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1. Audio
2. Backup
3. Banking
4. Browser
5. Burning
6. Cluster
7. Compressor
8. Database
9. Development
10. Emulation
11. File sharing
12. Graphic and photo
13. Instant messaging
14. Laptop
15. Mail
16. Mathematics
17. Multimedia
18. Network
19. Office
20. Palm
21. Portable Document Format (PDF)
22. Recover
23. RSS
24. SPAM and Virus
25. Security
26. System
27. UML
28. Utility
29. Video
30. Web
31. Last but not least
1.1. Audio burner
1.1.1. Mp3roaster
(I haven't tried it yet)
A Perl hack for burning audio CDs out of MP3/OGG/FLAC files
Here an extract of the official description:
MP3Roaster is a Perl hack for burning audio CDs out of MP3, Ogg Vorbis and FLAC files. The main highlights of this application are an easy to use command line syntax and automatic volume leveling support for best audio CD quality.
In order to normalize the audio level of all files which will be burned on CDs MP3roaster requires some free hard disk space.
1.2. Audio composer
1.2.1. Hydrogen
(I haven't tried it yet)
Taken from homepage:
Hydrogen is an advanced drum machine for GNU/Linux. It's main goal is to bring professional yet simple and intuitive pattern-based drum programming.
Homepage: http://www.hydrogen-music.org
1.2.2. LilyPond
(I haven't tried it yet)
Write music notes.
Homepage: http://lilypond.org
1.2.3. Rosegarden
(I haven't tried it yet)
Taken from homepage:
Rosegarden is a professional audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor, and general-purpose music composition and editing environment.
Rosegarden is an easy-to-learn, attractive application that runs on Linux, ideal for composers, musicians, music students, and small studio or home recording environments.
Homepage: http://www.rosegardenmusic.com
1.3. Audio editor
1.3.1. Glame
Homepage: http://glame.sourceforge.net/index.var
1.4. Audio player
1.4.1. Amarok
This is a music player for KDE. It seems to be very powerful (download album covers, display text of played music, organize sound with MySQL, ...)
Homepage: http://amarok.kde.org
1.4.2. Gnomecd
Reads audio CD.
This tool is contained in gnome-media.
I'm not a fun of this programm, but it's the only that currently provides an applet for gnome (gnome 2.4).
1.4.3. Gxmms
Xmms applet for gnome.
Controls the main functions of xmms without having the corresponding windows opened.
1.4.4. Rhythmbox
This is the default GNOME music player. In fact, it can be found in the "Multimedia" menu and is called "Music Player".
The current version (0.8.8) does not support editing for info TAG. Use EasyTag for this.
Homepage: http://www.rhythmbox.org
1.4.5. Xmms
Versatile X audio player that looks like Winamp.
Reads ogg, mp3, wav, ...
1.5. Audio ripper
1.5.1. Grip
Gnome CD ripper.
Homepage: http://www.nostatic.org/grip
1.5.2. Kaudiocreator
(I haven't tried it yet)
CD ripper and audio encoder (GUI).
Homepage: http://www.icefox.net/programs/?program=KAudioCreator
1.5.3. RipperX
Graphical mp3/ogg ripper and encoder.
With this tool it's possible to convert audio CDs to mp3 or ogg in a very simple way. Furthermore, it can try to get the informations relative to the CD directly from CDDB, so that you don't have to manually insert the authors and titles.
1.6. Audio tag editor
1.6.1. EasyTag
Nice tool (GUI) for viewing and editing tags for mp3, ogg, ...
Homepage: http://easytag.sourceforge.net
2.1. Amanda
(I haven't tried it yet)
The Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver
AMANDA, the Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver, is a backup system that allows the administrator to set up a single master backup server to back up multiple hosts over network to tape drives/changers or disks or optical media. Amanda uses native dump and/or GNU tar facilities and can back up a large number of workstations running multiple versions of Unix. Amanda uses Samba or Cygwin to back up Microsoft Windows desktops and servers.
Homepage: http://www.amanda.org
2.2. Bacula
(I haven't tried it yet)
This is a network backup solution supporting differential backups.
