List of Applications (Polski)
Artykuł zawiera ogólna listę aplikacji posortowanych wg kategorii. Dodatkowo występuje podział na aplikacje konsolowe oraz graficzne.
Contents
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1 Internet
- 1.1 Network managers
- 1.2 Web browsers
- 1.3 Downloaders
- 1.4 Communication
- 1.5 News, RSS, and blogs
- 1.6 Pastebin clients
- 1.7 Bitcoin
- 1.8 Surveying
- 2 Multimedia
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3 Utilities
- 3.1 Partitioning tools
- 3.2 Mount tools
- 3.3 Basic shell commands
- 3.4 Integrated development environments
- 3.5 Terminal emulators
- 3.6 Files
- 3.7 Disk cleaning
- 3.8 Disk usage display
- 3.9 Clock synchronization
- 3.10 System monitoring
- 3.11 System information viewers
- 3.12 Keyboard layout switchers
- 3.13 Power management
- 3.14 Clipboard managers
- 3.15 Wallpaper setters
- 3.16 Package management
- 3.17 Input method editor
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4 Documents and texts
- 4.1 Office suites
- 4.2 Word processors
- 4.3 Document markup languages
- 4.4 Spreadsheets
- 4.5 Scientific documents
- 4.6 Translation and localization
- 4.7 Text editors
- 4.8 Readers and Viewers
- 4.9 Scanning software
- 4.10 OCR software
- 4.11 Note taking organizers
- 4.12 Character Selector
- 4.13 Stylus notes taking
- 5 Security
- 6 Action and adventure
- 7 Arcade
- 8 Casual games
- 9 Chess simulators
- 10 Education
- 11 Interactive fiction
- 12 Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMO)
- 13 Platformer
- 14 Puzzle
- 15 Racing
- 16 Rogue-like
- 17 Role-Playing Game (RPG)
- 18 Shooters (FPS, Third Person)
- 19 Simulation
- 20 Strategy
- 21 Tycoon/Management Games
- 22 Visual novels
- 23 See also
- 24 Science
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25 Others
- 25.1 Work environment
- 25.2 Finance
- 25.3 Flashcards
- 25.4 Time management
- 25.5 Emulators
- 25.6 Amateur radio
- 26 See also
Internet
Network managers
- Connman — Daemon for managing internet connections within embedded devices running the Linux operating system. Comes with a command-line client, plus Enlightenment, GTK and Dmenu clients are available.
- netctl — Simple and robust tool to manage network connections via profiles. Intended for use with systemd.
- NetworkManager — Manager that provides wired, wireless, mobile broadband and OpenVPN detection with configuration and automatic connection.
- systemd-networkd — Native systemd daemon that manages network configuration. It includes support for basic network configuration through udev and networkd. The service is available with systemd > 210.
- Wicd — Wireless and wired connection manager with few dependencies. Comes with an ncurses interface, and a GTK interface wicd-gtk is available.
Web browsers
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of web browsers.
Console
- ELinks — Advanced and well-established feature-rich text mode web browser (Links fork, barely supported since 2009).
- Links — Text WWW browser. Includes a console version [links] similar to Lynx, and a graphical X-window/framebuffer version [links -g] (must be compiled in, Arch has both) with CSS, image rendering, pull-down menus.
- Lynx — Text browser for the World Wide Web.
- retawq — Interactive, multi-threaded network client (web browser) for text terminals.
- w3m — Pager/text-based web browser. It has vim-like keybindings, and is able to display images. It has javascript support too.
Graphical
Gecko-based
See also Wikipedia:Gecko (software).
- Firefox — Extensible browser from Mozilla based on Gecko with fast rendering.
- Seamonkey — Continuation of the Mozilla Internet Suite.
Firefox forks
- Iceweasel — Fork of Firefox developed by Debian Linux. The main difference is that it does not include any trademarked Mozilla artwork. See [1] for more information on Iceweasel's existence.
- GNU IceCat — Web browser distributed by the GNU Project, stripped of non-free components and with additional privacy extensions. Release cycle may be delayed compared to Mozilla Firefox.
- Pale Moon — Fork based on Firefox, using a Firefox 3+ interface through selective use of add-ons. Firefox add-ons may not be compatible. [2] Compiled for SSE2, with disabled optional code and no support for newer Firefox features such as cache2, e10s, and OTMC.
Blink-based
See also Wikipedia:Blink (layout engine).
- Chromium — Web browser developed by Google, the open source project behind Google Chrome.
- Opera — Highly customizable browser with focuses on an adherence to web rendering standards.
Webkit-based
See also Wikipedia:Webkit.
- Arora — Cross-platform web browser built using QtWebKit. Development stopped in January 2012.
- dwb — Lightweight, highly customizable web browser based on the WebKit engine with vi-like shortcuts and tiling layouts. As of October 2014 dwb is unmaintained.
- Jumanji — Highly customizable and functional web browser.
- 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.
- Maxthon — A browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.
- Midori — Lightweight web browser based on GTK+ and WebKit.
- Otter-browser — Browser aiming to recreate classic Opera (12.x) UI using Qt5.
- QupZilla — New and very fast open source browser based on WebKit core, written in Qt framework.
- qutebrowser — A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on PyQt5 and QtWebKit.
- Rekonq — WebKit-based web browser for KDE.
- Sb — Very lightweight WebKit-based browser that uses keybindings to perform most things the URL bar would usually do.
- SlimBoat — Fast, free secure and powerful web browser based on QtWebkit.
- Surf — Lightweight WebKit-based browser, which follows the suckless ideology (basically, the browser itself is a single C source file).
- Uzbl — Group of web interface tools which adhere to the Unix philosophy.
- vimb — Fast and lightweight vim like web browser based on the webkit web browser engine and the GTK toolkit.
- Vimprobable — Browser that behaves like the Vimperator plugin available for Mozilla Firefox. It is based on the WebKit engine and uses the GTK+ bindings.
- Xombrero (formerly known as xxxterm) — Webkit minimalist web browser with sophisticated security features designed-in, BSD style.
Other
- Abaco — Multi-page graphical web browser for the Plan 9 OS.
- Conkeror — Highly programmable web browser, with Emacs-like keybindings, based on Mozilla's XULRunner.
- NetSurf — Featherweight browser written in C, notable for its lack of JavaScript support and fast rendering through its own custom rendering engine.
Downloaders
FTP
FTP clients
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of FTP client software.
- CurlFtpFS — Filesystem for accessing FTP hosts; based on FUSE and libcurl.
- FatRat — Download manager with support for HTTP, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent, RapidShare and more.
- FileZilla — Fast and reliable FTP, FTPS and SFTP client.
- gFTP — Multithreaded FTP client for Linux.
- LFTP — Sophisticated command-line FTP client.
- LftpFS — Read-only filesystem based on lftp (also supports HTTP, FISH, SFTP, HTTPS, FTPS and proxies).
Some file managers like Dolphin, GNOME Files and Thunar also provide FTP functionality.
FTP servers
- bftpd — Small, easy-to-configure FTP server
- proFTPd — A secure and configurable FTP server
- Pure-FTPd — Free (BSD-licensed), secure, production-quality and standard-compliant FTP server.
- vsftpd — Lightweight, stable and secure FTP server for UNIX-like systems.
BitTorrent clients
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of BitTorrent clients.
Console
Command line / backend
Can be used as-is via command line, but all have a choice of front-end options as well.
- 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.
- btpd — Simple BitTorrent client daemon with a command-line interface (web and GTK+ interfaces are also available).
- MLDonkey — Multi-protocol P2P client that supports BitTorrent, HTTP, FTP, eDonkey and Direct Connect.
- 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 (includes backend, daemon, command-line interface, and a Web UI interface)
Console Interface
- rTorrent — Simple and lightweight ncurses BitTorrent client. Requires libtorrent backend.
- Transmission — Simple and easy-to-use BitTorrent client with a daemon version, ncurses CLI. Requires transmission-cli backend.
Graphical Interface
libtorrent-rasterbar backend
- Deluge — User-friendly BitTorrent client written in PyGTK that can run as a daemon.
- FatRat — Qt4 based download manager with support for HTTP, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent, rapidshare and more. Written in C++.
- qBittorrent — Open source (GPLv2) BitTorrent client that strongly resembles µtorrent.
- Tribler — 4th generation file sharing system bittorrent client.
libktorrent backend
- KGet — Download manager for KDE that supports HTTP(S), FTP and BitTorrent. Part of kdenetwork.
- Ktorrent — Feature-rich BitTorrent client for KDE.
others
- QTorrent — BitTorrent client written in PyQt3.
- http://thegraveyard.org/qtorrent.php[dead link 2012-09-20] || qtorrentAUR
- Tixati — P2P client that uses the BitTorrent protocol.
- http://www.tixati.com || tixatiAUR
- 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 transmission-remote-gtkAUR (remote clients work with the daemon in the -cli package)
- Vuze — Feature-rich BitTorrent client written in Java (formerly Azureus).
- https://www.vuze.com/ || vuzeAUR
eDonkey clients
eDonkey is still the second-largest p2p network (see Internet Study 2008/2009).
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of eDonkey software.
- aMule — Well-known eDonkey/Kad client with a daemon version and GTK+, web, and CLI front-ends.
- KaMule — KDE graphical front-end for aMule.
- MlDonkey — A multi-network P2P client.
Gnutella
- Sharelin — Gnutella2 only client with a web UI.
Communication
Email clients
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of e-mail clients.
Console
- alot — An experimental terminal MUA based on notmuch mail. It is written in python using the urwid toolkit.
- https://github.com/pazz/alot || alotAUR alot-gitAUR
- https://washington.edu/alpine || re-alpineAUR alpineAUR
- Gnus — Email, NNTP and RSS client for Emacs.
- S-nail — a mail processing system with a command syntax reminiscent of ed with lines replaced by messages. Provides the functionality of mailx and much more.
- mu/mu4e — Email indexer (mu) and client for emacs (mu4e). Xapian based for fast searches.
- Mutt — Small but very powerful text-based mail client.
- Nmh — A modular mail handling system.
- http://www.nongnu.org/nmh/ || nmhAUR nmh-gitAUR
- notmuch — A fast mail indexer built on top of xapian.
- Sup — CLI mail client with very fast searching, tagging, threading and GMail like operation.
- http://supmua.org/ || supAUR
- Wanderlust — Email client and news reader for Emacs.
Graphical
- Balsa — Simple and light email client that is part of the Gnome project.
- Claws Mail — Lightweight GTK-based email client and news reader.
- Evolution — Mature and feature-rich e-mail client used in GNOME by default. Part of gnome-extra.
- Geary — Simple desktop mail client built in Vala.
- Manitou Mail — Database-driven email system.
- Roundcubemail — Browser-based multilingual IMAP client with a native application-like user interface.
- Sylpheed — Lightweight and user-friendly GTK+ email client.
- Thunderbird — Feature-rich email client from Mozilla written in GTK+.
- Trojitá — Qt IMAP email client. Only supports one IMAP account.
Instant messaging
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of instant messaging protocols.
This section lists all software with instant messaging support. Particularly, that are client and server applications.
IRC clients
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of Internet Relay Chat clients.
Console
- ERC — Powerful, modular, and extensible IRC client for Emacs.
- ii — Featherweight IRC client, literally
tail -f
the conversation andecho
back your replies to a file.
- Ircfs — File system interface to IRC written in Limbo.
- http://www.ueber.net/code/r/ircfs || not packaged? search in AUR
- Irssi — Highly-configurable ncurses-based IRC client.
- ScrollZ — Advanced IRC client based on ircII.
- sic — Extremely simple IRC client, similar to ii.
- WeeChat — Modular, lightweight ncurses-based IRC client.
Graphical
- HexChat — Fork of XChat for Linux and Windows.
- Konversation — Qt-based IRC client for the KDE desktop.
- KVIrc — Qt-based IRC client featuring extensive themes support.
- Loqui — GTK+ IRC client with only one dependency: GNet.
- LostIRC — Simple GTK+ IRC client with tab-autocompletion, multiple server support, logging and others.
- pcw — Frontend for ii that opens a new terminal for each channel.
- Quassel — Modern, cross-platform, distributed IRC client.
- XChat — GTK-based IRC client that works on both Linux and Windows.
XMPP (Jabber)
See also Wikipedia:XMPP and Wikipedia:Comparison of instant messaging clients#XMPP-related features.
Console clients
- Freetalk — Console-based Jabber client.
- jabber.el — Minimal Jabber client for Emacs.
- MCabber — Small Jabber console client, includes features: SSL, PGP, MUC, OTR, and UTF8.
- Profanity — A console based Jabber client inspired by Irssi.
Graphical clients
- Gajim — Jabber client written in PyGTK.
- Jabbim — Jabber client written in PyQt.
- Psi — Qt-based Jabber client which supports video conferencing (since version 0.13).
- Psi+ — Enhanced version of the Psi Jabber client with many new features.
- Tkabber — Easy to hack feature-rich XMPP client by the author of the ejabberd XMPP server.
Servers
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of XMPP server software.
- Prosody — An XMPP server written in the Lua programming language. Prosody is designed to be lightweight and highly extensible. It is licensed under a permissive MIT license.
- Ejabberd — Jabber server written in Erlang
- Jabberd2 — An XMPP server written in the C language and licensed under the GNU General Public License. It was inspired by jabberd14.
- http://jabberd2.org || jabberd2AUR
- Openfire — An XMPP IM multiplatform server written in Java
Multi-protocol clients
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of instant messaging clients.
Many clients listed here (including Pidgin and all its 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.
- Bitlbee — IRC client that provides a gateway to popular chat networks (XMPP, MSN, Yahoo, AIM, ICQ and Twitter).
- CenterIM — Fork of CenterICQ, a text mode menu- and window-driven IM interface.
- Finch — Ncurses-based chat client that uses libpurple and supports all its protocols.
- naim — Ncurses chat client with support for AOL, ICQ, IRC and the Lily CMC.
- pork — Programmable, ncurses-based AIM and IRC client that mostly looks and feels like ircII.
- Tox — Tox is a distributed, secure messenger with audio and video chat capabilities.
- https://tox.chat/ || tox-gitAUR
Graphical
- Carrier — Pidgin fork providing minor GUI enhancements (formerly FunPidgin).
- Emesene — PyGTK instant messenger for the Windows Live Messenger network, also compatible with Jabber, Facebook and Google Talk.
- http://emesene.org/ || emeseneAUR
- Galaxium Messenger — Messenger application designed for the GNOME desktop.
- Instantbird — Multi-protocol chat client using Mozilla's XUL and libpurple.
- Kopete — User-friendly IM supporting AIM, ICQ, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, Novell GroupWise Messenger, and other IM networks. Part of kdenetwork.
- KDE Telepathy — KDE instant messaging client using the Telepathy framework. Meant as a replacement for Kopete.
- Licq — Instant messaging client for UNIX supporting multiple protocols (currently ICQ, MSN and Jabber).
- Mikutter — An open-source Twitter client using GTK+ and Ruby.
- Pidgin — Multi-protocol instant messaging client.
- qutIM — Simple and user-friendly IM supporting ICQ, Jabber, Mail.Ru, IRC and VKontakte messaging.
Lan messengers
See also: Comparison of LAN messengers.
- iptux — Lan communication software, compatible with IP Messenger.
VoIP / Softphone
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of VoIP software and Wikipedia:List of SIP software.
Clients
SIP
- Blink — State of the art, easy to use SIP client.
- Ekiga — VoIP and video conferencing application with full SIP and H.323 support (formerly known as GNOME Meeting).
- Empathy — GNOME instant messenger client using the Telepathy framework with SIP support (using the Sofia-SIP library).
- Jitsi — Audio/video SIP VoIP phone and instant messenger written in Java (formerly SIP-Communicator).
- https://jitsi.org/ || jitsiAUR
- KPhone — Qt SIP User Agent with voice, video and text messaging support.
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/kphone/ || not packaged? search in AUR
- Linphone — VoIP phone application that allows you to to communicate freely with people over the internet, with voice, video, and text instant messaging.
- 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 AUR
- 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).
- Twinkle — Qt softphone for VoIP and IM communication using SIP.
- X-Lite — Proprietary freeware VoIP soft phone that uses SIP.
- Zfone — Softphone application for secure voice communication over the Internet (VoIP), using the ZRTP protocol.
IAX2
- Kiax — Qt-based IAX/2 Softphone.
Skype
- Skype — Popular but proprietary application for high-quality voice communication.
Other
- Hangups — A third-party instant messaging client for Google Hangouts
- Mumble — Voice chat application similar to TeamSpeak.
- TeamSpeak — Proprietary VoIP application with gamers as its target audience.
- Webex — Proprietary conferencing software.
- http://www.webex.com/ || webexAUR
Multi-protocol
- SFLPhone — Open-source SIP/IAX2 compatible softphone with PulseAudio support.
- http://sflphone.org/ || sflphoneAUR
Utilities
- Gladstone — Educational ITU-T G.729 compliant codec with a GStreamer plugin.
