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Awesome Ubuntu/Linux

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🐧 This repo is a collection of AWESOME Ubuntu/Linux applications and tools for any users/developers.
🐧 Feel free to contribute / star / fork / pull request . Any recommendations and suggestions are welcomed.

Table of Contents

Applications

Audio

  • Airtime - Airtime is the open broadcast software for scheduling and remote station management Open-Source Software Freeware
  • Ardour - Record, Edit, and Mix on Linux Freeware
  • Audacious - An open source audio player, plays your music how you want it, without stealing away your computers resources from other tasks.Open-Source Software Freeware
  • Audacity - Free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • Clementine - Play numerous lossy and lossless audio formats. Freeware
  • Hydrogen - Advanced drum machine for GNU/Linux. Freeware
  • KxStudio - KXStudio is a collection of applications and plugins for professional audio production.Freeware'
  • K3b - K3b - The CD/DVD Kreator for Linux - optimized for KDE.Open-Source SoftwareFreeware
  • Let's make music - Making music on your PC by creating melodies and beats, synthesizing and mixing sounds, arranging samples and much more. Freeware
  • Mixxx - Free DJ software that gives you everything you need to perform live mixes, veritable alternative to Traktor. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • SoundJuicer - CD Ripping tool for GNOME Freeware
  • Tomahawk -A new kind of music player that invites all your streams, downloads, cloud music storage, playlists, radio stations and more. Open-Source SoftwareFreeware

Chat Clients

  • GhettoSkype - open source web wrapper for Skype. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • HexChat - HexChat is an IRC client based on XChat, but unlike XChat its completely free for both Windows and Unix-like system.Open-Source Software Freeware
  • Messenger for Desktop - An app for Facebook messenger. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • Pidgin - A universal chat client. Freeware
  • ScudCloud - A Slack-client for linux. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • Skype - Skype keeps the world talking, for free. Freeware
  • Telegram - A messaging app with a focus on speed and security, its super fast, simple and free. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • Viber -Viber for Linux lets you send free messages and make free calls to other Viber users on any device and network, in any country Freeware
  • Whatsie - Whatsapp unofficial client for ubuntu/linux. Open-Source Software Freeware

Data Backup and Recovery

  • Borg Backup - A nice tool to backup data.Open-Source Software Freeware
  • System Rescue CD - SystemRescueCd is a Linux system rescue disk available as a bootable CD-ROM or USB stick for administrating or repairing your system and data after a crash. Freeware
  • Test Disk - TestDisk is powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software. Freeware
  • Photorec - PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from hard disks, CD-ROMs, and lost pictures (thus the Photo Recovery name) from digital camera memory. Freeware

Desktop customization

Desktop Environments

  • Cinammon - The Cinammon desktop environment.Open-Source Software Freeware
  • Gnome - The Gnome desktop environment.Freeware
  • KDE - KDE Desktop Environment. Freeware
  • Mate - The MATE Desktop Environment is the continuation of GNOME 2. It provides an intuitive and attractive desktop environment using traditional metaphors for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.Freeware
  • Unity - Unity Desktop Environment. Freeware
  • Xfce - Xfce Desktop Environment. Freeware

