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Awesome-Linux-Software

🐧 A list of awesome applications, software, tools and other materials for Linux distros.
https://github.com/HanielF/Awesome-Linux-Software

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  • Discussion Forums

  • Learn Linux

  • Linux Hacking/Development

  • Setup

  • Applications

    • Office

      • TeXmacs - Free scientific text editor, inspired by TeX and GNU Emacs. WYSIWYG editor and CAS-interface. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/texmacs)
      • Ghost Writer - A distraction-free Markdown editor for Windows and Linux. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](http://github.com/wereturtle/ghostwriter) .
      • GnuCash - GnuCash is a free software accounting program that implements a double-entry bookkeeping system. It was initially aimed at developing capabilities similar to Intuit, Inc.'s Quicken application, but also has features for small business accounting. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/Gnucash/)
      • KMyMoney - KMyMoney is the personal finance manager by KDE. Its operation is similar to Microsoft Money and Quicken. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/KDE/kmymoney)
      • LaTeXila - LaTeXila is a LaTeX editor for the GNOME desktop. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://git.gnome.org/browse/latexila)
      • LibreOffice - Best office bundle for Linux. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/source-code/)
      • OnlyOffice - One of the best office suite programs for Linux.
      • TexLive - TeX Live is an easy way to get up and running with the TeX document production system. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://www.tug.org/texlive/build.html)
      • WPS office - One of the best office app bundle for Linux.

    • Audio

      • Airtime - Airtime is the open broadcast software for scheduling and remote station management [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/sourcefabric/Airtime)
      • Ardour - Record, Edit, and Mix on Linux [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://ardour.org/development.html)
      • Clementine - Play numerous lossy and lossless audio formats. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/clementine-player/Clementine)
      • Cmus - cmus is a small, fast and powerful console music player for Unix-like operating systems.[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/cmus/cmus)
      • Deepin Music - An application developed by Deepin Technology Team which focused on local music playing. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/linuxdeepin/deepin-music)
      • Audio Recorder - Simple audio recorder available in an Ubuntu PPA.
      • Cantata - Qt5 Graphical MPD (Music Player Daemon) Client for Linux, Windows, MacOS. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/CDrummond/cantata)
      • Google Play Music - Unofficial but beautiful cross platform Desktop Player for Google Play Music.[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/MarshallOfSound/Google-Play-Music-Desktop-Player-UNOFFICIAL-)
      • Gpodder - Media aggregator and podcast client. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/gpodder/gpodder)
      • Harmony - Music player with sleek interface & cloud compatibility. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/vincelwt/harmony)
      • Hydrogen - Advanced drum machine for GNU/Linux. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/hydrogen-music/hydrogen)
      • Lollypop - Lollypop is a new GNOME music playing application. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/gnumdk/lollypop)
      • Pithos - A native pandora client for Linux [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/pithos/pithos)
      • Rhythmbox - Music player from GNOME. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/GNOME/rhythmbox)
      • Sayonara Player - Sayonara is a small, clear and fast audio player for Linux written in C++, supported by the Qt framework.[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://sayonara-player.com/downloads.php#Source)
      • SoundJuicer - CD Ripping tool for GNOME [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/SoundJuicer)
      • Soundnode - An opensource SoundCloud app for desktop. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/Soundnode/soundnode-app)
      • Tomahawk - A new kind of music player that invites all your streams, downloads, cloud music storage, playlists, radio stations and more. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/tomahawk-player/tomahawk)