- SIPp — Open source test tool and traffic generator for the SIP protocol.
- Sipsak — Small command-line tool for developers and administrators of SIP applications.
- http://sipsak.org/ || sipsakAUR
Speech recognition
See Speech recognition#List of speech recognition application.
News, RSS, and blogs
News aggregators
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of feed aggregators.
Console
- Canto — Ncurses RSS aggregator.
- Gnus — Email, NNTP and RSS client for Emacs.
- Newsbeuter — Ncurses RSS aggregator with layout and keybinding similar to the Mutt email client.
- Rawdog — "RSS Aggregator Without Delusions Of Grandeur" that parses RSS/CDF/Atom feeds into a static HTML page of articles in chronological order.
- Snownews — Text mode RSS news reader.
Graphical
- Blam — Simple newsreader for GNOME written in C Sharp.
- BlogBridge — Excellent Java-based aggregator, which gives users the option to synchronize their feeds across multiple computers. Though according to the official website, project is not being supported any more.
- Liferea — GTK+ news aggregator for online news feeds and weblogs.
- RSS Guard — Very tiny RSS and ATOM news reader developed using Qt framework.
- RSSOwl — Powerful aggregator for RSS and Atom feeds, written in Java using Eclipse Rich Client Platform and SWT as a widget toolkit.
- Thunderbird — Email client from Mozilla which also functions as a pretty nice news aggregator.
- Tickr (formerly News) — GTK-based RSS Reader that displays feeds as a smooth scrolling line on your Desktop, as known from TV stations.
- Urssus — Cross platform GUI news aggregator.
- QuiteRSS — RSS/Atom feed reader written on Qt/С++.
- http://quiterss.org/ || quiterssAUR
Podcast clients
- gPodder — A podcast client and feed aggregator (GTK+ and CLI interface).
- http://gpodder.org/ || gpodder3AUR
- Greg — A command-line podcast aggregator.
- Marrie — A simple podcast client that runs on the Command Line Interface.
- PodCastXDL — A simple podcast Downloader for the terminal.
- Vocal — Simple Podcast Client for the Modern Desktop (GTK+).
Usenet newsreaders & newsgrabbers
Some email clients also support NNTP. This section mainly lists NNTP-only client.
See also: Wikipedia:List of Usenet newsreaders, Wikipedia:Comparison of Usenet newsreaders.
- lottanzb — A SABnzbd+ (Usenet binary downloader) GUI front-end written in PyGTK
- nn — Alternative more user-friendly(curses-based) Usenet newsreader for UNIX.
- http://www.nndev.org/ || nnAUR
- NZBGet — CLI Utility to grab Usenet binary file using .nzb files.
- pan — A GTK2 Usenet newsreader that's good at both text and binaries.
- http://pan.rebelbase.com/ || panAUR
- slrn — An open source text-based news client.
- tin — A cross-platform threaded NNTP and spool based UseNet newsreader.
- http://tin.org/ || tinAUR
- trn — A text-based Threaded Usenet newsreader.
- XPN — A graphical newsreader use PyGTK.
- xrn — Usenet newsreader for X Window System.
Blog software
See also Wikipedia:Blog software and Wikipedia:List of content management systems.
- Drupal — An open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications. It is built, used, and supported by an active and diverse community of people around the world.
- Ghost — Blogging platform written in JavaScript and distributed under the MIT License, designed to simplify the process of online publishing for individual bloggers as well as online publications.
- https://ghost.org/ || ghostAUR
- Hexo — A fast, simple & powerful blog framework, powered by Node.js.
- http://hexo.io || nodejs-hexoAUR
- Jekyll — A static blog engine, written in Ruby, which supports Markdown, textile and other formats.
- Nanoblogger — A small weblog engine written in Bash for the command line. It uses common UNIX tools such as cat, grep, and sed to create static HTML content. It is not mantained anymore.
- Pelican — A static site generator, powered by Python.
- Wordpress — An easy to setup and administer FLOSS content management system featuring a strong and vibrant community with thousands of plugins and themes.
Microblogging clients
See also Wikipedia:List of Twitter services and applications.
- Birdie — A beautiful Twitter client for GNU/Linux, currently under active development.
- Choqok — Microblogging client for KDE that supports Twitter.com, Pump.io, GNU social and opendesktop.org services.
- Corebird — Native Gtk+ Twitter client for the Linux desktop.
- Gwibber — GTK-based microblogging client with support for Facebook, Identi.ca, Twitter, Flickr, Foursquare, Sina and Sohu.
- http://gwibber.com/ || gwibberAUR
- Hotot — Lightweight and open source microblogging client with support for Twitter and Identi.ca and integration with various image sharing services and URL shorteners (discontinued).
- http://hotot.org || hototAUR
- Pino — Simple and fast client for Twitter and Identi.ca written in Vala.
- Polly — Linux Twitter client designed for multiple columns of multiple accounts.
- Qwit — Cross-platform client for Twitter using the Qt toolkit.
- ttytter — Easily scriptable twitter client written in Perl.
- Turpial — Multi-interface Twitter client written in Python.
- tyrs — Simple client for Twitter and Identi.ca supporting virtually all its features with nice console UI (unmaintained).
- http://tyrs.nicosphere.net/ [dead link 2014-07-17] || tyrsAUR
- turses — Twitter client for the console based off tyrsAUR with major improvements.
Pastebin clients
See also Wikipedia:Pastebin.
Pastebin services are often used to quote text or images while collaborating and troubleshooting. Pastebin clients provide a convenient way to post from the command line.
- codepad-git — A codepad.org pastebin client written in python.
- Elmer — Pastebin client similar to wgetpaste and curlpaste, except written in Perl and usable with wget or curl. Servers: codepad.org, rafb.me, sprunge.us.
- Fb-client — Client for the paste.xinu.at pastebin.
- Gist — Command-line interface for the gist.github.com pastebin service.
- Haste — Universal pastebin tool, written in Haskell. Servers: hpaste.org, paste2.org, pastebin.com and others.
- Hg-paste — Pastebin extension for Mercurial which can send diffs to various pastebin websites for easy sharing. Servers: dpaste.com and dpaste.org.
- imgur — A CLI client which can upload image to imgur.com image sharing service.
- http://imgur.com/apps || imgurAUR
- Ix — Client for the ix.io pastebin.
- http://ix.io || ix
- Npaste-client — Client for the npaste.de pastebin.
- Pastebinit — Really small Python script that acts as a Pastebin client. Servers: pastie.org, paste.kde.org, paste.debian.net, paste.ubuntu.com and others (for a full list see
pastebinit -l
).
- paste-binouse — C++ standalone pastebin web server
- pb — A very fast, lightweight pastebin and general file uploader written in python with a ton of features.
- https://ptpb.pw || ptpbAUR
- Uppity — The pastebin client with an attitude.
- Vim-gist — Vim script for gist.github.com.
- Vim-paster — Vim plugin to paste to any pastebin service using curl.
- Wgetpaste — Bash script that automates pasting to a number of pastebin services. Servers: pastebin.ca, codepad.org, dpaste.com and pastebin.osuosl.org.
Bitcoin
See the main article: Bitcoin.
- Armory — Bitcoin client with features such as support for multiple wallets, importing keys and backups.
- Bitcoin — Official tool to manage Bitcoins, a P2P currency.
- Electrum — An easy to use Bitcoin client.
- MultiBit — A lightweight Bitcoin desktop client powered by the BitCoinJ library.
Surveying
- LimeSurvey — An open source on-line survey application. As a web server-based software it enables users to develop and publish on-line surveys, and collect responses, with no programming.
Multimedia
Codecs
See the main article: Codecs.
Image
Image viewers
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of image viewers.
Console
- fbi — Image viewer for the linux framebuffer console.
- fbv — Very simple graphic file viewer for the framebuffer console.
- fim — Highly customizable and scriptable framebuffer image viewer based on fbi.
- jfbview — Framebuffer PDF and image viewer based on Imlib2. Features include Vim-like controls, rotation and zoom, zoom-to-fit, and fast multi-threaded rendering.
Graphical
- Eye of GNOME — Image viewing and cataloging program, which is a part of the GNOME desktop environment.
- Eye of MATE — Simple graphics viewer for the MATE desktop.
- feh — Fast, lightweight image viewer that uses imlib2.
- meh — meh is a small, simple, super fast image viewer using raw XLib.
- GalaPix — OpenGL-based image viewer for simultaneously viewing and zooming large collections of image files,
- Geeqie — Image browser and viewer (fork of GQview) that adds additional functionality such as support for RAW files.
- Gimmage — Gtkmm image viewer.
- GPicView — Simple and fast image viewer for X, which is part of the LXDE desktop.
- GQview — Image browser that features single click access to view images and move around the directory tree
- gThumb — Image viewer for the GNOME desktop.
- Gwenview — Fast and easy to use image viewer for the KDE desktop.
- Mirage — PyGTK image viewer featuring support for crop and resize, custom actions and a thumbnail panel.
- nomacs — Free (GPLv3) Qt image viewer for many operating systems. It is feature-rich but starts fast and can be configured to show additional widgets or only the image.
- Phototonic — Fast and functional image viewer and organizer (Qt).
- PhotoQt — Fast and highly configurable image viewer with a simple and nice interface.
- http://photoqt.org/ || photoqtAUR
- Picasa — Image organizer and viewer from Google that has editing capabilities and integration with the photo-sharing website.
- http://picasa.google.com/ || not packaged? search in AUR
- Quick Image Viewer — Very small and fast image viewer based on GTK+ and imlib2.
- Ristretto — Fast and lightweight image viewer for the Xfce desktop environment.
- Shotwell — A digital photo organizer designed for the GNOME desktop environment
- Simple Viewer GL — Simple image viewer using OpenGL, it has few dependencies.
- sxiv — Simple image viewer based on imlib2 that works well with tiling window managers.
- Viewnior — Minimalistic GTK+ image viewer featuring support for flipping, rotating, animations and configurable mouse actions.
- Xloadimage — Classic X image viewer.
- XnView MP — Efficient image viewer, browser and converter.
- xv — Shareware program written by John Bradley to display and modify digital images under the X Window System.
Graphics and image manipulation
Raster editors
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of raster graphics editors.
- AfterShot Pro — Professional workflow and RAW conversion. Successor of Bibble Pro.
- AzPainter — A Painting software.
- Bibble Pro — Digital imaging program designed to assist photographers in post-production work and efficient optimization of images created in the Raw image format.
- darktable — Photography workflow and RAW development application.
- digiKam — KDE-based image organizer with built-in editing features via a plugin architecture. digiKam asserts it is more full featured than similar applications with a larger set of image manipulation features including RAW image import and manipulation.
- GIMP — Image editing suite in the vein of proprietary editors such as Adobe Photoshop. GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) has been started in the mid 1990s and has acquired a large number of plugins and additional tools.
- Gpaint — Paintbrush clone for GNOME.
- GraphicsMagick — Fork of ImageMagick designed to have API and command-line stability. It also supports multi-CPU for enhanced performance and thus is used by some large commercial sites (Flickr, etsy) for its performance.
- ImageMagick — Command-line image manipulation program. It is known for its accurate format conversions with support for over 100 formats. Its API enables it to be scripted and it is usually used as a backend processor.
- KolourPaint — Free raster graphics editor for KDE, similar to Microsoft's Paint application before Windows 7, but with some additional features such as support for transparency. Part of kde-applications and kdegraphics groups.
- Krita — Digital painting and illustration software included based on the KDE platform and Calligra libraries. Part of calligra group.
- Luminance HDR — Open source graphical user interface application that aims to provide a workflow for HDR imaging.
- mtPaint — Graphics editing program geared towards creating indexed palette images and pixel art.
- MyPaint — Free software graphics application for digital painters.
- Nathive — "Usable image editor", based on GNOME libraries with a focus on usability and a smooth learning curve.
- Pinta — Drawing and editing program modeled after Paint.NET. Its goal is to provide a simplified alternative to GIMP for casual users.
- Shotwell — Image organizer with a small set of image manipulation features (rotate, crop, color adjust, and red eye removal). It can import photos directly from digital cameras and export them to social media sites (Facebook, Flickr, Picasa Web Albums, etc.).
- XPaint — Color image editing tool which features most standard paint program options.
Vector graphics - illustration
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of vector graphics editors.
- Dia — GTK+-based diagram creation program.
- Inkscape — Vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) file format. Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. It's developers also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented development.
- Pencil Project — An open-source GUI prototyping and mockup tool.
- sK1 — Replacement for Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw, oriented for "prepress ready" PostScript & PDF output.
- Xara LX — Advanced vector graphics program, the open source version of the commercial Xara X.
- yEd — General-purpose diagramming program for flowcharts, network diagrams, UML diagrams, BPMN diagrams, mind maps, organization charts, and Entity Relationship diagrams.
Vector graphics - CAD
See also Wikipedia:List of computer-aided design editors.
- BRL-CAD — Constructive solid geometry (CSG) solid modeling computer-aided design (CAD) system that includes an interactive geometry editor, ray tracing support for graphics rendering and geometric analysis, computer network distributed framebuffer support, scripting, image-processing and signal-processing tools.
- http://brlcad.org/ || brlcadAUR
- DraftSight — Dassault Systemes' freeware 2D CAD application. DraftSight allows users to access DWG/DXF files, regardless of which CAD software was originally used to create them.
- FreeCAD — CAD/CAE program, based on OpenCascade, Qt and Python with features such as macro recording, workbenches and the ability to run as server.
- LeoCAD — CAD program for creating virtual LEGO models. It has an easy to use interface and currently includes over 6000 different pieces created by the LDraw community.
- http://leocad.org || leocadAUR
- LibreCAD — Powerful 2D CAD application based on Qt. It has been forked from QCad Community Edition.
- OpenSCAD — Open source 2D/3D CAD using programmers approach.
- QCAD — Powerful 2D CAD application that began in 1999. QCaD includes DFX standard file format and supports HPGL format.
- VariCAD — 3D/2D CAD and mechanical engineering application which provides support for parameters and geometric constraints, tools for shells, pipelines, sheet metal unbending and crash tests, assembly support, mechanical part and symbol libraries, calculations, bills of materials, and more.
3D modeling/rendering
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of 3D computer graphics software.
- Art of Illusion — 3D modeling and rendering studio written in Java.
- Blender — fully integrated 3D graphics creation suite capable of 3D modeling, texturing, and animation, among other things.
- MakeHuman™ — Parametrical modeling program for creating human bodies.
- POV-Ray — Script-based raytracer for creating 3D graphics.
- Wings 3D — Advanced subdivision modeler that is both powerful and easy to use.
Screen capture
See also: Taking a screenshot.
Audio
Audio systems
See the main article: Sound system.
See also Wikipedia:Sound server.
- wineasio — Provides an ASIO to JACK driver for wine. ASIO is the most common Windows low-latency driver, so is commonly used in audio workstation programs.
Audio players
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of audio player software.
Music player daemons and clients
See also: List of MPD clients
- Music Player Daemon — Lightweight and scalable choice for music management.
- XMMS2 — Complete rewrite of the popular music player.
Command-line players
- cmus — Very feature-rich ncurses-based music player.
- Cplay — Curses front-end for various audio players (ogg123, mpg123, mpg321, splay, madplay, and mikmod, xmp, and sox).
- Herrie — Minimalistic console-based music player with native AudioScrobbler support.
- http://herrie.info/ || herrieAUR
- MOC — Ncurses console audio player with support for the MP3, OGG, and WAV formats.
- MPFC — Gstreamer-based audio player with curses interface.
- mpg123 — Fast free MP3 console audio player for Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, HP-UX and nearly all other UNIX systems (also decodes MP1 and MP2 files).
- pianobar — Console-based frontend for Pandora.
- PyTone — Advanced music jukebox with a console interface.
- shell-fm — Console-based player for the streams provided by last.fm.
- VLC — Highly portable multimedia player with ncurses interface module, and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
- whistle — a curses-based commandline audio player.
GUI players
- Amarok — Mature Qt-based player known for its plethora of features.
- aTunes — Audio player written in Java.
- http://www.atunes.org/ || atunesAUR
- Clementine — Amarok 1.4 clone, ported to Qt 4.
- Cuberok — Music player and collection manager with a lightweight interface.
- DeaDBeeF — Light and fast music player with many features, no GNOME or KDE dependencies, supports console-only, as well as a GTK+ GUI, comes with many plugins, and has a metadata editor.
- Exaile — GTK+ clone of Amarok.
- http://www.exaile.org/ || exaileAUR
- gmusicbrowser — Open-source jukebox for large collections of MP3/OGG/FLAC files.
- GNOME Music — Music is the new GNOME music playing application. It aims to combine an elegant and immersive browsing experience with simple and straightforward controls.
- Goggles Music Manager — Music collection manager and player that automatically categorizes your music, supports gapless playback, features easy tag editing, and internet radio support. Uses the Fox toolkit.
