesnoth
Nexuiz
Tremulous

Graphics
Blender
The GIMP
Inkscape

Office
Abiword
Gnumeric Spreadsheet
OpenOffice.org
Scribus

Text editors
Xemacs
Microemacs
Vim

Other Programming tools
CMake
GNU Debugger
GCC
Netwide Assembler

Music and Video
Mplayer
MythTV

FTP Programs
FileZilla
gFTP

Chat
Mumble
Pidgin

Sound/Video Editors and Disc Burning Utilities
Audacity

Web Browsers
Firefox
Opera

Other Programs
GNASH
Scilab


Terminal:


BitTorrent Clients
rTorrent
File Browser/Search


Games and Emulators
Nethack

Office


Text editors
Xemacs
Microemacs
Vim

Other Programming tools
CMake
GNU Debugger
GCC
Netwide Assembler

Music

FTP Programs


Chat


Sound/Video Editors and Disc Burning Utilities


Web Browsers

Links2

Other Programs
ZSH

[smartboyathome]

Mind if I compile this in Zim? I may distribute it sometime, or may just use it for reference :D

EDIT: Vim... ick, talk about an editor that shouldn't exist anymore.

[Fbot1]

Mind if I compile this in Zim? I may distribute it sometime, or may just use it for reference :D

EDIT: Vim... ick, talk about an editor that shouldn't exist anymore.

Too be honest I don't like it either. :)

[PartisanEntity]

I like how you offer the installation instructions, it would be great for new members, perhaps we can combine the valuable info from this thread (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=382137) with the idea of this thread and end up with one mega thread that is nicely organised, easy to follow and offers installation instructions.

edit: another thread (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=533529) with 'cool' applications.

[TheWiseNoob]

Mind if I compile this in Zim? I may distribute it sometime, or may just use it for reference :D

EDIT: Vim... ick, talk about an editor that shouldn't exist anymore.

Yeah, it's alright with me.

Thanks for posting suggestions. I added a "Programming IDEs" Group and added the apps suggested and moved Python 2.5 to the group.

*EDIT* Added Netbeans too

[Fbot1]

Yeah, it's alright with me.

Thanks for posting suggestions. I added a "Programming IDEs" Group and added the apps suggested and moved Python 2.5 to the group.

*EDIT* Added Netbeans too

I think you should trim the list.

[TheWiseNoob]

I think you should trim the list.

I plan on getting 100 apps and then not adding anymore. I will just need help updating links and such.

[Dual Cortex]

You're missing a GREAT IDE: Code::Blocks

www.codeblocks.org

To use, browse their nightly builds and install one of their pre-compiled packages.

[Ciego]

Thanks for the great list.

You need to add a


sudo apt-get upgrade

before step #4 of the compiz fusion instructions though.

[kahrn]

This list could really do with being put on the ubuntu wiki (or a private wiki) so people can update and contribute easier. :)

[Henaro]

You should add rtorrent and irssi.

[kahrytan]

Remove NVU. It's not updated anymore. Amaya is a better choice. The application is jointly developed by W3C and the WAM project at INRIA.

[Spr0k3t]

One that should be added to go along with NVU is Aptana. It uses the Eclipse IDE front end and is an html editor. Very slick...

http://www.aptana.com/

[izanbardprince]

You forgot Sauerbraten!

[EvanCarroll]

Where is Open Arena? (the most popular free FPS that I know about)

[TheWiseNoob]

Updated. Getting close to 100. Just a few more apps.

Can someone please suggest a wiki I can put this on?

[Rupertronco]

Affinity search definitely belongs on this list.

[Spr0k3t]

Can someone please suggest a wiki I can put this on?

Why not drop it on the wiki.ubuntu.com temporarily until you can find a wiki you want to use?

[ErikTheRed]

Warsow should be added under games

[EXCiD3]

All i have to say is <3.... You rule guys! I'm gonna start checkin out this stuff. Granted i have heard of much of this, just havent decided to try some out yet...Thanks!

[happysmileman]

Just me or is this a bit biased towards GNOME apps?

[Fbot1]

Just me or is this a bit biased towards GNOME apps?

I guess he/she could make more then one list.