    • Chat Clients

      • Gitter - Gitter — Where developers come to talk. Gitter is designed to make community messaging, collaboration and discovery as smooth and simple as possible. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/gitterHQ/services)
      • HexChat - HexChat is an IRC client based on XChat, but unlike XChat it’s completely free for both Windows and Unix-like system.[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/hexchat)
      • Jitsi - Jitsi is a free and open source multiplatform voice, videoconferencing and instant messaging application for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Android. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/jitsi)
      • Messenger for Desktop - An app for Facebook messenger. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/Aluxian/Facebook-Messenger-Desktop)
      • Pidgin - A universal chat client. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://developer.pidgin.im/)
      • qTox - A simple distributed, secure messenger with audio and video chat capabilities. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/qTox/qTox)
      • Ring - Chat. Talk. Share. Ring is a free and universal communication platform which preserves the users' privacy and freedoms. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://ring.cx/en/documentation/faq#node-106)
      • Slack - real-time messaging, archiving and search for modern teams.
      • Telegram - A messaging app with a focus on speed and security, it’s super fast, simple and free. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop)
      • Weechat - WeeChat is a fast, light and extensible chat client .[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/weechat)
      • Chatty - Chatty is a Twitch chat client for everyone who wants to try something new and different from the webchat, but doesn't want the complexity of an IRC client or miss out on the Twitch specific features.[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/chatty/chatty)
      • Caprine - Elegant Facebook Messenger desktop app. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/sindresorhus/caprine)

    • Games

      • Air for Steam - Material design inspired skin for Steam with 3 colour options.
      • Air for Steam - Material design inspired skin for Steam with 3 colour options.
      • Air for Steam - Material design inspired skin for Steam with 3 colour options.
      • Air for Steam - Material design inspired skin for Steam with 3 colour options.
      • 0 A.D - Age of Empires like open source RTS game.
      • Air for Steam - Material design inspired skin for Steam with 3 colour options.
      • AlephOne - Bungie supported continuation of the Marathon games, assests included. Engine needs to be built from source.
      • Cockatrice - Cockatrice is an open-source multiplatform supported program for playing tabletop card games over a network.[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/Cockatrice)
      • DarkPlaces - A modified Quake engine improving performance and appearance, [List of supported games](https://icculus.org/twilight/darkplaces/readme.html#SupportedGames) .![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]
      • GBrainy - Gbrainy is a brain teaser game and trainer to have fun and to keep your brain trained. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Apps/gbrainy?action=show&redirect=gbrainy#Source_code)
      • 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.
      • OhMyGiraffe - A delightful game of survival. A game about a giraffe eating fruit while being chased by lions.
      • OpenRCT2 - A recreation of the Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 engine. Requires the original games assests. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/JarnoVgr/OpenRCT2.org/blob/master/LICENSE)
      • Simutrans - Simutrans is a freeware and open-source transportation simulator. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://www.simutrans.com/en/develop/)
      • SuperTuxCar - SuperTuxKart is a 3D open-source arcade racer with a variety characters, tracks, and modes to play.[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/supertuxkart/stk-code)
      • The Battle for Wesnoth - Free, turn-based strategy game with a high fantasy theme, featuring both singleplayer and online/hotseat multiplayer combat. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth)
      • Warzone2100 - Open-source real-time strategy/real-time tactics game. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](http://developer.wz2100.net/)
      • 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 [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/wine-mirror/wine)

    • Data Backup and Recovery

      • Borg Backup - A nice tool to backup data.[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/development.html)
      • Duplicity - Duplicity backs directories by producing encrypted tar-format volumes and uploading them to a remote or local file server.[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://launchpad.net/duplicity)
      • Qt4-fsarchiver - qt4-fsarchiver is a GUI for the program fsarchiver to save/restore partitions, folders and MBR/GPT. The program is for systems based Debian, for Suse and Fedora. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/)
      • Timeshift - TimeShift is a system restore utility which takes incremental snapshots of the system using rsync and hard-links. These snapshots can be restored at a later date to undo all changes that were made to the system after the snapshot was taken. Snapshots can be taken manually or at regular intervals using scheduled jobs.[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://code.launchpad.net/timeshift)