- Guayadeque — Full featured media player that can easily manage large collections and uses the GStreamer media framework.
- JuK — JuK is an audio jukebox application, supporting collections of MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and FLAC audio files.
- Listen — Listen is a Music player and management for GNOME written in python.
- LXMusic — A minimalist xmms2-based music player.
- Miam-player — Cross-platform open source music player.
- Nightingale — Open source clone of iTunes-based on Songbird, that uses Mozilla technologies and the GStreamer framework.
- Noise — Simple, fast, and good looking music player.
- Nuvola Player — Integrated Google Music, Grooveshark, 8tracks and Hype Machine player.
- Potamus — Lightweight, intuitive GTK+ audio player with an emphasis on high audio quality.
- Pragha — GTK+ music manager. (fork of the Consonance Music Manager)
- Qmmp — Qt-based multimedia player with a user interface that is similar to Winamp or XMMS.
- Quod Libet — Audio player written with PyGTK and GStreamer with support for regular expressions in playlists.
- Rhythmbox — GTK+ clone of iTunes, used by default in GNOME.
- Spotify — Proprietary music streaming service. It supports local playback and streaming from Spotify's vast library (requires a free account).
- SpotCommander — A remote control for Spotify, optimized for mobile devices. It works on any device with a modern browser, and it's free and open source.
- Tomahawk — Music player application written in C++/Qt. It decouples the name of the song from the source it was shared from - and fulfills the request using all of your available sources.
- VLC — Highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
- XMMS — Skinnable GTK+ standalone media player similar to Winamp.
- http://legacy.xmms2.org/ || xmmsAUR
Volume managers
- GVolWheel — An audio mixer which lets you control the volume through a tray icon.
- GVTray — A master volume mixer for the system tray.
- pa-applet — PulseAudio system tray applet with volume bar.
- PNMixer — A fork of Obmixer. It has many new features such as ALSA channel selection, connect/disconnect detection, shortcuts, etc.
- Volnoti — Volnoti is a lightweight volume notification daemon for GNU/Linux and other POSIX operating systems.
- Volti — A GTK application for controlling audio volume from system tray with an internal mixer and support for multimedia keys that uses only ALSA.
- VolumeIcon — Another volume control for your system tray with channel selection, themes and an external mixer.
- VolWheel — A little application which lets you control the sound volume easily through a tray icon you can scroll on.
CD ripping
Visualization
- ProjectM — Music visualizer which uses 3D accelerated iterative image-based rendering.
- VSXu — Free to use program that lets you create and perform real-time audio visual presets.
- http://www.vsxu.com/ || vsxuAUR
Audio tag editors
- Audio Tag Tool — Tool to edit tags in MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files.
- Cowbell — Elegant music organizer that supports many audio formats including MP3, Ogg/FLAC, and MusePack.
- EasyTag — Utility for viewing, editing and writing ID3 tags of your MP3 files.
- Ex Falso — Cross-platform free and open source audio tag editor and library organizer.
- ID3 Mass Tagger — Command-line utility to edit ID3 1.x and 2.x tags.
- Kid3 — MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, FLAC, MPC, MP4/AAC, MP2, Speex, TrueAudio, WavPack, WMA, WAV and AIFF files tag editor.
- MP3Info — MP3 technical info viewer and ID3 1.x tag editor.
- MusicBrainz Picard — Cross-platform audio tag editor written in Python (the official MusicBrainz tagger).
- Puddletag — Replacement for the famous MP3tag for Windows.
- taffy — Simple command-line tag editor for many audio formats.
- Qoobar — Universal QT-based audio tagger (specialized for classical music)
Sound editing
- Ardour — Multichannel hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation.
- Audacity — Program that lets you manipulate digital audio waveforms.
- GNOME Sound Recorder — The Sound Recorder application enables you to record and play .flac, .ogg (OGG audio, or .oga), and .wav sound files.
- Jokosher — Non-linear multi-track digital audio editor that is being developed in Python, using the GTK+ interface and GStreamer as an audio back-end.
- KWave — Sound editor for KDE.
- LMMS — The Linux MultiMedia Studio. Free cross-platform software which allows you to produce music with your computer.
- Qtractor — Qt-based hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation application that aims to provide digital audio workstation software simple enough for the average home user, and yet powerful enough for the professional user.
- Rosegarden — Digital audio workstation program developed with ALSA and Qt that acts as an audio and MIDI sequencer, scorewriter and musical composition and editing tool.
- XCFA — Tool to extract the contens of audio CDs and convert them to various formats.
Mobile phone managers
- gnokii — Tools and user space driver for use with mobile phones.
- GNOME Phone Manager — Control your mobile phone from your GNOME desktop.
- KDE Connect — A project that aims to communicate all your devices.
- Moto4Lin — File manager and seem editor for Motorola P2K phones (like C380/C650).
Video
Video players
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of video player software.
Console
- MPlayer — Video player that supports a complete and versatile array of video and audio formats.
- http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html || mplayer (See also a very similar fork: mplayer2AUR)
- mpv — Movie player based on MPlayer and mplayer2.
- http://mpv.io || mpv mpv-gitAUR
- xine-ui — Free multimedia player.
- VLC ncurses — Command-line version of the famous video player that can play smoothly high definition videos in the TTY.
Graphical
See also: MPlayer frontends, mpv.
- bomi — Powerful and easy to use multimedia player (mpv backend) (Qt 5).
- https://bomi-player.github.io/ || bomiAUR (previously cmplayerAUR), bomi-gitAUR
- Dragon Player — Simple video player for KDE. Part of the kdemultimedia group.
- Kaffeine — Very versatile KDE media player that, by default, utilizes Xine as its backend and has excellent support of digital TV (DVB).
- Parole — Modern media player based on the GStreamer framework.
- Rage — Video and audio player written with Enlightenment Foundation Libraries with some extra bells and whistles.
- Snappy — Powerful media player with a minimalistic interface.
- VLC media player — Middleweight video player with support for a wide variety of audio and video formats.
- Whaaw! Media Player — Lightweight GStreamer-based audio and video player that can serve as a good alternative to Totem for those who do not like all of those GNOME dependencies.
- Xnoise — GTK+ and GStreamer-based media player for both audio and video with "a slick GUI, great speed and lots of features." (development ceased)
- QMPlay2 — QMPlay2 is a QT based video player. It can play and stream all formats supported by ffmpeg and libmodplug. It has on integrated module system, which includes a Youtube browser.
DVD ripping
See Optical disc drive#DVD ripping.
Video editors
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of video editing software.
Console
- Avidemux — Free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks.
- HandBrake-CLI — Simple yet powerful video transcoder ideal for batch mkv/x264 ripping.
Graphical
- Avidemux — Free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks.
- Cinelerra (Community Version) — Professional video editing and compositing environment.
- HandBrake — Simple yet powerful video transcoder ideal for batch mkv/x264 ripping. GTK+ version.
- Kdenlive — Non-linear video editor designed for basic to semi-professional work.
- Lightworks — A proprietary professional non-linear editing system for editing and mastering digital video in various formats.
- http://www.lwks.com/ || lwksAUR
- LiVES — Video editor and VJ (live performance) platform.
- http://lives-video.com/ || livesAUR
- Open Movie Editor — Video editing program designed for basic movie making capabilities, powerful, yet easy to use.
- Open Shot — Non-linear video editor based on MLT framework.
- PiTiVi — Video editor designed to be intuitive and integrate well in the GNOME desktop.
- Shotcut — Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform video editor.
- Transmageddon — Simple python application for transcoding video into formats supported by GStreamer.
Screencast
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of screencasting software.
Screencast utilities allow you to create a video of your desktop or individual windows.
- byzanz — Simple screencast tool that produces GIF animations.
- glc — Screencast tool that can capture the sound and video from OpenGL applications, such as games, where regular X11 screencast tools produce choppy results.
- Istanbul — Simple desktop session recorder that produces ogg videos.
- Kazam — Screencasting program with design in mind.
- RecordMyDesktop — An easy to use utility that records your desktop into the ogg format with a CLI, Qt or GTK+ interface.
- simplescreenrecorder — A feature-rich screen recorder written in C++/Qt4 that supports X11 and OpenGL.
- vokoscreen — Simple screencast tool, GUI ffmpeg.
- XVidCap — Application used for recording a screencast or digital recording of an X Window System screen output with an audio narration.
Optical media burning
See Optical disc drive#Burning CD/DVD/BD with a GUI.
Podcasts
see Podcast clients
Collection managers
- Beets — Music library organizer, tagger and more.
- Demlo — Batch music tagger, encoder, renamer and more.
- GCstar — GNOME application for organizing various collections (board games, comic books, movies, stamps, etc.).
- Tellico — KDE application for organizing various collections (books, video, music, coins, etc.).
- Kodi — Application for organizing various collections and automatically retrieving info about them (video, music, photos).
Utilities
Partitioning tools
See Partitioning#Partitioning tools.
Mount tools
- 9mount — Mount 9p filesystems.
- cryptmount — Mount an encrypted file system as a regular user.
- ldm — A lightweight daemon that mounts drives automagically using udev
- pmount — Mount source as a regular user to an automatically created destination
/media/source_name
.
- pmount-safe-removal — Mount removable devices as regular user with safe removal
- http://mywaytoarch.tumblr.com/post/13111098534/pmount-safe-removal-of-usb-device || pmount-safe-removalAUR
- udevil — Mounts removable devices as a regular user, show device info, and monitor device changes. Only depends on udev and glib.
Udisks
- bashmount — A bash script to mount and manage removable media as a regular user with udisks.
- udiskie — Automatic disk mounting service using udisks
- udisks_functions — Bash functions and aliases for udisks2
- udisksvm — GUI udisks wrapper for removable media
Basic shell commands
- Core utilities — The basic file, shell and text manipulation utilities of the GNU operating system
Integrated development environments
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of integrated development environments.
- Anjuta — Versatile IDE with project management, an application wizard, an interactive debugger, a source editor, version control support and many more tools.
- Aptana Studio — IDE based on Eclipse, but geared towards web development, with support for HTML, CSS, Javascript, Ruby on Rails, PHP, Adobe AIR and others.
- Bluefish — GTK+ editor/IDE with an MDI interface, syntax highlighting and support for Python plugins.
- BlueGriffon — A WYSIWYG content editor for the World Wide Web. Powered by Gecko, the rendering engine of Firefox, it can edit Web pages in conformance to Web Standards. It runs on Mac OS X, Windows and Linux.
- Bluej — Fully featured Java IDE used mainly for educational and beginner purposes.
- http://bluej.org/ || bluejAUR
- Brackets — A free open-source editor written in HTML, CSS, and Javascript with a primary focus on Web Development. It was created by Adobe Systems, licensed under the MIT License, and is currently maintained on GitHub.
- http://brackets.io/ || bracketsAUR
- Code::Blocks — Open source and cross-platform C/C++ IDE.
- Cloud9 — State-of-the-art IDE that runs in your browser and lives in the cloud, allowing you to run, debug and deploy applications from anywhere, anytime.
- https://c9.io/ || cloud9AUR
- Eclipse — Open source community project, which aims to provide a universal development platform.
- http://eclipse.org/ || eclipse[broken link: replaced by eclipse-java]
- Editra — Multi-platform text editor with an implementation that focuses on creating an easy to use interface and features that aid in code development.
- Eric — Full-featured Python 3.x and Ruby IDE in PyQt4.
- Gambas — Free development environment based on a Basic interpreter with object extensions.
- Geany — Text editor using the GTK+ toolkit with basic features of an integrated development environment.
- IEP — Cross-platform Python IDE focused on interactivity and introspection, which makes it very suitable for scientific computing.
- http://iep-project.org/ || iepAUR
- IntelliJ IDEA — IDE for Java, Groovy and other programming languages with advanced refactoring features.
- KDevelop — Feature-full, plugin extensible IDE for C/C++ and other programming languages.
- Komodo Edit — A free, multi-language editor.
- Lazarus — Cross-platform IDE for Object Pascal.
- LiteIDE — A simple, open source, cross-platform Go IDE.
- MonkeyStudio — Monkey Studio (MkS) is a cross platform IDE written in C++/Qt 4. Syntax highlighting for more than 22 programming languages.
- MonoDevelop — Cross-platform IDE targeted for the Mono and .NET frameworks.
- MPLAB — IDE for Microchip PIC and dsPIC development
- NetBeans — Integrated development environment (IDE) for developing with Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, Groovy, C, C++, Scala, Clojure, and other languages.
- Ninja-IDE — from the recursive acronym: "Ninja-IDE Is Not Just Another IDE", is a cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE); runs on Linux/X11, Mac OS X and Windows OSs. Used, for example, for Python development
- Phpstorm — JetBrains PhpStorm is a commercial, cross-platform IDE for PHP built on JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA platform, providing an editor for PHP, HTML and JavaScript with on-the-fly code analysis, error prevention and automated refactorings for PHP and JavaScript code.
- PyCharm — IDE used for programming in Python with support for code analysis, debugging, unit testing, version control and web development with Django.
- QDevelop — Free and cross-platform IDE for Qt.
- Qt Creator — Lightweight, cross-platform C++ integrated development environment with a focus on Qt.
- Scratch — A multimedia authoring tool for educational and entertainment purposes, such as creating interactive projects and simple sprite-based games. It is used primarly by unskilled users (such as children) as an entry to event-driven programming. Scratch is free software under GPL v2 and Scratch Source Code License.
- Spyder — Scientific PYthon Development EnviRonment providing MATLAB-like features.
Terminal emulators
See also Wikipedia:List of terminal emulators.
Power users use terminal emulators quite often, so unsurprisingly lots of X11 terminal emulators exist. Most of them emulate Xterm that emulates VT102, which emulates typewriter, so you will have to read the Wikipedia article and other sources to get a hold on these things.
- aterm — Xterm replacement with transparency support. It has been deprecated in favour of urxvt since 2008.
- Eterm — Terminal emulator intended as a replacement for xterm and designed for the Enlightenment desktop.
- http://eterm.org || etermAUR
- Final Term — A new breed of terminal emulator. Project is dead.
- Gate One — Web-based terminal emulator and SSH client.
- Mrxvt — Tabbed X terminal emulator based on rxvt.
- QTerminal — A lightweight Qt-based terminal emulator.
- rxvt — Popular replacement for the xterm.
- st — Simple terminal implementation for X.
- http://st.suckless.org || stAUR
- Terminal — A terminal emulator, that supports multiple windows, scroll buffer and all the expected features. A part of GNUstep.
- terminator — Terminal emulator supporting multiple resizable terminal panels.
- Terminology — Terminal emulator by the Enlightenment project team with innovative features: file thumbnails and media play like a media player.
- Tilda — Terminal inspired by many classic terminals from first person shooter games such as Quake, Doom and Half-Life.
- urxvt — Highly extendable (with Perl) unicode enabled rxvt-clone terminal emulator featuring tabbing, url launching, a Quake style drop-down mode and pseudo-transparency.
- xterm — Simple terminal emulator for the X Window System. It provides DEC VT102 and Tektronix 4014 compatible terminals for programs that can't use the window system directly.
- Yakuake — Drop-down terminal (Quake style) emulator based on Konsole.
VTE-based
VTE (Virtual Terminal Emulator) is a widget developed during early GNOME days for use in the GNOME Terminal. It has since given birth to many terminals with similar capabilities.
- evilvte — Very lightweight and highly customizable terminal emulator with support for tabs, auto-hiding and different encodings.
- GNOME Terminal — A terminal emulator included in the GNOME desktop with support for Unicode and pseudo-transparency.
- Guake — Drop-down terminal for the GNOME desktop.
- Terra — is a GTK+3.0 based terminal emulator with useful user interface, it also supports multiple terminals with splitting screen horizontally or vertically -- (similar to guake).
- LilyTerm — Very light and easy to use X Terminal Emulator
- LXTerminal — Desktop independent terminal emulator for LXDE.
- MATE terminal — A fork of Wikipedia:GNOME terminal for the MATE desktop.
- Pantheon Terminal — The Pantheon Terminal Emulator.
- ROXTerm — Tabbed terminal emulator with a small footprint.
- sakura — Terminal emulator based on GTK+ and VTE.
- Stjerm — GTK+-based drop-down terminal emulator that provides a minimalistic interface combined with a small file size, lightweight memory usage and easy integration with composite window managers such as Compiz.
- Terminal — Terminal emulator included in the Xfce desktop with support for a colorized prompt and a tabbed interface.
- Termit — Simple terminal emulator based on the vte library that includes tabs, bookmarks, and the ability to switch encodings.
- Termite — A keyboard-centric VTE-based terminal, aimed at use within a window manager with tiling and/or tabbing support.
- tinyterm — Very lightweight terminal emulator based on VTE.
KMS-based
The following terminal emulators are based on the kernel mode setting that could be invoked without X.
