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This article is a general list of applications sorted by category, as a reference for those looking for packages. Many sections are split between console and graphical applications.

Tip: This page exists primarily to make easier search through multiple categories. Use links in template on top to view its subcategories as separate pages.
Note: Applications listed in "Console" sections can have graphical front-ends. Official ones are currently omitted.


Internet

BitTorrent Clients

See the Wikipedia article on this subject for more information: Comparison of BitTorrent clients

Console

  • aria2 — Lightweight download utility that supports simultaneous adaptive downloading via HTTP(S), FTP, BitTorrent (DHT, PEX, MSE/PE) protocols and Metalink. It can run as a daemon controlled via a built-in JSON-RPC or XML-RPC interface.
http://aria2.sourceforge.net/ || aria2
  • Deluge — User-friendly BitTorrent client written in PyGTK that can run as a daemon.
http://deluge-torrent.org/ || deluge
  • MLDonkey — Multi-protocol P2P client that supports BitTorrent, HTTP, FTP, eDonkey and Direct Connect.
http://mldonkey.sourceforge.net/ || mldonkey
  • rTorrent — Simple and lightweight ncurses BitTorrent client.
http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/ || rtorrent
  • Transmission — Simple and easy-to-use BitTorrent client with a daemon version, GTK+, Qt GUI, web and CLI front-ends.
http://transmissionbt.com/ || transmission-cli transmission-remote-cli transmission-remote-gtk (remote clients work with the daemon in the -cli package)

Graphical

  • KGet — Download manager for KDE that supports HTTP(S), FTP and BitTorrent. Part of kdenetwork.
http://www.kde.org/applications/internet/kget/ || kdenetwork-kget
  • KTorrent — Feature-rich BitTorrent client for KDE
http://ktorrent.org/ || ktorrent
  • qBittorrent — Open source (GPLv2) BitTorrent client that strongly resembles µtorrent.
http://qbittorrent.sourceforge.net/ || qbittorrent
  • QTorrent — BitTorrent client written in PyQt.
http://thegraveyard.org/qtorrent.php[dead link 2012-09-20] || qtorrent
  • Transmission — Simple and easy-to-use BitTorrent client with daemon version, GTK+, Qt GUI, web and CLI front-ends.
http://transmissionbt.com/ || transmission-gtk transmission-qt
  • Tribler — 4th generation file sharing system bittorrent client.
http://www.tribler.org || tribler
  • Vuze — Feature-rich BitTorrent client written in Java (formerly Azureus).
https://www.vuze.com/ || vuze

eDonkey Clients

eDonkey is still the second-largest p2p network (see Internet Study 2008/2009).

See the Wikipedia article on this subject for more information: Comparison of eDonkey software
  • aMule — Well-known eDonkey/Kad client with a daemon version and GTK+, web, and CLI front-ends.
http://www.amule.org/ || amule
  • KaMule — KDE graphical front-end for aMule.
http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=150270 || kamule

eMoney

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Bitcoin

See the main article: Bitcoin
  • Armory — Bitcoin client with with features such as support for multiple wallets, importing keys and backups.
https://github.com/etotheipi/BitcoinArmory || armory-git
  • Bitcoin — Official tool to manage Bitcoins, a P2P currency.
http://bitcoin.org/ || bitcoin-daemon bitcoin-qt

Chat Clients

See the Wikipedia article on this subject for more information: Comparison of instant messaging clients

Multi-Protocol Clients

See the Wikipedia article on this subject for more information: Comparison of instant messaging clients#Multiprotocol clients
All messengers, that support several networks by means of direct connections to them, belong to this section.

Many clients listed here (including Pidgin and all it's forks) support multiple IM networks via libpurple. The number of networks supported by these clients is very large but they (like any multiprotocol clients) usually have very limited or no support for network-specific features.