    • Education

      • Scratch - With Scratch, you can program your own interactive stories, games, and animations — and share your creations with others in the online community. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/LLK/scratch-flash)
      • Gnome-dictionary - A powerful dictionary for GNOME. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Dictionary)
      • GNUKhata - Open source accounting software. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/kinitrupti/GNUKhata)
      • Google Earth - Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographical information program.
      • GPeriodic - GPeriodic is a periodic table application for Linux.[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](http://gperiodic.seul.org/cvs/)
      • 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. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/iTALC/italc)
      • Klavaro - A touch typing tutor very flexible, supporting customizable keyboard layouts. You can edit and save new or unknown keyboard layouts, as the basic course was designed to not depend on specific ones. Also, there are some charts about the learning process. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://sourceforge.net/projects/klavaro)
      • Artha - Artha is a free cross-platform English thesaurus that works completely off-line and is based on WordNet. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](http://artha.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Download#Source)
      • BibleTime - BibleTime is a Bible study application based on the Sword library and Qt toolkit. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/bibletime/bibletime)
      • Celestia - The free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions.[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://sourceforge.net/projects/celestia/files/Celestia-source/1.6.1/celestia-1.6.1.tar.gz/download)
      • Chemtool - Chemtool is a small program for drawing chemical structures on Linux. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/opp11/chemtool/blob/master/README.md)
      • Geogebra - The graphing calculator for functions, geometry, algebra, calculus, statistics and 3D mathematics. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/geogebra/geogebra)
      • Moodle - Course management system for online learning.[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/moodle/moodle)
      • OpenEuclid - OpenEuclide is a 2D geometry software: figures are defined dynamically by describing formal geometrical constraints.[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://sourceforge.net/projects/openeuclide/)
      • PARI/GP - A computer algebra system for fast computations in number theory. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pari.git;a=summary)
      • Tux4Kids - Tux4Kids develops high-quality software for kids, with the goal of combining fun and learning into an irresistible package. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](http://tux4kids.alioth.debian.org/dev.php)
      • UGENE - UGENE is free open-source cross-platform integrated GUI-based bioinformatics software.[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/ugeneunipro/ugene)

    • Desktop customization

      • Numix Theme - A good popular theme. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/numixproject/numix-gtk-theme)

    • Development

      • Android studio - The Official IDE for Android: Android Studio provides the fastest tools for building apps on every type of Android device.
      • Clion - A cross-platform and powerful IDE for C and C++.![Nonfree][Money Icon]
      • MariaDB - One of the most popular database servers. Made by the original developers of MySQL. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://mariadb.org/get-involved/getting-started-for-developers/)
      • MongoDB - MongoDB is a free and open-source cross-platform document-oriented database program, uses JSON-like documents with schemas. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/mongodb/mongo)
      • MySQL - MySQL is the world's leading open source database thanks to its proven performance, reliability and ease-of-use. It is used by high profile web properties including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Yahoo! and many more.[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server)
      • Percona Monitoring - Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a free and open-source platform for managing and monitoring MySQL, MariaDB and MongoDB performance. You can run PMM in your own environment for maximum security and reliability. It provides thorough time-based analysis for MySQL, MariaDB and MongoDB servers to ensure that your data works as efficiently as possible.
      • Percona XtraDB Cluster - Percona XtraDB Cluster is an active/active high availability and high scalability open source solution for MySQL clustering. It integrates Percona Server and Percona XtraBackup with the Codership Galera library of MySQL high availability solutions in a single package that enables you to create a cost-effective MySQL high availability cluster.
      • PostgreSQL - PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system with more than 15 year development. PostgreSQL is not controlled by any corporation or other private entity and the source code is available free of charge [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/postgres/postgres)
      • Sqlite - SQLite is an in-process library that implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine.[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://www.sqlite.org/src/doc/trunk/README.md)
      • Eclipse - Eclipse is famous for our Java Integrated Development Environment (IDE), but our C/C++ IDE and PHP IDE are pretty cool too.
      • Gogland - Gogland is the codename for a new commercial IDE by JetBrains aimed at providing an ergonomic environment for Go development.
      • IntelliJ IDEA - Powerful IDE for JAVA.
      • Webstorm - Powerful IDE for modern JavaScript development, made by JetBrains.
      • Sloeber IDE - Sloeber IDE. The Arduino IDE for Eclipse. I love it very much. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/jantje/arduino-eclipse-plugin)
      • 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.
      • PHPStorm - Lightning-smart and powerful PHP IDE from Jetbrain.
      • PyCharm - Powerful IDE for Python
      • Fish - A smart and user-friendly command-line shell. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell)
      • Ipython - Powerful Python shell. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/ipython/ipython)
      • Diffuse - Diffuse is a graphical tool for comparing and merging text files. It can retrieve files for comparison from Bazaar, CVS, Darcs, Git, Mercurial, Monotone, RCS, Subversion, and SVK repositories. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://sourceforge.net/projects/diffuse/files/?source=navbar)
      • Genymotion - Genymotion is a fast third-party emulator that can be used instead of the default Android emulator.
      • Giggle - Giggle is a graphical frontend for the git content tracker. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://git.gnome.org//browse/giggle/)
      • GitCola - Git Cola is a sleek and powerful graphical Git client. Written in Python and GPL-licensed.
      • Gitg - gitg is the GNOME GUI client to view git repositories. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gitg#Development_Resources)
      • GitKraken - The downright luxurious Git GUI client,for Windows, Mac & Linux.
      • 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.
      • Insomnia - A simple, beautiful, and free REST API client.
      • Jupyter Notebook - Open source, interactive data science and scientific computing across over 40 programming languages. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://jupyter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install.html)
      • Meld - Meld is a visual diff and merge tool that helps you compare files, directories, and version controlled projects. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](http://meldmerge.org/development.html)
      • Nemiver - Nemiver is a project to write a standalone graphical debugger that integrates well in the GNOME desktop environment. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/GNOME/nemiver)
      • Pencil - An open-source GUI prototyping tool that's available for ALL platforms. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/evolus/pencil)
      • Rabbit VCS - RabbitVCS is a set of graphical tools written to provide simple and straightforward access to the version control systems you use. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/rabbitvcs/rabbitvcs)
      • UniversalIndentGUI - UniversalIndentGUI offers a live preview for setting the parameters of nearly any indenter. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://sourceforge.net/projects/universalindent/files/uigui/)
      • Wdiff - The GNU wdiff program is a front end to diff for comparing files on a word per word basis. It collects the diff output and uses it to produce a nicer display of word differences between the original files. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://www.gnu.org/software/wdiff/devguide)
      • Wireshark - Wireshark is the world's foremost network protocol analyzer. It lets you see what's happening on your network at a microscopic level. It is the de facto (and often de jure) standard across many industries and educational institutions.
      • Zeal - Zeal is an offline documentation browser for software developers. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/zealdocs/zeal)
      • Fritzing - Fritzing is an open-source hardware initiative that makes electronics accessible as a creative material for anyone.[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/fritzing/fritzing-app)