- KMSCON — A KMS/DRM-based system console(getty) with an integrated terminal emulator for Linux operating systems.
framebuffer-based
In GNU/Linux world, the framebuffer could be refered to a virtual device in the Linux kernel (fbdev) or the virtual framebuffer system for X (xvfb). This section mainly lists the terminal emulators that based on the in-kernel virtual device, i.e. fbdev.
- fbterm — A fast framebuffer-based terminal emulator with many amazing features. Development stopped.
- yaft — A simple terminal emulator for living without X, with UCS2 glyphs, wallpaper and 256color support.
Files
File managers
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of file managers.
Console
- Clex — File manager with full-screen user interface
- http://www.clex.sk/ || clexAUR
- dired — Ancient DIRectory EDitor since 1980.
- Midnight Commander — Console-based, dual-paneled file manager.
- nffm — "Nothing Fancy File Manager", a mouseless ncurses file manager written in C.
- Pilot — File manager that comes with the Alpine email client.
- Ranger — Console-based file manager with vi bindings, customizability, and lots of features.
- Vifm — Ncurses-based two-panel file manager with vi-like keybindings.
Graphical
- Andromeda — Qt-based cross-platform file manager.
- Caja — The file manager for the MATE desktop.
- Dino — Easy to use and powerful file manager built in Qt.
- Dolphin — File manager included in the KDE4 desktop.
- Double Commander — File manager with two panels side by side. It is inspired by Total Commander and features some new ideas.
- emelFM2 — File manager that implements the popular two-panel design.
- Gentoo — A lightweight file manager for GTK.
- GNOME Commander — A dual-paned file manager for the GNOME Desktop.
- GNOME Files — Extensible, heavyweight file manager used by default in GNOME with support for custom scripts.
- Konqueror — File manager and web browser for the KDE desktop.
- Krusader — Advanced twin panel (Midnight Commander style) file manager for the KDE desktop.
- muCommander — A lightweight, cross-platform file manager with a dual-pane interface written in Java.
- Nemo — Nemo is the file manager of the Cinnamon desktop. A good alternative to Nautilus.
- PathFinder — File browser that comes with the FOX toolkit.
- PCManFM — Lightweight file manager which features tabbed and dual pane browsing; also it can optionally manage the desktop icons and background.
- QtFileMan — File manager similar to PCManFM from LXDE.
- qtFM — Small, lightweight filemanager for Linux desktops based on pure Qt.
- ROX — Small and fast file manager which can optionally manage the desktop background and panels.
- SpaceFM — GTK+ multi-panel tabbed file manager.
- Sunflower — Small and highly customizable twin-panel file manager for Linux with support for plugins.
- Thunar — File manager that can be run as a daemon with excellent start up and directory load times.
- Tux Commander — Windowed file manager with two panels side by side similar to popular Total Commander or Midnight Commander file managers.
- Worker — Fast, lightweight and feature-rich file manager for the X Window System.
- Xfe — Microsoft Explorer-like file manager for X (X File Explorer).
Desktop search engines
See File system search#Desktop search engines.
Archiving and compression tools
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of file archivers.
Console
- atool — Script for managing file archives of various types.
- arj — An archiver that formerly used on DOS/Windows in mid-1990s. This is an open source clone.
- cpio — GNU tool supporting cpio and tar file archive formats.
- dar — An archiving and compression utility avoiding the drawbacks of tar
- DAR - Disk ARchive || darAUR
- lha — Archiver to create LH-7 format archives. 32-bit only (require multilib on x86_64).
- lrzip — Multi-threaded compressor using the rzip/lzma, lzo, and zpaq algorithms.
- lz4 — A file compressor using lz4 - An extremely fast compression algorithm.
- lzop — Fast file compressor using lzo lib.
- p7zip — Port of 7-Zip for POSIX systems, including Linux. The commandline tool is called 7z.
- pixz — A multi-threaded and indexed compressor that avoiding the drawbacks of xz.
- tar — GNU utility for manipulating the ubiquitous tar archives (tarballs).
- zpaq — A high compression ratio archiver written in C++. Powered by Context-Model, LZ77 and BWT algorithm.
- zopfli — High compress ratio file compressor from Google, using a deflate-compatible algorithm called zopfli.
- zoo — Rarely used archiver that was mostly used in VMS world before PKZIP became popular.
Graphical
- Ark — Archiving tool included in the KDE desktop.
- Engrampa — Archive manager for MATE
- File Roller — Archive manager included in the GNOME desktop.
- FreeArc — General-purpose archiver written in haskell, comes with a GTK2 gui. Currently only available on 32-bit platform. (Requires multilib on x86_64)
- p7zip — Port of 7-Zip for POSIX systems, including Linux. The GUI requires wxgtk and is called 7zFM.
- PeaZip — Open source file and archive manager.
- Squeeze — Featherweight front-end for commandline archiving tools.
- Xarchive — Generic GTK2 front-end that uses external wrappers around commandline archiving tools.
- Xarchiver — Lightweight desktop independent archive manager built with GTK+.
Comparison, diff, merge
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of file comparison tools.
- colordiff — A Perl script wrapper for 'diff' that produces the same output but with pretty 'syntax' highlighting.
- Diffuse — Small and simple text merge tool written in Python.
- KDiff3 — File and directory diff and merge tool for the KDE desktop.
- Kompare — GUI front-end program for viewing and merging differences between source files. It supports a variety of diff formats and provides many options to customize the information level displayed.
- Meld — Visual diff and merge tool that can compare files, directories, and version controlled projects.
- xxdiff — A graphical browser for file and directory differences.
Vim and Emacs provide merge functionality with vimdiff and ediff
.
Batch renamers
- GPRename — GTK+ batch renamer for files and directories.
- KRename — Very powerful batch file renamer for the KDE desktop.
- metamorphose2 — wxPython based batch renamer with support for regular expressions, renaming multimedia files according to their metadata, etc.
- pyRenamer — Application for the mass renaming of files.
- rename.pl — Batch renamer based on perl regex.
Disk cleaning
- BleachBit — It frees disk space and guards your privacy; frees cache, deletes cookies, clears Internet history, shreds temporary files, deletes logs, and discards junk you didn't know was there.
- gconf-cleaner — cleans up the unknown/invalid gconf keys that still sitting down on your gconf database
Disk usage display
- Disk Usage Analyzer (Baobab) — Disk usage analyzer for the GNOME desktop.
- Filelight — Disk usage analyzer that creates an interactive map of concentric, segmented rings that help visualise disk usage on your computer.
- GdMap — Disk usage analyzer that draws a map of rectangles sized according to file or dir sizes.
- gt5 — Diff-capable "du-browser".
- ncdu — Simple ncurses disk usage analyzer.
Clock synchronization
- NTPd — Network Time Protocol reference implementation.
- Chrony — Lightweight NTP client and server.
- OpenNTPD — Free, easy to use implementation of the Network Time Protocol.
System monitoring
- adesklet SystemMonitor — Collection of modular stackable system monitors for adesklets.
- candybar — WebKit-based status line for tiling window managers.
- Conky — Lightweight, scriptable system monitor.
- Collectd — A simple, extensible system monitoring daemon based on rrdtool. It has a small footprint and can be set up either stand-alone or as a server/client application.
- dstat — Versatile resource statistics tool.
- gnome-system-monitor — A system monitor for GNOME.
- https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-system-monitor/ || gnome-system-monitor gnome-system-monitor-gtk2AUR
- htop — Simple, ncurses interactive process viewer.
- http://userbase.kde.org/KSysGuard || ksysguard or as part of kdebase-workspace
- linux process explorer — Graphical process explorer for Linux.
- LXTask — Lightweight task manager for LXDE.
- mate-system-monitor — A GTK2 system monitor for MATE.
- Task Manager — GTK2 process mangement application for Xfce.
- Paramano — A light battery monitor and a CPU frequency scaler. Forked from trayfreq
System information viewers
Console
- alsi — A system information tool for Arch Linux. It can be configured for every other system without even touching the source code of the script.
- archey — Simple python script that displays the arch logo and some basic information. Depends on python3.
- archey2 — Simple python script that displays the arch logo and some basic information. Python 2.x version.
- archey3-git — Python script to display system infomation alongside the Arch Linux logo.
- dmidecode — It reports information about your system's hardware as described in your system BIOS according to the SMBIOS/DMI standard.
- hwdetect — Simple script to list modules that are exported by /sys, a part of archboot.
- hwinfo — Powerful hardware detection tool come from openSUSE.
- inxi — A script to get system information.
- screenfetch — Similar to archey but has an option to take a screenshot. Written in bash.
Graphical
- CPU-G — An application that shows useful information about your hardware, it looks like CPU-Z in Windows.
- hardinfo — A small application that displays information about your hardware and operating system, it looks like the Device Manager in Windows.
- i-Nex — An application that gathers information for hardware components available on your system and displays it using an user interface similar to the popular Windows tool CPU-Z.
- lshw-gtk — A small tool to provide detailed information on the hardware configuration of the machine with CLI and GTK interfaces.
Others
- tp-hdd-led — Monitor HDD use with the Think-Led
Keyboard layout switchers
- fbxkb — A NETWM compliant keyboard indicator and switcher. It shows a flag of current keyboard in a systray area and allows you to switch to another one.
- xxkb — A lightweight keyboard layout indicator and switcher.
- qxkb — A keyboard switcher written in Qt.
- X Neural Switcher — A text analyser, it detects the language of the input and corrects the keyboard layout if needed.
- http://www.xneur.ru/ || xneurAUR, gxneurAUR (GUI)
Power management
Clipboard managers
See: List of clipboard managers.
Wallpaper setters
- bgs — An extremely fast and small background setter for X based on imlib2.
- esetroot — Eterm's root background setter, packaged separately
- Feh — A lightweight and powerful image viewer that can also be used to manage the desktop wallpaper.
- habak — A background changing app
- hsetroot — A tool to create compose wallpapers.
- Nitrogen — A fast and lightweight desktop background browser and setter for X windows.
- pybgsetter — Multi-backend (hsetroot, Esetroot, habak, feh) to set desktop wallpaper
- http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=88997 || pybgsetterAUR
- wallpaperd — A small application that takes care of setting the background image
- xli — An image display program for X
Package management
See also: AUR helpers and Pacman GUI Frontends.
- Lostfiles — Script for detecting orphaned files.
- Pacmatic — Pacman wrapper to check Arch News before upgrading, avoid partial upgrades, and warn about configuration file changes.
- pkgfile — Tool that finds what package owns a file.
- pkgtools — Collection of scripts for Arch Linux packages.
- srcpac — Simple tool that automates rebuilding packages from source.
Input method editor
See also Wikipedia:Input method.
- Fcitx — Flexible Context-aware Input Tool with eXtension.
- Hime — A GTK2+/GTK3+ based universal input method platform.
- IBus — Next Generation Input Bus for Linux.
- Rime IME — Rime input method engine.
- UIM — Multilingual input method library.
Documents and texts
Office suites
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of 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).
- LibreOffice — More actively developed fork of OpenOffice.
- OpenOffice — Open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more, under the Apache Licence.
- Siag Office — Extremely lightweight office suite that provides a word processor, spreadsheet, text editor, file manager and previewer.
- http://siag.nu/ || siag-officeAUR
- SoftMaker Office — A complete, reliable, lightning-fast and Microsoft Office-compatible office suite with a word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation graphics software.
- WPS Office — Propietary office productivity suite, previously known as Kingsoft Office.
Word processors
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of word processors.
- Abiword — Full-featured word processor.
- BlueGriffon — WYSIWYG content editor for the World Wide Web.
- Calligra Words — Powerful word processor included in the Calligra Suite.
- gLabels — program for creating labels and business cards.
- LibreOffice Writer — Full-featured word processor included in the LibreOffice suite.
- OpenOffice Writer — Full-featured word processor included in the OpenOffice suite.
- Pathetic Writer — X-based rich text processor included in Siag Office.
- Scribus — Desktop publishing program.
- Ted — Easy to use GTK+-based rich text processor (with footnote support).
- http://www.nllgg.nl/Ted/ || tedAUR
Document markup languages
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of document markup languages.
- Asciidoctor — An asciidoc implementation written in Ruby, with many extra features.
- Markdown — Text-to-HTML conversion tool that allows you to write using a simple plain text format.
- Pandoc — Swiss-army knife for converting one markup format into another (supports Markdown).
- Sphinx — A documentation generation system using reStructuredText to generate output in multiple formats (primary documentation system for the Python project).
- txt2tags — Dead-simple, KISS-compliant lightweight, human-readable markup language to produce rich format content out of plain text files.
Spreadsheets
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of spreadsheet software.
- Calligra Sheets — Powerful spreadsheet application included in the Calligra Suite
- Gnumeric — Spreadsheet program that is part of the GNOME desktop.
- LibreOffice Calc — Full-featured spreadsheet application included in the LibreOffice suite.
- OpenOffice Calc — Full-featured spreadsheet application included in the OpenOffice suite.
- Pyspread — Pyspread is a non-traditional spreadsheet application that is based on and written in the programming language Python.
- Siag — Spreadsheet application based on the X Window System and the Scheme programming language included in Siag Office.
Scientific documents
With LaTeX, creation of any scientific document, article, journal, etc. is made commonplace.
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of TeX editors.
- AUCTeX — Extensible package for writing and formatting TeX files in Emacs.
- Gummi — Lightweight TeX/LaTeX GTK+-based editor.
- Kile — User-friendly TeX/LaTeX editor for the KDE desktop with many features.
- LyX — Document processor that encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents (WYSIWYM) and not simply their appearance (WYSIWYG).
- TeXmacs — WYSIWYW editing platform with special features for scientists.
- Texmaker — Cross-platform, light and easy-to-use LaTeX IDE.
- Winefish — Editor for experienced LaTeX users with support for UTF-8, syntax highlight, auto-completion and auto-text.
Translation and localization
- Apertium — Free and open source rule-based machine translation platform with available language data. It supports the following formats: HTML, Microsoft Office 2007 XML, OpenDocument, TMX, MediaWiki and others.
- http://apertium.org/ || apertiumAUR
- Gtranslator — Enhanced gettext po file editor for the GNOME. It handles all forms of gettext po files and includes very useful features.
- Lokalize — Standard KDE tool for software translation. It includes basic editing of PO files, support for glossary, translation memory, project managing, etc. It belongs to kdesdk
- Moses — Statistical machine translation tool (language data not included).
- OmegaT — General translator's tool which contains a lot of translation memory features and can give suggestions from Google Translate. It supports the following formats: HTML, Microsoft Office 2007 XML, OpenDocument, XLIFF/Okapi, MediaWiki, plain text, TMX and others.
- http://omegat.org || omegatAUR
- Poedit — Simple gettext/po-based translation tool.
- Pology — Set of Python tools for dealing with gettext/po-files.
- Virtaal — Editor for translation of both software and other text, based on Translate Toolkit. It supports the following formats: gettext, XLIFF , TMX, TBX, Wordfast, Qt Linguist , Qt Phrase Book, OmegaT glossary and others. It can also show suggestions from Apertium, Google Translate, Bing Translator, Moses and others.
Text editors
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of text editors.
Some of the lighter-weight Integrated development environments can also serve as text editors.
Console
- e3 — Tiny editor without dependencies, written in assembly.
- ee — A classic curse-based text editor. Born in HP-UX, used in FreeBSD.
- dex — Small and easy to use text editor with support for ctags and parsing compiler errors.
- Emacs-nox — The extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor, without X11 support.
- JED — Text editor that makes extensive use of the S-Lang library. Includes a console version (jed) and an X-window version (xjed).
- http://jedsoft.org/jed/ || jedAUR
- Joe (Joe's Own Editor) — Terminal-based text editor designed to be easy to use.
- mcedit — Useful text editor that comes with Midnight Commander file manager.
- MicroEmacs — Ncurses-based text editor. Includes a console version (me -n) and an X-window version (me).
- mg — Small, fast, and portable Emacs-compatible editor.
- mp — Minimum Profit is a text editor for programmers. It helps you definitively abandon vi, emacs and other six-legged freaks.
- Nano — Console text editor based on pico with on-screen key bindings help.
- Ne — Minimalist text editor with Windows-like key-bindings.
- http://ne.di.unimi.it/ || neAUR
- Slap — Sublime-like terminal-based text editor.
- vile — A lightweight Emacs clone with vi-like key bindings.
- Zile — A lightweight Emacs clone.
Vi text editors
- Neovim — Vim's rebirth for the 21st century
- http://neovim.org/ || neovim-gitAUR
- Vi — The original ex/vi text editor.
- Vim (Vi IMproved) — Advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'vi', with a more complete feature set.
Graphical
- Acme — Minimalist and flexible programming environment developed by Rob Pike for the Plan 9 operating system.
- Atom — A promising text editor developed by GitHub. With support for plug-ins written in Node.js and embedded Git Control.
- https://atom.io/ || atom-editorAUR
- Beaver — A GTK+ editor designed to be modular, lightweight and stylish.