Development

  • Android studio -The Official IDE for Android : Android Studio provides the fastest tools for building apps on every type of Android device.Freeware
  • Atom - Hackable text editor for the 21st century. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • Arduino IDE - The open-source Arduino Software (IDE) makes it easy to write code and upload it to the board. Freeware
  • Code::Blocks - Code::Blocks is a free C, C++ and Fortran IDE built to meet the most demanding needs of its users. It is designed to be very extensible and fully configurable. Freeware
  • Codelite - A Free, open source, cross platform C,C++,PHP and Node.js IDE. Freeware
  • Eclipse - Eclipse is famous for our Java Integrated Development Environment (IDE), but our C/C++ IDE and PHP IDE are pretty cool tooFreeware
  • Geany - Geany is a text editor using the GTK+ toolkit with basic features of an integrated development environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages. Open-Source SoftwareFreeware
  • Git - Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.Freeware
  • IntelliJ IDEA - Powerful IDE for JAVA Freeware
  • KDevelop - It is a free, open source IDE, feature-full, plugin extensible IDE for C/C++ and other programming languages.Freeware
  • Komodo Edit - Free and open source multilanguage development environment. Freeware
  • Lighttable - The next generation code editor! Support live coding. Freeware
  • MariaDB - One of the most popular database servers. Made by the original developers of MySQL.Freeware Open-Source Software
  • MonoDevelop - Cross platform IDE for C#, F# and more.Freeware Open-Source Software
  • Nemiver - Nemiver is a project to write a standalone graphical debugger that integrates well in the GNOME desktop environment. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • NodeJS - Node.js® is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. Freeware
  • Oh-my-zsh - A delightful community-driven framework for managing your zsh configuration. Freeware Open-Source Software
  • PyCharm - Powerful IDE for Python Freeware
  • Postgresql - PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system. Freeware
  • Postman - Postman, help us test API quickly.Freeware
  • QT Creator - Fully-stocked cross-platform integrated development environment for easy creation of connected devices, UIs and applications.Freeware
  • Rabbit VCS - RabbitVCS is a set of graphical tools written to provide simple and straightforward access to the version control systems you use. Freeware
  • Sublime - One of the best text editor of all time. Freeware
  • Swift - Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns. Freeware
  • Ubuntu-SDK - The official Ubuntu SDK. Freeware
  • VSCode - Visual Studio Code is a lightweight but powerful source code editor which runs on your desktop and is available for Windows, OS X and Linux. It comes with built-in support for JavaScript, TypeScript and Node.js and has a rich ecosystem of extensions for other languages (C++, C#, Python, PHP) and runtimes.Freeware
  • Zsh - A powerful command line shell. Open-Source Software

E-Book Utilities

  • Calibre - Incredibly ugly but powerful software for ebook management and conversion. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • Evince - Evince is a document viewer for multiple document formats. The goal of evince is to replace the multiple document viewers that exist on the GNOME Desktop with a single simple application.Open-Source Software Freeware
  • Foxit - Foxit Reader 8.0—Award-winning PDF Reader. Freeware
  • FBReader - One of the most popular eReader apps. Freeware
  • Lucidor - Lucidor is a computer program for reading and handling e-books. Lucidor supports e-books in the EPUB file format, and catalogs in the OPDS format. Freeware
  • Okular - Okular is a universal document viewer based developed by KDE. Okular works on multiple platforms, including but not limited to Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, *BSD, etc.Freeware
  • Sigil - Sigil is a multi-platform EPUB ebook editor.Open-Source Software Freeware

Editors

  • Atom - Hackable text editor for the 21st century. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • Bluefish - Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdevelopers, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code.Freeware
  • Brackets - A modern text editor that understands web design. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • Emacs - An extensible, customizable, free/libre text editor — and more. Open-Source SoftwareFreeware
  • Geany - Geany is a text editor using the GTK+ toolkit with basic features of an integrated development environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages. Open-Source SoftwareFreeware
  • Gedit -gedit is the GNOME text editor. While aiming at simplicity and ease of use, gedit is a powerful general purpose text editor.Freeware
  • Kate - Kate is a multi-document editor part of KDE since release 2.2. Open-Source SoftwareFreeware
  • Lighttable -the next generation code editor! Support live coding. Freeware
  • Sublime - One of the best text editor of all time. Freeware
  • VSCode - Visual Studio Code is a lightweight but powerful source code editor which runs on your desktop and is available for Windows, OS X and Linux. It comes with built-in support for JavaScript, TypeScript and Node.js and has a rich ecosystem of extensions for other languages (C++, C#, Python, PHP) and runtimes.Freeware
  • Vim -Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. It's useful whether you're already using vi or using a different editor. Open-Source SoftwareFreeware

Email

  • Evolution - Evolution is a personal information management application that provides integrated mail, calendaring and address book functionality. Freeware
  • Geary - Geary is an email application built for GNOME 3. It allows you to read and send email with a simple, modern interface.Freeware
  • Thunderbird - Thunderbird is a free email application thats easy to set up and customize and its loaded with great features. Freeware
  • Wmail - Gmail & Google Inbox unofficial desktop client for linux Open-Source SoftwareFreeware