    • Sharing Files

      • 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.
      • 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.[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing)
      • Transmission Remote GUI - Transmission Remote GUI is a feature rich cross platform front-end to remotely control a Transmission Bit-Torrent client daemon via its RPC protocol. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/leonsoft-kras/transmisson-remote-gui)
      • aria2 - aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source command-line download utility. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/aria2/aria2)
      • 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 [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://filezilla-project.org/sourcecode.php)
      • Flareget - Full featured, multi-threaded download manager and accelerator
      • Mega - Easy automated syncing between your computers and your MEGA cloud drive.[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/meganz/MEGAsync)
      • Meiga - a tool that makes possible to share selected local directories via web. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](http://git.igalia.com/meiga.git)
      • PushBullet - Pushbullet connects your devices, making them feel like one.
      • Web Torrent Desktop - Web Torrent Desktop is for streaming torrents which connects to both BitTorrent and WebTorrent peers.![Freeware Icon]
      • Vuze - Bittorrent Client is an end-to-end software application for all your torrent needs.

    • E-Book Utilities

      • Buka - EBook Management [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/oguzhaninan/Buka)
      • 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.[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evince/GettingEvince)
      • MasterPDF editor - Master PDF Editor a convenient and smart PDF editor for Linux.
      • 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.
      • Mcomix - GTK+ comic book viewer.[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://sourceforge.net/p/mcomix/git/ci/master/tree/)
      • qpdf - qpdfview is a tabbed document viewer. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://launchpad.net/qpdfview)
      • 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.[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/KDE/okular)
      • Peruse - A pleasant way to read comic books.[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://download.kde.org/stable/peruse/peruse-1.2.tar.xz.mirrorlist)
      • Zathura - Zathura is a highly customizable and functional document viewer. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://git.pwmt.org/pwmt/zathura.git)