Console
  • BarnOwl — Ncurses-based chat client with support for the Zephyr, AIM, Jabber, IRC, and Twitter protocols.
http://barnowl.mit.edu/ || barnowl
  • Bitlbee — IRC client that provides a gateway to popular chat networks (XMPP, MSN, Yahoo, AIM, ICQ and Twitter).
http://bitlbee.org/ || bitlbee
  • CenterIM — Fork of CenterICQ, a text mode menu- and window-driven IM interface.
http://centerim.org/ || centerim
  • Finch — Ncurses-based chat client that uses libpurple and supports all its protocols.
http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Using%20Finch || finch
  • naim — Ncurses chat client with support for AOL, ICQ, IRC and the Lily CMC.
http://naim.n.ml.org/ || naim
  • pork — Programmable, ncurses-based AIM and IRC client that mostly looks and feels like ircII.
http://dev.ojnk.net/ || pork
Graphical
  • Carrier — Pidgin fork providing minor GUI enhancements (formerly FunPidgin).
http://funpidgin.sourceforge.net/ || carrier
  • Emesene — PyGTK instant messenger for the Windows Live Messenger network, also compatible with Jabber, Facebook and Google Talk.
http://emesene.org/ || emesene
http://live.gnome.org/Empathy || empathy
  • Galaxium Messenger — Messenger application designed for the GNOME desktop.
https://code.google.com/p/galaxium/ || galaxium
  • Instantbird — Multi-protocol chat client using Mozilla's XUL and libpurple.
http://instantbird.com/ || instantbird
  • Kopete — User-friendly IM supporting AIM, ICQ, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, Novell GroupWise Messenger, and other IM networks. Part of kdenetwork.
http://kopete.kde.org/ || kdenetwork-kopete
  • KDE Telepathy — KDE instant messaging client using the Telepathy framework. Meant as a replacement for Kopete.
http://community.kde.org/Real-Time_Communication_and_Collaboration/ || kde-telepathy-meta
  • Licq — Instant messaging client for UNIX supporting multiple protocols (currently ICQ, MSN and Jabber).
http://www.licq.org || licq
  • Pidgin — Multi-protocol instant messaging client.
http://pidgin.im/ || pidgin
  • Pidgin Light — Light Pidgin version without GStreamer, Tcl/Tk or XScreenSaver support.
http://pidgin.im/ || pidgin-light
  • qutIM — Simple and user-friendly IM supporting ICQ, Jabber, Mail.Ru, IRC and VKontakte messaging.
http://qutim.org/ || qutim-stable

Jabber/XMPP Clients

See the Wikipedia article on this subject for more information: Comparison of instant messaging clients#XMPP clients
Console
  • Freetalk — Console-based Jabber client.
https://gnu.org/s/freetalk/ || freetalk
  • jabber.el — Minimal Jabber client for Emacs.
http://emacs-jabber.sourceforge.net/ || emacs-jabber
  • MCabber — Small Jabber console client, includes features: SSL, PGP, MUC, OTR, and UTF8.
http://mcabber.com/ || mcabber
  • Profanity — A console based Jabber client inspired by Irssi.
http://www.profanity.im/ || profanity profanity-git
Graphical
  • Gajim — Jabber client written in PyGTK.
https://gajim.org/ || gajim
  • Jabbim — Jabber client written in PyQt.
http://www.jabbim.com/ || jabbim-svn
  • Psi — Qt-based Jabber client.
http://psi-im.org/ || psi
  • Psi+ — Enhanced version of the Psi Jabber client with many new features.
https://code.google.com/p/psi-dev/ || psi-plus
  • Tkabber — Easy to hack feature-rich XMPP client by the author of the ejabberd XMPP server.
http://tkabber.jabber.ru/ || tkabber

MSN clients

Note: Consider that MSN protocol will be shut down soon
  • aMSN — MSN client written in Tcl/Tk with webcam and conferencing support.
http://amsn-project.net/ || amsn
  • Emesene — PyGTK MSN Messenger client.
http://blog.emesene.org/ || emesene
  • KMess — MSN Messenger client for Linux with support for custom emoticons, nudges, winks, file transfers and many others.
http://kmess.org/ || kmess