Homepage: http://www.bacula.org
2.3. Dar
(I haven't tried it yet)
Disk Archive
dar is a shell command that backs up directory trees and files. It has been tested under Linux, Windows, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, MacOS X and several other systems.
Allows differential backups.
A mini howto: http://dar.linux.free.fr/doc/mini-howto/dar-differential-backup-mini-howto.it.html.
Homepage: http://dar.linux.free.fr
2.4. Emirdiff-backup
This is a package made by me and is free downloadable at http://planamente.ch/emidio/pages/linux_download_list.php.
2.5. Kdar
(I haven't tried it yet)
KDar is the KDE Disk Archiver.
Homepage: http://kdar.sourceforge.net
2.6. Konserve
(I haven't tried it yet)
Little KDE tool for doing backup in the background.
Homepage: http://konserve.sourceforge.net
2.7. Mondo
(I haven't tried it yet)
Mondo Rescue is a GPL disaster recovery solution. It supports Linux (i386, x86_64, ia64) and FreeBSD (i386). It's packaged for multiple distributions (RedHat, RHEL, SuSE, SLES, Mandriva, Debian, Gentoo).
It supports tapes, disks, network and CD/DVD as backup media, multiple filesystems, LVM, software and hardware Raid.
Homepage: http://www.mondorescue.org
2.8. Sbackup
Simple backup with GUI allowing differential backups and supporting gnome-vfs.
The installed files are called
simple-backup-config
for the backup configuration and
simple-restore-gnome
to restore.
Homepage: http://sbackup.sourceforge.net/HomePage
3.1. HomeBank
Homepage: http://homebank.free.fr
4.1. Firefox
A browser based on Mozilla, very fast, comfortable, multiplatform, extendible.
For some usefull tricks, click on the Examples link above (sorry, this is an auto generated page!).
4.2. Galeon
Forked from Mozilla.
4.3. Mozilla
One, or probably, the first graphical browser available for GNU/Linux.
I don't like it really. I prefere Galeon or Firefox instead.
4.4. Mozilla Firebird
An other browser based on Mozilla.
4.5. Kexi
(I haven't tried it yet)
Something like MS Access.
Homepage: http://www.kexi-project.org
4.6. Epiphany
The default GNOME browser.
4.7. Konqueror
The default KDE browser.
I don't know it very well, but it seems to be very valid.
4.8. Plugins
4.8.1. Java
The package j2re1.4 provides a SUN Java Virtual Machine.
4.8.2. Flash
The flashplugin-nonfree package provides a flashplayer.
4.8.3. Personal Security Manager (PSM)
The mozilla-psm package provides access to SSL sites (https) and IMAP/S mail.
4.8.4. Collection of Mozilla based plugins
Plugins and extensions for Firefox, Galeon, Mozilla, ...
Homepage: http://addons.update.mozilla.org
5.1. Cdbakeoven
Completely based on KDE.
Homepage: http://cdbakeoven.sourceforge.net
5.2. Cparanoia
Convert audio CD to wav files.
5.3. Cdrdao
Copy CD on the fly.
5.4. Cdrecord
A very powerful command line tool for CDs and DVDs.
A lot of graphical tools use this programm to interact with the CDs and DVDs.
5.5. Eroaster
A nice and easy to use GUI for CD burning. Unfortunately, it can't do a lot of jobs!
5.6. K3b (GUI)
A very complete, nice and user friendly tool for doing all your stuffs with CDs and DVDs.
5.7. Gcombust (GUI)
A very powerfull tool for doing a lot of jobs. Not for beginners!!!
5.8. Gnometoaster
Official Gnome tool for burning CD and DVD.
Homepage: http://gnometoaster.rulez.org
5.9. Mkisofs
Create ISO filesystems (or if you prefere, ISO images).
5.10. NeroLinux
Never tried ... and probably will never try due its license.
Commercial tool for CD/DVD burning. Who has tried it reported that is not better as K3B.
WARNING! This tool is not Free Software!
Homepage: http://www.nero.com
5.11. WebCdWriter
(I haven't tried it yet)
Write CD/DVD directly from net.
Homepage: http://joerghaeger.de/webCDwriter
5.12. Xcdroast
This is application is window manager independent.