    • Editors

      • Emacs - An extensible, customizable, free/libre text editor — and more. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs)
      • 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. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://www.geany.org/Download/Git)
      • Gedit - gedit is the GNOME text editor. While aiming at simplicity and ease of use, gedit is a powerful general purpose text editor.
      • Kakoune - Kakoune code ediotr - Vim inspired.  Faster as in less keystrokes.  Multiple selections.  Orthogonal design. Has a strong focus on interactivity. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/mawww/kakoune)
      • Kate - Kate is a multi-document editor part of KDE since release 2.2. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://kate-editor.org/build-it/)
      • Lighttable - The next generation code editor! Support live coding. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/LightTable/LightTable)
      • Sublime - One of the best text editor of all time.

    • Email

      • Geary - Geary is an email application built for GNOME 3. It allows you to read and send email with a simple, modern interface.[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/GNOME/geary)
      • KMail - KMail is the email component of Kontact, the integrated personal information manager from KDE [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://cgit.kde.org/kmail.git/tree//?)
      • Mailnag - Mailnag is a daemon program that checks POP3 and IMAP servers for new mail. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/pulb/mailnag)
      • Trojita - A super fast Qt IMAP e-mail client for Linux.[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://gerrit.vesnicky.cesnet.cz/r/#/dashboard/?)
      • Vmail - Vim-like Gmail client [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/danchoi/vmail)

    • File Manager

      • Dolphin - Dolphin is the default file manager of the KDE desktop environment featuring usability as well as functionality. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/KDE/dolphin)
      • Ranger - Ranger is a console file manager with VI key bindings.[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/ranger/ranger)

    • Graphics

      • Blender - a free and open source complete 3D creation pipeline for artists and small teams.
      • Cinepaint - Open source deep paint software
      • Heron Animation - A free stop animation making program.
      • Krita - Open Source Software for Concept Artists, Digital Painters, and Illustrators[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/KDE/krita)
      • Pinta - Pinta is a free, open source program for drawing and image editing. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://pinta-project.com/pintaproject/pinta/contribute)
      • 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.[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://launchpad.net/lsm)
      • Xara Extreme - Xara Xtreme for Linux is a powerful, general purpose graphics program for Unix platforms including Linux, FreeBSD[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](http://www.xaraxtreme.org/Developers/develeopers-source-code-a-building.html)
      • yEd Graph Editor - yEd is a powerful desktop application that can be used to quickly and effectively generate high-quality diagrams. Create diagrams manually, or import your external data for analysis. Our automatic layout algorithms arrange even large data sets with just the press of a button.
      • Vectr - Vectr is a free graphics software used to create vector graphics easily and intuitively. It's a simple yet powerful web and desktop cross-platform tool to bring your designs into reality.
      • GIMP - GIMP is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/GNOME/gimp)
      • ImageMagik - ImageMagick is a suite of command-line utilities for modifying and working with images.
      • Photivo - Photivo is a free and open source (GPL3) photo processor, handles your RAW and bitmap files (TIFF, JPEG, BMP, PNG and many more) in a non-destructive 16 bit processing pipe with gimp workflow integration and batch mode. It is intended to be used in a workflow together with digiKam/F-Spot/Shotwell and Gimp. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/google-code-export/photivo)
      • RawTherapee - A good looking but lesser known photo editing app. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/Beep6581/RawTherapee)
      • Feh - lightweight and fast image viewer.[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](http://git.finalrewind.org/feh)
      • Fotoxx - Fotoxx is a free open source Linux program for image editing and collection management.
      • gwenview - Simple yet powerful image viewer and management for KDE desktops. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://cgit.kde.org/gwenview.git/tree//?)
      • Shotwell - Shotwell is a photo manager for GNOME 3.[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Shotwell)
      • 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
      • Handbrake - HandBrake is a tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs.[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/HandBrake/HandBrake)
      • Radiance - Radiance - A Validated Lighting Simulation Tool[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://www.radiance-online.org/download-install/radiance-source-code)
      • Kazam - An easy to use and very intuitive screen recording program that will capture the content of your screen and record a video file that can be played by any video player that supports VP8/WebM video format. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://code.launchpad.net/kazam)
      • OBS Studio - Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Download and start streaming quickly and easily on Windows, Mac or Linux. Share your gaming, art and entertainment with the world. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/jp9000/OBS)
      • Vokoscreen - A free, multilingual and easy to use screencast recorder with audio for Linux. Features: detects webcams, avi and mkv video containers, mpeg4 and h.264 video codecs, adjustable frame rate, ... [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/vkohaupt/vokoscreen)
      • ReadyMedia - Formerly known as **MiniDLNA**, ReadyMedia is a is a simple, lightweight media server software, with the aim of being fully compliant with DLNA/UPnP-AV clients. The MiniDNLA daemon serves media files (music, pictures, and video) to clients on a network such as smartphones, portable media players, televisions, other computers and some gaming systems. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://sourceforge.net/projects/minidlna)
      • Flowblade - A multitrack non-linear video editor for Linux.[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/jliljebl/flowblade)
      • Kdenlive - Kdenlive is a Non-Linear Video Editor, which is much more powerful than beginners’ (linear) editors. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/KDE/kdenlive)
      • Vidcutter - Cross-platform Qt5 based app for quick and easy video trimming/splitting and merging/joining for simple quick edits. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/ozmartian/vidcutter)
      • 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

