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All of them are freesoftware and opensource; most are directly installable with the package manager built into your preferred distribution.\n\nAny comment or suggestion? Cannot you find an application to do something? [Let us know!](https://github.com/madbob/awesome-linux-dev/issues)\n\nInitial contents and hierarchy inspired by the [Awesome Mac list](https://github.com/jaywcjlove/awesome-mac/). More general-purpose applications can be found in the [Awesome Linux Software list](https://github.com/VoLuong/Awesome-Linux-Software). To contribute, [read the specific file](CONTRIBUTING.md).\n\n## Contents\n\n- [Editors and IDE](#editors-and-ide)\n- [Development Tools](#development-tools)\n- [Command Line Tools](#command-line-tools)\n- [Database](#database)\n- [System](#system)\n- [Design and Graphics](#design-and-graphics)\n- [Writing](#writing)\n- [Productivity](#productivity)\n- [File Management](#file-management)\n- [Virtual Machines](#virtual-machines)\n- [Translation Tools](#translation-tools)\n- [Frameworks for Hybrid Apps](#hybrid-apps)\n\n## Editors and IDE\n\n### Editors\n\n* [Pulsar](https://pulsar-edit.dev/) - A community-led hackable text editor (forked from Atom).\n* [Zed](https://zed.dev/) - A minimal code editor crafted for speed and collaboration with humans and AI.\n* [Brackets](http://brackets.io) - A modern, open source text editor that understands web design.\n* [Kate](https://kate-editor.org/) - An advanced editor integrated in the KDE desktop environment.\n* [Lapce](https://lap.dev/lapce/) - Lightning-fast and powerful code editor, written in Rust.\n* [Emacs](https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsForMacOS) - A popular text editor used by programmers, scientists, engineers, students, and system administrators.\n* [Vim](http://www.vim.org/) - A highly configurable text editor built to make creating and changing any kind of text very efficient.\n\n### IDE\n\n* [Gnome Builder](https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Builder) - IDE for the Gnome platform.\n* [KDevelop](https://www.kdevelop.org/) - A cross-platform IDE for C, C++, Python, JavaScript and PHP.\n* [QtCreator](https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_Creator) - A cross-platform IDE tailored to the needs of Qt developers.\n* [Eclipse](https://www.eclipse.org) - Popular open-source IDE, mainly for Java but with plugin support for a wide array of languages and platforms.\n* [NetBeans IDE](https://netbeans.org/) - A free and open source IDE, mainly used for Java development, but supports many other languages and frameworks.\n* [CodeBlocks](http://codeblocks.org/) - The open source, cross platform, free C, C++ and Fortran IDE.\n* [LiteIDE X](https://github.com/visualfc/liteide) - Simple, open source, cross-platform Go IDE.\n\n## Development Tools\n\n* [Git](https://git-scm.com/) - The Version Control Tool.\n* [Git Cola](https://git-cola.github.io/) - A sleek and powerful graphical Git client.\n* [Gitg](https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gitg/) - The GNOME GUI client to view git repositories.\n* [Koala](http://koala-app.com) - A GUI application for Less, Sass, Compass and CoffeeScript compilation.\n* [Meld](http://meldmerge.org/) - An application to visually compare and merge files.\n* [TeXstudio](http://www.texstudio.org) - An integrated writing environment for creating LaTeX documents.\n* [Gisto](http://www.gistoapp.com/) - Snippets manager, desktop frontend for GitHub Gist.\n\n### Test Tools\n\n* [Bruno](https://www.usebruno.com/) - Git-friendly and offline-first open-source API client.\n* [LinkChecker](https://wummel.github.io/linkchecker/) - Find out all the invalid links.\n* [GtkInspector](https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GTK%2B/Inspector) - Built-in interactive debugging support in GTK+.\n* [FakeSMTP](http://nilhcem.com/FakeSMTP/) - Fake SMTP server with GUI for testing emails in applications easily.\n* [FakeSmtpServer](https://github.com/gessnerfl/fake-smtp-server) - A simple SMTP server for testing purpose.\n* [Certificate Ripper](https://github.com/Hakky54/certificate-ripper) - A CLI tool to extract server certificates from a URL.