Awesome Ubuntu/Linux

🐧 This repo is a collection of AWESOME Ubuntu/Linux applications and tools for any users/developers.
🐧 Feel free to contribute / star / fork / pull request . Any recommendations and suggestions are welcomed.

Table of Contents

• Applications
  • Audio
  • Chat Clients
  • Data Backup and Recovery
  • Desktop Customization
  • Desktop Environments
  • Development
  • E-Book Utilities
  • Editors
  • Email Utilities
  • File Manager
  • Games
  • Graphics
  • Internet
  • Productivity
  • Security
  • Sharing Files
  • Terminal
  • Utilities
  • Video
  • Others
• Command Line Utilities
• Setup
• Miscellaneous
• Discussion Forums
  • Ubuntu
  • IRC channels
  • Linux News, Apps, and more ....
  • Reddit
• Learn Linux
• Contributors
• Guideline to Contribute

Applications

Audio

• Airtime - Airtime is the open broadcast software for scheduling and remote station management
• Ardour - Record, Edit, and Mix on Linux
• Audacious - An open source audio player, plays your music how you want it, without stealing away your computer’s resources from other tasks.
• Audacity - Free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds.
• Clementine - Play numerous lossy and lossless audio formats.
• Hydrogen - Advanced drum machine for GNU/Linux.
• KxStudio - KXStudio is a collection of applications and plugins for professional audio production.'
• K3b - K3b - The CD/DVD Kreator for Linux - optimized for KDE.
• Let's make music - Making music on your PC by creating melodies and beats, synthesizing and mixing sounds, arranging samples and much more.
• Mixxx - Free DJ software that gives you everything you need to perform live mixes, veritable alternative to Traktor.
• SoundJuicer - CD Ripping tool for GNOME

Chat Clients

• GhettoSkype - open source web wrapper for Skype.
• HexChat - HexChat is an IRC client based on XChat, but unlike XChat it’s completely free for both Windows and Unix-like system.
• Messenger for Desktop - An app for Facebook messenger.
• Pidgin - A universal chat client.
• ScudCloud - A Slack-client for linux.
• Skype - Skype keeps the world talking, for free.
• Telegram - A messaging app with a focus on speed and security, it’s super fast, simple and free.
• Viber -Viber for Linux lets you send free messages and make free calls to other Viber users on any device and network, in any country
• Whatsie - Whatsapp unofficial client for ubuntu/linux.

Data Backup and Recovery

• Borg Backup - A nice tool to backup data.
• System Rescue CD - SystemRescueCd is a Linux system rescue disk available as a bootable CD-ROM or USB stick for administrating or repairing your system and data after a crash.
• Test Disk - TestDisk is powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software.
• Photorec - PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from hard disks, CD-ROMs, and lost pictures (thus the Photo Recovery name) from digital camera memory.

Desktop customization

• Compiz Config settings manager - The OpenCompositing Project brings 3D desktop visual effects that improve usability of the X Window System and provide increased productivity.
• Flatabulous Arc Theme - My favourite theme for ubuntu.
• Gnome Extensions - Extensions for the Gnome Desktop Environment.
• Numix Icon Theme - One of the best icon theme for ubuntu linux.
• Numix Theme -
• Unity Tweak Tool - Must-have app for ubuntu unity customization.

Desktop Environments

• Gnome - The Gnome desktop environment.
• KDE - KDE Desktop Environment.
• Mate - The MATE Desktop Environment is the continuation of GNOME 2. It provides an intuitive and attractive desktop environment using traditional metaphors for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.
• Unity - Unity Desktop Environment.
• Xfce - Xfce Desktop Environment.

Development

• Android studio -The Official IDE for Android : Android Studio provides the fastest tools for building apps on every type of Android device.
• Atom - Hackable text editor for the 21st century.
• Arduino IDE - The open-source Arduino Software (IDE) makes it easy to write code and upload it to the board.
• Code::Blocks - Code::Blocks is a free C, C++ and Fortran IDE built to meet the most demanding needs of its users. It is designed to be very extensible and fully configurable.
• Codelite - A Free, open source, cross platform C,C++,PHP and Node.js IDE.
• Eclipse Eclipse is famous for our Java Integrated Development Environment (IDE), but our C/C++ IDE and PHP IDE are pretty cool too
• Geany - Geany is a text editor using the GTK+ toolkit with basic features of an integrated development environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages.
• Git - Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
• IntelliJ IDEA - Powerful IDE for JAVA
• KDevelop - It is a free, open source IDE, feature-full, plugin extensible IDE for C/C++ and other programming languages.
• Komodo Edit - Free and open source multilanguage development environment.
• Lighttable - the next generation code editor! Support live coding.
• MariaDB - One of the most popular database servers. Made by the original developers of MySQL.
• MonoDevelop - Cross platform IDE for C#, F# and more.
• Nemiver - Nemiver is a project to write a standalone graphical debugger that integrates well in the GNOME desktop environment.
• NodeJS - Node.js® is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine.
• Oh-my-zsh A delightful community-driven framework for managing your zsh configuration.
• PyCharm - Powerful IDE for Python
• Postgresql - PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system.
• Postman - Postman, help us test API quickly.
• QT Creator Fully-stocked cross-platform integrated development environment for easy creation of connected devices, UIs and applications.
• Rabbit VCS RabbitVCS is a set of graphical tools written to provide simple and straightforward access to the version control systems you use.
• Sublime - One of the best text editor of all time.
• Swift - Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns.
• Ubuntu-SDK - The official Ubuntu SDK.
• VSCode - Visual Studio Code is a lightweight but powerful source code editor which runs on your desktop and is available for Windows, OS X and Linux. It comes with built-in support for JavaScript, TypeScript and Node.js and has a rich ecosystem of extensions for other languages (C++, C#, Python, PHP) and runtimes.
• Zsh - A powerful command line shell.