    • Productivity

      • Shots - HTML/CSS/JS screenshot application. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/binjospookie/--shots)
      • Actionaz - Automation tasks utility for Ubuntu/Linux
      • Caffeine - Prevents Ubuntu from automatically going to sleep.
      • Cairo-Dock - Cairo-Dock is a desktop interface that takes the shape of docks, desklets, panel, etc. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/Cairo-Dock)
      • Docky - Docky is a full fledged dock application that makes opening common applications and managing windows easier and quicker. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://launchpad.net/docky/+download)
      • Plank - Plank is meant to be the simplest dock of apps on the planet.[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://code.launchpad.net/plank)
      • Catfish - Catfish is a versatile file searching tool. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://code.launchpad.net/catfish-search)
      • Ambient Noise - Install ambient noise for extra focus on Linux.
      • f.lux - Automatically adjust your computer screen to match lighting.
      • Gpick - Gpick allows you to sample any color from anywhere on your desktop, and it also provides some other advanced features! [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/thezbyg/gpick)
      • 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.[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/jonls/redshift)
      • SpeedCrunch - A nice, open source, high-precision scientific calculator. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](http://www.speedcrunch.org/)
      • Basket Note Pads - This multi-purpose note-taking application helps you to easily take all sort of notes. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](http://basket.kde.org/svnaccess.php)
      • NixNote - An open source client for Evernote. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://sourceforge.net/p/nevernote/code/ci/master/tree/)
      • Notepadqq - Notepadqq is a Notepad++-like editor for the Linux desktop.[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/notepadqq/notepadqq)
      • Simplenote - Cross platform notetaking app. Evernote competitor.
      • Stickynote - Sticky notes on your Linux desktop.
      • Tomboy - Tomboy is a desktop note-taking application which is simple and easy to use. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Tomboy)
      • California - Complete Calendar app replacement which uses natural language for creating events.
      • 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.
      • TaskWarrior - Taskwarrior is Free and Open Source Software that manages your TODO list from the command line.[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://git.tasktools.org/projects)
      • Brightness - Brightness indicator for Ubuntu.

    • Internet

      • Brave - Brave is a fast, good desktop browser for macOS, Windows, and Linux. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop)
      • Firefox - A popular Web Browsers with a lot of plugins/apps. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide)
      • Midori - A lightweight free browser that runs well on low spec systems. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://launchpad.net/~midori/+archive/ubuntu/ppa).
      • QuteBrowser - A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on PyQt5. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser)
      • Clipgrab - A friendly downloader for YouTube and other sites.
      • 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.
      • Corebird - corebird is native gtk+ twitter desktop client. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/baedert/corebird)
      • FeedTheMonkey - FeedTheMonkey is a desktop client for TinyTinyRSS. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/jeena/FeedTheMonkey)
      • GnomeTwitch - Enjoy Twitch on your GNU/Linux desktop with this Twitch non-Adobe-flash client. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/vinszent/gnome-twitch)
      • Kaku - An opensource youtube music player for Ubuntu. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/EragonJ/Kaku)
      • Popcorntime - Watch torrent movies instantly. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://www.popcorn-time.to/source.html)

