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超赞的 Linux 软件
🐧 这个仓库收集了对任何用户/开发者都超赞的 Linux 应用软件。
🐧 请随意 contribute / star / fork / pull request。欢迎一切推荐和建议。
更新:最近我收到了一些关于列表中一些应用软件的质量的反馈。我自己测试了其中的大部分应用(但不是全部)。如果你对应用有任何问题:-> 去往开发页面(如果有的话)-> 给开发提个 issue -> 在这里提个 issue 以便我考虑是否将应用移出列表。记住:所有东西都有它自己的质量,所以这里永远不会有“最佳应用”或“选择性的列表”,谢谢。
目录
应用
音频
- Airtime - Airtime 是一款用于调度和远程站点管理的开放广播软件
- Ardour - 在 Linux 上录音,编辑,和混音
- Audacious - 开源音频播放器,按你想要的方式播放你的音乐,不占用你其它任务的电脑资源。
- Audacity - 免费,开源,跨平台的声音录制、编辑软件。
- Audio Recorder - 简单的声音录制软件,就在 ubuntu ppa。
- Clementine - 播放无数的有损和无损音频格式。
- Google Play Music - 非官方但很漂亮的跨平台 Google Play Music 桌面客户端。
- Hydrogen - GNU/Linux 上的高级电子鼓。
- KxStudio - KXStudio 是专业声音创作应用和插件的集合。
- K3b - K3b - Linux 上的 CD/DVD 创建工具 - 为 KDE 特别优化。
- Kid3Qt - 编辑多媒体文件的标签,如一个专辑所有 mp3 文件的艺术家,专辑,年代,流派。
- Let's make music - 在你的 PC 上制作音乐,创造旋律和节拍,合成,混音,编曲小样以及更多内容。
- Mixxx - 免费的 DJ 软件,给你一切现场混音所需要的,名副其实的 Traktor 替代品。
- SoundJuicer - CD 抓取工具,for GNOME
- Tomahawk - 一种新的音乐播放器,集合你所有的流媒体,下载,音乐云存储,播放列表,电台等。
聊天客户端
- GhettoSkype - Skype 的开源 web 封装。
- HexChat - HexChat 是一款基于 XChat 的 IRC 客户端,但和 XChat 不一样的是它对 Windows 和 Unix-like 系统都是完全自由的。
- Messenger for Desktop - Facebook messenger 应用。
- Pidgin - 一款通用聊天客户端。
- ScudCloud - 一款 Linux 下的 Slack 客户端。
- Skype - Skype 让世界保持沟通,免费的。
- Telegram - 一款专注于速度和安全的消息应用,它非常快,简单而且免费。
- Viber - Viber for Linux 让你在任何设备,网络和国家给其他 Viber 用户免费发送消息和通话。
- Weechat - WeeChat 是一款快速,轻量级,可扩展的聊天客户端。
- Whatsie - Whatsapp ubuntu/linux 非官方客户端。
数据备份与恢复
- Borg Backup - 一款不错的的备份工具。
- Photorec - PhotoRec 一款数据恢复应用,为恢复硬盘,CD-ROM 上包括视频,文档以及归档等文件而设计,以及数码相机存储中丢失的相片(Photorec 的由来)。
- Qt4-fsarchiver - qt4-fsarchiver 是 fsarchiver 的图形化界面,能够保存/恢复分区,文件夹和 MBR/GPT 分区。这个程序是基于 Debian 的系统,Suse 以及 Fedora 适用的。
- System Rescue CD - SystemRescueCd 是一款 Linux 系统急救盘,提供可启动的 CD-ROM 或 U 盘,用于管理系统在崩溃后修复系统和数据。
- Test Disk - TestDisk 是一款强大的免费数据恢复软件!它主要设计用于帮助回去丢失的分区和/或修复由软件错误导致的硬盘无法启动引导。
- Timeshift - TimeShift 是一款系统还原工具,它用 rsync 和硬链接创建系统的增量快照。快照可以在一段时间后用于恢复,撤销快照生成以来所做的所有更改。快照可以手动生成或用定时任务自动生成。
桌面个性化
- Arc Theme - 带有透明元素的扁平化主题
- Compiz Config settings manager - The OpenCompositing Project brings 3D desktop visual effects that improve usability of the X Window System and provide increased productivity.