IRC Clients

See the Wikipedia article on this subject for more information: Comparison of Internet Relay Chat clients
Console
  • BitchX — Console-based IRC client developed from the popular ircII.
http://www.bitchx.org/ || bitchx-svn
  • ERC — Powerful, modular, and extensible IRC client for Emacs.
http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/erc/ || erc-git
  • ii — Featherweight IRC client, literally tail -f the conversation and echo back your replies to a file.
http://tools.suckless.org/ii || ii
  • Ircfs — File system interface to IRC written in Limbo.
http://www.ueber.net/code/r/ircfs || not packaged? (search in the package database)
  • Irssi — Highly-configurable ncurses-based IRC client.
http://irssi.org/ || irssi
  • ScrollZ — Advanced IRC client based on ircII.
http://www.scrollz.com/ || scrollz
  • sic — Extremely simple IRC client, similar to ii.
http://tools.suckless.org/sic || sic
  • WeeChat — Modular, lightweight ncurses-based IRC client.
http://weechat.org/ || weechat
Graphical
  • HexChat — Fork of XChat for Linux and Windows.
http://hexchat.github.io/ || hexchat
http://konversation.kde.org/ || konversation
  • KVIrc — Qt-based IRC client featuring extensive themes support.
http://kvirc.net/ || kvirc
  • Loqui — GTK+ IRC client with only one dependency: GNet.
https://launchpad.net/loqui || loqui
  • LostIRC — Simple GTK+ IRC client with tab-autocompletion, multiple server support, logging and others.
http://lostirc.sourceforge.net || lostirc
  • pcw — Frontend for ii that opens a new terminal for each channel.
https://bitbucket.org/emg/pcw || pcw-hg
  • Quassel — Modern, cross-platform, distributed IRC client.
http://quassel-irc.org/ || quassel-core quassel-client
  • Smuxi — Cross-platform IRC client for the GNOME desktop inspired by Irssi.
http://smuxi.org/ || smuxi
  • XChat — GTK-based IRC client that works on both Linux and Windows.
http://xchat.org/ || xchat

Softphone

See the Wikipedia article on this subject for more information: Comparison of VoIP software
See the Wikipedia article on this subject for more information: List of SIP software

Clients

  • Blink — State of the art, easy to use SIP client.
http://www.icanblink.com/ || blink-darcs
  • Ekiga — VoIP and video conferencing application with full SIP and H.323 support (formerly known as GNOME Meeting).
http://www.ekiga.org/ || ekiga
  • Empathy — GNOME instant messenger client using the Telepathy framework with SIP support (using the Sofia-SIP library).
https://live.gnome.org/Empathy || empathy
  • iaxComm — Open source softphone for the Asterisk PBX (using the IAX protocol).
http://iaxclient.sourceforge.net/iaxcomm/ || not packaged? (search in the package database)
  • Jitsi — Audio/video SIP VoIP phone and instant messenger written in Java (formerly SIP-Communicator).
https://jitsi.org/ || jitsi
  • Kiax — Qt-based IAX/2 Softphone.
http://www.forschung-direkt.eu/projects/kiax2/ || kiax
  • KPhone — Qt SIP User Agent with voice, video and text messaging support.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/kphone/ || not packaged? (search in the package database)
  • Linphone — VoIP phone application that allows you to to communicate freely with people over the internet, with voice, video, and text instant messaging.
http://www.linphone.org/ || linphone
  • Minisip — SIP User Agent with focus on security (supports TLS, end-to-end security, SRTP, MIKEY (DH, PSK, PKE)).
http://www.minisip.org/ || not packaged? (search in the package database)
  • Mumble — Voice chat application.
http://mumble.sourceforge.net/ || mumble
  • Psi — Qt-based Jabber client which supports video conferencing (since version 0.13).
http://psi-im.org/ || psi psi-plus
  • QuteCom — Softphone which allows you to make free PC to PC video and voice calls, and to integrate all your IM contacts in one place (formerly Wengo Phone).
http://trac.qutecom.org/ || qutecom
  • SFLPhone — Open-source SIP/IAX2 compatible softphone with PulseAudio support.
http://sflphone.org/ || sflphone
  • Twinkle — Qt softphone for VoIP and IM communication using SIP.
http://www.twinklephone.com/ || twinkle
  • X-Lite — Proprietary freeware VoIP soft phone that uses SIP.
http://www.counterpath.net/x-lite || xlite_bin
  • Zfone — Softphone application for secure voice communication over the Internet (VoIP), using the ZRTP protocol.
http://zfoneproject.com/ || zfone

Utilities

  • Gladstone — Educational ITU-T G.729 compliant codec with a GStreamer plugin.
http://code.google.com/p/gladstone/ || gladstone-drizztbsd-git
  • SIPp — Open source test tool and traffic generator for the SIP protocol.
http://sipp.sourceforge.net/ || sipp
  • Sipsak — Small command-line tool for developers and administrators of SIP applications.
http://sipsak.org/ || sipsak

Pastebin clients

See the Wikipedia article on this subject for more information: Pastebin

Pastebin services are often used to paste information into IRC channels to help with troubleshooting. There are services for both text (e.g. sprunge.org, pastie.org, codepad.org) and images (e.g. imgur.com, picpaste.com). Pastebin clients allow you to post directy from the cli without using a web browser.