[smartboyathome]

Add some virtualization software. VirtualBox, QEMU, and VMWare Server and the big three. Also, for web browsers, there is Opera, and (if you don't mind adding another piece from the mozilla family) seamonkey. For "other", there is gtk-recordmydesktop (it records a video of your desktop), and WICD, a network manager for Ubuntu. Also, I like the idea of adding a KDE and a GTK (and a other if necessary) list.

EDIT: When I am done with the Zim wiki section, where should I post it?

[thisllub]

Ardour and Rosegarden are the most powerful music recording / editing programs.

[Fbot1]

Also, I like the idea of adding a KDE and a GTK (and another if necessary) list.


Small X apps and terminal apps are the only other lists I can think of but I'd imagine that most people don't really cares.

[happysmileman]

What about having on the one page (if it's on a wiki or something) the list (maybe more than 100) with subsections for KDE/GNOME.

Or What about a list showing ONE program for each purpose (one bittorrent client, one IDE etc.) for each DE (so there'd be a GNOME bittorrent client, a KDE one, one for either, and a terminal one).
the program would be voted for out of a list of the best ones we can think of.

Though this is probably going to have to be a completely seperate list

[smartboyathome]

I am going to work on getting the origional list done in Zim before I even think about a GTK and a Qt list. Will post when I am done.

[Fbot1]

Or What about a list showing ONE program for each purpose

As long as you don't get too strict with it that sounds fine to me.

[Ciego]

I made a mistake in my earlier suggestion .... it should be


sudo apt-get update

before step #4 for the compiz-fusion

[Fbot1]

I'm too damn impatient, just use this for now:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fbot1/List_of_the_Best_Open-Source_Apps

[happysmileman]

I'm too damn impatient, just use this for now:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fbot1/List_of_the_Best_Open-Source_Apps

Oh sorry, didn't realise that was one of your user-pages, shouldn't have done that, though I didn't remove anything so should be easy to fix

[Fbot1]

Oh sorry, didn't realise that was one of your user-pages, shouldn't have done that, though I didn't remove anything so should be easy to fix

Done what?

[happysmileman]

Done what?

Added in the bullets, ie made an unordered list out of them

[Fbot1]

Added in the bullets, ie made an unordered list out of them

I think it's better that way.

[happysmileman]

Ah ok never mind then

[wersdaluv]

Wow. I have always been in the Community Cafe, but only digg informed me about the existence of this thread.

Okay. By the way. I think that BasKet NotePads should be on the list. It is my most favorite app.

[Dark Star]

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Distro:Any Distross
Purpose:Web Browsing
Extra Info:Goals: cross-platform (thanks to QT library), very ergonomic (greatly customizable GUI), high speed (higher than IE), tabbed-browsing, built-in e-mail client, pop-up killer,...
Very useful is session saver: At start Opera can restore it's state before last end. Everything in 4MB!

Displaying: Obviously CSS styles and JavaScript (Java is optional). Version 7.x displays pages excellent. By my web-designer experience: what displays good in Opera will also be good in Mozilla and IE.
Home Page: Opera web browser: Homepage (http://www.opera.com/)
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Software Name: CPUtemp
Distro: Any distrss
Purpose:To measure the temperature of CPU
Extra Info: CPUtemp is a Gnome applet that displays the current CPU temperature in the tray. It is written in Perl using Perl-Gtk2 bindings. It uses the syskernel interface to read temperature sensor data.
Home Page: http://cputemp.sourceforge.net/
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Software Name: KHealthCare
Distro: Any Distross
Purpose: Hardware Monitoring
Extra Info: KHealthCare is a hardware monitoring program, running under Linux / KDE.
Home Page: http://homepages.fh-giessen.de/%...care/main.html (http://homepages.fh-giessen.de/%7Ehg7229/khealthcare/main.html)
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Software Name:Ghost for Linux
Distro:Any distross
Purpose: Backup and Partition Manager
Extra Info: Ghost for Linux is a hard disk and partition imaging and cloning tool similar to Norton Ghost(c). The created images are optionally compressed and transferred to an FTP server. The included kernel supports almost every common network interface, ATA and serial-ATA drives. The extended kernel on CD supports SCSI and several 1000 MBit network cards. It comes as 2 boot/root disks or a bootable CD image with an ncurses GUI.
Home Page: Confixx Professional (http://g4l.networks-ltd.de/)
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Software Name: Everest QDictionary
Distro: Any Distross
Purpose: To Search word meaning easily.
Extra Info: It includes 35 dictionaries with almost 3.000.000 records. Everest Dictionary is the greatest of the free dictionaries available to the public. Covers all main european languages
The possibility to search words in many dictionaries. It is possible to search words across many dictionaries. It monitors the clipboard; in any program, a simple copy of the word to the clipboard using "Copy" command will have as effect the automatic search of the word in the dictionary.
Home Page: Free Soft - Freeware applications (http://www.free-soft.ro/)
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Software Name: XNVIEW
Distro: Any Distros
Purpose: Image Editing/Viewing
Extra Info: XnView is image viewer and editor. It can import 400 from different grafical formats and it can export to 50 formats. Basic operations with images (resize, change of color depth, filters..) Conversions of pictures can be also made in console (usefull for shell scripts).
Home Page: Free graphic and photo viewer - XnView - GRAPHIC VIEWER (http://www.xnview.com/)
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Software Name: Corel PHOTO-PAINT
Distro: ANy Distross
Purpose: Image editing
Extra Info: Corel Photo-Paint is the well known image creation and photo editing application.

