Linux Software
Midori is a lightweight web browser. Features * Full integration with GTK+ 2 * Fast rendering with WebKit * Tabs, windows and session management * Flexibly configurable Web Search. * User scripts and user styles support. * Straightforward bookmark management. * Customizable and extensible interface. * Extensions such as Adblock, form history, mouse gestures or cookie management. .
LFTP is a shell-like command line ftp client. It is reliable: can retry operations and does reget automatically. It can do several transfers simultaneously in background. You can start a transfer in background and continue browsing the ftp site or another one. This all is done in one process. Background jobs will be completed in nohup mode if you exit or close modem connection. (more...)
WordPress is publishing software with a focus on ease of use, speed and a great user experience. WordPress is blessed with an active community, which is the heart of open source software. WordPress comes with a great set of features designed to make your experience as a publisher on the Internet as easy, pleasant and appealing as possible. (more...)
Firefox is a redesign of the Mozilla browser component (formerly known as Phoenix), similar to Galeon, K-Meleon and Camino, but written using the XUL user interface language and designed to be cross-platform. Firefox is now faster, more secure, and fully customizable to your online life. (more...)
NUT records what you eat and analyzes your meals for nutrient levels in terms of the "Daily Value" or DV which is the standard for food labeling in the US. The program uses the free food composition database from the USDA. This free nutritional analysis software was written for Unix systems (I use Linux), but see below for a pre-compiled DOS version. (more...)
A Fantasy-themed turn-based strategy game. Battle for control of villages, using a variety of units which have advantages and disadvantages in different types of terrain and against different types of attacks. Units gain experience and advance levels, and are carried over from one scenario to the next in a campaign.
DigiKam is an advanced digital photo management application for KDE, which makes importing and organizing digital photos a "snap". The photos can be organized in albums which can be sorted chronologically, by directory layout or by custom collections. digiKam also provides tagging functionality. (more...)
Python is an easy to learn, powerful programming language. It has efficient high-level data structures and a simple but effective approach to object-oriented programming. Python's elegant syntax and dynamic typing, together with its interpreted nature, make it an ideal language for scripting and rapid application development in many areas on most platforms. (more...)
The GNOME project was born as an effort to create an entirely free desktop environment for free systems. From the start, the main objective of GNOME has been to provide a user friendly suite of applications and an easy-to-use desktop. GNOME is a large collection of software, created over the last two years. (more...)
CrossOver Linux allows you to install many popular Windows productivity applications, plugins and games in Linux. You can think of it as an emulator, but it's different, because there's no Windows OS license required. Your applications integrate seamlessly with your Gnome or KDE environment. It's like running Windows on your Linux machine, but without Windows. (more...)
Asymptote is a powerful descriptive vector graphics language that provides a natural coordinate-based framework for technical drawing. Labels and equations are typeset with LaTeX, for high-quality PostScript output. A major advantage of Asymptote over other graphics packages is that it is a programming language, as opposed to just a graphics program.
Automake automatically generates make files compliant with the GNU coding standards. It was inspired by the 4.4 BSD make and include files, but aims to be portable and to confrom to the GNU standards for Make file variables and targets. Automake is a Perl script. The input files are called Makefile.am; the output files are called Makefile.in. They are intended for use with autoconf. (more...)
Adobe® Reader® software is the global standard for electronic document sharing. It is the only PDF viewer that can open and interact with all PDF documents. Use Adobe Reader to View and interact with PDF files that contain a wide variety of content types, including drawings, email messages, spreadsheets, videos, and other multimedia elements.
Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any browser that supports tables and forms (and Java for the File Manager module), you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and so on. Webmin consists of a simple web server, and a number of CGI programs which directly update system files like /etc/inetd.conf and /etc/passwd. (more...)
Tomboy is a simple note-taking application designed to be unobtrusive and friendly, while supporting inter-note links similar to a WikiWikiWeb to help you organize your notes and ideas. It can run either as a Gnome panel applet or a notification tray-icon. Tomboy supports many advanced editing features, but they won't bother you until you need them.
JAlbum is a gallery software that makes web albums from your digital images. We aim to make it the easiest to use and most powerful tool in this category - and always keep it free! So far over 7 million photo albums have been published with JAlbum and the software is started every 5 seconds somewhere in the world.
Areca is a personal file backup software developed in Java. Areca comes with a graphical user interface and a command-line interface. It offers many features such as incremental backups, encryption and email reports. Areca allows you to select files or directories to backup, filter, encrypt and compress their content, and store them on your backup location. (more...)