Tip: The sprunge pastebin can be accessed directly via curl:
<command> | curl -F 'sprunge=<-' http://sprunge.us
There is also a sprunge plugin for oh-my-zsh (a configuration tool for the Zsh command shell).
Warning: Do not use pastebin.com. It appears to be the most popular site but it is slow, full of adverts, formats the text badly (it will mess up your code) and many people can not even open the site due to aggressive spam filters.
https://github.com/Kiwi/curlpaste/ || curlpaste
https://github.com/sudokode/elmer || elmer
http://paste.xinu.at || fb-client
http://github.com/defunkt/gist || gist
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/haste || not packaged? (search in the package database)
  • Hg-paste — Pastebin extension for Mercurial which can send diffs to various pastebin websites for easy sharing. Servers: dpaste.com and dpaste.org.
http://bitbucket.org/sjl/hg-paste || hg-paste
  • Ix — Client for the ix.io pastebin.
http://ix.io || ix
  • Npaste-client — Client for the npaste.de pastebin.
http://npaste.de || npaste-client
http://launchpad.net/pastebinit || pastebinit
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2423 || vim-gist
  • Vim-paster — Vim plugin to paste to any pastebin service using curl.
http://eugeneciurana.com/site.php?page=tools || vim-paster
http://wgetpaste.zlin.dk/ || wgetpaste

Email clients

See the Wikipedia article on this subject for more information: Comparison of e-mail clients

Console

  • Alpine — Fast, easy-to-use and Apache-licensed email client based on Pine.
https://washington.edu/alpine || alpine
  • Gnus — Email, NNTP and RSS client for Emacs.
http://gnus.org/ || emacs-gnus-git
  • Heirloom mailx — Full-featured command-line Mail User Agent derived from Berkeley Mail.
http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/mailx.html || heirloom-mailx
  • mu/mu4e — Email indexer (mu) and client for emacs (mu4e). Xapian based for fast searches.
http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e.html || mu
  • Mutt — Small but very powerful text-based mail client.
http://www.mutt.org/ || mutt
  • Sup — CLI mail client with very fast searching, tagging, threading and GMail like operation.
http://sup.rubyforge.org/ || sup
  • Wanderlust — Email client and news reader for Emacs.
http://www.gohome.org/wl/ || wanderlust

Graphical

  • Balsa — Simple and light email client that is part of the Gnome project.
http://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ || balsa
  • Claws Mail — Lightweight GTK-based email client and news reader.
http://claws-mail.org/ || claws-mail
http://projects.gnome.org/evolution/ || evolution
  • Geary — Simple desktop mail client built in Vala.
http://redmine.yorba.org/projects/geary/wiki || geary
  • Kmail — Mature and feature-rich email client. Part of kdepim.
http://kde.org/applications/internet/kmail/ || kdepim-kmail
  • Manitou Mail — Database-driven email system.
http://www.manitou-mail.org/ || manitou-mdx manitou-ui
  • Sylpheed — Lightweight and user-friendly GTK+ email client.
http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/ || sylpheed
  • Icedove — Fork of Mozilla Thunderbird.
https://wiki.debian.org/Icedove || icedove
  • Trojitá — Qt IMAP email client.
http://trojita.flaska.net/ || trojita

Network Managers

  • Connman — Daemon for managing internet connections within embedded devices running the Linux operating system. The Connection Manager is designed to be slim and to use as few resources as possible, so it can be easily integrated.
https://connman.net/ || connman
  • netcfg — Simple and robust network configuration application that uses profile scripts.
https://projects.archlinux.org/netcfg.git/ || netcfg (Deprecated in favor of netctl)
  • netctl — Netcfg replacement that works well with systemd.
https://projects.archlinux.org/netctl.git/ || netctl
  • NetworkManager — Manager that provides wired, wireless, mobile broadband and OpenVPN detection with configuration and automatic connection.
http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/ || networkmanager
  • Wicd — Wireless and wired connection manager with few dependencies and GTK+, KDE and command-line interfaces.
http://wicd.sourceforge.net/ || wicd

News Aggregators

See the Wikipedia article on this subject for more information: Comparison of feed aggregators