E-Book Utilities

• Calibre - Incredibly ugly but powerful software for ebook management and conversion.
• Evince - Evince is a document viewer for multiple document formats. The goal of evince is to replace the multiple document viewers that exist on the GNOME Desktop with a single simple application.
• Foxit - Foxit Reader 8.0—Award-winning PDF Reader.
• FBReader - One of the most popular eReader apps.
• Lucidor - Lucidor is a computer program for reading and handling e-books. Lucidor supports e-books in the EPUB file format, and catalogs in the OPDS format.
• Okular - Okular is a universal document viewer based developed by KDE. Okular works on multiple platforms, including but not limited to Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, *BSD, etc.
• Sigil - Sigil is a multi-platform EPUB ebook editor.

Editors

• Atom - Hackable text editor for the 21st century.
• Bluefish - Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdevelopers, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code.
• Brackets - A modern text editor that understands web design.
• Emacs - An extensible, customizable, free/libre text editor — and more.
• Geany - Geany is a text editor using the GTK+ toolkit with basic features of an integrated development environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages.
• Gedit -gedit is the GNOME text editor. While aiming at simplicity and ease of use, gedit is a powerful general purpose text editor.
• Kate - Kate is a multi-document editor part of KDE since release 2.2.
• Lighttable -the next generation code editor! Support live coding.
• Sublime - One of the best text editor of all time.
• VSCode - Visual Studio Code is a lightweight but powerful source code editor which runs on your desktop and is available for Windows, OS X and Linux. It comes with built-in support for JavaScript, TypeScript and Node.js and has a rich ecosystem of extensions for other languages (C++, C#, Python, PHP) and runtimes.
• Vim -Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. It's useful whether you're already using vi or using a different editor.

Email

• Evolution - Evolution is a personal information management application that provides integrated mail, calendaring and address book functionality.
• Geary - Geary is an email application built for GNOME 3. It allows you to read and send email with a simple, modern interface.
• Thunderbird - Thunderbird is a free email application that’s easy to set up and customize and it’s loaded with great features.
• Wmail - Gmail & Google Inbox unofficial desktop client for linux

File Manager

• 7Zip - Unzip any zip files
• AngrySearch - Linux file search, instant results as you type.
• Double Commander - Double Commander is a cross platform open source file manager with two panels side by side. It is inspired by Total Commander and features some new ideas.
• Marlin - The sexiest fish in the large sea of file managers, Marlin is well-designed with a focus on speed, simplicity, ease of use.
• Nautilus - Nautilus (Files) is a file manager designed to fit the Gnome desktop design and behaviour, giving the user a simple way to navigate and manage its files.
• Nemo - Nemo is the file manager for the Cinnamon desktop environment.
• Ranger - Ranger is a console file manager with VI key bindings.
• Synapse - Best application launcher on linux.

Games

• Civilization5 - Sid Meier’s Civilization® is recognized as one of the greatest strategy franchises of all-time.
• Cockatrice - Cockatrice is an open-source multiplatform supported program for playing tabletop card games over a network.
• Minecraft - Minecraft is a game about placing blocks and going on adventures. Explore randomly generated worlds and build amazing things from the simplest of homes to the grandest of castles.
• PlayOnLinux - Play Windows Game on Linux.
• Steam - Awesome Gaming platform, which open the gates to many games.
• Wine - Wine (originally an acronym for "Wine Is Not an Emulator") is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux, Mac OSX, & BSD
• Xonotic - Arena shooter inspired by Unreal Tournament and Quake.

