awesome-linux-software

🐧 A list of awesome Linux softwares
https://github.com/mrhyperion101/awesome-linux-software

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Command Line Utilities
- Internet
  - ![Open-Source Software - DuckDuckGo from the command line.
  - ![Open-Source Software - proxy](https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy) - DNS proxy with support for encrypted DNS protocols,cross platform.
  - ![Open-Source Software - dl](https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl) - Command-line program to download image galleries and collections from pixiv, exhentai, danbooru and more.
  - ![Open-Source Software - A program that can Google anything right in the command line.
  - ![Open-Source Software - I2P daemon written in C++.
  - ![Open-Source Software - youtube](https://github.com/mps-youtube/mps-youtube) - A terminal based program for searching, streaming and downloading music. This implementation uses YouTube as a source of content and can play and download video as well as audio.
  - ![Open-Source Software - A terminal based mail client with vim keybindings and great flexibility and customizability.
  - ![Open-Source Software - Newsboat is a fork of Newsbeuter, an RSS/Atom feed reader for the text console.
  - ![Open-Source Software - A smart and nice Twitter client on terminal written in Python.
  - ![Open-Source Software - A command-line interface for Reddit written in POSIX sh.
  - ![Open-Source Software - Streamlink is a CLI utility which pipes video streams from various services into a video player.
  - ![Open-Source Software - A temporary email right from your terminal written in POSIX sh.
  - ![Open-Source Software - shell](https://www.soimort.org/translate-shell) - Command-line translator using Google Translate, Bing Translator, Yandex.Translate, etc.
  - ![Open-Source Software - arpit/WBOT) - A simple CLI based BOT for WhatsApp™ in NodeJS. reply to your friends quickly and have fun along the way.
  - ![Open-Source Software - Terminal based YouTube player and downloader. No Youtube API key required. Forked from mps-youtube. Can be installed using pip as described [here](https://github.com/iamtalhaasghar/yewtube#using-pip).
  - ![Open-Source Software - dlp](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp) - A youtube-dl fork with additional features and fixes.
  - ![Open-Source Software - A simple app to get songs from YouTube in mp3 format with artist name, album name etc from sources like iTunes, Spotify, LastFM, Deezer, Gaana etc.
- System Info / Monitoring
  - ![Open-Source Software - cpufreq](https://github.com/AdnanHodzic/auto-cpufreq) - Automatic CPU speed & power optimizer for Linux.
  - ![Open-Source Software - Yet another cross-platform graphical process/system monitor.
  - ![Open-Source Software - Resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes. Python port and continuation of bashtop.
  - ![Open-Source Software - Resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes.
  - ![Open-Source Software - Glances is a system monitoring terminal application that shows you your disk usage, ram usage, and cpu usage in a very friendly way using the Ncurses programming library. It is tolerant to windows resizing, and very low on system ram usage.
  - ![Open-Source Software - A system monitoring dashboard for terminal. Think 'graphical top', with bar charts, line graphs, pie charts, and etc.
  - ![Open-Source Software - An interactive process viewer for Unix systems with improved features and user experience.
  - ![Open-Source Software - A command-line benchmarking tool.
  - ![Open-Source Software - Linux Kernel Manager and Activity Monitor.
  - ![Open-Source Software - 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 - GPUs process monitoring for AMD, Intel and NVIDIA.
  - ![Open-Source Software - A pretty system information tool written in POSIX sh.
  - ![Open-Source Software - Fetches system/theme information in terminal for Linux desktop screenshots.
  - ![Open-Source Software - tui](https://amanusk.github.io/s-tui/) - s-tui is an UI for monitoring your computer's CPU temperature, frequency and utilization in a graphical way from the terminal.
- Tools
  - ![Open-Source Software - Simple, Modern, Secure encryption tool.
  - ![Open-Source Software - A cat clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration.
  - ![Open-Source Software - A new way to see and navigate directory trees.
  - ![Open-Source Software - A Command line bookmark manager.
  - ![Open-Source Software - Colorizing `cat`.
  - ![Open-Source Software - Cut, copy, and paste anything, anywhere, anytime.
  - ![Open-Source Software - Count Lines of Code: cloc counts blank lines, comment lines, and physical lines of source code in many programming languages.
  - ![Open-Source Software - Color Ls is a Ruby Gem that spices up the ls command and shows more visually than ls does without additional commands.
  - ![Open-Source Software - Draw in your terminal.
  - ![Open-Source Software - Disk Usage/Free Utility - a better 'df' alternative.
  - ![Open-Source Software - exa is a modern replacement for ls.
  - ![Open-Source Software - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'.
  - ![Open-Source Software - Replaces fish history with a history tailored to pentesters for efficiency and newbie pentesters for learning.