Homepage: http://www.xcdroast.org
6.1. ClusterKnoppix
This is a modified Knoppix distro using the OpenMosix kernel.
Homepage: http://bofh.be/clusterknoppix
6.2. OpenMosix
A very simple cluster, easy to install and configure.
The only disadvantage is that the 2.6 kernel is not supported yet and patches exist only for vanilla kernels.
Homepage: http://openmosix.sourceforge.net
6.3. Oscar
The big advantage of this cluster, is that it can configure all the nodes automatically.
Unfortunately, it does not support the 2.6 kernel.
Currently, it does not exist a Debian package.
Homepage: http://oscar.openclustergroup.org
7.1. ARK
The default KDE archive manager.
Homepage: http://www.arklinux.org
7.2. File roller
The default GNOME archive manager.
Homepage: http://fileroller.sourceforge.net
7.3. p7zip
(I haven't tried it yet)
File archiver with highest compression ratio.
Homepage: http://p7zip.sourceforge.net
8.1. Storage
8.1.1. FirebirdSQL
(I haven't tried it yet)
This is a multi platform database.
Homepage: http://firebird.sourceforge.net
8.1.2. MySQL
A very powerful database, so good as a lot of proprietary databases (or may be also better!).
8.1.3. PostgreSQL
(I haven't tried it yet)
Homepage: http://www.postgresql.org
8.2. Tools
8.2.1. DBdesigner
A nice GUI to graphically design your database.
It can connect to a DB server, get already existing databases, edit them and restore them to the server.
8.2.2. Druid
(I haven't tried it yet)
GUI to simply handle database tables.
Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/druid
8.2.3. Glom
(I haven't tried it yet)
GUI to simply handle database tables.
Only works with PostgreSQL.
Homepage: http://www.glom.org
8.2.4. MySQLcc
(I haven't tried it yet)
MySQL Control Center is MySQL's official platform-independent GUI client.
Homepage: http://unix.freshmeat.net/redir/mysqlcc/21529/url_homepage/index.html
9.1. Content Management System
9.1.1. Postnuke
(I haven't tried it yet)
Homepage: http://www.postnuke.com
9.1.2. Phpnuke
(I haven't tried it yet)
Homepage: phpnuke.org
9.1.3. Flatnuke
(I haven't tried it yet)
This tool can easily create WEB portals.
Doesn't need a database, because datas are stored in simple files.
Homepage: http://www.flatnuke.org
9.2. Debugger
9.2.1. Ddd
GUI for gdb and other debuggers.
Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/ddd
9.2.2. GDB
Debugger for C, C++, Java, Modula-2, and several other languages.
Homepage: http://sources.redhat.com/gdb
Document: GDB quick reference (gdbref.pdf)
9.2.3. Gubed
(I haven't tried it yet)
Debugger for PHP (especially made for Quanta).
Here you can find a description about how to set it up for Quanta: http://www.hoernerfranzracing.de/kde/gubed.html.
Homepage: http://gubed.mccabe.nu/
9.3. GUI
9.3.1. Dialog
This is a very simple tool to create text based dialog.
Homepage: http://hightek.org/dialog
9.3.2. Xdialog
This is a very simple tool to create graphical dialog.
Homepage: http://www.chez.com/godefroy
9.3.3. Glade
(I haven't tried it yet)
Something like Micro$oft Visual Basic.
Homepage: http://glade.gnome.org/
9.3.4. Gtkdialog
(I haven't tried it yet)
This is a utility for fast and easy GUI building.
It can be used to create dialog boxes for almost any interpreted and compiled programs.
Homepage: http://linux.pte.hu/~pipas/gtkdialog
9.3.5. QtDesigner
Homepage: http://trolltech.com/images/products/qt/qt_designer_linux/view
9.4. Editor and IDE
9.4.1. Amaya
This is a WYGIWYS editor.
Homepage: http://www.w3.org/Amaya
9.4.2. Anjuta
This is a GNOME development IDE for C/C++.
Homepage: http://www.anjuta.org
9.4.3. Bluefish
(I haven't tried it yet)
Homepage: http://bluefish.openoffice.nl
9.4.4. Boa constructor
This tool is a cross platform Python IDE and wxPython GUI Builder.