File Manager

  • 7Zip - Unzip any zip filesFreeware
  • AngrySearch - Linux file search, instant results as you type. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • Double Commander - Double Commander is a cross platform open source file manager with two panels side by side. It is inspired by Total Commander and features some new ideas.Freeware
  • Marlin - The sexiest fish in the large sea of file managers, Marlin is well-designed with a focus on speed, simplicity, ease of use. Freeware
  • Nautilus - Nautilus (Files) is a file manager designed to fit the Gnome desktop design and behaviour, giving the user a simple way to navigate and manage its files.Freeware
  • Nemo - Nemo is the file manager for the Cinnamon desktop environment.Open-Source Software Freeware
  • Ranger - Ranger is a console file manager with VI key bindings.Open-Source Software Freeware
  • Synapse - Best application launcher on linux.Freeware

Games

  • Civilization5 - Sid Meiers Civilization® is recognized as one of the greatest strategy franchises of all-time.
  • Cockatrice - Cockatrice is an open-source multiplatform supported program for playing tabletop card games over a network.Open-Source Software Freeware
  • Desura - Desura is a community driven digital distribution service for gamers, putting the best games, mods and downloadable content from developers at gamers fingertips, ready to buy and play.
  • Minecraft - Minecraft is a game about placing blocks and going on adventures. Explore randomly generated worlds and build amazing things from the simplest of homes to the grandest of castles.Freeware
  • PlayOnLinux - Play Windows Game on Linux. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • Steam - Awesome Gaming platform, which open the gates to many games.Freeware
  • Wine - Wine (originally an acronym for "Wine Is Not an Emulator") is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux, Mac OSX, & BSD Open-Source Software Freeware
  • Xonotic - Arena shooter inspired by Unreal Tournament and Quake. Open-Source Software Freeware

Graphics

  • Aftershot - A powerful alternative to Adobe Photoshop!
  • Agave - Agave is a very simple application for the GNOME desktop that allows you to generate a variety of colorschemes from a single starting colorFreeware
  • Blender - a free and open source complete 3D creation pipeline for artists and small teams.Freeware
  • Cinepaint - Open source deep paint software Freeware
  • Darktable - darktable is an open source photography workflow application and RAW developerFreeware
  • Digikam - digiKam is an advanced digital photo management application for LinuxFreeware
  • Fotoxx - Fotoxx is a free open source Linux program for image editing and collection management.Freeware
  • GIMP - GIMP is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoringFreeware
  • Hugin - an easy to use cross-platform panoramic imaging toolchain based on Panorama Tools.Freeware
  • Inkscape - A powerful, free design tool for you , whether you are an illustrator, designer, web designer or just someone who needs to create some vector imageryFreeware
  • Krita - Open Source Software for Concept Artists, Digital Painters, and IllustratorsFreeware
  • Luminance HDR - Luminance HDR is an open source graphical user interface application that aims to provide a workflow for HDR imaging.Freeware Open-Source Software
  • Ojo - A fast and pretty image viewer. Freeware Open-Source Software
  • OpenShot - OpenShot is a free, simple-to-use, feature-rich video editor for Linux. Freeware
  • Pinta - Pinta is a free, open source program for drawing and image editing.Freeware Open-Source Software
  • Pitivi - A free video editor with a beautiful and intuitive user interface, a clean codebase and a fantastic community.Freeware
  • Radiance - Radiance - A Validated Lighting Simulation ToolFreeware
  • RawTherapee - A good looking but lesser known photo editing app.Freeware Open-Source Software
  • Shotwell - Shotwell is a photo manager for GNOME 3.Freeware
  • StopMotion - Linux Stopmotion is a Free Open Source application to create stop-motion animations. It helps you capture and edit the frames of your animation and export them as a single file.Freeware
  • Xara Extreme - Xara Xtreme for Linux is a powerful, general purpose graphics program for Unix platforms including Linux, FreeBSDFreeware

Internet

  • Brave - Brave is a fast, good desktop browser for macOS, Windows, and Linux.Freeware Open-Source Software
  • Chrome - A popular Web Browsers with a lot of plugins/apps.Freeware
  • Chromium - Chromium is an open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all users to experience the web.Freeware Open-Source Software
  • Firefox - A popular Web Browsers with a lot of plugins/apps.Freeware Open-Source Software
  • Anatine - A twitter desktop app with many customizations.Freeware Open-Source Software
  • Vivaldi - A new and rising browser with a lot of customizations.Freeware