- Brackets — An open source code editor for the web, written in JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
- http://brackets.io/ || bracketsAUR
- Edile — PyGTK code and scripting editor implemented in one file.
- Geany — A text editor using the GTK2 toolkit with basic features of an integrated development environment.
- Gedit — GTK+ editor for the GNOME desktop with syntax highlighting, automatic indentation, matching brackets, etc., and a number of add-ons to increase functionality.
- GNU Emacs — The extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor.
- gVim — Graphical interface for Vim.
- Jedit — Text editor for programmers, written in Java.
- JuffEd — Simple tabbed text editor with syntax highlighting, written in Qt.
- Kate — Full-featured programmer's editor for the KDE desktop with MDI and a filesystem browser.
- KWrite — Lightweight text editor for the KDE desktop that uses the same editor widget as Kate.
- Leafpad — Notepad clone for GTK+ that emphasizes simplicity.
- L3afpad — Simple text editor forked from Leafpad, supports GTK+ 3.
- Medit — Programming and around-programming text editor.
- Mousepad — Fast text editor for the Xfce Desktop Environment.
- Pluma — A powerful text editor for MATE.
- PyRoom — Great distractionless PyGTK text editor, a clone of the infamous WriteRoom.
- http://pyroom.org/ || pyroomAUR
- QEdit — A multi-purpose text editor based on NEdit using Qt.
- http://hugo.pereira.free.fr/software/index.php?page=package&package_list=software_list_qt4&package=qedit || qeditAUR
- QSciTE — Qt clone of the SciTE text and code editor.
- QXmlEdit — Simple Qt XML editor and XSD viewer.
- Sam — Minimalist text editor with a graphical user interface, a very powerful command language and remote editing capabilities, developed by Rob Pike.
- SciTE — Generally useful editor with facilities for building and running programs.
- Scribes — An ultra minimalist text editor that combines simplicity with power.
- Sublime Text 2 — Closed-source C++ and Python-based editor with many advanced features and plugins while staying lightweight and pretty.
- Tea — Qt-based feature rich text editor.
- Textadept — Lua-extensible feature rich text editor based on Scintilla and written in C.
- XEdit — Simple text editor for the X Window System.
Collaborative text editors
- Gobby — Collaborative editor supporting multiple documents in one session and a multi-user chat.
Readers and Viewers
E-book applications
- Calibre — E-book library management application that can also convert between different formats and sync with a variety of e-book readers. Supported formats include CBZ, CBR, CBC, CHM, DJVU, EPUB, FictionBook, HTML, HTMLZ, LIT, LRF, Mobipocket, ODT, PDF, PRC, PDB, PML, RB, RTF, SNB, TCR, TXT and TXTZ.
- Cool Reader — E-book viewer with many supported formats such as EPUB (non-DRM), FictionBook, TXT, RTF, HTML, CHM and TCR.
- epub — A console EPUB reader using Python and Curses.
- FBReader — E-book viewer with many supported formats such as EPUB, FictionBook, HTML, plucker, PalmDoc, zTxt, TCR, CHM, RTF, OEB, Mobipocket (non-DRM) and TXT.
- pPub — Simple EPUB reader using Python, GTK3 and WebKit.
- Sigil — WYSIWYG ebook editor.
- Xournal — PDF viewer/note taking application.
Book organizers
for more collection apps, see also Multimedia#Collection managers
- Alexandria — GNOME application to help manage your book collection.
- Koha — Open source Integrated Library System (ILS), used world-wide by public, school and special libraries.
PDF and DjVu
See also Wikipedia:List of PDF software and Wikipedia:DjVu.
Console
- fbpdf — Small framebuffer PDF and DjVu viewer based off of MuPDF, with Vim keybindings and written in C
- 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. Originally a fork of fbpdf called jfbpdf, now completely rewritten.
Graphical
- acroread — A PDF file viewer offered by Adobe (closed source).
- apvlv — Lightweight PDF/DjVu/UMD/TXT viewer with Vim keybindings.
- Atril — Simple multi-page document viewer for MATE.
- ePDFView — Free lightweight PDF document viewer using the Poppler and GTK+ libraries. Development stopped.
- Evince — Document viewer for multiple document formats. Supports PDF, PostScript, DjVu, TIFF and DVI.
- Foxit Reader — Small, fast (compared to Acrobat) PDF viewer. (closed source)
- gv — Graphical user interface for the Ghostscript interpreter that allows to view and navigate through PostScript and PDF documents.
- llpp — Very fast PDF reader based off of MuPDF, that supports continuous page scrolling, bookmarking, and text search through the whole document.
- MuPDF — Very fast PDF and XPS viewer and toolkit written in portable C. Features CJK font support.
- Okular — Universal PDF viewer for KDE.
- PdfMod — You can reorder, rotate, and remove pages, export images from a document, edit the title, subject, author, and keywords, and combine documents via drag and drop.
- PDF Studio — All-in-one PDF editor similar to Adobe Acrobat (proprietary).
- qpdfview — Tabbed document viewer. It uses Poppler for PDF support, libspectre for PS support, DjVuLibre for DjVu support, CUPS for printing support and the Qt toolkit for its interface.
- Xournal — Pdf viewer/note taking application.
- Xpdf — Viewer that can decode LZW and read encrypted PDFs.
- zathura — Highly customizable and functional PDF/DjVu/PostScript/ComicBook viewer (plugin based).
Terminal pagers
See also Wikipedia:Terminal pager.
- more — A simple and feature-light pager. It is a part of the util-linux package.
- less — A program similar to more, but with support for both forward and backward scrolling, as well as partial loading of files.
- less-mouse — less with mouse scrolling support. It is present in the AUR as less-mouseAUR.
- most — A pager with support for multiple windows, left and right scrolling, and built-in colour support
- mcview — A pager with mouse and colour support. It is bundled with midnight commander.
- vimpager — A script that turns vim into a pager. As a result, you get various vim features such as colour schemes, mouse support, split screens, etc.
CHM
See also Wikipedia:Microsoft Compiled HTML Help.
- ChmSee — CHM viewer based on xulrunner.
- 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.
- xCHM — Lightweight CHM viewer, based on chmlib.
Comic book (comix/manga)
- Comix — GTK2 image viewer specifically designed to handle comic book archives. Also includes library manager. It's development was stopped in 2009 and moved to MComix.
- MComix — GTK2 image viewer specifically designed to handle comic book archives (fork of Comix). Also includes library manager.
- QComicBook — Lightweight comic book viewer written in C++ and Qt4.
Scanning software
OCR software
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of optical character recognition software.
Engines
- CuneiForm — Command line OCR system originally developed and open sourced by Cognitive technologies. Supported languages: eng, ger, fra, rus, swe, spa, ita, ruseng, ukr, srp, hrv, pol, dan, por, dut, cze, rum, hun, bul, slo, lav, lit, est, tur.
- GOCR/JOCR — OCR engine which also supports barcode recognition.
- Ocrad — OCR program based on a feature extraction method.
- Tesseract — Accurate open source OCR engine. Package splitted, you need install some datafiles for each language (tesseract-data-eng for example).
Layout analyzers and user interfaces
- gImageReader — Graphical GTK frontend to Tesseract.
- gscan2pdf — Scans, runs an OCR engine, minor post-processing, creates a document.
- OCRFeeder — Python GUI for Gnome which performs document analysis and rendition, and can use either CuneiForm, GOCR, Ocrad or Tesseract as OCR engines. It can import from PDF or image files, and export to HTML or OpenDocument.
- OCRopy — OCR platform, modules exist for document layout analysis, OCR engines (it can use Tesseract or its own engine), natural language modeling, etc.
- YAGF — Graphical interface for the CuneiForm text recognition program on the Linux platform.
Note taking organizers
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of notetaking software.
Console
- hnb (hierarchical notebook) — Program to organize many kinds of data (addresses, to-do lists, ideas, book reviews, etc.) in one place using the XML format.
- pynote — Manage notes on the commandline
Graphical
- BasKet — Application for organizing, sharing, and taking notes. It can manage various types of information such as to-do lists, links, pictures, and other types, similar to a scrapbook.
- Cherrytree — Hierarchical note taking application, featuring rich text and syntax highlighting, storing data in a single xml or sqlite file.
- Gnote — Experimental port of Tomboy to C++.
- KeepNote — Cross-platform GTK+ note-taking application with rich text formatting.
- KJots — Small program which is handy for keeping and organizing miscellaneous notes, part of kdepim.
- NoteCase — Portable hierarchical note manager, coded in C++ using bindings to the GTK+ toolkit.
- Tomboy — Desktop note-taking application for Linux and Unix with a wiki-like linking system to connect notes together.
- wiznote — Opensource cross-platform cloud based note-taking client.
- zim — WYSIWYG text editor that aims at bringing the concept of a wiki to the desktop.
- znotes — A lightweight crossplatform application for notes managment with simple interface, use qt4 libraries.
Character Selector
- GNOME Characters — Character map application for GNOME
- gucharmap — A GTK+ 3 Character Selector, distributed with GNOME desktop.
- kdeutils-kcharselect — A tool to select special characters from all installed fonts and copy them into the clipboard. Distributed with KDE.
Stylus notes taking
- Write — a word processor for hand writing.
- Gournal — note-taking application written for usage on Tablet-PC, written in perl.
- Xournal — an application for notetaking, sketching, keeping a journal using a stylus.
Security
For detailed guides, see the main ArchWiki page, Security.
Firewalls
See the main article: Firewalls.
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of firewalls.
Network security
- Arpwatch — Tool that monitors ethernet activity and keeps a database of Ethernet/IP address pairings.
- Honeyd — Tool that allows the user to set up and run multiple virtual hosts on a computer network.
- http://www.honeyd.org/ || honeydAUR
- IPTraf — Console-based network monitoring utility.
- Nmap — Security scanner used to discover hosts and services on a computer network, thus creating a "map" of the network.
- Ntop — Network probe that shows network usage in a way similar to what top does for processes.
- Snort — Network intrusion prevention and detection system.
- http://www.snort.org/ || snortAUR
- Sshguard — Daemon that protects SSH and other services against brute-force attacts, similar to Fail2ban.
- Tcpdump — Common console-based packet analyzer that allows the user to intercept and display TCP/IP and other packets being transmitted or received over a network.
- vnStat — Console-based network traffic monitor that keeps a log of network traffic for the selected interfaces.
- Wireshark — Network protocol analyzer that lets you capture and interactively browse the traffic running on a computer network.
Threat and vulnerability detection
- Metasploit Framework — An advanced open-source platform for developing, testing, and using exploit code.
- Nessus — Comprehensive vulnerability scanning program.
- Tripwire — Intrusion detection system.
File security
- AIDE — File and directory integrity checker.
- Logwatch — Customizable log analysis system.
- Swatch — Utility that can monitor just about any type of log.
Backup programs
See the main article: Backup programs.
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of backup software.
Screen lockers
- Cinnamon Screensaver — Screen locker for the Cinnamon desktop.
- GNOME Screensaver — Screen locker for the GNOME Flashback desktop.
- i3lock — A simple screen locker. Provides user feedback, uses PAM authentication, supports DPMS. The background can be set to an image or solid color.
- i3lock-blur — Fork of i3lock which can use your desktop with the blur effect applied as a background.
- i3lock-wrapper — A simple wrapper around i3lock which sets up a blurred screenshot of the desktop as a background image.
- Light-locker — A simple locker (forked from gnome-screensaver) that aims to have simple, sane, secure defaults and be well integrated with the desktop while not carrying any desktop-specific dependencies. It relies on LightDM for locking and unlocking your session via ConsoleKit/UPower or logind/systemd
- MATE Screensaver — Screensaver and locker for MATE Desktop Environment.
- physlock — Screen and console locker.
- sflock — Simple screen locker utility for X, based on slock. Provides a very basic user feedback.
- slock — Very simple and lightweight X screen locker. Offers only a black background when locked, there are no animations or text fields.
- sxlock — Fork of sflock with a few enhancements. Provides basic user feedback, uses PAM authentication, supports DPMS and RandR. Supports
sxlock.service
to lock the screen on suspend/hibernation. See the README for more information.
- XScreenSaver — Screen saver and locker for the X Window System
- XSecureLock — X11 screen lock utility designed with the primary goal of security
Hash checkers
- cfv — Tiny utility to both test and create checksum files, support
.sfv
,.csv
,.crc
,.md5
,md5sum
,sha1sum
,.torrent
,par
, and.par2
files.
- GtkHash — A GTK+ utility for computing message digests or checksums
- hashdeep — A cross-platform tools to computer hashes, or message digests, for any number of files
- Parano — A GNOME frontend for creating/editing/checking MD5 and SFV files
- Quick Hash GUI — A GUI to enable the rapid selection and subsequent hashing of files (individually or recursively throughout a folder structure) text and (on Linux) disks.
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/quickhash/ || not packaged? search in AUR
- RHash — Utility for verifying hash sums (SFV, CRC, etc). Supports lots of algorithms.
- MassHash — A set of file hashing tools (both CLI and GTK+ GUI) written in Python. Supported algorithms include MD5, SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512.
Encryption, signing, steganography
- ccrypt — A command-line utility for encrypting and decrypting files and streams.
- GnuPG — The GNU project's complete and free implementation of the OpenPGP standard as defined by RFC4880. Free and Open Source replacement of PGP, mostly used for digital signing of packages.
- gzsteg — A utiltiy that can hide data in gzip compressed files
- http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/crypt/steganography/ || not packaged? search in AUR
- silenteye — A steganography application written in C++, use Qt4 library.
- http://www.silenteye.org/ || not packaged? search in AUR
- snow — Steganography program for concealing messages in text files
- steghide — A steganography utility that is able to hide data in various kinds of image and audio files.
- stegparty — A steganography utility hides text by typoing text existing text files.
Password managers
- Console Password Manager — Curses based password manager using PGP-encryption.
- Figaro's Password Manager 2 — GTK2 port of Figaro's Password Manager with some new enhancements.
- GPass — Password manegement software for GNOME2 desktop.
- GPassword Manager — Simple, lightweight and cross-platform utility for managing and accessing passwords.
- Gtkpass — Gtkpass is a GTK and Libkpass-based password manager for KeePass 1.x databases.
- Ked Password Manager — A password manager that helps to manage large numbers of passwords.
- KeePass Password Safe — Free open source Mono-based password manager, which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way.
- KeePassC — KeePassC is a curses-based password manager compatible to KeePass v.1.x and KeePassX.
- KeePassX — Free and open source Qt-based password manager (uses KeePass 1.x databases for storage).
- MyPasswords — What you need for managing your passwords, including the passwords of your online accounts, bank accounts and ... with the corresponding URLs.
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/mypasswords7/ || not packaged? search in AUR
- MyPasswordSafe — Easy-to-use QT based password manager, compatible with Password Safe files (and therefore pwsafe).
- Pasaffe — Easy to use password manager for Gnome with a Password Safe 3.0 compatible database.
- pass — Simple console based password manager
- Password Gorilla — A cross-platform password manager.
- Password Safe — Simple and secure password manager.
- pwsafe — Unix commandline program that manages encrypted password databases.
- QPass — Easy to use password manager with built-in password generator.
- Revelation — Password manager for the GNOME desktop.
- Seahorse — GNOME application for managing encryption keys and passwords in the GnomeKeyring.
- Universal Password Manager — Allows you to store usernames, passwords, URLs and generic notes in an encrypted database protected by one master password.
Related articles
Action and adventure
- Aquaria — 2D sidescrolling action-adventure game, heavily focused on exploration and puzzle-solving, with non-linear gameplay. The game engine is open source.
- http://www.bit-blot.com/aquaria || aquaria-gitAUR (AUR)
- Astromenace — Modern 3D scrolling space shooter with ship upgrade possibilities.
- Barrage — Violent point-and-click shooting game with nice effects
- Blob Wars: Metal Blob Solid — 2D Action-adventure game with various weapons and missions.
- Blob Wars: Blob and Conquer — 3D Action-adventure game, sequel to 2D platform game, Blob Wars: Metal Blob Solid.
- BZFlag — Multiperson, first-person tank shooter.
- Freedink — Free and enhanced version of the action-adventure "Dink Smallwood".
- Gish — 2D physics platformer about adventures of ball of tar.
- Hammerfight — 2-dimensional physics-based combat game.
-
http://www.koshutin.com/ || hammerfightAUR
- The open-source Unix port of the Haaf's Game Engine is available at icculus.org.
- Liquid War — 2D multiplayer game with a simple and unique game mechanic. It could be classified as a fast-paced strategy.
- http://www.ufoot.org/liquidwar/ || liquidwarAUR
- A rewrite of the game program, now adopted as a GNU project: liquidwar6AUR, homepage: | Liquid War 6
- Neverball — 3D game to guide a ball through a maze.
- Rune — 3rd person Adventure / Hack'n Slay using Unreal Engine. Runs great from box installation.
- Paintball Party 2 — Paintball Party 2 is the sequel to Paintball Party, a multiplayer action platformer for all ages.