Homepage: http://boa-constructor.sourceforge.net
9.4.5. Eclipse
No Debian package available, yet!
Homepage: http://eclipse.org
9.4.6. Kdevelop
Homepage: http://www.kdevelop.org
9.4.7. PhpEclipse
(I haven't tried it yet)
A java based development studio.
Homepage: http://www.phpeclipse.de
9.4.8. Nvu
(I haven't tried it yet)
This is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor by Lindows.
It has been forked from Mozilla Composer.
Homepage: http://www.nvu.com
9.4.9. Mozilla composer
(I haven't tried it yet)
http://www.mozilla.org
9.4.10. OpenOffice.org Web
Good for who does not know nothing about html.
Homepage: http://www.openoffice.org
9.4.11. Quanta
A very nice development studio based on KDE.
For a lot of things, it's similar to Microsoft Visual Studio.
Homepage: http://quanta.sourceforge.net
9.4.12. Screem
(I haven't tried it yet)
Homepage: http://www.screem.org
9.5. HTML specific
9.5.1. GMT
Homepage: http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu
9.5.2. Kimagemap
This is a plugin for Quanta that can create image mapping.
Alternativelly, it can be done with Gimp.
Homepage: http://www.nongnu.org/kimagemap/index.html
9.6. Version control system
9.6.1. Cervisia
CVS tool that can be used in Quanta.
9.6.2. CVS
Similar to Clearcase, but free!
9.6.3. CVSNT
(I haven't tried it yet)
Homepage: http://www.cvsnt.org
9.6.4. gcvs / CVSgui
Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cvsgui/
9.6.5. GNUarch
(I haven't tried it yet)
Homepage: http://www.gnuarch.org/arch/index.html
9.6.6. Subversion
Similar to CVS but with more features.
9.6.7. tkCVS
Homepage: http://www.twobarleycorns.net/tkcvs.html
9.7. Plugin
9.7.1. Kompare
(I haven't tried it yet)
Diff tool that can be used in Quanta.
10.1. Bochs
Homepage: http://bochs.sourceforge.net
10.2. Qemu
A very simple emulator without XWindow.
Homepage: http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu
10.3. VirtualBox
A very good tool to emulate hardware. Thanks this functionality, it's possible to have one or more virtual machines eachone with a different OS (e.g.: Windows on a Linux box).
It is released under GPL!
Homepage: http://www.virtualbox.org
10.4. Vmware
A very good tool to emulate hardware. Thanks this functionality, it's possible to have one or more virtual machines eachone with a different OS (e.g.: Windows on a Linux box).
The only disadvantage, is that it's proprietary and not free of charge. :-(
10.5. Wine
A Windows emulator, that can run a lot of Windows application. There are also peolple who has run Microsoft Office on a Linux box thanks Wine.
10.6. Xen
(I haven't tried it yet)
Homepage: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen
11.1. Amule
(I haven't tried it yet)
11.2. Azureus
(I haven't tried it yet)
11.3. BitTorrent
(I haven't tried it yet)
11.4. Bittornado
(I haven't tried it yet)
11.5. Emule
(I haven't tried it yet)
11.6. Gnome Bittorent
(I haven't tried it yet)
11.7. LimeWire
(I haven't tried it yet)
11.8. Mute
(I haven't tried it yet)
Anonymous File Sharing.
Homepage: http://mute-net.sourceforge.net
11.9. Xmule
(I haven't tried it yet)
12.1. 3D
12.1.1. Blender
Graphics and animations in 3D.
Homepage: http://www.blender.org
12.2. Album
12.2.1. Albumshaper
(I haven't tried it yet)
Photo album creator and photo manipulator.
Homepage: http://albumshaper.sourceforge.net
12.2.2. F-spot
(I haven't tried it yet)
Photo organizer for GNOME
Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/projects/f-spot/
12.2.3. KAlbum
(I haven't tried it yet)
Creates albums from a collection of images.
Homepage: http://www.paldandy.com/kalbum
12.3. Image editor
12.3.1. Gimp
A very powerful image manipulation program.