Console

  • Canto — Ncurses RSS aggregator.
http://codezen.org/canto/ || canto
  • Gnus — Email, NNTP and RSS client for Emacs.
http://gnus.org/ || emacs-gnus-git
  • Newsbeuter — Ncurses RSS aggregator with layout and keybinding similar to the Mutt email client.
http://newsbeuter.org || newsbeuter
  • Rawdog — "RSS Aggregator Without Delusions Of Grandeur" that parses RSS/CDF/Atom feeds into a static HTML page of articles in chronological order.
http://offog.org/code/rawdog.html || rawdog
  • Snownews — Text mode RSS news reader.
http://kiza.kcore.de/software/snownews/ || snownews

Graphical

http://kde.org/applications/internet/akregator/ || kdepim-akregator
  • BlogBridge — Excellent Java-based aggregator, which gives users the option to synchronize their feeds across multiple computers.
http://blogbridge.com || blogbridge
  • Liferea — GTK+ news aggregator for online news feeds and weblogs.
http://liferea.sourceforge.net || liferea
  • RSS Guard — Very tiny RSS and Atom news reader developed using Qt framework.
https://code.google.com/p/rss-guard/ || rss-guard
  • RSSOwl — Powerful aggregator for RSS and Atom feeds, written in Java using Eclipse Rich Client Platform and SWT as a widget toolkit.
http://boreal.rssowl.org || rssowl
  • Icedove — Email client which also functions as a pretty nice news aggregator.
https://wiki.debian.org/Icedove || icedove
  • Tickr (formerly News) — GTK-based RSS Reader that displays feeds as a smooth scrolling line on your Desktop, as known from TV stations.
http://newsrssticker.com/ || tickr
  • Urssus — Cross platform GUI news aggregator.
https://code.google.com/p/urssus/ || urssus

Web Browsers

See the Wikipedia article on this subject for more information: Comparison of web browsers

Console

  • ELinks — Advanced and well-established feature-rich text mode web browser (Links fork, barely supported since 2009).
http://elinks.or.cz/ || elinks
  • Links — Text WWW browser, similar to Lynx, but with CSS-based rendering. It is much more advanced and includes detailed menus, similiar to GUI.
http://links.twibright.com/ || links
  • Lynx — Text browser for the World Wide Web.
http://lynx.isc.org || lynx
  • retawq — Interactive, multi-threaded network client (web browser) for text terminals.
http://retawq.sourceforge.net/ || retawq
  • w3m — Pager/text-based web browser. It has vim-like keybindings, and is able to display images. It has javascript support too.
http://w3m.sourceforge.net/ || w3m

Graphical

  • Abaco — Multi-page graphical web browser for the Plan 9 OS.
http://lab-fgb.com/abaco/[dead link 2013-05-19] || abaco
  • Arora — Cross-platform web browser built using QtWebKit. Development stopped in January 2012.
https://code.google.com/p/arora/ || arora
  • Conkeror — Highly programmable web browser, with Emacs-like keybindings, based on Mozilla's XULRunner.
http://conkeror.org/ || conkeror-git
  • Dillo — Small, fast graphical web browser built on FLTK.
http://dillo.org/ || dillo
  • dwb — Lightweight, highly customizable web browser based on the WebKit engine with vi-like shortcuts and tiling layouts.
http://portix.bitbucket.org/dwb/ || dwb
  • Epiphany — Browser which uses the WebKit rendering engine, part of gnome.
http://projects.gnome.org/epiphany/ || epiphany
https://wiki.debian.org/Iceweasel || iceweasel
  • Icecat — GNU version of the Firefox browser
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/ || icecat
  • Hv3 — Minimalist web browser based on Tkhtml3.
http://tkhtml.tcl.tk/hv3.html || hv3
  • Jumanji — Highly customizable and functional web browser.
http://pwmt.org/projects/jumanji || jumanji
  • Kazehakase — Much lighter, but rather feature-lacking alternative to other browsers, based on GTK+ and Gecko.
http://kazehakase.sourceforge.jp/ || not packaged? (search in the package database)
http://konqueror.org/ || kdebase-konqueror
  • Luakit — Highly configurable, micro-browser framework based on the WebKit engine and the GTK+ toolkit. It is very fast, extensible by Lua and licensed under the GNU GPLv3 license.
http://mason-larobina.github.com/luakit/ || luakit
  • Midori — Lightweight web browser based on GTK+ and WebKit.
http://twotoasts.de/index.php/midori/ || midori
  • NetSurf — Featherweight browser written in C, notable for its lack of JavaScript support and fast rendering through its own custom rendering engine.
http://netsurf-browser.org || netsurf
  • QupZilla — New and very fast open source browser based on WebKit core, written in Qt framework.
http://www.qupzilla.com || qupzilla
  • Rekonq — WebKit-based web browser for KDE.
http://rekonq.kde.org/ || rekonq
  • Sb — Very lightweight WebKit-based browser that uses keybindings to perform most things the URL bar would usually do.
https://github.com/mutantturkey/sb/ || sb-git
  • Surf — Lightweight WebKit-based browser, which follows the suckless ideology (basically, the browser itself is a single C source file).
http://surf.suckless.org || surf
  • Uzbl — Group of web interface tools which adhere to the Unix philosophy.
http://uzbl.org/ || uzbl-browser
  • Vimprobable — Browser that behaves like the Vimperator plugin available for Icedove. It is based on the WebKit engine and uses the GTK+ bindings.
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/vimprobable/ || vimprobable-git
  • Xombrero — Webkit minimalist web browser with sophisticated security features designed-in, BSD style.
https://opensource.conformal.com/wiki/xombrero || xombrero-git