While many may prefer GIMP for quick and dirty image editing, Corel Photo-Paint may become the new favorite for batch processing of images and complex graphical effects.
Home Page: Corel Corporation - Home of CorelDRAW, WordPerfect, Paint Shop Pro, Photo Album and Painter (http://www.corel.com/)
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Software Name: Moonlight 3D Atelier
Distro: Any distross
Purpose:3d Animation
Extra Info:Moonlight 3D is a free and open source, cross platform, 3D software package. Moonlight 3D supports such feature as: 3D modelling, 3D animation, NURBS based modelling, Bezier curve based modelling, texture mapping, GStreamer integration, Ray-tracing, Radiosity, and more.
Home PAge: http://www.moonlight3d.com/
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Software Name:GIMP
Distro:Any Distross
Purpose: Image Editing
Extra Info: GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
Home Page: GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program (http://www.gimp.org/)
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Software Name Openquicktime
Distro:Any Distross
Purpose:Media Player
Extra Info:OpenQuicktime aims to be a portable library for handling Apples QuickTime popular media files on Unix-like environments. It is aim is to provide encoding, authoring and editing support as well as video playback.
Home Page: OpenQuicktime - a new Quicktime Library (http://www.openquicktime.org/)
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Software Name:XviD
Distro:Any Distros
Purpose:Media Player for XVID files
Extra Info:XviD is a high-quality ISO MPEG-4 compliant video codec.
Home Page:Xvid.org: Home of the Xvid Codec (http://www.xvid.org/)
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Software Name: SIM (Simple Instant Messenger)
Distro: Any Distross
Purpose: Online Chat
Extra Info: An instant messagner used for online chatting...
Home Page: Please wait... (http://sim-icq.sourceforge.net/)
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Software Name: Netscape 7.2
Distro: Any Distros
Purpose: Web Browsing
Extra Info:In addition to high-speed browsing and instant-messaging capabilities, Netscape features one-click searching from the address bar; Quick Launch, which reduces the browser start-up time; Click-to-Search, which allows users to select a word within a Web page and search; improved instant messaging, including support for buddy icons, file transfers, and buddy alerts; and tabbed browsing, which allows users to view multiple Web pages in a single browser window. Netscape 7.2 offers improved pop-up blocking and enhanced security. New features include extended address-bar searching, enhanced tabbed browsing, improved downloading, and new printing options.
Home Page:Home Page » Netscape.com (http://home.netscape.com/)
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Software Name:aMSN
Distro: Any Distros
Purpose: Online Chatting
Extra Info: A MSN Messenger clone for Linux.
Home Page; Alvaro's Messenger (http://amsn.sourceforge.net/)
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Software Name: Salamander
Distro: Any Distros
Purpose: Web Browsing
Extra Info: Salamander is a web browser for Linux (and possibly Unix) written in C,that uses the Gnome2/GTK2 libraries.It also uses the Mozilla engine Gecko for compatibilty issues with the internet standards.
Home Page:
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Software Name: libdvdcss
Distro: ANy Distros
Purpose: DVD Player
Extra Info: libdvdread provides a simple foundation for reading DVD video disks. It provides the functionality that is required to access many DVDs. It parses IFO files, reads NAV-blocks, and performs CSS authentication and descrambling.
Home Page: VideoLAN developers - libdvdcss (http://developers.videolan.org/libdvdcss/index.html)
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Software Name:Gaim
Distro: Any distros mainly comes pre-installed
Purpose:Instant Messaging
Extra Info: Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messaging client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. It is compatible with AIM (Oscar and TOC protocols), ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, and Zephyr networks. Gaim users can log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on AOL Instant Messenger, talking to a friend on Yahoo Messenger, and sitting in an IRC channel all at the same time.
Home Page: News - Pidgin (http://gaim.sourceforge.net/)
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Software Name: Yahoo! Messenger for Unix
Distro: Unix.
Purpose: Instant Messaging
Extra Info: Yahoo! Messenger for Unix.
Home Page: Unix Version - Yahoo! Messenger (http://messenger.yahoo.com/messenger/download/unix.html)
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Software Name: linphone
Distro:: Any Distross
Purpose:: PC to PC call
Extra Info: Linphone allows you to make two-party phone calls using an IP network. Easy to use, it has a gnome graphical interface. As it uses a very minimal implementation of the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) in order to establish the call, it MAY work with other sip-phones. RTP is used to transport voice over IP.
Home Page:Bienvenue - Linphone, an open-source sip video-phone for linux and windows (http://www.linphone.org/)
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Software Name:Kmess
Distro: KDE Distross
Purpose: Instant Messaging
Extra Info: MSN Messanger for KDE.
Home Page:KMess, MSN Messenger for Linux - Home (http://kmess.sourceforge.net/)
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Software Name: libbeep
Distro: Any Linux Distros
Purpose: Music Player.
Extra Info: A way to get music from your PC beeper in any Linux program.
Home Page: Index of /~raine/pub/software/beeper (http://www.infa.abo.fi/%7Eraine/pub/software/beeper/)
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Software Name:Gzilla
Distro: Any Distros
Purpose: Web Browsing
Extra Info: Gzilla is a Web browser written in the Gtk+ framework.
Home Page: Gzilla (http://www.levien.com/gzilla/)
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Will be updating more .. So enjoy Linux and say good bye to Windows..