Productivity

  • Ambient Noise - Install ambient noise for extra focus on LinuxFreeware
  • Autokey - A desktop automation utility for Linux allows you to manage collection of scripts and phrases, and assign abbreviations and hotkeys to these. Freeware
  • Brightness - Brightness indicator for ubuntu. Freeware
  • SpeedCrunch - A nice, opensouce, high-precision scientific calculator. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • California - Complete Calendar app replacement which uses natural language for creating events.Freeware
  • Caligra Office - offers a comprehensive set of 8 applications which satisfies the office, graphics and management needs.Freeware
  • CopyQ -CopyQ is advanced clipboard manager with editing and scripting features. Freeware
  • f.lux - Automatically adjust your computer screen to match lighting. Freeware
  • Gnome-dictionary - A powerful
  • Go For It - Go For It! is a simple and stylish productivity app, featuring a to-do list, merged with a timer that keeps your focus on the current task.Freeware
  • Libre Office - Best office bundle for linux.Freeware
  • My Weather Indicator - Weather indicator and widget for ubuntu.Freeware
  • Plank - Plank is meant to be the simplest dock of apps on the planet.
  • Pomodone App - PomoDoneApp is the easiest way to track your workflow using Pomodoro technique®, on top of your current task management service.Freeware
  • Recent Noti - An indicator for recent notification.Freeware
  • Redshift - Redshift adjusts the color temperature of your screen according to your surroundings. This may help your eyes hurt less if you are working in front of the screen at night.Open-Source Software Freeware
  • Shutter - Shutter is a feature-rich screenshot program for Linux based operating systems such as Ubuntu. Freeware
  • Simplenote - Cross platform notetaking app. Evernote competitor.Freeware
  • Springseed - Simple and beautiful note taking app for daily user.Open-Source Software Freeware
  • Stickynote - Sticky note on desktop of linux.Freeware
  • Todo.txt - todo.txt-focused editors which help you manage your tasks with as few keystrokes and taps possible.Freeware
  • Todoist - Unofficial client of Todoist, the Cross-platform to-do manager with mobile apps, great UI and has some optional premium features.Open-Source Software Freeware
  • Undistract me - Notifies you when long-running terminal commands complete. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • Xmind - Mind Mapping Tool.
  • WPS office - One of the best office app bundle for linux.FreewareOpen-Source Software

Security

  • ClamAV - Clam Anti Virus Freeware
  • GnuPG - Gnu Privacy GuardFreeware
  • OpenSSH - OpenSSH Secure Shell Server and ClientFreeware
  • Seahorse - Gnome frontend for GnuPGFreeware
  • Tcpdump - TCP Debugging/Capture ToolFreeware

Sharing Files

  • CrossFTP - CrossFTP makes it extremely simple to manage the FTP related tasks.Freeware
  • D-lan - A free LAN file sharing software.Freeware
  • Deluge - Deluge is a lightweight, Free Software, cross-platform BitTorrent client.Open-Source SoftwareFreeware
  • Dropbox - Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily.Freeware
  • Meiga - a tool that makes possible to share selected local directories via web. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • ownCloud - The goal of ownCloud is to give you access to your files wherever you areFreeware
  • Quazaa - A cross platform multi-network peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing client.Freeware
  • PushBullet - Pushbullet connects your devices, making them feel like one.Freeware
  • qBittorent - The qBittorrent project aims to provide a Free Software alternative to µTorrent.Open-Source Software Freeware
  • SpiderOak - Real-time collaboration for teams and businesses that care about privacy Freeware
  • Syncthing - Syncthing replaces proprietary sync and cloud services with something open, trustworthy and decentralized.Open-Source Software Freeware
  • Teamviewer - PC remote control/remote access software, free for personal use.Freeware
  • Transmission - Simple, lightweight, multi-platform torrent client. Open-Source Software Freeware

Terminal

  • GnomeTerminal - A widely preinstalled terminal emulator in linux world Freeware
  • Guake - Guake is a top-down terminal for GnomeFreeware
  • Konsole - Best terminal for KDE dekstop environment.Freeware
  • RXVT - A terminal emulator for X11, a popular replacement for the standard xterm.Open-Source SoftwareFreeware
  • Terminator - its quite clear that the most powerful terminal emulator on Linux is the feature-filled Terminator.Freeware
  • Xterm - The xterm program is a 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.Freeware