- paintball-party-2AUR || not packaged? search in AUR
Arcade
- Bullet Candy Perfect — Fun shoot-em-up game, with sharp, super smooth 3D graphics and a cool techno soundtrack. Features cross-platform, achievements, and online scores. 'PAMAYW' scheme.
- Bomberclone — Free Bomberman-like game for Linux and Windows. The rules of the game are simple: run though a level and bomb other players.
- Cave Story/Doukutsu — Addictive 1-man-made metroid-vania-esque platformer. If there happens to be a noticible lag when there are lots of enemies on screen or in larger levels, try running the Windows version through Wine. This should fix the problem.
- http://cavestory.org || doukutsuAUR
- Ceferino — Action game similar to Super Pang.
- Chromium — Fast paced, arcade-style, top-scrolling space shooter.
- Circus Linux! — Clone of the Atari 2600 game "Circus Atari", produced by Atari, Inc.
- Counter-Strike 2D — 2D clone (+additional features) of the popular Counter-Strike Mod
- Crack-attack — Free OpenGL game, based on the Super Nintendo classic Tetris Attack.
- Frogatto — Much enjoyable platformer, in which you help a small green fellow named Frogatto walk and jump between solid footholds without getting hurt; have a look at this review.
- Frozen Bubble — Arcade game with colorful animated penguin eyecandy
- Hedgewars — Yet another Worms clone, considered to be better than its predecessor by many. Take turns to blast your opponents into oblivion with comedic results! Best in Multiplayer.
- Irukandji — Cross-platform 'pay as much as you want' (minimum $1 USD) scheme. A fun score attack shooter, set in an abstract underwater trench. Features unlockables, online score system, and challenges.
- lbreakout2 — Breakout-style arcade game in the manner of Arkanoid
- LTris — Arcade version of Tetris
- Mari0 — The Mario game with Portal gun mechanics.
- Nikki and the Robots — Cute physics platformer
- Noiz2sa — Vertical shooter arcade game with nice abstract graphics, music, and joystick support.
- Penguin Command — Clone of the classic game "Missile Command" with improved graphics and sound.
- Pinball — Open source pinball simulator for Linux and other Unix systems.
- PowerManga — Arcade 2D shoot-em-up game with 41 levels and more than 200 sprites.
- Streets of Rage Remake — A remake of the classic Streets of Rage 1, 2 and 3 by Sega.
- Open Syobon Action — Cross platform, open source version of the unforgiving Japanese parody of Super Mario Bros
- Teeworlds — Fast-paced 2D multiplayer shooter
- Tetrinet — Multiplayer online Tetris game for up to six people.
- Tuxanci — Multiplatform game, inspired by well-known czech game Bulanci.
- Ultrastar-ng — Clone of SingStar, a music video game.
- Viruskiller — Your computer has been invaded! Using your trusty mouse you must shoot the buggers before they can destroy your files!
- http://www.parallelrealities.co.uk/projects/virusKiller.php[dead link 2013-05-19] || viruskillerAUR
- Wormux (now Warmux) — Somewhat similar to Worms 2/Worms Armageddon
Casual games
- bs — Battleships based shooter for the console
- BSD Games — Collection of classic text games distributed with *BSD
- Fortune — Displays Random messages/quotes/jokes when invoked
- nInvaders — Ncurses based space invaders clone
Chess simulators
- GNU Chess — One of the oldest computer chess programs for Unix-based computers, lets most modern computers play a full game of chess
- Eboard — Chess interface to ICS and chess engines
- Knights — Simple chess board for KDE 4. It is a rewrite of the KDE3 Knights.
- PyChess — An advanced chess client for linux following the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines.
Education
- GCompris — Educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10.
- Tux Paint — Free drawing program designed for young children.
- Tux Type — Educational typing tutor for kids starring Tux.
- TuxMath — Arcade game that helps kids practice their math facts.
Interactive fiction
See also Wikipedia:Interactive fiction#Development systems.
- Inform — Design system for interactive fiction based on natural language
- http://inform7.com/ || inform7AUR
- INSTEAD — Quest interpreter using Lua macros as game writing language
- TADS — Prototype-based domain-specific programming language and set of standard libraries for creating interactive fiction (IF) games
- http://tads.org || frobtadsAUR
Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMO)
See also Wikipedia:List of massively multiplayer online games.
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of massively multiplayer online role-playing games.
- Dofus — Free, manga inspired, Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Game (MMORPG) for Adobe AIR
- http://www.dofus.com || dofusAUR
- Heroes of Newerth — Online, multi-player strategy game that is based upon DoTA (Defense of the Ancients). Free-to-own (gameplay free; pay for cosmetic upgrades only)
- Landes Eternelles — 3D fantasy online role playing game
- Minecraft — Java based sandbox game. Very addictive game, big community, lots of updates, do not miss this one.
- Planeshift — Role Playing Game immersed into a 3D virtual fantasy world which is FULLY FREE to play. Fully free means you will have no surprises of premium content which will limit your gameplay or unbalance the game. There are no limitations in skills, ranks, abilities, items you can gain with your free account
- Regnum Online — Cross-platform 3D Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Game
- RuneScape — Massive online adventure game by Jagex
- Ryzom — 3D Fantasy MMORPG
- Savage - The Battle For Newerth — Online multiplayer team-based FPS/RTS hybrid. Open-sourced in September 2006. Savage XR, the most improved continuation (including SFE patches), is completely free (no purchasing/ads whatsoever) however closed-source to reduce cheating.
- Savage2 - A tortured soul — Fantasy themed online multiplayer team-based FPS/RTS/RPG hybrid. Free-to-play as of December 2008. Pay for premium accounts providing crucial game elements such as extra inventory slots, access to clans and removal of the Hellbourne unit restrictions (per-account), as well as access to replays and stats.
- http://savage2.com || savage2AUR
- Second Life — Online, 3D virtual world imagined and created by its residents
- Spiral Knights — Free to play Java game developed by Three Rings Design and published by Sega.
- Stendhal — Fully fledged multiplayer online adventure game developed using the Arianne game development system
- The Mana World — Serious effort to create an innovative free and open source MMORPG
- Vendetta Online — 3D space combat MMORPG for Windows, Mac, Linux and Android. This MMO permits thousands of players to interact as the pilots of spaceships in a vast universe
- http://www.vendetta-online.com || not packaged? search in AUR
- Wurm Online — 3D MMO produced by Code Club AB in Sweden that allows players to choose between a PvP game and a non-PvP game based on different servers.
- Play via Web Start http://www.wurmonline.com || not packaged? search in AUR
Platformer
- Knyttstories — Platformer with adventure elements, heavy exploration and downloadable levels.
- Secret Maryo Chronicles — Mario-style game.
- SuperTux — Mario-style game featuring Tux.
- Toppler — Reimplementation of the classic jump & run game "Nebulus".
Puzzle
- Blockout II — 3D tetris, free adaptation of the original BlockOut DOS game edited by California Dreams in 1989
- Cgoban3 — Kiseido Go and SGF client.
- Chroma — Puzzle game like Sokoban with ncurses and graphics mode
- Crack Attack! — Free OpenGL game based on the Super Nintendo classic Tetris Attack.
- glChess — 3D Chess Frontend.
- Gnono — GNOME version of the classic card game UNO.
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnono/ || not packaged? search in AUR
- Hitori — Small application written to allow one to play the eponymous puzzle game, which is similar in theme to more popular puzzles such as Sudoku.
- Ksudoku — Sudoku game and more for KDE. Part of kdegames.
- Netris — Unfinished developmental version of Netris, a free networked version of Tetris.
- Pingus — Lemmings clone, i.e. a level-based puzzle game.
- Portal — Original puzzle game by Valve. Using Source Engine.
- Ri-li — Toy wood engine GPL game
- Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection — 30+ "quick" puzzle games with simplistic but polished GTK GUI
- VVVVVV — Highly praised 2D puzzle platform indie game with a C64 retro theme, with a great chiptune soundtrack. You can buy the full version for £1.67, or play the demo in a browser.
- Xscorch — Clone of the classic DOS game Scorched Earth.
- World of Goo — Great 2D puzzle game.
Racing
- Armagetron Advanced — Tron Clone in 3D.
- Extreme Tux Racer — 3D game where you guide Tux the penguin down a course of snow and ice collecting herring.
- Maniadrive — Arcade car game on acrobatic tracks with quick and nervous gameplay.
- Moon Buggy — Simple game for the text mode.
- Speed Dreams — Fork of Torcs, aiming to implement exciting new features as well as improving realism.
- Stunt Rally — Game with track editor, based on VDrift and OGRE.
- Supertux Kart — Kart racing game featuring Tux and his friends.
- Torcs — 3D racing cars simulator using OpenGL.
- Trigger Rally — Free OpenGL rally car racing game.
- Ultimate Stunts — Remake of the famous DOS-game 'stunts'.
- VDrift — Open source driving simulation made with drift racing in mind.
- XMoto — Challenging 2D motocross platform game, where physics play an important role.
Rogue-like
See also Wikipedia:Chronology of roguelike video games.
- ADOM — Ancient Domains Of Mystery.
- http://adom.de || adomAUR
- Angband — Roguelike dungeon exploration game based on the writings of JRR Tolkien.
- ASCIIpOrtal — Sidescrolling game with ANSI text graphics in which you are a person holding a device which creates portals, or links to other parts of the level.
- Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead — Post-apocalyptic roguelike.
- Crawl (aka Dungeon Crawl) — Linley's Dungeon Crawl).
- DoomRL — Simple roguelike game, based on Doom. Perfect for starters.
- Dwarf Fortress — Single-player fantasy game. You control a dwarven outpost or an adventurer in a randomly generated persistent world.
- Nethack — Single player dungeon exploration game.
- Rogue — Original dungeon crawl game.
- Stone Soup — Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.
- Troubles of Middle Earth (now Tales of Maj'Eyal) — A dungeon crawler similar to Angband, based on the works of Tolkien.
- http://tome.te4.org/ (archived old site)[dead link 2013-05-20] || tome2AUR tome3AUR tome4AUR
Role-Playing Game (RPG)
- Arx Libertatis — This project is a fully working, open source port of Arx Fatalis, a 2002 first-person role-playing game developed by Arkane Studios. It features some improvements over the original engine like bug fixes and wide screen support.
- Egoboo — Open-source action RPG/dungeon crawling adventure with OpenGL 3D graphics.
- Eschalon: Book I — Classical isometric RPG like Ultima, Might & Magic or Wizardry.
- Eschalon: Book II — Isometric, turn-based RPG.
- fheores2 — Attempt to reimplement the Heroes of Might and Magic II engine using SDL.
- Flare — Action game similar to Diablo.
- FreedroidRPG — Mature science fiction role playing game set in the future
- GemRB — Attempt to reimplement the Bioware's Infinity Engine under GNU GPL.
- OpenMW — Attempt to reimplement the popular role-playing game Morrowind. OpenMW aims to be a fully playable, open source implementation of the game's engine.
- Sacred Gold — Hack'n Slay Roleplay Game like Diablo.
- http://forum.sacred2.com || not packaged? search in AUR
- VCMI — Attempt to reimplement Heroes of Might and Magic III.
- http://forum.vcmi.eu/portal.php || vcmiAUR vcmi-gitAUR
- Vulture — Isometric graphical interface for NetHack, SlashEM and UnNethack.
Shooters (FPS, Third Person)
- Alien Arena — Free, standalone FPS focused mainly on online multiplayer, but can also be played singleplayer against bots.
- AssaultCube — Free multiplayer FPS, based on the cube engine. Realistic environments, fast, arcade gameplay. Much like Counter-Strike.
- AssaultCube Reloaded — AssaultCube improved.
- Counter-Strike — Team-based, semi-realistic FPS. Condition Zero is also available.
- Counter-Strike Source — Team-based, semi-realistic FPS using Source Engine.
- Cube — Open source multiplayer and singleplayer first person shooter game.
- http://cubeengine.com/ || cubeAUR
- Cube 2: Sauerbraten — Improved version of the Cube engine.
- Day of Defeat — WWII online FPS.
- Day of Defeat: Source — WWII online FPS. Using Source Engine. Still in beta as of July 2013.
- Deathmatch Classic — Half-Life modification of the multiplayer deathmatch mode.
- Doom: the famous shooter from ID Software has several ports for Linux. None of the id-engine games have copyleft game resources, only the game engine code was open sourced. See [4] for details.
- Doom 1 Demo data – doom1-wadAUR
- Freedoom — Project aimed at creation of free Doom data files.
-
http://www.nongnu.org/freedoom/ || freedoom1AUR, freedoom2AUR
- Chocolate Doom — Doom port reproducing the behavior of the original DOS version.
-
http://www.chocolate-doom.org/ || chocolate-doomAUR
- Doomsday — Advanced port of the Doom game engine, capable also of running Heretic, and Hexen games.
-
http://www.dengine.net/ || doomsdayAUR
- GZDoom — Doom source port based on ZDoom with an OpenGL renderer.
-
http://www.osnanet.de/c.oelckers/gzdoom/index.html || gzdoomAUR
- PrBoom Plus — Enhanced version of the PrBoom Doom engine port.
-
http://prboom-plus.sourceforge.net/ || prboom-plusAUR
- Remood — advanced Doom game engine based on Doom Legacy.
-
http://remood.org/ || remoodAUR
- Strawberry Doom — Fork of Chocolate Doom extending certain engine limits.
-
http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Strawberry_Doom || strawberry-doom-svnAUR
- Vavoom — Highly advanced Doom engine port with added support for Heretic/Hexen/Strife.
-
http://vavoom-engine.com/ || vavoomAUR
- ZDoom — Enhanced Doom port with additional support for Heretic, Hexen and Strife.
- http://www.zdoom.org/ || zdoomAUR
- Doom 3 — Stock Doom 3 binaries
-
http://www.idsoftware.com/games || doom3-binAUR
- Doom 3 Engine — Source-based Doom 3 engine
- http://www.idsoftware.com/games || doom3AUR
- ezQuake — Fast paced multiplayer FPS focusing on movement and trick jumps. The popular, modern and maintained Quake/QuakeWorld client. Manual post-installation setup required. Can play on-line for free
- Duke Nukem 3D
- Duke 3D — Original port.
-
http://icculus.org/projects/duke3d/ || duke3d-svnAUR
- eduke32 — Advanced source port.
- http://eduke32.com/ || eduke32AUR
- Enemy Territory: Quake Wars — Commercial team and class-based multiplayer game. Full version requires retail DVD to play.
- Half-Life — Science-fiction FPS. The two extensions, Opposing Force and Blue Shift, are also available.
- Half-Life 2 — Science-fiction FPS. Lost Coast, Episode One and Episode Two are also available. In beta as of July 2013
- HHeretic — Linux port of Raven Game's old shooter, Heretic.
-
http://hhexen.sourceforge.net/hheretic.html || hhereticAUR
- Heretic Demo game data – heretic1-wadAUR
- Blasphemer — Project aimed at creation of free Heretic data files.
- http://code.google.com/p/blasphemer/ || blasphemerAUR
- HHexen — Linux port of Raven Game's old shooter, Hexen.
-
http://hhexen.sourceforge.net/hhexen.html || hhexenAUR
- Hexen 1 Demo game data – hexen1-wadAUR
- Left 4 Dead 2 — Coop survival horror. Using Source Engine.
- Nexuiz — Free, open-source first person shooter. Development ceased, most of the developers moved to project Xonotic.
- nQuake — Fast paced multiplayer FPS focusing on movement and trick jumps. This is the popular Quake / QuakeWorld package, including ezQuake client, 24bit textures, maps, bots and more. Automatic post-installation set up. Can play on-line for free.
- http://nquake.sourceforge.net/ || not packaged? search in AUR
- Open Arena — Fast multiplayer shooter based on the quake3-engine.
- http://openarena.ws || openarenaAUR
- Prey — First Person Shooter released in 2006 (with a GNU/Linux port in 2008), published by 3D Realms.
- Quake
- Advanced Quake 1 game engine – darkplacesAUR
- Free content replacement project for Quake 1 – oqplus-svnAUR
- High quality textures for Quake from the Quake Revitalization Project – quake-qrp-texturesAUR
- Quake 2 — Built by Icculus
-
http://www.icculus.org/quake2/ || quake2AUR
- Advanced Quake 2 engine – qudos-zwsAUR
- Enhanced Quake 2 engine with Lazarus mod support – kmquake2AUR
- A true color retexture pak for Quetoo and other Quake2 engines supporting 32bpp tga textures – quake2-retextureAUR
- Quake 2 engine focused on single player and 64bits. yamagi-quake2AUR
- Quake III Arena
- Quake III Arena binaries – quake3AUR
- ioquake3 — De-facto FOSS Quake 3 distribution.
- http://ioquake3.org/ || ioquake3AUR
- Quake 4
- Demo version – quake4-demoAUR
- Quake 4 engine – quake4AUR
- Quake Live — MMO shooter running in browser as plugin
- http://www.quakelive.com/ || not packaged? search in AUR
- Red Eclipse — Single-player and multi-player first-person ego-shooter, built as a total conversion of Cube Engine 2.