Always remember: The PC say Install Windows or better so every time 1 must install linux as Linux is better than Windows :lolflag:

Note: If a software is posted 2 or more times plz tell/inform so that I may correct it. Some would have been added already so plz do not mind :guitar:

Regards

[TheWiseNoob]

I'll be updating the list again soon and posting a thread with a link to a wiki. Keeps suggesting programs.

[wersdaluv]

The great file managers, Dolphin and PCManFM, should be here too.

[Dark Star]

The great file managers, Dolphin and PCManFM, should be here too.
2nd that I love Pac man FM awesome :D

[sacherjj]

I love Scribes. It is a text editor with highlighting and suggestions, great for writing code. It is in the process of getting added to the repositories, but a .deb package is available from getdeb.

[Iarwain ben-adar]

Bookmarked ^^

Thx for the list


Iarwain

[Foxmike]

What about Digikam (awsome photo manager), and k9copy (great counterpart of DVDShrink)?

[porkrind]

You can find a doc on HowtoForge here: http://www.howtoforge.com/hyperic_hq_on_ubuntu704

This list seems mostly focused on desktop apps. Thought it might be nice to throw a bone to sysadmins, too :@)

-John Mark

[awakatanka]

Digikam http://www.digikam.org/
Super karamba
Googledesktop search http://desktop.google.com/linux/
Wengophone http://www.openwengo.org/
Krita http://www.koffice.org/krita/

Need to be in, but thats my opninion, think some are beter then what is already in.

[fenderocker]

I think that VLC should be higher up on the list than it is now... Not having to download codecs is really helpful.

Great list!

[RAV TUX]

KSudoku
SolarWolf

[ThinkBuntu]

SPE - Stan's Python Editor

[therrmann]

Xfig is an absolute necessity for my work. I'm a college physics teacher, and I must have by now over a thousand .eps files (as well as .png, etc) made with xfig. If you use LaTeX, it's necessary to have an easy-to-use and rock-solid app for making figures.

[urukrama]

If you want a terrific file manager, go for krusader. There is no better graphical dual pane file manager for Linux.