  - ![Open-Source Software - A general-purpose command-line fuzzy finder with interactive filter and preview feature for things like files, command history, git commits, hostnames, etc.
  - ![Open-Source Software - cli) - Fabulously kill processes. Cross-platform.
  - ![Open-Source Software - An interactive process killer for Linux.
  - ![Open-Source Software - ping but with graph, cross platform.
  - ![Open-Source Software - Quick and simple image processing at the command line.
  - ![Open-Source Software - A full-featured & carefully designed adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh.
  - ![Open-Source Software - Displays text in rainbow colors.
  - ![Open-Source Software - The next gen ls command.
  - ![Open-Source Software - Hardware Lister for Linux.
  - ![Open-Source Software - An interactive cheatsheet tool for the command-line.
  - ![Open-Source Software - Git repository summary on your terminal.
  - ![Open-Source Software - A command that lets you select files that were output from a previous command in the command line, so you can then run another command or edit them.
  - ![Open-Source Software - pywal is a script that takes an image (or a directory of images), generates a colorscheme (using imagemagick) and then changes all of your open terminal's colors to the new colorscheme on the fly, allowing you to have your terminal colors change with your wallpaper, or other criteria.
  - ![Open-Source Software - Ripgrep is a line-oriented search tool that recursively searches the current directory for a regex pattern.
  - ![Open-Source Software - Terminal based presentation tool.
  - ![Open-Source Software - A code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster.
  - ![Open-Source Software - A minimal, blazingly fast and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell, cross-platform.
  - ![Open-Source Software - Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command.
  - ![Open-Source Software - pages](https://tldr.sh/) - The tldr-pages project is a collection of community-maintained help pages for command-line tools, that aims to be a simpler, more approachable complement to traditional man pages.
  - ![Open-Source Software - A very fast implementation of tldr written in Rust.
  - ![Open-Source Software - 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 - Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments.
  - ![Open-Source Software - Your CLI home video recorder vhs
  - wicd-curses - Command line WiFi connection manager.
  - ![Open-Source Software - A fast CSV command line toolkit written in Rust.
  - ![Open-Source Software - A new cd command that helps you navigate faster by learning your habits.
  - ![Open-Source Software - A better way to navigate your filesystem written in Rust.
  - ![Open-Source Software - Automatically setup swap on zram sparkles with optional systemd support, a simpler alternative to zram-generator and systemd-swap
Custom Linux Kernels
- Tools
  - ![Open-Source Software - libre](https://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/selibre/linux-libre/) - GNU Linux-libre is a project to maintain and publish 100% Free distributions of Linux, suitable for use in Free System Distributions.
  - ![Open-Source Software - Hardened](https://github.com/anthraxx/linux-hardened) - A security-focused Linux kernel applying a set of hardening patches to mitigate kernel and userspace exploits. It also enables more upstream kernel hardening features than linux.
  - ![Open-Source Software - tkg](https://github.com/Frogging-Family/linux-tkg) - Scripts to automatically download, patch and compile the Linux Kernel from the official Linux git repository, with a selection of patches aiming for better desktop/gaming experience.
  - ![Open-Source Software - Liquorix is a distro kernel replacement built using the best configuration and kernel sources for desktop, multimedia, and gaming workloads.
  - ![Open-Source Software - XanMod is a general-purpose Linux kernel distribution with custom settings and new features. Built to provide a stable, responsive and smooth desktop experience.
  - ![Open-Source Software - kernel/zen-kernel) - Result of a collaborative effort of kernel hackers to provide the best Linux kernel possible for everyday systems.
Desktop Environments
- Tools
  - ![Open-Source Software - Budgie is a desktop environment designed with the modern user in mind, it focuses on simplicity and elegance.
  - ![Open-Source Software - Cinnamon strives to provide a traditional user experience. Cinnamon is a fork of GNOME 3.
  - ![Open-Source Software - DDE (Deepin Desktop Environment) is the default desktop environment originally created for the Linux Deepin distribution.
  - ![Open-Source Software - A lightweight and pretty desktop environment that is designed to run fast and look good, while retaining a large degree of customization.
  - ![Open-Source Software - The GNOME desktop environment is an attractive and intuitive desktop with both a modern (GNOME) and a classic (GNOME Classic) session.
  - ![Open-Source Software - 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 - desktop) - 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 - The Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment is a fast and energy-saving desktop environment.
  - ![Open-Source Software - project.org/) - LXQt is the Qt port and the upcoming version of LXDE, the Lightweight Desktop Environment.
  - ![Open-Source Software - desktop.com/) - Mate provides an intuitive and attractive desktop to Linux users using traditional metaphors. MATE is a fork of GNOME 2.