- Conky - Conky 是 X 下一款免费,轻量的系统监视器,可以在你桌面显示任何类型的信息。
- Flatabulous - 一款扁平化主题,适用于 Ubuntu 以及其它基于 Gnome 的 Linux 系统。
- Flatabulous Arc Theme - 我最爱的 ubuntu 主题。
- Irradiance Theme - 一款受 OSX Yosemite 启发的 Unity 主题,基于 Radiance。
- Gnome Extensions - Gnome 桌面环境扩展插件。
- Gnome Look - Large amounts of community created icons, shell themes, fonts, and many more assets that can be used to customize your Gnome desktop environment, all located in one website.Freeware
- Numix Icon Theme - One of the best icon theme for ubuntu linux.
- Numix Theme - A good popular theme.
- Papirus Icon Theme - One of the best icon theme for ubuntu linux.
- Unity Tweak Tool - Must-have app for ubuntu unity customization.
- Yosembiance theme - A modified Ambiance theme (loosely) inspired by OSX Yosemite.
Development
- Android studio -The Official IDE for Android : Android Studio provides the fastest tools for building apps on every type of Android device.
- Aptana - Aptana Studio harnesses the flexibility of Eclipse and focuses it into a powerful web development engine.
- Arduino IDE - The open-source Arduino Software (IDE) makes it easy to write code and upload it to the board.
- BlueJ - A free Java Development Environment designed for beginners, used by millions worldwide.
- 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
- Fritzing - Fritzing is an open-source hardware initiative that makes electronics accessible as a creative material for anyone.
- 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.
- Genymotion - Genymotion is a fast third-party emulator that can be used instead of the default Android emulator.
- 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
- Ipython - Powerful python shell.
- Jupyter Notebook - Open source, interactive data science and scientific computing across over 40 programming languages.
- 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.
- 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.
- Netbeans - NetBeans IDE lets you quickly and easily develop Java desktop, mobile, and web applications, as well as HTML5 applications with HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.
- 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.
- Sqlite Browser - Visually create, manage, and view sqlite database files.
- 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.
- 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.
- MasterPDF editor - Master PDF Editor a convenient and smart PDF editor for Linux.
- MuPDF - a lightweight PDF and XPS viewer.
- 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.
- qpdf - qpdfview is a tabbed document viewer.
- 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.
Education
- BibleTime - BibleTime is a Bible study application based on the Sword library and Qt toolkit.
- Celestia - The free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions.
- Chemtool - Chemtool is a small program for drawing chemical structures on Linux.
- Epoptes - An open source computer lab management and monitoring tool.
- Gcompris - GCompris is a high quality educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10.
- Geogebra - THE GRAPHING CALCULATOR FOR FUNCTIONS, GEOMETRY, ALGEBRA, CALCULUS, STATISTICS AND 3D MATH.
- GNUKhata - Open source accounting software.
- GNU Typist - ncurses-based free-software typing instructor
- Google Earth - Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographical information program.
- GPeriodic - GPeriodic is a periodic table application for Linux.
- ITalc - iTALC is a use- and powerful didactical tool for teachers. It lets you view and control other computers in your network in several ways.
- KDE Edu Suite - Free Educational Software based on the KDE technologies.
- MAPLE - Maple is math software that combines the world's most powerful math engine with an interface that makes it extremely easy to analyze, explore, visualize, and solve mathematical problems.
- MATLAB - The MATLAB platform is optimized for solving engineering and scientific problems. MATLAB helps you take your ideas beyond the desktop. You can run your analyses on larger data sets and scale up to clusters and clouds.
- Maxima - Maxima is a system for the manipulation of symbolic and numerical expressions, including differentiation, integration, Taylor series, Laplace transforms, ordinary differential equations, systems of linear equations, ....
- Moodle - Course management system for online learning.
- OpenEuclid - OpenEuclide is a 2D geometry software: figures are defined dynamically by describing formal geometrical constraints.
- OpenSIS - School management software.
- Scipy - SciPy is a Python-based ecosystem of open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering.
- Scratch - With Scratch, you can program your own interactive stories, games, and animations — and share your creations with others in the online community.
- Stellarium - Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer.
- Tux4Kids - Tux4Kids develops high-quality software for kids, with the goal of combining fun and learning into an irresistable package.
- UGENE - UGENE is free open-source cross-platform integerated GUI-based bioinformatics software.
- 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.
- Mailnag - Mailnag is a daemon program that checks POP3 and IMAP servers for new mail.
- Sylpheed - Lightweight and user-friendly e-mail client. []
- 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.
- QDirStat - Qt-based directory statistics - KDirStat without any KDE, from the original KDirStat author.
- Ranger - Ranger is a console file manager with VI key bindings.
- Synapse - Best application launcher on linux.
- Thunar - Thunar is the file manager designed to be the default file manager of Xfce 4.6 It has been designed to be fast and easy to use.
Games
- 0 A.D - Age of Empires like open source RTS game.
- 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.
