 | avast! A Linux offering of the popular Avast antivirus scanner. Download |  | Clam AntiVirus The original open source virus scanner.Download |  | AVG A version of AVG’s Virus Scanner for Linux. Download |
 | BitDefender Powerful virus protection with a free license for personal use. Download |
 | GUFW A graphical interface for the UFW firewall.Download |  | Shorewall An app to make managing iptables easier. Download |  | Firestarter A good quality firewall with graphical interface.Download |
 | Mondo Rescue A capable disk recovery toolkit.Download |  | TestDisk A utility to recover lost partitions. Download |  | safecopy A utility that extracts data from damaged areas and replaces dd.Download |
 | PhotoRec A video, document, and archive recovery utility.Download |  | ddrescue A simple data recovery utility. Download |
 | CrashPlan An excellent, sophisticated backup program. Download |  | BackupPC An open source backup system with web interface. Download |  | Deja Dup An extremely simple but effective backup program. Download |
 | LuckyBackup A simple backup program for quick and easy protection.Download |
 | Ubuntu-Tweak A great control panel to manage many features in Ubuntu. Download |  | System Monitor A simple and interesting way to view systems stats. Download |
 | Google Chrome/Chromium A great browser from Google based on open source projects.Download |  | Firefox The world’s most popular open source web browser.Download |  | Midori A lightweight webkit browser. Download |
 | Opera The “fastest and most advanced” browser available today.Download |  | Epiphany A simple web browser that is commonly shipped with GNOME.Download |  | Konquerer The default web browser of the KDE desktop environment.Download |
 | Links Links is text WWW browser with tables and frames. It runs on Linux, Unix, OS/2 and Windows. Download |
 | Thunderbird Most popular cross-platform open source email client. Download |  | Claws Mail A user-friendly, lightweight, and fast email client. Download |  | Evolution A great email and calendar program for GNOME. Download |
 | KMail A full-featured email client specifically for KDE. Download |
 | Kopete A great IM program for KDE. Download |  | Pidgin the most popular open source cross-platform IM program. Download |  | XChat An easy to use IRC client. Download |
 | Empathy An IM client similar to Pidgin, for shipping with GNOME. Download |  | TeamSpeak 3 Great multi-platform voice chat program.Download |  | Gwibber A straight-forward social messaging app.Download |
 | Liferea An easy-to-use and effective RSS feed reader. Download |  | Emesene A chat program that allows you to connect to different networks like MSN, Gtalk, Facebook chat, Jabber and others. Download |  | Skype The most popular VoIP desktop client.Download |
 | Inkscape A great editor for SVG files. Download |  | Shotwell A simple photo manager for GNOME.Download |  | F-Spot A photo manager like Shotwell but with more features. Download |
 | Cheese Photo Booth Take pictures with many funky effects.Download |  | GIMP The most popular open source image editor.Download |  | Scribus A great desktop publishing program with many features.Download |
 | Picasa Manage and edit your photos with a Google twist. Download |  | digiKam An advanced digital photo management application for Linux, Windows, and Mac-OSX. Download |
 | Banshee A great iTunes-like music manager.Download |  | Rhythmbox Similar to iTunes and doesn’t depend on Mono. Download |  | MPlayer A very capable media player. Download |
 | OggConvert Able to convert most media types into the open source OGG format. Download |  | Sound Juicer Rips music off of your CDs into MP3s.Download |  | Amarok A great music manager for the KDE desktop environment.Download |
 | VLC Media Player A media player that can handle virtually everything. Download |  | Kdenlive An elaborate non-linear video editor for KDE.Download |  | Openshot An innovative video editor with 3D effects.Download |
 | Pitivi A simple and easy-to-use video editor for GNOME. Download |  | Totem A simple media player for common formats.Download |  | Hulu Desktop A good desktop counterpart for Hulu videos. Download |
 | GParted The most popular partition editor for Linux. Download |  | Nautilus Default file navigator for GNOME. Download |  | Dolphin Default file navigator for KDE with social media features. Download |
 | Thunar A lightweight file navigator for XFCE.Download |  | Krusader An advanced two-pane file navigator commonly used with KDE.Download |  | Baobab Disk Usage Analyzer A graphical, menu-driven viewer that you can use to view and monitor your disk usage and folder structure. Download |
 | GNU Midnight Commander File Manager GNU Midnight Commander is a file manager for free operating systems.Download |
 | LibreOffice An enhanced office suite based off of OpenOffice. Download |  | OpenOffice The original open source office suite.Download |  | Abiword A lightweight word processor, usually replaces full office suites. Download |