  - ![Open-Source Software - Pantheon is the default desktop environment originally created for the elementary OS distribution.
  - ![Open-Source Software - UKUI is a desktop environment for Linux distributions and other UNIX-like operating systems, originally developed for Ubuntu Kylin, and written using the Qt framework.
  - ![Open-Source Software - Unity is a shell for GNOME designed by Canonical for Ubuntu.
  - ![Open-Source Software - Xfce embodies the traditional UNIX philosophy of modularity and re-usability.
Display manager
- Console
  - ![Open-Source Software - A ultra-minimalistic, yet full-featured login manager written in Bash.
  - ![Open-Source Software - tdm) - An extension for xinit written in pure Bash.
  - ![Open-Source Software - A customizable TUI display/login manager written in Rust.
  - ![Open-Source Software - Ly is a lightweight, TUI (ncurses-like) display manager for Linux.
  - ![Open-Source Software - A minimalistic display manager for automatic logins.
- Graphic
  - ![Open-Source Software - An EFL based display manager, highly experimental.
  - ![Open-Source Software - The GNOME display manager.
  - ![Open-Source Software - A cross-desktop display manager, can use various front-ends written in any toolkit.
  - ![Open-Source Software - The LXDE display manager. Can be used independent of the LXDE desktop environment.
  - ![Open-Source Software - The MDM display manager, used in Linux Mint, a fork of GDM 2.
  - ![Open-Source Software - The QML-based display manager and successor to KDE4's kdm; recommended for Plasma 5 and LXQt.
  - ![Open-Source Software - Lightweight and elegant graphical login solution. (Discontinued)
  - ![Open-Source Software - The X display manager with support for XDMCP, and host chooser.
Linux News, Apps, and more:
- Dynamic Window Managers
  - 9To5Linux
  - AllTop
  - ArchiveOS
  - Are We Anti-Cheat Yet?
  - Dedoimedo
  - DistroWatch
  - FAMILUG
  - GamingOnLinux
  - ITSFOSS
  - Lemmy c/Linux
  - Liliputing
  - Linoxide
  - LinuxHandbook
  - LinuxLinks
  - Linux official
  - LinuxSmartphones
  - LinuxStans
  - Linux Timeline
  - LWN
  - Nixcraft forum
  - Nixcraft
  - Noobslab
  - OMG!Linux
  - OMG!Ubuntu
  - Open Source
  - Phoronix
  - ProtonDB
  - Repology
  - Slashdot
  - TecMint
  - Ubuntu Geek
  - UbuntuHandbook
  - Unixmen
  - Webupd8
  - WineDB
  - DistroTube
Reddit
- Dynamic Window Managers
  - AlmaLinux
  - Arch Linux
  - Asahi Linux
  - AwesomeWM
  - CentOS
  - Cinnamon DE
  - Command Line
  - Debian
  - Deepin
  - elementary OS
  - EndeavourOS
  - Fedora
  - FreeBSD
  - Garuda Linux
  - Gentoo Linux
  - GNOME
  - Haiku
  - i3 Window Manager
  - Kali Linux
  - KDE
  - Kubuntu
  - Linux4Noobs
  - Linux
  - Linux From Scratch
  - Linux Gaming
  - Linux Hardware
  - Linux Kernel
  - Linux Mint
  - Linux Questions
  - Manjaro
  - Nix
  - NixOS
  - Open Source
  - openSUSE
  - Pop!\_OS
  - Qubes OS
  - Red Hat
  - Rocky Linux
  - Slackware
  - Solus Project
  - Sway Window Manager
  - Tails
  - Ubuntu
  - Unix Porn
  - Void Linux
  - Whonix
  - Xfce
  - Xubuntu
  - Zorin OS
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Window Managers
- Compositors
  - ![Open-Source Software - Gamescope is a micro-compositor that provides a sandboxed Xwayland desktop with independent input, resolution, and refresh rate.
  - ![Open-Source Software - Hyprland is a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.
  - ![Open-Source Software - River is a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor with flexible runtime configuration.
  - ![Open-Source Software - Sway is tiling Wayland compositor and a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager for X11.
  - ![Open-Source Software - Wayfire is a wayland compositor based on wlroots. It aims to create a customizable, extendable and lightweight environment without sacrificing its appearance.
  - ![Open-Source Software - Xcompmgr is a simple composite manager capable of rendering drop shadows and, with the use of the transset utility, primitive window transparency.
- Dynamic Window Managers
  - ![Open-Source Software - A highly configurable, next generation framework window manager for X.
  - ![Open-Source Software - A dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiled, monocle and floating layouts.

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C++ 153 Python 120 C 97 JavaScript 43 Rust 42 Shell 40 TypeScript 36 Go 27 Java 14 Vala 11

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