\n\n## Command Line Tools\n\n* [Tilix](https://gnunn1.github.io/tilix-web/) - A tiling terminal emulator for Linux.\n* [screen](https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/) - Multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes, typically interactive shells.\n* [tmux](https://github.com/tmux/tmux) - A \"terminal multiplexer\", it enables a number of terminals (or windows) to be accessed and controlled from a single terminal.\n* [Fish Shell](https://fishshell.com/) - A smart and user-friendly terminal, similar to zsh.\n* [Prezto](https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto) - The configuration framework for zsh: it enriches the command line interface environment with sane defaults, aliases, functions, auto completion, and prompt themes.\n* [oh-my-zsh](http://ohmyz.sh) - It comes bundled with a ton of helpful functions, helpers, plugins, themes, and a few things that make you shout.\n* [oh-my-fish](https://github.com/oh-my-fish/oh-my-fish) - Like oh-my-zsh, for Fish Shell.\n* [bash-it](https://github.com/Bash-it/bash-it) - Shameless ripoff of oh-my-zsh for Bash.\n* [mycli](https://github.com/dbcli/mycli) - A command line client for MySQL that can do auto-completion and syntax highlighting.\n\n## Database\n\n* [MySQL Workbench](http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/workbench/) - MySQL Official GUI.\n* [ElectroCRUD](http://garrylachman.github.io/ElectroCRUD/) - Modern MySQL CRUD Application.\n* [Chrome MySQL Admin](https://www.eisbahn.jp/chrome_mysql_admin) - This is a powerful Chrome app to manage your MySQL.\n* [SQLiteBrowser](https://sqlitebrowser.org/) - High quality, visual, open source tool designed for people who want to create, search, and edit SQLite or SQLCipher database files.\n\n## System\n\n* [sysdig](http://www.sysdig.org/) - System-level exploration: capture system state and activity from a running Linux instance, then save, filter and analyze.\n* [Glances](https://github.com/nicolargo/glances) - Glances is a cross-platform curses-based system monitoring tool.\n* [LNav](http://lnav.org) - Log file navigator.\n* [Baobab](https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Baobab) - Graphical application to analyse disk usage.\n\n## Design and Graphics\n\n* [Inkscape](https://inkscape.org/) - The vector graphics editor.\n* [Gimp](https://www.gimp.org/) - A cross-platform image editor.\n* [Krita](https://krita.org/) - Professional free and open source painting program.\n* [Blender](https://www.blender.org/) - 3D creation software.\n* [Trimage](https://trimage.org/) - Compress images in multiple formats.\n* [GColor](http://gcolor2.sourceforge.net/) - Color-picking tool.\n* [GPick](http://www.gpick.org/) - Advanced color picker.\n\n## Writing\n\n* [Zim](http://zim-wiki.org/) - A desktop wiki.\n* [Marp](https://yhatt.github.io/marp/) - A Markdown presentation writer with cross-platform support.\n* [EME](https://eme.moe/) - Elegant Markdown editor.\n\n## Productivity\n\n* [Getting Things Gnome](http://gtgnome.net/) - A personal tasks and todo-list items organizer.\n* [Hamster](http://projecthamster.org/) - Personal time tracker.\n* [Freeplane](http://freeplane.sourceforge.net/) - Free mind mapping and knowledge management software.\n* [ShellShape](http://gfxmonk.net/shellshape/) - Gnome extension for tiling windows.\n* [KeePassX](https://www.keepassx.org) - A light-weight and open-source password management app.\n\n## File Management\n\n* [File Roller](http://fileroller.sourceforge.net/) - Interface for many archiving and compression formats including ZIP, RAR and ACE.\n* [Krusader](https://userbase.kde.org/Krusader) - An advanced twin panel (commander style) file manager.\n\n## Virtual Machines\n\n* [Virtual Box](http://www.virtualbox.org/) - A powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product.\n* [Boxes](https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Boxes) - A simple application to access remote or virtual systems.\n\n## Translation Tools\n\n* [Poedit](https://poedit.net/) - The best editor for translating gettext PO files.\n* [Lokalize](https://userbase.kde.org/Lokalize) - 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