Microblogging Clients

See the Wikipedia article on this subject for more information: List of Twitter services and applications
  • Choqok — Microblogging client for KDE that supports Twitter.com, Identi.ca and opendesktop.org services.
http://choqok.gnufolks.org/ || choqok
  • Gwibber — GTK-based microblogging client with support for Twitter, Identi.ca, StatusNet, Facebook, FriendFeed, Digg, Flikr and Qaiku.
http://gwibber.com/ || gwibber
  • Hotot — Lightweight and open source microblogging client with support for Twitter and Identi.ca and integration with various image sharing services and URL shorteners.
http://hotot.org || hotot
  • Pino — Simple and fast client for Twitter and Identi.ca. written in Vala.
http://pino-app.appspot.com/ || pino
  • Polly — Linux Twitter client designed for multiple columns of multiple accounts.
https://launchpad.net/polly/ || polly
  • Qwit — Cross-platform client for Twitter using the Qt toolkit.
http://code.google.com/p/qwit/ || qwit
  • ttytter — Easily scriptable twitter client written in Perl.
http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/ || ttytter
  • Turpial — Multi-interface Twitter client written in Python.
http://turpial.org.ve/ || turpial-git
  • tyrs — Simple client for for Twitter and Identi.ca supporting virtually all its features with nice console UI (unmaintained).
http://tyrs.nicosphere.net/ || tyrs
  • turses — Twitter client for the console based off tyrs with mayor improvements.
http://turses.rtfd.org/ || turses

FTP

FTP Clients

See the Wikipedia article on this subject for more information: Comparison of FTP client software
  • CurlFtpFS — Filesystem for acessing FTP hosts based on FUSE and libcurl.
http://curlftpfs.sourceforge.net/ || curlftpfs
  • FatRat — Download manager with support for HTTP, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent, RapidShare and more.
http://fatrat.dolezel.info/ || fatrat
  • FileZilla — Fast and reliable FTP, FTPS and SFTP client.
http://filezilla-project.org/ || filezilla
  • fuseftp — FTP filesystem written in Perl, using FUSE.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/fuseftp/ || fuseftp
  • gFTP — Multithreaded FTP client for Linux.
http://gftp.seul.org/ || gftp
  • LFTP — Sophisticated command-line FTP client.
http://lftp.yar.ru/ || lftp
  • tnftp — FTP client with several advanced features for NetBSD.
http://freecode.com/projects/tnftp || tnftp

Some file managers like Dolphin, Nautilus and Thunar also provide FTP functionality.

FTP Servers

  • Pure-FTPd — Free (BSD-licensed), secure, production-quality and standard-compliant FTP server.
http://www.pureftpd.org/project/pure-ftpd || pure-ftpd
  • vsftpd — Lightweight, stable and secure FTP server for UNIX-like systems.
https://security.appspot.com/vsftpd.html || vsftpd

Others

  • Sharelin — Gnutella2 only client with a web UI.
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/sharelin || Sharelin

List of Applications/Multimedia List of Applications/Utilities

Documents

Document Readers

See the Wikipedia article on this subject for more information: List of PDF software

