Linux Compatible Software For All Your Needs!

Searching for a Linux software? Well here your search ends, we present to you a complete list of Linux compatible software for anything and everything! Have fun reading:


Anti-virus Software:

Avast!: A Linux software offering of the popular Avast antivirus scanner.http://www.avast.com/linux-home-edition

Clam AntiVirus: The original open source virus scanner. http://www.clamav.net/

AVG: A version of AVG’s Virus Scanner for Linux. http://free.avg.com/us-en/download.prd-alf

Archive Manager:

Ark: A feature-rich archive manager for KDE. http://utils.kde.org/projects/ark/

File Roller: The default archive manager in GNOME. http://fileroller.sourceforge.net/

Tar: Provides the ability to create tar archives, as well as various other kinds of manipulation. http://www.gnu.org/s/tar/

Audio:

OggConvert: converts most formats of the media files into the open source OGG format. http://oggconvert.tristanb.net/

Audacity: A powerful cross platform audio recorder and editor.http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Banshee: A great music manager similar to iTunes. http://www.banshee.fm/

Mixxx: Fantastic audio mixing Linux software that is ideal for DJ environments.http://www.mixxx.org/

Backup Applications:

CrashPlan: An excellent, sophisticated backup program. http://www.crashplan.com

Rsync: A configurable console-based synchronization program that is commonly used in backup situations. http://rsync.samba.org 

Fwbackups: A flexible backup program which can backup to another computer.http://www.diffingo.com/oss/fwbackups 

Browsers:

Google Chrome/Chromium: A great browser from Google based on open source projects.http://www.google.com/chrome

Firefox: The world’s most popular open source web browser. http://www.firefox.com/

reKonq: A refreshed default KDE browser which sports an uncluttered interface.http://rekonq.kde.org/

Opera: The “fastest and most advanced" browser available today. http://www.opera.com/

Communication:

Kopete: Great IM Linux software for KDE. http://kopete.kde.org/

Emesene: Linux Chat software which connects the user to different networks like MSN, Gtalk, Facebook chat, Jabber and others. http://blog.emesene.org/p/downloads.html

Pidgin: The most popular open source cross-platform IM program. http://www.pidgin.im/

Skype: If the most popular VoIP desktop client is on Linux we can’t afford to miss this!http://www.skype.com/intl/en/home

Desktop Environment:

GNOME: The most widely used GTK desktop environment. http://www.gnome.org/

KDE: A beautifully flashy desktop environment based on Qt. http://www.kde.org/

Enlightenment: A desktop environment that is lightweight yet aesthetically good-looking. http://www.enlightenment.org/

Xfce: A lightweight but highly capable GTK desktop environment that still makes use of panels by default. http://www.xfce.org/

Razor-qt: A lightweight desktop environment based on Qt, the same technology which KDE uses. http://razor-qt.org/

Download Managers:

Miro: Helps downloading torrents and online videos. http://www.getmiro.com/

Wget: A Non-interactive commandline tool which helps retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. http://www.gnu.org/s/wget/

Uget: A Free and open source download manager. http://urlget.sourceforge.net/

Transmission: Torrent download software for Linux. http://www.transmissionbt.com/

DVD/CD Tools:

K3b: The CD/DVD Kreator for Linux. http://www.k3b.org/

Gmount ISO: A simple program to mount ISO files to folders. https://launchpad.net/gmount-iso

Brasero: A utility to burn CDs. http://projects.gnome.org/brasero/

Editor Tools:

Vim: An extremely customizable and complex editor for the terminal with tonns of features. http://www.vim.org/

Gedit: A powerful editor out-of-the-box, and a favorite among many GNOME users.http://projects.gnome.org/gedit/

Leafpad: A simple GTK+ text editor that emphasizes simplicity.http://tarot.freeshell.org/leafpad/

Bluefish: Editor for programmers with focus on dynamic and interactive websites.http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/index.html

Email Clients:

Thunderbird: Most popular cross-platform open source email client.http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/

Claws Mail: A user-friendly, lightweight, and fast email client. http://www.claws-mail.org/

Evolution: A great email and calendar program for GNOME.http://projects.gnome.org/evolution/

Firewall Applications:

Mondo Rescue: A capable disk recovery toolkit. http://gufw.tuxfamily.org/

Firestarter: A good quality firewall with graphical interface http://www.fs-security.com/

Office:

Libre Office: An enhanced office suite based off of OpenOffice. http://www.libreoffice.org/

Abiword: A lightweight word processor, usually replaces full office suites.http://www.abisource.com/

OpenOffice: The original open source office suite. http://www.openoffice.org/

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Pictures:

Inkscape: A SVG file editor. http://inkscape.org/

GIMP: The most popular open source image editor. http://www.gimp.org/

Darktable: A sophisticated program that works with digital negatives and RAW pictures.http://www.darktable.org/

F-Spot: A photo manager with neat simple features. http://f-spot.org/

Productivity Tools:

Tomboy: An amazing note-taking Linux application. http://projects.gnome.org/tomboy/?pagewanted=all

Hamster Time Tracker: Tracks the total time you spend on a project.http://projecthamster.wordpress.com/

Shutter: An advanced and brilliant screenshot tool. http://shutter-project.org/

Dropbox: One of the best Linux file synchronization tools. http://www.dropbox.com/

Gnome Tweak Tool: Helps in easy configuration of advanced settings while using Gnome Shell. http://live.gnome.org/GnomeTweakTool

Wunderlist: A Linux software for clean and crisp to-do list which syncs on their own servers. http://www.wunderlist.com/

System Maintenance:

Ubuntu-Tweak: A great control panel to manage many features in Ubuntu.http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnome-system-monitor/

System Monitor: Simple and interesting Linux software to view systems stats.http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnome-system-monitor/

Video:

VLC Media Player: A media player that can handle virtually everything.http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Openshot: An innovative video editor with 3D effects. http://www.openshotvideo.com/

Pitivi: A simple and easy-to-use video editor for GNOME. http://www.pitivi.org/

Blender: Highly advanced 3D content creation software that has created numerous open source video games and movies. http://www.blender.org/