- Desura - Desura is a community driven digital distribution service for gamers, putting the best games, mods and downloadable content from developers at gamers fingertips, ready to buy and play.
- GBrainy - Gbrainy is a brain teaser game and trainer to have fun and to keep your brain trained.
- 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.
- Minetest - Open-source Minecraft written in C++ (uses less resources) and includes modding API.
- PlayOnLinux - Play Windows Game on Linux.
- Simutrans - Simutrans is a freeware and open-source transportation simulator.
- Steam - Awesome Gaming platform, which opens the gates to many games.
- SuperTuxCar - SuperTuxKart is a 3D open-source arcade racer with a variety characters, tracks, and modes to play.
- Warzone2100 - Open-source real-time strategy/real-time tactics game.
- 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
- Feh - lightweight and fast image viewer.
- 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.
- Mypaint - Mypaint is a paint program for use with graphics tablets.
- Ojo - A fast and pretty image viewer.
- OpenShot - OpenShot is a free, simple-to-use, feature-rich video editor for Linux.
- Photonic - Phototonic is image viewer and organizer.
- 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
- Anatine - A twitter desktop app with many customizations.
- 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.
- Corebird - corebird is native gtk+ twitter desktop client.
- Firefox - A popular Web Browsers with a lot of plugins/apps.
- Midori - A lightweight free browser that runs well on low spec systems. .
- Tor - Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy.
- Vivaldi - A new and rising browser with a lot of customizations.
- Yandex - Fast and convenient browser.
Office
- Caligra Office - offers a comprehensive set of 8 applications which satisfies the office, graphics and management needs.
- Gummi gtk2|gtk3 - Simple latex editor with templates, spell check, and wizards.
- LibreOffice - Best office bundle for linux.
- LyX - Mature document editor that renders into LaTeX ..
- WPS office - One of the best office app bundle for linux.
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.
- Basket Note Pads - This multi-purpose note-taking application helps you to easily take all sort of notes.
- 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.
- 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 dictionary for GNOME
- 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.
- My Todo - Mytodo is an open source to-do list program that puts you, the user, in command of everything.
- My Weather Indicator - Weather indicator and widget for ubuntu.
- Notes - A clean simple note taking app for linux.
- Notepadqq - Notepadqq is a Notepad++-like editor for the Linux desktop.
- 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.
- Papyrus - Papyrus is a different note manager which is focusing on Security, Better user interface. Papyrus are trying to provide an easy to use and smart user interface for users.
- 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.
- TaskWarrior - Taskwarrior is Free and Open Source Software that manages your TODO list from the command line.
- 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.
- Tomboy - Tomboy is a desktop note-taking application which is simple and easy to use.
- Undistract me - Notifies you when long-running terminal commands complete.
- Xmind - Mind Mapping Tool.
- Zim - A graphical text editor used to maintain a collection of wiki pages, great for notes and documents. Stored in plain text files for easy version control.
Security
- ClamAV - Clam Anti Virus
- GnuPG - Gnu Privacy Guard
- GuFW - One of the easiest firewalls in the world of linux.
- OpenSSH - OpenSSH Secure Shell Server and Client
- Fail2ban - Fail2ban scans log files (e.g. /var/log/apache/error_log) and bans IPs that show the malicious signs -- too many password failures, seeking for exploits, etc.
- 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.
- Filezilla - the free FTP solution
- 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.
- uGet - The best download manager for linux.
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’.
- RXVT-Unicode - rxvt-unicode is a fork of the well known terminal emulator.
- Sakura - Simple but powerful libvte based terminal emulator, supporting utf-8 and input methods as provided by gtk+ and pango libraries.
- Terminator - it’s quite clear that the most powerful terminal emulator on Linux is the feature-filled Terminator.
- Termit - Simple terminal emulator based on vte library, extensible via Lua.
- 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.
- Yakuake - A Quake-style terminal emulator based on KDE Konsole technology.
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.
- Clonezilla - Clonezilla is a partition and disk imaging/cloning program similar to True Image® or Norton Ghost®.
- 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
- Psensor - Graphical hardware temperature monitor for Linux.
- 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.
- Xtreme Download Manager - A good download manager with fresh UI for linux.
- 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
- GrubCustomizer - Grub Customizer is a graphical interface to configure the GRUB2/BURG settings and menuentries.
- Mycroft - A.I. for everyone
Command Line Utilities
- Bastet - Play Tetris in commandline.
- Daily Reddit Wallpaper - Change your wallpaper to the most upvoted image of the day from /r/wallpapers or any other subreddit on system startup.
- Fishfry - replaces fish history with a history tailored to pentesters for efficency and newbie pentesters for learning.