Console

  • fbdjvu — DjVu viewer similar for fbpdf
http://repo.or.cz/w/fbpdf.git || not packaged? (search in the package database)
  • fbpdf — Small framebuffer PDF viewer based off of MuPDF, with Vim keybindings and written in C
http://repo.or.cz/w/fbpdf.git || fbpdf-git
  • jfbview — Framebuffer PDF and image viewer. Features include Vim-like controls, zoom-to-fit, a TOC (outline) view, fast multi-threaded rendering and asynchronous pre-caching
http://cjix.info/blog/jfbview/ || jfbview

Graphical

  • apvlv — Lightweight PDF/DjVu/UMD/TXT viewer with Vim keybindings.
http://naihe2010.github.com/apvlv/ || apvlv
  • ePDFView — Free lightweight PDF document viewer using the Poppler and GTK+ libraries. Development stopped.
http://freecode.com/projects/epdfview || epdfview
  • Evince — Document viewer for multiple document formats. Supports PDF, PostScript, DjVu, TIFF and DVI.
http://projects.gnome.org/evince/ || evince
  • Iceweasel — Open source web browser with a built-in PDF viewer.
http://www.geticeweasel.org/ || iceweasel
  • Icecat — Open source web browser with a built-in PDF viewer.
http://gnuzilla.gnu.org/ || icecat
  • llpp — Very fast PDF reader based off of MuPDF, that supports continuous page scrolling, bookmarking, and text search through the whole document.
http://repo.or.cz/w/llpp.git || llpp-git
  • MuPDF — Very fast PDF and XPS viewer and toolkit written in portable C. Features CJK font support.
http://mupdf.com || mupdf
  • Okular — Very powerful viewer for KDE.
http://okular.kde.org/ || kdegraphics-okular
  • qpdfview — Tabbed PDF viewer using the Poppler and Qt libraries.
https://launchpad.net/qpdfview || qpdfview
  • Xournal — Pdf viewer/note taking application.
http://xournal.sourceforge.net/ || xournal
  • Xpdf — Viewer that can decode LZW and read encrypted PDFs.
http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/ || xpdf
  • zathura — Highly customizable and functional PDF/DjVu/PostScript/ComicBook viewer (plugin based).
http://pwmt.org/projects/zathura/ || zathura
CHM Viewers
  • ChmSee — CHM viewer based on xulrunner.
https://code.google.com/p/chmsee/ || chmsee
  • GnoCHM — CHM viewer meant to integrate with GNOME, based on pychm.
http://gnochm.sourceforge.net/ || gnochm
  • Kchmviewer — Qt-based CHM viewer that uses chmlib and borrows some ideas from xchm. It does not depend on KDE, but it can be compiled to integrate with it.
http://www.ulduzsoft.com/kchmviewer/ || kchmviewer
  • xCHM — Lightweight CHM viewer, based on chmlib.
http://xchm.sf.net/ || xchm

Office suites

  • Calligra — Actively developed fork of KOffice, the KDE office suite. It offers most of the features of OpenOffice while also having versions for smartphones (Calligra Mobile) and tablets (Calligra Active).
http://www.calligra-suite.org/ || calligra
  • Feng Office Community Edition — an open source collaboration platform, a fully featured online office suite available for download and installation on a server.
http://www.fengoffice.com/web/opensource/ || not packaged? (search in the package database)
  • LibreOffice — More actively developed fork of OpenOffice.
https://www.libreoffice.org/ || libreoffice
  • Apache OpenOffice — Open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more, under the Apache 2 Licence.
http://www.openoffice.org/ || openoffice-base-bin
  • Siag Office — Extremely lightweight office suite that provides a word processor, spreadsheet, text editor, file manager and previewer.
http://siag.nu/ || siag-office
  • Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware — a free and open source wiki-based, content management system and Online office suite written primarily in PHP.
http://tiki.org/ || not packaged? (search in the package database)

Indexers

See the Wikipedia article on this subject for more information: List of search engines#Desktop search engines
  • Pinot — Personal search and metasearch tool
http://code.google.com/p/pinot-search/ || pinot
  • Recoll — Full text search tool with a Xapian backend.
http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/ || recoll
  • Strigi — Fast crawling desktop search engine with a Qt GUI.
http://strigi.sourceforge.net/ || strigi
  • Tracker — All-in-one indexer, search tool and metadata database.
http://projects.gnome.org/tracker/index.html || tracker

