 | avast! A Linux offering of the popular Avast antivirus scanner. Download |  | Clam AntiVirus The original open source virus scanner. Download |  | AVG A version of AVG’s Virus Scanner for Linux. Download |
 | Kaspersky Kaspersky antivirus software for Linux workstations. Download |
 | GUFW A graphical interface for the UFW firewall. Download |  | Shorewall An app to make managing iptables easier. Download |  | Firestarter A good quality firewall with graphical interface. Download |
 | Mondo Rescue A capable disk recovery toolkit. Download |  | TestDisk A utility to recover lost partitions. Download |  | safecopy A utility that extracts data from damaged areas and replaces dd. Download |
 | PhotoRec A video, document, and archive recovery utility. Download |  | ddrescue A simple data recovery utility. Download |
 | CrashPlan An excellent, sophisticated backup program. Download |  | BackupPC An open source backup system with web interface. Download |  | Deja Dup An extremely simple but effective backup program. Download |
 | Ubuntu-Tweak A great control panel to manage many features in Ubuntu. Download |  | System Monitor A simple and interesting way to view systems stats. Download |
 | Google Chrome/Chromium A great browser from Google based on open source projects. Download |  | Firefox The world’s most popular open source web browser. Download |  | Midori A lightweight webkit browser. Download |
 | Opera The “fastest and most advanced” browser available today. Download |  | Epiphany A simple web browser that is commonly shipped with GNOME. Download |  | Konquerer The default web browser of the KDE desktop environment. Download |
 | Thunderbird Most popular cross-platform open source email client. Download |  | Claws Mail A user-friendly, lightweight, and fast email client. Download |  | Evolution A great email and calendar program for GNOME. Download |
 | KMail A full-featured email client specifically for KDE. Download |
 | Kopete A great IM program for KDE. Download |  | Pidgin the most popular open source cross-platform IM program. Download |  | XChat An easy to use IRC client. Download |
 | Empathy An IM client similar to Pidgin, for shipping with GNOME. Download |  | TeamSpeak 3 Great multi-platform voice chat program. Download |  | Gwibber A straight-forward social messaging app. Download |
 | Inkscape A great editor for SVG files. Download |  | Shotwell A simple photo manager for GNOME. Download |  | F-Spot A photo manager like Shotwell but with more features. Download |
 | Cheese Photo Booth Take pictures with many funky effects. Download |  | GIMP The most popular open source image editor. Download |
 | Banshee A great iTunes-like music manager. Download |  | Rhythmbox Similar to iTunes and doesn’t depend on Mono. Download |  | MPlayer A very capable media player. Download |
 | OggConvert Able to convert most media types into the open source OGG format. Download |  | Sound Juicer Rips music off of your CDs into MP3s. Download |  | Amarok A great music manager for the KDE desktop environment. Download |
 | VLC Media Player A media player that can handle virtually everything. Download |  | Kdenlive An elaborate non-linear video editor for KDE. Download |  | Openshot An innovative video editor with 3D effects. Download |
 | Pitivi A simple and easy-to-use video editor for GNOME. Download |  | Totem A simple media player for common formats. Download |  | Hulu Desktop A good desktop counterpart for Hulu videos. Download |
 | GParted The most popular partition editor for Linux. Download |  | Nautilus Default file navigator for GNOME. Download |  | Dolphin Default file navigator for KDE with social media features. Download |
 | Thunar A lightweight file navigator for XFCE. Download |
 | LibreOffice An enhanced office suite based off of OpenOffice. Download |  | OpenOffice The original open source office suite. Download |  | Abiword A lightweight word processor, usually replaces full office suites. Download |
 | Gnumeric A great lightweight replacement for spreadsheet programs. Download |  | Xournal Take notes or annotate with high detail. Download |  | KOffice The default office suite for the KDE desktop environment. Download |
 | Tomboy A great note-taking application. Download |  | Gnote Gnote is a port of Tomboy to C++. Download |  | Hamster Time Tracker Tracks the time you spend on projects. Download |
 | Gnome-Do A quick way to launching your applications. Download |  | Docky One of the best docks around. Download |  | Avant Window Navigator A good dock alternative to Docky. Download |
 | Cairo Another dock alternative to Docky and AWN. Download |  | Shutter An amazingly advanced screenshot tool. Download |
 | GNOME The most widely used GTK desktop environment. Download |  | KDE A beautifully flashy desktop environment based on Qt. Download |  | LXDE An extremely lightweight desktop environment to maximize performance. Download |
 | Enlightenment A desktop environment that is lightweight yet aesthetically good-looking. Download |  | Xmonad A simple tiling window manager that allows great customization. Download |
 | File Roller The default archive manager in GNOME. Download |  | Ark A feature-rich archive manager for KDE. Download |
 | Brasero A utility to burn CDs. Download |  | Gmount ISO A simple program to mount ISO files to folders. Download |
| Transmission A program for downloading torrents. Download |  | Deluge An awesome but unappreciated cross-platform BitTorrent client. Download |  | Miro Download torrents and online videos. Download |
 | Urban Terror A popular first person shooter with good performance. Download |  | Alien Arena High detail first person shooter with sci-fi attitude. Download |  | Warzone 2100 Futuristic real time strategy game for survival. Download |
 | FlightGear The best open source cross-platform flight simulator. Download |  | Extreme Tux Racer A fun game to slide Tux down hills and collect fish. Download |  | Nexuiz Another high detail, futuristic first person shooter. Download |
 | Supertuxkart A racing game similar to Mario Kart. Download |  | The Mana World A fictional open source MMORPG. Download |  | openBVE A fantastic open source train simulator. Download |
 | LastPass Cross-browser and cross-OS online password manager. Download |  | KeePassX Open source password manager to stores passwords locally and encrypted. Download |  | TrueCrypt An open source solution to great file encryption. Download |
 | GnuCash Manages your money in multiple accounts and currencies. Download |  | Redshift Changes the color temperature of your screen to prevent tired eyes. Download |  | WINE A compatibility layer for some Windows programs. Download |
 | Compiz The best desktop effects on Linux. Download |  | Eclipse A full featured programming IDE. Download |  | Geany A lightweight programming code editor. Download |
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