Graphics

• Aftershot - A powerful alternative to Adobe Photoshop!
• Agave - Agave is a very simple application for the GNOME desktop that allows you to generate a variety of colorschemes from a single starting color
• Blender - a free and open source complete 3D creation pipeline for artists and small teams.
• Cinepaint - Open source deep paint software
• Darktable - darktable is an open source photography workflow application and RAW developer
• Digikam - digiKam is an advanced digital photo management application for Linux
• Fotoxx - Fotoxx is a free open source Linux program for image editing and collection management.
• GIMP - GIMP is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring
• Hugin - an easy to use cross-platform panoramic imaging toolchain based on Panorama Tools.
• Inkscape - A powerful, free design tool for you , whether you are an illustrator, designer, web designer or just someone who needs to create some vector imagery
• Krita - Open Source Software for Concept Artists, Digital Painters, and Illustrators
• Luminance HDR - Luminance HDR is an open source graphical user interface application that aims to provide a workflow for HDR imaging.
• OpenShot - OpenShot is a free, simple-to-use, feature-rich video editor for Linux.
• Pinta - Pinta is a free, open source program for drawing and image editing.
• Pitivi - A free video editor with a beautiful and intuitive user interface, a clean codebase and a fantastic community.
• Radiance - Radiance - A Validated Lighting Simulation Tool
• RawTherapee - A good looking but lesser known photo editing app.
• Shotwell - Shotwell is a photo manager for GNOME 3.
• StopMotion - Linux Stopmotion is a Free Open Source application to create stop-motion animations. It helps you capture and edit the frames of your animation and export them as a single file.
• Xara Extreme - Xara Xtreme for Linux is a powerful, general purpose graphics program for Unix platforms including Linux, FreeBSD

Internet

• Brave - Brave is a fast, good desktop browser for macOS, Windows, and Linux.
• Chrome - A popular Web Browsers with a lot of plugins/apps.
• Chromium - Chromium is an open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all users to experience the web.
• Firefox - A popular Web Browsers with a lot of plugins/apps.
• Vivaldi - A new and rising browser with a lot of customizations.

Productivity

• Ambient Noise - Install ambient noise for extra focus on Linux
• Autokey - A desktop automation utility for Linux allows you to manage collection of scripts and phrases, and assign abbreviations and hotkeys to these.
• Brightness - Brightness indicator for ubuntu.
• SpeedCrunch - A nice, opensouce, high-precision scientific calculator.
• California - Complete Calendar app replacement which uses natural language for creating events.
• Caligra Office - offers a comprehensive set of 8 applications which satisfies the office, graphics and management needs.
• CopyQ -CopyQ is advanced clipboard manager with editing and scripting features.
• f.lux - Automatically adjust your computer screen to match lighting.
• Gnome-dictionary - A powerful
• Go For It - Go For It! is a simple and stylish productivity app, featuring a to-do list, merged with a timer that keeps your focus on the current task.
• Libre Office - Best office bundle for linux.
• My Weather Indicator - Weather indicator and widget for ubuntu.
• Plank - Plank is meant to be the simplest dock of apps on the planet.
• Pomodone App - PomoDoneApp is the easiest way to track your workflow using Pomodoro technique®, on top of your current task management service.
• Recent Noti - An indicator for recent notification.
• Redshift - Redshift adjusts the color temperature of your screen according to your surroundings. This may help your eyes hurt less if you are working in front of the screen at night.
• Shutter - Shutter is a feature-rich screenshot program for Linux based operating systems such as Ubuntu.
• Simplenote - Cross platform notetaking app. Evernote competitor.
• Springseed - Simple and beautiful note taking app for daily user.
• Stickynote - Sticky note on desktop of linux.
• Todo.txt - todo.txt-focused editors which help you manage your tasks with as few keystrokes and taps possible.
• Todoist - Unofficial client of Todoist, the Cross-platform to-do manager with mobile apps, great UI and has some optional premium features.
• Undistract me - Notifies you when long-running terminal commands complete.
• Xmind - Mind Mapping Tool.
• WPS office - One of the best office app bundle for linux.

Security

• ClamAV - Clam Anti Virus
• GnuPG - Gnu Privacy Guard
• OpenSSH - OpenSSH Secure Shell Server and Client
• Seahorse - Gnome frontend for GnuPG
• Tcpdump - TCP Debugging/Capture Tool

Sharing Files

• CrossFTP - CrossFTP makes it extremely simple to manage the FTP related tasks.
• D-lan - A free LAN file sharing software.
• Deluge - Deluge is a lightweight, Free Software, cross-platform BitTorrent client.
• Dropbox - Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily.
• Meiga - a tool that makes possible to share selected local directories via web.
• ownCloud - The goal of ownCloud is to give you access to your files wherever you are
• Quazaa - A cross platform multi-network peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing client.
• PushBullet - Pushbullet connects your devices, making them feel like one.
• qBittorent - The qBittorrent project aims to provide a Free Software alternative to µTorrent.
• SpiderOak - Real-time collaboration for teams and businesses that care about privacy
• Syncthing - Syncthing replaces proprietary sync and cloud services with something open, trustworthy and decentralized.
• Teamviewer - PC remote control/remote access software, free for personal use.
• Transmission - Simple, lightweight, multi-platform torrent client.