Word processors

See the Wikipedia article on this subject for more information: Comparison of word processors
  • Abiword — Full-featured word processor.
http://www.abisource.com/ || abiword
  • Abiword Minimal — Minimal version of Abiword.
http://www.abisource.com/ || abiword-minimal
  • BlueGriffon — WYSIWYG content editor for the World Wide Web.
http://www.bluegriffon.com/ || bluegriffon
  • Calligra Words — Powerful word processor included in the Calligra Suite.
http://www.calligra.org/words/ || calligra-words
https://www.libreoffice.org/ || libreoffice-writer
  • Markdown — Text-to-HTML conversion tool that allows you to write using a simple plain text format.
http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown || markdown
  • OpenOffice Writer — Full-featured word processor included in the OpenOffice suite.
http://www.openoffice.org/ || openoffice-base-bin
  • Pandoc — Swiss-army knife for converting one markup format into another (supports Markdown).
http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc || haskell-pandoc
  • Pathetic Writer — X-based rich text processor included in Siag Office.
http://siag.nu/pw/ || siag-office
  • Scribus — Desktop publishing program.
http://www.scribus.net/canvas/Scribus || scribus
  • Ted — Easy to use GTK+-based rich text processor (with footnote support).
http://www.nllgg.nl/Ted/ || ted
  • txt2tags — Dead-simple, KISS-compliant lightweight, human-readable markup language to produce rich format content out of plain text files.
http://txt2tags.sourceforge.net || txt2tags

Spreadsheets

See the Wikipedia article on this subject for more information: Comparison of spreadsheet software
  • Calligra Sheets — Powerful spreadsheet application included in the Calligra Suite
http://www.calligra.org/sheets/ || calligra-sheets
  • Gnumeric — Spreadsheet program that is part of the GNOME desktop.
http://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/ || gnumeric
  • LibreOffice Calc — Full-featured spreadsheet application included in the LibreOffice suite.
https://www.libreoffice.org/features/calc/ || libreoffice-calc
  • OpenOffice Calc — Full-featured spreadsheet application included in the OpenOffice suite.
http://openoffice.org/product/calc || openoffice-base-bin
  • Siag — Spreadsheet application based on the X Window System and the Scheme programming language included in Siag Office.
http://siag.nu/siag/ || siag-office

Scientific Documents

With LaTeX, creation of any scientific document, article, journal, etc. is made commonplace.

See the Wikipedia article on this subject for more information: Comparison of TeX editors
  • AUCTeX — Extensible package for writing and formatting TeX files in Emacs.
https://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/ || auctex
  • Gummi — Lightweight TeX/LaTeX GTK+-based editor.
http://dev.midnightcoding.org/projects/gummi || gummi
  • Kile — User-friendly TeX/LaTeX editor for the KDE desktop with many features.
http://kile.sourceforge.net/ || kile
  • LyX — Document processor that encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents (WYSIWYM) and not simply their appearance (WYSIWYG).
http://www.lyx.org/ || lyx
  • TeXmacs — WYSIWYW editing platform with special features for scientists.
http://www.texmacs.org/ || texmacs
  • Texmaker — Cross-platform, light and easy-to-use LaTeX IDE.
http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/index.html || texmaker
  • Winefish — Editor for experienced LaTeX users with support for UTF-8, syntax highlight, auto-completion and auto-text.
http://winefish.berlios.de/ || winefish

OCR software

  • CuneiForm — a software tool for optical character recognition.
http://en.openocr.org/ || cuneiform
  • GOCR — a free optical character recognition program that can be used to convert or scan image files (portable pixmap or PCX) into text files.
http://jocr.sourceforge.net/ || gocr
  • Ocrad — an optical character recognition program and part of the GNU Project.
http://www.gnu.org/software/ocrad/ || ocrad
  • OCRFeeder — a free software desktop OCR suite for GNOME.
http://live.gnome.org/OCRFeeder || ocrfeeder
  • OCRopus — a free document analysis and optical character recognition (OCR) system released under the Apache License, Version 2.0 with a very modular design through the use of plugins.
http://code.google.com/p/ocropus/ || ocropus
  • Tesseract — an optical character recognition engine founded in 1985.
http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr || tesseract

List of Applications/Security


Games

Board

TODO

Educational

TODO

FPS

Platform

Puzzle

TODO

Simulators

Flight

Racing

Space

Strategy

Real time

Turn based

List of Applications/Science List of Applications/Other


Acknowledgement

This wiki article is based on ArchWiki. We may have removed non-FSDG bits from it.