 | Gnumeric A great lightweight replacement for spreadsheet programs.Download |  | Xournal Take notes or annotate with high detail.Download |  | KOffice The default office suite for the KDE desktop environment.Download |
 | PyRoom Write anything without any distractions.Download |
 | Tomboy A great note-taking application. Download |  | Gnote Gnote is a port of Tomboy to C++.Download |  | Hamster Time Tracker Tracks the time you spend on projects.Download |
 | Gnome-Do A quick way to launching your applications.Download |  | Docky One of the best docks around. Download |  | Avant Window Navigator A good dock alternative to Docky. Download |
 | Cairo Another dock alternative to Docky and AWN. Download |  | Shutter An amazingly advanced screenshot tool. Download |  | Dropbox The top file synchronization tool, for Linux. Download |
 | GNOME The most widely used GTK desktop environment.Download |  | KDE A beautifully flashy desktop environment based on Qt.Download |  | LXDE An extremely lightweight desktop environment to maximize performance.Download |
 | Enlightenment A desktop environment that is lightweight yet aesthetically good-looking. Download |  | Xmonad A simple tiling window manager that allows great customization.Download |  | Openbox A very bare-bone desktop environment that uses almost no resources on its own.Download |
 | File Roller The default archive manager in GNOME.Download |  | Ark A feature-rich archive manager for KDE.Download |  | Tar Provides the ability to create tar archives, as well as various other kinds of manipulation.Download |
 | Brasero A utility to burn CDs.Download |  | Gmount ISO A simple program to mount ISO files to folders. Download |  | K3b The CD/DVD Kreator for Linux. Download |
 | Transmission A program for downloading torrents.Download |  | Deluge An awesome but unappreciated cross-platform BitTorrent client. Download |  | Miro Download torrents and online videos.Download |
 | Uget Free, open source download manager.Download |  | Wget Non-interactive commandline tool for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols.Download |
 | Urban Terror A popular first person shooter with good performance.Download |  | Alien Arena High detail first person shooter with sci-fi attitude. Download |  | Warzone 2100 Futuristic real time strategy game for survival. Download |
 | FlightGear The best open source cross-platform flight simulator. Download |  | Extreme Tux Racer A fun game to slide Tux down hills and collect fish. Download |  | Nexuiz Another high detail, futuristic first person shooter. Download |
 | Supertuxkart A racing game similar to Mario Kart.Download |  | The Mana World A fictional open source MMORPG. Download |  | openBVE A fantastic open source train simulator.Download |
 | Pingus A lemmings-like game with a good number of levels. Download |
 | LastPass Cross-browser and cross-OS online password manager.Download |  | KeePassX Open source password manager to stores passwords locally and encrypted. Download |  | TrueCrypt An open source solution to great file encryption. Download |
 | GnuCash Manages your money in multiple accounts and currencies.Download |  | Redshift Changes the color temperature of your screen to prevent tired eyes. Download |  | WINE A compatibility layer for some Windows programs. Download |
 | Compiz The best desktop effects on Linux.Download |  | Eclipse A full featured programming IDE.Download |  | Geany A lightweight programming code editor. Download |
 | KMyMoney Another money management program with KDE integration.Download |  | Kwin Great-looking desktop effects, commonly used on KDE desktops. Download |  | DraftSight A 2D CAD editor, one of the few for Linux.Download |
 | BleachBit BleachBit quickly frees disk space and tirelessly guards your privacy. Download |
 | Emacs An extremely customizable editor that does more than just plain text.Download |  | Vim A more complex editor for the terminal with plenty of features.Download |  | Nano A simple, uncomplicated editor for the terminal.Download |
 | Gedit A powerful editor out-of-the-box, and a favorite among many GNOME users.Download |  | Bluefish Editor for programmers with focus on dynamic and interactive websites. Download |  | Leafpad A simple GTK+ text editor that emphasizes simplicity. Download |
 | Ubuntu 11.04 GNOME with Unity Shell. Best for beginners. Download |  | Fedora 15 GNOME 3 with Gnome Shell. Extremely customizable, usable but more for Linux enthusiasts. Download |  | openSUSE 11.4 KDE 4.6. A sturdy distro with some more proprietary compatibility.Download |
 | Arch Linux Any desktop environment. Lets you completely build up your own distro from the start. Download |  | Linux Mint 11 Gnome 2. Also great for beginners; Ubuntu with some usability and aesthetics fixes.Download |