Utilities

  • Actionaz - Automation tasks utility for ubuntu/LinuxFreeware
  • Bleach bit -BleachBit quickly frees disk space and tirelessly guards your privacy. Free cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, shred temporary files, delete logs, and more ... Freeware
  • Brasero - CD/DVD burner.Freeware
  • Caffeine - Prevents ubuntu from automatically going to sleep.Freeware
  • EasyStroke - Easystroke is a gesture-recognition application for X11.Open-Source Software Freeware
  • Enpass - Enpass makes your life easy by securely managing your passwords and important information.Freeware
  • Convertall - Convert all units.Freeware
  • GD map - A tool to visualize disk usage. Freeware
  • Gnormalize - Audio converter. Freeware
  • GParted - Disk Partition utility for ubuntu/linux. Freeware
  • GRadio - Radio software for ubuntu linux. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • Handbrake - Video converter. Freeware
  • KeePass - Windows focused password manager, with some cross platform support through Mono. Freeware
  • KeePassX - Cross platform password manager. Port of KeePass. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • ImageMagik - ImageMagick is a suite of command-line utilities for modifying and working with images. Freeware
  • LastPass - Cross platform password
  • Powertop - Diagnose issue with powerconsumption.Freeware
  • Pulse Audio - Improve Linux Audio with customized Profiles. Freeware
  • Peazip - Utility to unzip any zipped files Freeware
  • Psensor - Graphical hardware temperature monitor for Linux.Open-Source Software Freeware
  • Remarkable - Best Markdown editor in Ubuntu/Linux.Freeware
  • Remmina - A FEATURE RICH REMOTE DESKTOP APPLICATION FOR LINUX AND OTHER UNIXES.Open-Source Software Freeware
  • Systemload - Show systemload in status bar.Freeware
  • Synaptic - Synaptic is a graphical package management program for apt.Freeware
  • TLP - Optimize Linux battery.Freeware
  • Variety - Variety is an open-source wallpaper changer for Linux, packed with great features, yet slim and easy to use. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • Virtualbox - VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware, targeted at server, desktop and embedded use.Open-Source Software Freeware
  • WallpaperChange - Automatically change your wallpaper.Freeware

Video

  • Bomi Player - A powerful and easy-to-use multimedia player.Open-Source SoftwareFreeware
  • Kodi - An award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media center for playing videos, music, pictures, games, and more.Open-Source SoftwareFreeware
  • MPlayer - MPlayer is a movie player which runs on many systems, play any kind of videos.Freeware
  • MPV - A free, open source, and cross-platform media player.Open-Source SoftwareFreeware
  • SMPlayer - Free Media Player with built-in codecs. Play all audio and video formats.Open-Source SoftwareFreeware
  • SVP - SVP allows you to watch any video on your desktop computer using frame interpolation as it is available on high-end TVs and projectors.Freeware
  • VLC - VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. Freeware

Window Managers

  • 2bwm - A fast floating window manager. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • awesome - Highly configurable framework window manager. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • Bspwm - Tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • dwm - A dynamic window manager for X. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • Fluxbox - A lightweight and highly-configurable window manager. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • Herbstluftwm - Manual tiling window manager for X. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • i3 - An improved dynamic tiling window manager. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • Openbox - Highly configurable and lightweight X11 window manager. Open-Source Software Freeware
  • xmonad - Lightweight X11 tiled window manager written in Haskell. Open-Source Software Freeware

Others

To be added later

Command Line Utilities

  • Fishfry - replaces fish history with a history tailored to pentesters for efficency and newbie pentesters for learning.Open-Source SoftwareFreeware
  • Tmux - It lets you switch easily between several programs in one terminal, detach them (they keep running in the background) and reattach them to a different terminal. And do a lot more.Open-Source SoftwareFreeware
  • Top 10 command line tools

Setup

Ubuntu

Other distros

To be added later

Discussion Forums

Ubuntu

IRC channels

Linux News, Apps, and more ....

Reddit

Learn Linux

Contributors

List of contributors :

  1. Me (LuongVo)
  2. anewuser
  3. nathanmusoke
  4. bpearson
  5. orestisf1993
  6. lasseborly
  7. sebasspf
  8. buivnhai
  9. Everyone @ reddit.com/r/linux & reddit.com/r/ubuntu & vozforums.com for many suggestions and compliments ...

(The list above is updated on 8th July 2016)

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Items marked with Open-Source Software are open-source software and link to the source code. Items marked with Freeware are free (as in free beer).


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