- htop - top with improved features and user experience
- Pacman4console - Play Pacman game in console.
- 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
- wicd-curses - Command line WiFi connection manager.
Desktop Environments
- Budgie - Budgie is a desktop environment designed with the modern user in mind, it focuses on simplicity and elegance.
- Cinammon - Cinnamon strives to provide a traditional user experience. Cinnamon is a fork of GNOME 3.
- Gnome - The GNOME desktop environment is an attractive and intuitive desktop with both a modern (GNOME) and a classic (GNOME Classic) session.
- GNOME Flashback - GNOME Flashback is a shell for GNOME 3 which was initially called GNOME fallback mode. The desktop layout and the underlying technology is similar to GNOME 2.
- KDE Plasma - The KDE Plasma desktop environment is a familiar working environment. Plasma Desktop offers all the tools required for a modern desktop computing experience so you can be productive right from the start.
- LXDE - The Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment is a fast and energy-saving desktop environment.
- LXQt - LXQt is the Qt port and the upcoming version of LXDE, the Lightweight Desktop Environment.
- Mate - Mate provides an intuitive and attractive desktop to Linux users using traditional metaphors. MATE is a fork of GNOME 2.
- Pantheon - Pantheon is the default desktop environment originally created for the elementary OS distribution.
- Unity - Unity is a shell for GNOME designed by Canonical for Ubuntu.
- Xfce - Xfce embodies the traditional UNIX philosophy of modularity and re-usability.
Display manager
Console
- CDM - Ultra-minimalistic, yet full-featured login manager written in Bash.
- Console TDM - Extension for xinit written in pure Bash.
- nodm - Minimalistic display manager for automatic logins.
Graphic
- Entrance - An EFL based display manager, highly experimental.
- GDM - GNOME display manager.
- KDM - KDE4 display manager (discontinued).
- LightDM - Cross-desktop display manager, can use various front-ends written in any toolkit.
- LXDM - LXDE display manager. Can be used independent of the LXDE desktop environment.
- MDM - MDM display manager, used in Linux Mint, a fork of GDM 2.
- SDDM - QML-based display manager and successor to KDE4's kdm; recommended for Plasma 5 and LXQt.
- SLiM - Lightweight and elegant graphical login solution. (discontinued)
- XDM - X display manager with support for XDMCP, host chooser.
Window Managers
Stacking window managers
- 2bwm - Fast floating WM, with the particularity of having 2 borders, written over the XCB library and derived from mcwm.
- Blackbox - Fast, lightweight window manager for the X Window System, without all those annoying library dependencies.
- Fluxbox - Window manager for X that was based on the Blackbox 0.61.1 code.
- Openbox - Highly configurable, next generation window manager with extensive standards support.
Tiling window managers
- Bspwm - bspwm is a tiling window manager that represents windows as the leaves of a full binary tree.
- Herbstluftwm - Manual tiling window manager for X11 using Xlib and Glib.
Dynamic window managers
- awesome - Highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X.
- dwm - Dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiled, monocle and floating layouts.
- i3 - Tiling window manager, completely written from scratch.
- spectrwm - Small dynamic tiling window manager for X11, largely inspired by xmonad and dwm.
- xmonad - Dynamically tiling X11 window manager that is written and configured in Haskell.
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
IRC channels
Linux News, Apps, and more ....
- OMG!Ubuntu
- ITSFOSS
- Linux official
- Webupd8
- Noobslab
- Make use of
- TecMint
- AllTop
- Unixmen
- DistroWatch
- Phoronix
- Dedoimedo
- How-To Geek
- Liliputing
- FAMILUG
- Ubuntu Geek
Learn Linux
Linux Hacking/Development
- Kernel Newbies
- Linux Insides
- The Linux Kernel
- Linux Kernel Archives (Official Website)
- Linux Kernel Internals (PDF)
- Linux Kernel Mailing List Archive
- Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide (PDF)
Contributors
- Me (LuongVo)
- anewuser
- nathanmusoke
- bpearson
- orestisf1993
- lasseborly
- sebasspf
- buivnhai
- ankurk91
- mAzurkovic
- bocklund
- grebenschikov
- fareez-ahamed
- MichaelAquilina
- Wamadahama
- Alasin
- LYF610400210
- willmtemple for a more correct repo name.
- jakub-olczyk
- shakib609
- talisk
- smdrz
- bishoyh
- Voicu
- ryandaniels
- mame98
- Everyone @ reddit.com/r/linux & reddit.com/r/ubuntu & vozforums.com for many suggestions and compliments ...
(The list above is updated on 14th August 2016)
Guideline to contribute
Simply 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 doesn't 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).
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