Homepage: http://www.gimp.org
12.4. Photo viewer
12.4.1. Gthumb
Image (photo) viewer and browser for GNOME2.
It can also add comments, organize and catalog your images, create web pages with your photos.
12.5. Scanner
12.5.1. Xsane scanner
SANE stands for "Scanner Access Now Easy" and is a very easy to use tool working for a lot of scanners.
Homepage: http://www.xsane.org
12.6. Web album
12.6.1. BBGallery
Perl script generating a number of HTML files from jpeg images that make up a image gallery to browse with any html browser.
Homepage: http://bbgallery.sourceforge.net
12.6.2. Gallery2
(I haven't tried it yet)
Web based photo album. This means, you can create web pages with your photos.
Homepage: http://gallery.sf.net
12.6.3. Gimp gallery
Plugin for Gimp that creates static HTML image galleries from a directory of images.
Homepage: http://skylab.org/~plumpy/gg/
12.6.4. Igal
Perl script that generates a web album.
Homepage: http://www.stanford.edu/~epop/igal
12.6.5. Swigs
(I haven't tried it yet)
Perl script for creating hierarchically organized web image galleries.
Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/swigs
12.6.6. Zgal
(I haven't tried it yet)
Homepage: http://zgal.sourceforge.net
13.1. Gaim vv
(I haven't tried it yet)
This IM supports web cams!
Homepage: http://gaim-vv.sourceforge.net
13.2. Gizmo
(I haven't tried it yet)
This is an internet telephone, that is as simple as instant messaging.
Homepage: http://www.gizmoproject.com
13.3. Open Wengo
This is a GPL tool like Skype.
Homepage: http://www.openwengo.com
13.4. Skype
This tool can be used to converse via text and/or audio.
Additionally, it can be used to make calls to fixed phone network (you have to pay for this!).
Homepage: http://www.skype.org/
14.1. Laptop detect
(I haven't tried it yet)
Laptop mode attempts to determine whether it is being run on a laptop or a desktop and appraises its caller of this
14.2. Laptop mode tools
(I haven't tried it yet)
Laptop mode is a Linux kernel feature that allows your laptop to save considerable power, by allowing the hard drive to spin down for longer periods of time. This package contains the userland scripts that are needed to enable laptop mode. It includes support for automatically enabling laptop mode when the computer is working on batteries.
14.3. Laptop net
(I haven't tried it yet)
Automatically adapt laptop ethernet.
Install also laptop-net-doc for more info.
14.4. Laptop netconf
(I haven't tried it yet)
This tool can automatically determine, from a set of preconfigured alternatives, the network to which your laptop is connected and can run arbitrary scripts to configure the services.
15.1. Evolution
This programm is very similar to Microsoft Outlook. It's very easy to use and it's very comfortable.
Interesting fetaures:
- gpg signatures
- palm syncronization (requires gnome-pilot)
16.1. Octave
This tool is similar to Matlab, but free!
16.2. Units conversion
(I haven't tried it yet)
Converts between different systems of units
Here an extract of the official description:
units '328491ft' 'm'
* 100124.06
/ 9.9876097e-06
units -v '328491 ft' 'm'
328491 ft = 100124.06 m
328491 ft = (1 / 9.9876097e-06) m
units
2084 units, 71 prefixes, 32 nonlinear units
You have: 328491ft
You want: m
* 100124.06
/ 9.9876097e-06
17.1. Dyne
(I haven't tried it yet)
This is a serie of multimedia Linux CD distributions: dynebolic, MuSE, LIVES, FreeJ.
Homepage: http://www.dyne.org
17.2. Geexbox
(I haven't tried it yet)
This is a standalone media player.
Homepage: http://www.geexbox.org
17.3. Movix
(I haven't tried it yet)
This is a serie of three different tiny Linux CD distributions: eMoviX, MoviX and MoviX2.
Homepage: http://movix.sourceforge.net
17.4. MythTV
(I haven't tried it yet)
This is a set top box for watching and recording TV, listening to music, etc.
Homepage: http://www.mythtv.org
18.1. Automatic network card configuration
(I haven't tried it yet)
ifplugd - A configuration daemon for ethernet devices
Here an extract of the official description:
ifplugd is a daemon which will automatically configure your ethernet device when a cable is plugged in and automatically unconfigure it if the cable is pulled. This is useful on laptops with onboard network adapters, since it will only configure the interface when a cable is really connected.