[jkozura]

Webmin.
I have been using Webmin on practically every Linux system I use since I found it in an old version of Caldera back in 2000 after seeing something written about it in a Novell magazine.

[Anzan]

Thanks. I found Amaya through this list and it looks very promising.

[rabid9797]

forgot opera

[RomeReactor]

I second Mplayer (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html); Dark Star already suggested it. As for installing Alien Arena through Synaptic, I don't know of any repository that carries it. To install it, you either download it from their site or download the .deb files on GetDeb (http://www.getdeb.net/app.php?name=Alien+Arena+2007).

And for people still suggesting Opera--as good as it is, it's proprietary (http://www.opera.com/support/new2opera/buy/license/index.dml), not open source.

[sda5150]

I think for audio apps, the following needs to be added:

Ardour
LMMS

:guitar:

[Sam Lars]

Hugin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugin_(software)) for making panoramas.
Mousepad (http://www.xfce.org/projects/mousepad/) is a much more lightweight text editor. Even though it's for Xfce, it works great in Gnome.
Swiftfox (http://www.getswiftfox.com/) is just optimized Firefox, if you feel that it would fit in the list.
SoundConverter (http://soundconverter.berlios.de/) for converting audio files.
Gtick (http://www.antcom.de/gtick/) is a good metronome.
EasyTAG (http://easytag.sourceforge.net/) is a great audio file tagging application.
Gtk-Gnutella (http://gtk-gnutella.sourceforge.net/en/?page=news) for file sharing.
Firestarter (http://www.fs-security.com/) for managing the firewall.

If any of these have already been mentioned/rejected, apologies.

[Slychilde]

Opera is closed-source or I would agree with you. Epiphany is quick, although I wouldn't use it as a sole webrowser.

+1 for Qalculate and Agave and Mirage.

[Bothered]

OpenSSH (server) - Secure command line remote access
FreeNX - Secure desktop remote access
htop - top with added functionality
qemu - Virtualisation software
GHex - Binary file editor
GRAMPS - Geoeology database program (family tree generator)

Sorry if these have been listed already :-)

[ineedaname]

I believe one of the repositories listed for avant-window-navigator was changed today, and no longer has its checksum:



Could not download all repository indexes

The repository might be no longer available or could not be contacted because of network problems. If available an older version of the failed index will be used. Otherwise the repository will be ignored. Check your network connection and the correct writing of the repository address in the preferences.

http://download.tuxfamily.org/syzygy42/dists/feisty/Release: No MD5Sum entry in Release file /var/lib/apt/lists/download.tuxfamily.org_syzygy42_dists_feisty_Relea se

[soxs]

Swiftweasl should be added, it's a opensource full gpl, architecture optimized firefox and does not include any compiled in proprietary code as Firefox does.

[M$LOL]

Emesene (http://emesene.org) should be added imo.

[Tom Mann]

Ardour and LMMS please! (via Ubuntustudio)

[molom]

Kompozer (Web authorer), Spicebird and freemind (Brainstorming app) are good open source apps.

[soxs]

2 math programs for plotting, solving equations:
qtiplot http://soft.proindependent.com/qtiplot.html
qualculate
3D Moddeling Misfit Model 3D http://www.misfitcode.com/
Game: WorldOfPadman http://worldofpadman.com/

[riger99]

There's a pretty cool new list here: http://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/top-100-of-the-best-useful-opensource-applications/
:)

[bgs100]

Atanks

[-grubby]

Awesome list, but you should fix those yellow fonts. Thanks :D

[CJ Master]

Good list, but I can't belive Teeworlds isn't on there >.>

[wfp]

Thank you for putting the time and effort to make this list for the community. Did not know about akregator, so i just installed it, and love the easy layout, and easy way to configure it. Thanks

[halovivek]

Thanks for posting i will try some.:lolflag:

[tyk]

In games, Foo-billiard is really cool. And scribus imports virtually anything, AFAIK.
tyk.

[Neural oD]

thanks - know most of them - quick browse - but looks like there are others i need to investigate

[abhilashm86]

good list of apps,
htop- a terminal viewing and editing system progress
along with irssi needs to be added

[NayC]

Good work, for people reading the comments, Warsow should be in the games list!