    • Proxy

      • Privoxy - Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and HTTP headers, controlling access, and removing ads and other obnoxious Internet junk. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/)
      • Shadowsocks - A secure socks5 proxy, designed to protect your Internet traffic. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-qt5/releases)

    • Security

      • ClamAV - Clam Anti Virus
      • FireHOL - Linux firewall (`iptables`) manager for humans. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/firehol/firehol)
      • GnuPG - Gnu Privacy Guard
      • Lynis - Security auditing tool for Linux, macOS, and UNIX-based systems. Assists with compliance testing (HIPAA/ISO27001/PCI DSS) and system hardening. Agentless, and installation optional. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/CISOfy/lynis)
      • OpenSSH - OpenSSH Secure Shell Server and Client
      • Password Safe - Password Safe allows you to safely and easily create a secured and encrypted user name/password list. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://sourceforge.net/projects/passwordsafe/)
      • Pass - the standard unix password manager. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://git.zx2c4.com/password-store/)
      • Seahorse - Gnome frontend for GnuPG[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Seahorse)

    • Terminal

      • GnomeTerminal - A widely preinstalled terminal emulator in Linux world
      • Guake - Guake is a top-down terminal for Gnome
      • Hyper - A terminal built on web technologies.[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/zeit/hyper)
      • Konsole - Best terminal for KDE dekstop environment.
      • RXVT-Unicode - rxvt-unicode is a fork of the well known terminal emulator.[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](rxvt.http://cvs.schmorp.de/rxvt-unicode/)
      • Sakura - Simple but powerful libvte based terminal emulator, supporting utf-8 and input methods as provided by gtk+ and pango libraries. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://launchpad.net/sakura)
      • Termit - Simple terminal emulator based on vte library, extensible via Lua.[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/nonstop/termit/wiki)
      • Termius - cross-platform terminal with built-in SSH and Telnet.
      • Yakuake - A Quake-style terminal emulator based on KDE Konsole technology.

    • Utilities

      • Aptik - A tool for you to organize your Favorite PPAs and manage Packages Easily. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://code.launchpad.net/~teejee2008/apt-toolkit/trunk)
      • 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.
      • Convertall - Convert all units.
      • EasyStroke - Easystroke is a gesture-recognition application for X11.[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/thjaeger/easystroke)
      • Enpass - Enpass makes your life easy by securely managing your passwords and important information.
      • indicator-cpufreq - It provides the same functionality as the Gnome CPU frequency applet, but doesn't require Gnome panel and works under Unity.
      • indicator-multiload - Graphical system load indicator for CPU, ram, etc.
      • KeePassXC - Cross platform password manager. A Community-maintained fork of KeePassX([dead](https://github.com/keepassx/keepassx/pull/204)) [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc)
      • Komorebi - Komorebi is a background manager for all Linux platforms, provides fully customizeable backgrounds that can be tweaked at any time. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/iabem97/komorebi)
      • KVM - KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions (Intel VT or AMD-V). [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://sourceforge.net/projects/kvm/files/)
      • LastPass - LastPass is a crossplatform freemium password management service that stores encrypted passwords in private accounts.
      • Ncdu - Disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://g.blicky.net/ncdu.git/)
      • Peazip - Utility to unzip any zipped files
      • Psensor - Graphical hardware temperature monitor for Linux.[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](http://git.wpitchoune.net/psensor.git/)
      • Pulse Audio - Improve Linux Audio with customized Profiles.
      • Remarkable - Best Markdown editor in Ubuntu/Linux.
      • Remmina - A feature-rich remote desktop application for Linux and other UNIXes.[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/FreeRDP/Remmina)
      • Synaptic - Synaptic is a graphical package management program for apt.
      • Trimage - A cross-platform tool for losslessly optimizing PNG and JPG files.[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/Kilian/Trimage)
      • Typora - A Minimal markdown editor
      • Virtualbox - VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware, targeted at server, desktop and embedded use.[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Contributor_information)
      • TightVNC - Free, Lightweight, Fast and Reliable Remote Control / Remote Desktop Software [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]]