Terminal

• GnomeTerminal - A widely preinstalled terminal emulator in linux world
• Guake - Guake is a top-down terminal for Gnome
• Konsole - Best terminal for KDE dekstop environment.
• RXVT - A terminal emulator for X11, a popular replacement for the standard ‘xterm’.
• Terminator - it’s quite clear that the most powerful terminal emulator on Linux is the feature-filled Terminator.
• Xterm - The xterm program is a terminal emulator for the X Window System. It provides DEC VT102 and Tektronix 4014 compatible terminals for programs that can't use the window system directly.

Utilities

• Actionaz - Automation tasks utility for ubuntu/Linux
• Bleach bit -BleachBit quickly frees disk space and tirelessly guards your privacy. Free cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, shred temporary files, delete logs, and more ...
• Brasero - CD/DVD burner.
• Caffeine - Prevents ubuntu from automatically going to sleep.
• EasyStroke - Easystroke is a gesture-recognition application for X11.
• Enpass - Enpass makes your life easy by securely managing your passwords and important information.
• Convertall - Convert all units.
• GD map - A tool to visualize disk usage.
• Gnormalize - Audio converter.
• GParted - Disk Partition utility for ubuntu/linux.
• GRadio - Radio software for ubuntu linux.
• Handbrake - Video converter.
• KeePass - Windows focused password manager, with some cross platform support through Mono.
• KeePassX - Cross platform password manager. Port of KeePass.
• ImageMagik - ImageMagick is a suite of command-line utilities for modifying and working with images.
• LastPass - Cross platform password
• Powertop - Diagnose issue with powerconsumption.
• Pulse Audio - Improve Linux Audio with customized Profiles.
• Peazip - Utility to unzip any zipped files
• Remarkable - Best Markdown editor in Ubuntu/Linux.
• Remmina - A FEATURE RICH REMOTE DESKTOP APPLICATION FOR LINUX AND OTHER UNIXES.
• Systemload - Show systemload in status bar.
• Synaptic - Synaptic is a graphical package management program for apt.
• TLP - Optimize Linux battery.
• Variety - Variety is an open-source wallpaper changer for Linux, packed with great features, yet slim and easy to use.
• Virtualbox - VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware, targeted at server, desktop and embedded use.
• WallpaperChange - Automatically change your wallpaper.

Video

• Bomi Player - A powerful and easy-to-use multimedia player.
• Kodi - An award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media center for playing videos, music, pictures, games, and more.
• MPlayer - MPlayer is a movie player which runs on many systems, play any kind of videos.
• MPV - A free, open source, and cross-platform media player.
• SMPlayer - Free Media Player with built-in codecs. Play all audio and video formats.
• SVP - SVP allows you to watch any video on your desktop computer using frame interpolation as it is available on high-end TVs and projectors.
• VLC - VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

Others

To be added later

Command Line Utilities

• Fishfry - replaces fish history with a history tailored to pentesters for efficency and newbie pentesters for learning.
• Tmux - It lets you switch easily between several programs in one terminal, detach them (they keep running in the background) and reattach them to a different terminal. And do a lot more.
• Top 10 command line tools

Setup

Ubuntu

• What is Linux
• Basic Linux term
• What is Ubuntu
• How to install Ubuntu
• How to dual-boot Ubuntu with Windows
• What to do after installing ubuntu

Other distros

To be added later

Discussion Forums

Ubuntu

• Ubuntu Forum
• Ask Ubuntu

IRC channels

• #ubuntu

Linux News, Apps, and more ....

• OMG!Ubuntu
• ITSFOSS
• Linux official
• Webupd8
• Noobslab
• Make use of
• TecMint

Reddit

• Ubuntu
• Linux
• Open Source
• Unix Porn
• Linux Kernel

Learn Linux

• Learn Linux Command
• Learn Linux
• Linux Course

Contributors

List of contributors :

1. Me (LuongVo)
2. anewuser
3. nathanmusoke
4. bpearson
5. orestisf1993
6. lasseborly
7. sebasspf
8. Everyone @ reddit.com/r/linux & reddit.com/r/ubuntu for many suggestions and compliments ...

(The list above is updated on 8th July 2016)

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Guideline to contribute

Simeply put the name of the application in the list. Link to its homepage or a guide on how to install it.
Also write a short description for the application + add icon. Make sure it is put under the appropriate topic. If the application doesnt fit in any existing topic, make a new one for it. Ensure everything is alphabetically sorted.

Items marked with are open-source software and link to the source code. Items marked with are free (as in free beer).

## License

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