[munishvit]

Great work...BUMP:P

[nstorrs]

I would like to toss Gnome-Do on top of the pile. I can't seem to use my computer without it anymore.

[.Maleficus.]

abcde needs to be on there. Simply the best audio ripper for Linux. It rips to your specified format, searches CDDB for ID3 tags, is highly configurable and is lightweight.

[chris4585]

Music and Video Players

add > Quodlibet

[wcutrombonekid]

does anyone know if there is any kind of music composition program around that is open source? I'm very new to ubuntu, only had it on my computer now for a month or so and was wondering if there is anything that is comparative or at least similar to garage band or finale? I've searched on here several times and searched tirelessly through the interwebs and have found nothing. This would be a very usful thing to have since i am a musician.

[Arathorn]

Take a look at this site (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/PackageList). It's meant for Ubuntu spin-off Ubuntu Studio, but all those programs are available in standard Ubuntu as well. I'm don't know specificly what you're searching for, but I hope the description of the packages give enough information.

I'd like to add Warzone2100 to the list. It's a great 3D RTS that's still in heavy development.

[xx58]

:rolleyes: Just Great. Very helpful.

[Gatemaze]

My two cents:

Unless you are running some very old version of ubuntu:

+Brasero replace Gnomebaker
+Transmission on torrent clients
+Opera should be more popular than Epiphany (and who uses konqueror as a webbrowser)
+Konqueror and Dolphin as file browsers maybe. Although you should maybe write in parentheses whether they are Gnome/KDE/XFCE. It's not really useful to have nautilus, dolphin and thunar all together.
+I can't even believe that mplayer is not on the list.
+Easytag for editing mp3 tags
+Checkgmail maybe
+Gnucash for keeping financial records
+Kparted instead of Gparted if you are a KDE user
+Gpaint instead of kolorpaint if you are a gnome user
+Grip for ripping cds to mp3s
+Sound Converter (there is also an equivalent for KDE) for converting different types of music files
+gtkpod for interaction with an ipod.
+Firestarter manager of firewall
+Abiword, Gnumeric can be summed up by the Gnome office. There is also a KDE office. Both are redundant since pretty much everyone uses OpenOffice nowadays.
+I don't think python 2.5 can be classified as an IDE.
+I think that the sound/video editors and disc burning utilities is quite poor...
+I think games should be left out... there can be quite a long list... Beyond the red line is another awesome game.

In general this is a good summary of useful programs... However, there should be some kind of distintion between the different desktop environments and they should count as one application since you will only need one. For example gnome users will use nautilus, kde users dolphin and xfce thunar... using nautilus in kde is just not efficient.

[treesurf]

I would like to toss Gnome-Do on top of the pile. I can't seem to use my computer without it anymore.

+1. Gnome-Do definitely belongs on the list.

[rookcifer]

Just me or is this a bit biased towards GNOME apps?

Yep. The fact he/she put F-Spot on the list and forgot about the superior digiKam is proof. And let's not forget about K9Copy. Far better than any other DVD ripping tool.

[k2t0f12d]

ushare (http://ushare.geexbox.org/) is an easy to use multimedia server

[conorsulli]

1)
Google Chrome: available in an easy deb from google now, its still classed unstable but runs very well.

2)
Universal Applets: The new and improved Screenlet widgets.

3)
Google Gadgets: a sidebar & widgets, its available in qt and gtk.

Mplayer: handles pretty much any video file, with many frontends! such as gnome-mplayer,and my favorite "smplayer" etc...
Shocked to be honest it aint on the list yet!! It definitely deserves a spot!

SMplayer : bringing mplayer with a qt frontend and theming ability!.

[CJ Master]

A bit of a warning, this topic was necromanced so the first post has some out-of-date installation instructions. Especially Compiz.

[medya]

among all the posts above, nobody mentined a Download Manager for linux, may be there is no good Dowload accelator .
pl
- D4x looks terreble and buggy and you can hardly finish a download using it .
- axel is wost application ever it was like designed 20 years ago . and noone works on it.
- Kget works fine (still no good compared to windows' Download Accelerator Plus (DAP))but it is for kde.
- Wget is stupid and buggy. and not as good as Kget.

[soad6]

You should list DeVeDe for making movies, from AVI files.. it does an awesome job.

[uRock]

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