    • Video

      • Bomi Player - A powerful and easy-to-use multimedia player.[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/xylosper/bomi)
      • Cheese - Cheese uses your webcam to take photos and videos, applies fancy special effects and lets you share the fun with others. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/GNOME/cheese)
      • Kodi - An award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media center for playing videos, music, pictures, games, and more.[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc)
      • Miro - Free, and open video, music and internet TV application; it brings video channels from thousands of sources and has more free HD than any other platform.
      • MPlayer - MPlayer is a movie player which runs on many systems, play any kind of videos.
      • 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. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-sources.html)

    • Wiki software

      • ikiwiki - ikiwiki is a wiki compiler. It converts wiki pages into HTML pages suitable for publishing on a website. Ikiwiki stores pages and history in a revision control system such as Subversion or Git.[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://git.joeyh.name/git/ikiwiki.git/)

    • Others

      • GrubCustomizer - Grub Customizer is a graphical interface to configure the GRUB2/BURG settings and menuentries. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://code.launchpad.net/grub-customizer)
      • Infinality bundle & fonts - *Pre-note: Infinality is currently not maintained anymore by the creator, if on rolling release operating systems, expect breakage*. Infinality bundle & fonts is an Open Source project aimed at Linux administrators and individual users who are looking for a hassle-free way of improving the quality of font rendering. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/bohoomil/fontconfig-ultimate)

  • Command Line Utilities

    • Others

      • exa - exa is a modern replacement for ls. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/ogham/exa)
      • Googler - Google any stuff right in the command line.[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/jarun/googler)
      • Mutt - A terminal based mail client with vim keybindings and great flexibility and customizability.[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://dev.mutt.org/hg/mutt/file/tip)
      • Neofetch - A fast, highly customizable system info script that supports Linux, MacOS, iOS, BSD, Solaris, Android, Haiku, GNU Hurd, MINIX, AIX and Windows.[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch)
      • Pacman4console - Play Pacman game in console.[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/alexdantas/pacman4console.debian)
      • 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.[![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/tmux/tmux)

  • Desktop Environments

    • Others

      • Budgie - Budgie is a desktop environment designed with the modern user in mind, it focuses on simplicity and elegance. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/solus-project/budgie-desktop)
      • Cinnamon - Cinnamon strives to provide a traditional user experience. Cinnamon is a fork of GNOME 3. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon)
      • Deepin DE - DDE (Deepin Desktop Environment) is the default desktop environment originally created for the Linux Deepin distribution. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/linuxdeepin/dde-desktop)
      • 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. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/GNOME/gnome-flashback)
      • Gnome - The GNOME desktop environment is an attractive and intuitive desktop with both a modern (GNOME) and a classic (GNOME Classic) session. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/GNOME/gnome-desktop)
      • 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. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/KDE/plasma-desktop)
      • LXQt - LXQt is the Qt port and the upcoming version of LXDE, the Lightweight Desktop Environment. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/lxde/lxqt)
      • Mate - Mate provides an intuitive and attractive desktop to Linux users using traditional metaphors. MATE is a fork of GNOME 2. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/mate-desktop/)
      • Manokwari - Desktop shell for GNOME 3 with Gtk+ and HTML5 frontend. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/BlankOn/manokwari)
      • 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. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/xfce-mirror)

  • Display manager

    • Graphic

      • GDM - GNOME display manager. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/GNOME/gdm)

  • Window Managers

    • Compositors

      • Compton - Compton is a standalone composite manager, suitable for use with window managers that do not natively provide compositing functionality. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/chjj/compton)
      • Xcompmgr - Xcompmgr is a simple composite manager capable of rendering drop shadows and, with the use of the transset utility, primitive window transparency. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xcompmgr)

    • Tiling window managers

      • Bspwm - bspwm is a tiling window manager that represents windows as the leaves of a full binary tree. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm)
      • Qtile - qtile is a full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/qtile/qtile)

    • Dynamic window managers

      • spectrwm - Small dynamic tiling window manager for X11, largely inspired by xmonad and dwm. [![Open-Source Software][OSS Icon]](https://github.com/conformal/spectrwm)
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