- Ricochet — Futuristic arena battles.
- Serious Sam: The First Encounter — Fast-paced and frenetic FPS where the player must face huge waves of enemies.
- Linux Installers for Linux Gamers || not packaged? search in AUR
- Serious Sam: The Second Encounter — Fast-paced and frenetic FPS where the player must face huge waves of enemies.
- Linux Installers for Linux Gamers || not packaged? search in AUR
- Serious Sam II — Fast-paced and frenetic FPS where the player must face huge waves of enemies.
- Linux Installers for Linux Gamers || not packaged? search in AUR
- Serious Sam 3: BFE — Fast-paced and frenetic FPS where the player must face huge waves of enemies.
- http://www.serioussam.com || Steam
- Team Fortress Classic — Class-based online FPS.
- Team Fortress 2 — Class-based online FPS with cartoonish style. Using Source Engine.
- Tesseract — Smooth FPS with map editing, instagib, DM and CTF.
- Tremulous — FPS with elements of real time strategy, featuring humans and aliens.
- Unreal Tournament (UT99) — Fast-paced first person shooter featuring arena combat.
- Unreal Tournament 2003 (UT2003) — Fast-paced first person shooter featuring arena combat.
- http://www.unrealtournament.com || not packaged? search in AUR
- Unreal Tournament 2004 (UT2004) — Fast-paced first person shooter featuring arena combat. UT2004 is almost a superset of UT2003.
- http://www.unrealtournament2004.com || ut2004AUR for the retail version, ut2004-anthologyAUR for the anthology version
- Unvanquished — Team-based fps/rts hybrid game which pits aliens against humans. Monthly release that can be played on official servers.
- Urban Terror — Modern multiplayer FPS based on the ioquake3 engine.
- Warsow — Fast paced multiplayer FPS focusing on movement and trick jumps.
- Completely free, standalone, team-based, multiplayer FPS – enemy-territoryAUR
- Advanced open source project and fully compatible client and server – etlegacy32AUR
- World Of Padman — Stand slone somplex – cartoon-style multiplayer first-person shooter.
- Xonotic — Free, open-source first person shooter (a fork of Nexuiz but with modified gameplay).
- Mutant Factions — Free multiplayer action coop game.
- Blood Frontier – Team oriented multiplayer FPS based on the Cube2 (Sauerbraten) engine
- Futuristic Arenas
- Jake 2
- Scared
- True Combat: Elite(TCE) - Completely free, realistic, team-based modification for Enemy Territory.
- TUER
- Ancient Arenas
Simulation
- Beyond The Red Line — Completely free stand-alone conversion of Freespace 2 based on the TV show Battlestar Galactica. Presumed abandoned, see Diaspora: Shattered Armistice for an alternative.
- Bygfoot — Football (soccer) management game.
- Danger from the Deep — Submarine simulator.
- Diaspora: Shattered Armistice — Completely free stand-alone conversion of Freespace 2 based on the TV show Battlestar Galactica. Single and multiplayer capabilities.
- Flight Gear — Open-source, multi-platform flight simulator.
- Foobillard++ — Successor to Foobillard, OpenGL billiard game for Linux.
- FreeSpace 2 — Open sourced space emulator.
- Powder Toy — Physics and chemistry simulation sandbox game.
- Pydance — Python Dance Dance Revolution style game.
- http://icculus.org/pyddr/ || not packaged? search in AUR
- Stepmania — Advanced dance simulation game.
- VegaStrike — 3D action-space-sim allowing player to trade and bounty hunt in a vast universe.
Strategy
- 0 A.D. — 3D and historically-based real-time strategy game, alpha stage.
- Advanced Strategic Command — Turn based strategy game in the tradition of the Battle Isle series.
- http://www.asc-hq.org/ || ascAUR
- Boson — OpenGL real-time strategy game, with the feeling of Command&Conquer(tm) or StarCraft(tm).
- http://boson.sourceforge.net/ || not packaged? search in AUR
- Crimson Fields — Tactical war game in the tradition of Battle Isle.
- Dark Oberon — Open source real-time strategy game similar to Warcraft II.
- Dota 2 — The sequel to the famous Defense of the Ancient map for WarCraft III, which itself was based on the popular Aeon of Strife StarCraft map.
- Endgame Singularity — Turn based single player strategy/simulation about a AI hiding, growing and evolving.
- Factorio — A game about mining resources, planning and building factories, automating production and fighting alien enemies.
- Factorio demo — A game about mining resources, planning and building factories, automating production and fighting alien enemies. (Demo)
- Freeciv — Multiuser clone of the famous Microprose game of Civilization.
- FreeCol — Turn-based strategy game based on Colonization.
- FTL: Faster Than Light — Popular rogue-like space-sim released to positive reception in 2012.
- http://www.ftlgame.com/ || ftlAUR
- Glest — Free 3D real-time strategy game, where you control the armies of two different factions: Tech, which is mainly composed of warriors and mechanical devices, and Magic, that prefers mages and summoned creatures in the battlefield.
- http://glest.org || glestAUR
- Globulation 2 — Multiplayer RTS with some "economic" elements minimizing the amount of micromanagement.
- Lgeneral — Turn-based strategy engine heavily inspired by Panzer General.
- MegaGlest — Fork of Glest, a 3D real-time strategy game in a fantastic world.
- Netpanzer — Realtime Strategy game like Command and Conquer but without building bases.
- Spring — RTS game engine inspired by the game Total Annihilation.
-
http://springrts.com/wiki/Games || spring
- Kernel Panic — A game based around combat inside a computer, with 3 unique sides: the System, the Hacker and the Network waging war in a matrix of DOOM! No resource economy exists in KP, with the only constraints being time and space.
-
http://springrts.com/wiki/Kernel_Panic || spring-kp
- Spring: 1944 — Spring:1944 is a WWII themed game with four fully functional sides (US, Germany, USSR, Britain), period-accurate units and strengths. Realism comes second only to creating a game that is fun and accessible to play.
- http://spring1944.org/ || spring-1944
- The Battle for Wesnoth — Free, turn-based tactical strategy game with a high fantasy theme, featuring both single-player, and online/hotseat multiplayer combat.
- UFO Alien Invasion — Fight aliens trying to capture Earth.
- Unknown Horizons — 2.5D isometric realtime strategy simulation with an emphasis on economy and city building. Expand your small settlement to a strong and wealthy colony, collect taxes and supply your inhabitants with valuable goods. Increase your power with a well balanced economy and with strategic trade and diplomacy.
- Widelands — Slow-paced strategy like "the Settlers 2".
- Warzone 2100 - 2.* — You command the forces of The Project in a battle to rebuild the world after mankind has almost been destroyed by nuclear missiles. The game offers campaign, multi-player, and single-player skirmish modes. An extensive tech tree with over 400 different technologies, combined with the unit design system, allows for a wide variety of possible units and tactics.
Tycoon/Management Games
- Lincity-ng — City simulation game in which you are required to build and maintain a city. You can win the game either by building a sustainable economy or by evacuating all citizens with spaceships.
- Simutrans — Another Transport simulation that works on linux with sdl.
- OpenTTD — Open source clone of the Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe", a popular game originally written by Chris Sawyer. It attempts to mimic the original game as closely as possible while extending it with new features.
- Tropic Euro — Free online adaptation of the board game Puerto Rico for 2-5 players.
Visual novels
- Digital: A Love Story — Computer mystery/romance set five minutes into the future of 1988.
- Don't take it personally — Almost kinetic visual novel that tells a story of a new high school literature teacher, set in a prestigious private high school, and on the social networks of 2027.
- Juniper's Knot — Short game about boy and fiend.
- Katawa Shoujo — Bishoujo-style visual novel game that tells a story of a young man and five other girls suffering with varying disabilities.
- Narcissu — Visual novel, telling the story of a terminally ill young man and woman.
- RE: Alistair++ — English otome game (subtype of visual novel) that tells a story of a young girl fond of MMORPGs, her online and everyday life.
See also
- Linux Installers for Linux Gamers
- The Linux Gamers' Game List
- The Humble Bundle
- Wikipedia:Humble Bundle
- Linux Steam Games
- Wikipedia:List of games developed by Valve
- Wikipedia:Game engine recreation
- Wikipedia:Source port
- Linux game database
- Penguspy
- Lists of Linux games on Wikipedia
- http://rewiki.regengedanken.de/wiki/Links_to_engine_reimplementations
Science
Scientific documents
See the main article: List of applications/Documents#Scientific documents.
Mathematics
Calculator
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of software calculators.
- bc — Arbitrary precision calculator language.
- calc — Arbitrary precision console calculator.
- Extcalc — Qt-based scientfic graphical calculator.
- galculator — GTK+ based scientific calculator.
- GCalctool — Scientific calculator included in the GNOME desktop (GTK2 version).
- GNOME Calculator — Scientific calculator included in the GNOME desktop (new GTK3 version).
- KAlgebra — Calculator and 3D plotter included in KDE EDU.
- KCalc — Scientific calculator included in the KDE desktop.
- Qalculate — Calculator and equation solver with fault-tolerant parsing, constant recognition and units.
- SpeedCrunch — Fast, high precision and powerful cross-platform calculator.
- xcalc — Scientific calculator for X with algebraic and reverse polish notation modes.
Computer algebra system
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of computer algebra systems.
- AXIOM — FriCAS: derivative of the powerful AXIOM-CAS
- Fermat — Computer algebra system that does arithmetic of arbitrarily long integers and fractions, multivariate polynomials, symbolic calculations, matrices over polynomial rings, graphics, and other numerical calculations.
- GAP — Computer algebra system for computational discrete algebra with particular emphasis on computational group theory.
- Maple — Famous commercial CAS. Often used in education.
- http://www.maplesoft.com/products/maple/ || not packaged? search in AUR
- Mathics — A free CAS for symbolic mathematical computations which uses Python as its main language. It aims at achieving a Mathematica-compatible syntax and functions. It relies mostly on Sympy for most mathematical tasks and, optionally, Sage for more advanced functionality.
- Mathomatic — General purpose Computer Algebra System written in C.
- Maxima — Maple/Mathematica-like program with a wxWidgets based frontend.
- PARI/GP — Computer algebra system designed for fast computations in number theory.
- Xcas — User interface to Giac, a free, basic computer algebra system.
Scientific or technical computing
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of numerical analysis software.
- EngLab — Cross-compile mathematical platform with a C like syntax.
- Euler — Numerical application designed for higher level math such as calculus, optimization, and statistics that uses Maxima for symbolic operations.
- FreeMat — Matlab-like program that supports many of its functions and features a codeless interface to external C, C++, and Fortran code, further parallel distributed algorithm development (via MPI), and 3D visualization capabilities.
- GNU Radio — Software development toolkit that provides signal processing blocks to implement software radios.
- PyLab — Collection of Python modules (pyplot, numpy, etc.) used for scientific calculations.
- Sage-mathematics — Mathematics software system, that combines many existing open-source packages into a common Python interface. Alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica and Matlab.
- Scilab — Matlab alternative used for numerical computations. Its syntax is not equivalent to that of Matlab, but it can be easily converted.
- http://www.scilab.org/ || scilabAUR
Statistics
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of statistical packages.
- JAGS (Just another Gibbs sampler) — Cross-platform program for analysis of Bayesian hierarchical models using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulation.
- Python Data Analysis Library (pandas) — Providing high-performance, easy-to-use data structures and data analysis tools with Python programming language.
- PSPP — Free SPSS implementation.
- R — Software environment for statistical computing and graphics.
- RKWard — Frontend for the statistical language R.
- RStudio — A powerful and productive IDE for R written in Qt.
Data evaluation
See also Wikipedia:List of information graphics software.
- Extrema — Visualization and data analysis tool.
- Fityk — Curve fitting and data analysis application, predominantly used to fit analytical, bell-shaped functions to experimental data.
- http://fityk.nieto.pl/ || fitykAUR
- Gnuplot — Command-line program that can generate 2D and 3D plots of functions, data, and data fits.
- Grace — WYSIWYG 2D graph plotting tool.
- LabPlot — Free software data analysis and visualization application, similar to SciDAVis.
- QtiPlot — Platform-independent application used for interactive scientific graphing and data analysis, similar to the proprietary Origin or SigmaPlot.
- ROOT — Data analysis program and library (originally for particle physics) developed by CERN.
- SciDAVis — Fork of QtiPlot with the goal of being better documented and more user friendly.
See also List of applications#Spreadsheets
Chemistry and biology
Computational biology and bioinformatics
See also Wikipedia:List of open source bioinformatics software.
- BALL (Biochemical Algorithms Library) — Application framework in C++ that provides an extensive set of data structures as well as classes for molecular mechanics, advanced solvation methods, comparison and analysis of protein structures, file import/export, and visualization.
- BioJava — Set of Java tools for computational biology, as well as bioinformatics.
- Biopython — Python package with tools for computational biology, as well as bioinformatics.
- EMBOSS (European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite) — Open source software analysis package specially developed for the needs of the molecular biology and bioinformatics user community.
- MEGA (Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis) — Integrated tool for conducting automatic and manual sequence alignment, inferring phylogenetic trees, mining web-based databases, estimating rates of molecular evolution, inferring ancestral sequences, and testing evolutionary hypotheses.
- http://www.megasoftware.net/ || not packaged? search in AUR
- MUMmer — Bioinformatics software system for sequence alignment based on suffix trees.
- UGENE — Application that integrates dozens of well-known biological tools and algorithms, providing both graphical user and command-line interfaces.
- http://ugene.unipro.ru/ || ugeneAUR
Molecules
Viewers
See also Wikipedia:List of molecular graphics systems.
- Avogadro — Editor, viewer and simulator for 3D molecule structures (also supports downloading files from the Protein Data Bank).
- BALLView — Standalone molecular modeling and visualization application, part of the BALL framework.
- http://www.ballview.org/ || ballAUR
- Ghemical — Computational chemistry software package used to edit, view and simulate molecular structures.
- PyMOL — Open-source molecular visualization system that can produce high quality 3D images of small molecules and biological macromolecules, such as proteins.
- RasMol — Computer program written for molecular graphics visualization intended and used primarily for the depiction and exploration of biological macromolecule structures.
- http://www.rasmol.org/ || rasmolAUR
Drawing
- BKChem — Practical and goodlooking skeletal formula molecule drawing program.
- Chemtool — GTK+-based program for drawing chemical structural formulas.
- EasyChem — Simple skeletal formula molecule drawing program with a focus on producing press-quality figures.
- http://easychem.sourceforge.net/ || not packaged? search in AUR
- Gabedit — Graphical user interface to computational chemistry packages like GAMESS, Gaussian, MOLCAS, MOLPRO, MPQC, OpenMopac, Firefly (previously PC GAMESS) and Q-Chem.
- XDrawChem — Extensive skeletal formula molecule drawing program (includes spectroscopy prediction).
Modeling
- GROMACS (GROningen MAchine for Chemical Simulations) — Versatile package to perform molecular dynamics, i.e. simulate the Newtonian equations of motion for systems with hundreds to millions of particles.
- Quantum ESPRESSO — Integrated suite of applications for electronic-structure calculations and materials modeling at nanoscale. It is based on density-functional theory, plane waves, and pseudopotentials (both norm-conserving and ultrasoft).
Periodic table
- gElemental — Periodic table of the elements with additional information.
- Kalzium — Periodic table of the elements with molecule editor and equation solver from the KDE desktop.
Biochemistry
- Bioclipse — Java-based visual platform for biochemistry that uses the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP).
- http://www.bioclipse.net/ || not packaged? search in AUR
Image manipulation
- ImageJ — Java-based image processing and analysing program that provides extensibility via plugins and macros. It is widely used in microscopy (e.g. for cell counting).
- Fiji — ImageJ distribution (and soon ImageJ2) with a lot of plugins organized into a coherent menu structure.
- http://fiji.sc || fiji-binaryAUR
Astronomy
- Celestia — 3D astronomy simulation program that allows users to travel through an extensive universe, modeled after reality, at any speed, in any direction and at any time in history.
- GIMP Astronomy Plugins — Set of GIMP plugins for astronomical image processing.
- GoQat — Camera acquisition software, especially for QSI cameras, that provides other features such as autoguiding, focusing help and others.
- KStars — Planetarium application that provides an accurate graphical simulation of the night sky, from any location on Earth, at any date and time. It is included in KDE Edu.
- Open PHD Guiding — Telescope autoguiding software based on the famous PHD Guiding.
- Qastrocam-g2 — Webcam acquisition software for planetary imaging.
- Skychart / Cartes du Ciel — Planetarium that maps out and labels most of the constellations, planets, and objects you can see with a telescope. It can also download Digitized Sky Survey Charts and superimpose images over these charts.
- StarPlot — 3-dimensional star chart viewer.
- http://starplot.org/ || starplotAUR
- Stellarium — Beautiful 3D planetarium that uses OpenGL to render a realistic sky in real time.
- XEphem — Motif-based ephemeris and planetarium program.
Physics
Electronics
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of EDA software.
Digital logic
Digital logic software are mainly simple educational tools that intended for only designing and simulating logic circuits.
- atanua — Real time logic simulator.
- eqntott — Utility to convert a set of boolean logic equations to a PLA-esque truth table.
- espresso — Heuristic logic minimizer, reduces the amount of gates required for digital circuits.
- giraffe — A simple logic circuit simulator written in Java.
- glogic — An educational graphical logic circuit simulator.
- KLogic — Digital logic design and simulation software for KDE which also simulate karnaugh diagrams.
- Logisim — Educational digital logic design and simulation software, written in Java, officially its development has stopped.
- Logisim Evolution — Project which continue the development of the original Logisim with new features, written in Java.
- SmartSim — Simple and beautiful digital logic circuit design and simulation software, mainly target teachers and students, very lightweight and cross platform, GPL licensed, written in Vala.
HDL
- Altera Design Software — A set of design tools for Altera's FPGA chips that includes Quartus II and ModelSim-Altera.
- http://www.altera.com/products/software/sfw-index.jsp || only ModelSim-Altera is packaged modelsim-altraAUR[broken link: package not found]
- Xilinx ISE WebPACK — FPGA programmable logic design suit.
- http://www.xilinx.com/products/design-tools/ise-design-suite/ise-webpack.html || not packaged, installation instruction in the wiki page.
MCU IDE
- Arduino — Arduino prototyping platform SDK.
- KTechLab — IDE for electronic and PIC microcontroller circuit design and simulation featuring an extensive circuit designer with autorouting and simulation of all common electronic components and logic elements.
Schematic capture editor
- gEDA — Full suite and toolkit of Electronic Design Automation tools that are used for electrical circuit design, schematic capture, simulation, prototyping, and production.
- KiCAD — Software suite for electronic design automation (EDA) that facilitates the design of schematics for electronic circuits and their conversion to PCB (printed circuit board).
- Oregano — Graphical software application for schematic capture and simulation of electrical circuits. The actual simulation is done by the ngspice or Gnucap engines.
- QElectroTech — Application used to draw advanced electrical circuits.
- Qucs — Electronics circuit simulator application that gives you the ability to set up a circuit with a graphical user interface and simulate its large-signal, small-signal and noise behaviour.
Physics simulation
- Code_Aster — Software package for Civil and Structural Engineering finite element analysis and numeric simulation in structural mechanics.
- EPANET — EPANET performs extended period simulation of the water movement and quality behavior within pressurized pipe networks.
- Step — Two-dimensional physics simulation engine that is included in the KDE desktop as part of KDE Edu.
- SWMM — Storm Water Management Model is a dynamic rainfall-runoff-subsurface runoff simulation model used for simulation of the surface/subsurface hydrology quantity and quality.
- http://www.epa.gov/ || swmm5-gitAUR
Unit conversion
- ConvertAll — Unit conversion application that allows one to combine units in any way (e.g. inches per decade), even if it does not make sense.
- Gonvert — Conversion utility that allows conversion between many units like CGS, Ancient, Imperial with many categories like length, mass, numbers, etc.
- Units — Command-line unit converter and calculator that can handle multiplicative scale changes, nonlinear conversions such as Fahrenheit to Celsius or wire gauge and others.
Others
Work environment
The default installation of Arch provides Bash as shell interpreter and does not contain any Desktop Environment, therefore forces users to choose one themselves. Most Arch boxes run some X11 Window Manager and/or Desktop Environment, but of course there are still people who prefer doing everyday tasks in bare console.
Bootsplash
See also Wikipedia:Bootsplash.
- Fbsplash — Gentoo implementation as bootsplash program
- Plymouth — The new graphical boot process for Fedora, replacing the aging Red Hat Graphical Boot
- Splashy — A graphical boot process designed to replace the aging Bootsplash program
- xplash — New splash program used by Ubuntu starting from 9.10
Command shells
See the main article: Command-line shell.
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of command shells.
Terminal multiplexers
- abduco — Tool for session attach and detach support which allows a process to run independently from its controlling terminal.
- dtach — Program that emulates the detach feature of screen.
- GNU Screen — Full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal.
- tmux — BSD licensed terminal multiplexer.
Desktop environments
See the main article: Desktop environment#List of desktop environments.
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of X Window System desktop environments.
Window managers
Console
See also #Terminal multiplexers, which offer some of the functions of window managers for the console.
- dvtm — dwm-style window manager in the console.
- twin — Text-mode window manager.
Graphical
See the main article: Window manager#List of window managers.
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of X window managers.
Window tilers
- PyTyle3 — An automatic tiler that is compatible with Openbox Multihead with faster action and lower memory footprint.
- PyWO — Allows you to easily organize windows on the desktop using keyboard shortcuts.
- https://code.google.com/p/pywo/ || not packaged? search in AUR
- QuickTile — Lightweight standalone alternative to Compiz Grid plugin.
- stiler — A simple python script to convert any wm to tiling wm.
- Tile-windows — Tool for tiling windows horizontally or vertically.
- whaw — Window manager independent window layout tool.
- wumwum — The Window Manager manager. It can turn emwh compliant window managers into a tiling window manager while retaining all initial functionalities.
Virtual desktop pagers
See also Wikipedia:Pager (GUI).
- bbpager — Dockable pager for blackbox and other window managers.
- fbpager — Virtual desktop pager for fluxbox.
- fluxter — Workspace pager for fluxbox.
- http://benedict.isomedia.com/homes/stevencooper/projects/fluxter.html || fluxter[broken link: package not found]
- IPager — A configurable pager with transparency, originally developed for Fluxbox.
- Neap — An non-intrusive and light pager that runs in the notification area of your panel.
- Netwmpager — A NetWM/EWMH compatible pager.
- obpager — Pager for Openbox writen in C++.
- Pager — A highly configurable pager compatible with Openbox Multihead.
Support applications
Login managers
See the main article: Display manager#List of display managers.
Composite managers
See the main article: Xorg#List of composite managers.
Taskbars / panels / docks
- Avant Window Navigator — Lightweight dock which sits at the bottom of the screen.
- Bmpanel — Lightweight, NETWM compliant panel.
- Cairo-Dock — Highly customizable dock and launcher application.
- Daisy — KDE Plasma widget which acts as a dock.
- Docker — Docking application which acts as a system tray.
- Docky — Full fledged dock application that makes opening common applications and managing windows easier and quicker.
- fbpanel — Lightweight, NETWM compliant desktop panel.
- GNOME Panel — Panel included in the GNOME Flashback desktop.
- KoolDock — KDE3 docker with great effects that tries to resemble the OS X dock.
- LXPanel — Lightweight X11 desktop panel and part of the LXDE desktop.
- MATE Panel — Panel included in the MATE desktop.
- PerlPanel — The ideal accompaniment to a light-weight Window Manager such as OpenBox, or a desktop-drawing program like iDesk.
- plank — Elegant, simple, clean dock from pantheon desktop environment.
- PyPanel — Lightweight panel/taskbar written in Python and C.
- qtpanel — Project to create useful and beautiful panel in Qt.
- Stalonetray — Stand-alone system tray.
- Tint2 — Simple panel/taskbar developed specifically for Openbox.
- Trayer — Lightweight GTK+-based systray.
- wbar — Quick launch bar developed with speed in mind.
- Xfce Panel — Panel included in the Xfce desktop.
Application launchers
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of desktop application launchers.
- ADeskBar — Easy, simple and unobtrusive application launcher for Openbox.
- Ayr — Manages menus of application launchers, either executables or desktop files. Also opens files and URLs with launchers, desktop files, or applications associated by name or mimetype. Uses dmenu to manage its menus.
- Bashrun2 — Provides a different, barebones approach to a run dialog, using a specialized Bash session within a small xterm window.
- dmenu — Fast and lightweight dynamic menu for X which is also useful as an application launcher.
- dmenu-extended — An extension to dmenu for quickly opening files and folders.
- dmenu-launch — Simple dmenu-based application launcher. Launches binaries and XDG shortcuts.
- dswitcher — dmenu-based window switcher that works regardless of workspace or minimization.
- Fehlstart — Small GTK+-based application launcher.
- Gmrun — Lightweight GTK+-based application launcher, with the ability to run programs inside a terminal and other handy features.
- GNOME Do — Application launcher inspired by Quicksilver with many plugins, originally developed for the GNOME desktop.
- j4-dmenu-desktop — Very fast dmenu application launcher.
- Kupfer — Convenient command and access tool for the GNOME desktop that can launch applications, open documents and access different types of objects and act on them.
- Launchy — Very popular cross-platform application launcher with a plugin-based system used to provide extra functionality.
- rofi — A popup window switcher roughly based on superswitcher, requiring only xlib and pango.
- slingshot — An application launcher has a clear look, part of pantheon desktop environment.
- Synapse — Synapse is a semantic launcher written in Vala that you can use to start applications as well as find and access relevant documents and files by making use of the Zeitgeist engine.
- Whippet — A launcher and xdg-open replacement for control freaks. Opens files and URLs with applications associated by name and/or mimetype. Applications and associations may be customized using an SQLite database. Uses dmenu to manage its menus.
- xboomx — Light dmenu wrapper that reorders commands based on popularity, written in Python.
- xfce4-appfinder — An eazy-to-use application launcher from Xfce.
- Yeganesh — Light dmenu wrapper that reorders commands based on popularity, written in Haskell.
Logout dialogue
A few simple shutdown managers are available:
- exitx — A logout dialog for Openbox that uses Sudo.
- exitx-polkit — A GTK logout dialog for Openbox with PolicyKit support.
- exitx-systemd — A GTK logout dialog for Openbox with systemd support.
- oblogout — A graphical logout script for Openbox that may be used with other WMs.
- obshutdown — A great GTK/Cairo based shutdown manager for Openbox and other window managers.
Accessibility
Speech recognition
See the main article Speech recognition for applications.
Finance
See also Wikipedia:Comparison of accounting software.
- esniper — Simple, lightweight tool for sniping eBay auctions.
- GnuCash — Financial application that implements a double-entry book-keeping system with features for small business accounting.
- Grisbi — Personal finance system which manages third party, expenditure and receipt categories, as well as budgetary lines, financial years, and other information that makes it suitable for associations.
- http://www.grisbi.org/ || grisbiAUR
- HomeBank — Easy to use finance manager that can analyse your personal finance in detail using powerful filtering tools and graphs.
- KMyMoney — Personal finance manager that operates in a similar way to Microsoft Money. It supports different account types, categorisation of expenses and incomes, reconciliation of bank accounts and import/export to the “QIF” file format.
- Ledger — Ledger is a powerful, double-entry accounting system that is accessed from the UNIX command-line.
- http://ledger-cli.org/ || ledgerAUR
- Moneychanger — An intuitive QT/C++ system tray client for Open-Transactions
- Money Manager EX — An easy-to-use personal finance suite
- Skrooge — Personal finances manager for the KDE desktop.
- openerp — Open source erp system purely in python.
- http://openerp.com/ || openerpAUR
- Open-Transactions — A financial cryptography library used for issuing currencies, stock, paying dividends, creating asset accounts, sending/receiving digital cash, trading on markets and escrow.
Flashcards
- Anki — Anki is a program which makes remembering things easy.
- iGNUit — Memorization aid based on the Leitner flashcard system.
- Mnemosyne — Free flash-card tool which optimizes your learning process.
Time management
Console
- Calcurse — Text-based ncurses calendar and scheduling system.
- Doneyet — Ncurses-based hierarchical To-do list manager written in C++.
- Pal — Very lightweight calendar with both interactive and non-interactive interfaces.
- Remind — Highly sophisticated text-based calendaring and notification system.
- Taskwarrior — Command-line To-do list application with support for lua customization and more.
- Todo.txt — Small command-line To-do manager.
- TuDu — Ncurses-based hierarchical To-do list manager with vim-like keybindings.
- When — Simple personal calendar program.
- Wyrd — Text-based front-end to Remind, a calendar and alarm program used on UNIX and Linux computers.
- DevTodo — Is a small command line application for maintaining lists of tasks.
Graphical
- Calendar — Calendar application for GNOME.
- Day Planner — Program designed to help you easily plan and manage your time. It can manage appointments, birthdays and more.
- etm (Event and Task Manager) — Simple application with a "Getting Things Done!" approach to handling events, tasks, activities, reminders and projects.
- Glista — Simple GTK+ To-do list manager with notes support.
- http://arr.gr/glista/ || glistaAUR
- GTG (Getting Things GNOME!) — Personal tasks and To-do list items organizer for the GNOME desktop.
- http://gtgnome.net/ || gtgAUR
- Hamster — Time tracking application that helps you to keep track on how much time you have spent during the day on activities you choose to track.
- KOrganizer — Calendar and scheduling program, part of kdepim.
- Lightning — Extension to Mozilla Thunderbird that provides calendar and task support.
- Orage — GTK+ calendar and task manager often seen integrated with Xfce.
- Osmo — GTK+ personal organizer, which includes calendar, tasks manager and address book modules.
- Outspline — Extensible outliner with advanced time management features, supporting events with complex recurrence schemes.
- QTodoTxt — A cross-platform UI client for
todo.txt
files (see project's page)
- Rachota — Portable time tracker for personal projects.
- Task Coach — Simple open source To-do manager to manage personal tasks and To-do lists.
- Tasque — Easy quick task management app written in C Sharp.
- Tider — Lightweight time tracking application (GTK+)
- TkRemind — Sophisticated calendar and alarm program.
- wxRemind — Python text and graphical frontend to Remind.
Emulators
An emulator is a program which serves to replicate the functions of another platform or system so as to allow applications and games to be run in environments they were not programmed for.
Consoles
See also Wikipedia:List of video game console emulators.
- Citra — Nintendo 3DS emulator.
- DeSmuME — Nintendo DS emulator.
- Dolphin — Very capable GameCube and Wii emulator.
- epsxe — Emulator for the PlayStation video game console for x86-based PC hardware.
- http://www.epsxe.com/ || epsxeAUR
- fakenes — NES (Nintendo Famicom) emulator.
- FCEUX — NTSC and PAL 8 bit Nintendo/Famicom emulator that is an evolution of the original FCE Ultra emulator. It is accurate, compatible and actively maintained.
- Gens2 — Emulator for Sega Genesis, Sega CD and 32X that is written in assembly language and no longer actively developed.
- activate OpenGL, set video resolution per custom to 1024x600 for streched full-screen or 800x600 for non-streched;
- use "Normal" renderer, I couldn't find a visible advantage with the other ones.
- Gens-GS — Gens2, rewritten in C++, combining features from various Gens forks.
- gngeo — Command-line NeoGeo emulator.
- higan — Multisystem emulator focusing on accuracy, supporting SNES, NES, GB, GBC, GBA.
- mednafen — Command line driven multi system emulator.
- Mupen64Plus — Highly compatible Nintendo 64 emulator with plugin system.
- http://code.google.com/p/mupen64plus/ || mupen64plus or a graphical front-end, such as m64pyAUR or cutemupenAUR.
- pSX — A not plugin-based PlayStation emulator with fairly high compatibility.
- PCSXR — PlayStation emulator; Debian fork of the abandoned original PCSX
- PCSX2 — PlayStation 2 emulator. It is still being maintained and developed. It requires BIOS files.
- snes-9x — Portable, freeware Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) emulator.
- Visual Boy Advance — Game Boy emulator with Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Color, and Super Game Boy support.
- ZSNES — Highly compatible Super Nintendo emulator.
Other
- DOSBox — Open-source DOS emulator which primarily focuses on running DOS Games.
- DOSEmu — Open-source DOS emulator.
- MAME — Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator.
- ResidualVM — Cross-platform 3D game interpreter which allows you to play LucasArts' Lua-based 3D adventures.
- RetroArch — Frontend to libretro (emulation library, using modified versions of existing emulators as plugins).
- ScummVM — Virtual machine for old school adventures.
- X Neko Project II — PC-9801 emulator.
Amateur radio
See the main article: Amateur radio#Software list.
See also Wikipedia:List of software-defined radios.
See also
- Arch Linux Forums / LnF Awards 2010 - The best Light & Fast apps of 2010.
- Arch Linux Forums / LnF Awards 2011 - The best Light & Fast apps of 2011.
- http://linuxappfinder.com/
- http://www.linuxlinks.com/
- Wikipedia:List of open source software packages
- http://linuxappfinder.com/alternatives - Windows and OS X Software Alternatives
- http://alternativeto.net/ - find alternatives to popular programs
- http://www.linuxalt.com/ - Linux equivalents of Windows software
- http://lin-app.com/ - on-line information service of various commercial applications and games for Linux
- The Linux Game Tome
- Linux game database
- Penguspy
- Lists of Linux games on Wikipedia