18.2. Micro$oft
18.2.1. LinNeighborhood
(I haven't tried it yet)
This is a GUI frontend for browsing M$ machines and mounting SMB shares using Samba.
Note: Samba needs to be correctly configured!
18.3. NetWhistler
Auto detects networks and presents them on graphical maps.
Homepage: http://netwhistler.spb.ru
18.4. Nmap
This is a network exploration or security auditing tool.
Homepage: http://www.insecure.org/nmap
18.5. PPP
Utility to dial with analog/ISDN modem.
18.6. PPPconfig
Utility to configure PPP.
18.7. Remote access
18.7.1. DirectVnc
(I haven't tried it yet)
VNC client using the framebuffer as display
Homepage: http://www.adam-lilienthal.de/directvnc
18.7.2. Krfb
(I haven't tried it yet)
Needs a running KDE daemon.
18.7.3. NoMachine
(I haven't tried it yet)
Here an extract of the official description:
NoMachine NX is a fast terminal server system based on the X11 protocol. In addition, NX also translates and embeds the MS Windows Terminal Server and VNC protocols into X/NX. NX is an order of magnitude faster than VNC or X11 and can run on bandwidth as narrow as 10 kBit/sec. By embedding RDP and RFB, it enables users to compress and accelerate remote Windows and VNC sessions. NX lets you work fluently even across slow links like modems. The NX project provides a suite of libraries and X11 proxying agents implementing efficient compression and optimized transport of X11, SMB, IPP, HTTP, and arbitrary protocols like audio over the Internet.
Homepage: http://www.nomachine.com/developers.php
18.7.4. Rdesktop
(I haven't tried it yet)
Rdesktop is an open source client for Windows NT Terminal Server and Windows 2000/2003 Terminal Services, capable of natively speaking Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in order to present the user's NT desktop. Unlike Citrix ICA, no server extensions are required.
Homepage: http://www.rdesktop.org
18.7.5. TightVnc
TightVNC is an improved version of VNC, great free remote-desktop tool. The improvements include new bandwidth-friendly "tight" encoding, local cursor support on the client side, enhanced GUI, many bugfixes, and more.
The following packages are available:
- tightvncserver (server)
- tightvnc-java (for accessing via browser)
- xtightvncviewer (for accessing via application)
Homepage: http://www.tightvnc.com
18.7.6. Tsclient
(I haven't tried it yet)
This is a frontend for rdesktop and other remote desktop tools.
Homepage: http://www.gnomepro.com/tsclient
18.7.7. VNC
Works also between the Linux and Windows world.
18.7.8. X11VNC
(I haven't tried it yet)
A VNC server which uses your current X11 session
Here an extract of the official description:
With x11vnc you can export your currently running X11 session to any VNC client. You do not have to launch another session as the regular VNC server does. So it's very useful, if you want to move to another computer without having to log out, or to help a distant colleague to solve a problem with their desktop.
18.8. Rpcinfo
Reports RPC informations.
18.9. Showmount
Show mountpoints of a remote NFS server.
Very helpful tool to find out what are you exporting outside your PC!
18.10. Unison-gtk
GUI for unison.
18.11. Unison
File syncronitation tool.
Homepage: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison
18.12. Wireless
18.12.1. Aircrack-ng
Wireless WEP/WPA cracking utilities.
Homepage: http://www.aircrack-ng.org
18.12.2. Gkismet
Gnome version of 'kismet'.
No Debian version is currently available. :-(
18.12.3. Kismet
Tool for monitoring a wireless network.
18.12.4. Kwifimanager
Tool for configuring and monitoring a wireless card.
Homepage: http://kwifimanager.sourceforge.net
18.12.5. Madwifi
Multiband Atheros Driver for WiFi.
Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/madwifi
18.12.6. NdisWrapper
This tool provides a kernel module that can load Ndis (Windows network driver API) drivers. It can be used when the hardware vendor doesn't provide a linux driver.
An other and better solution is to buy a card supported for linux also.
Homepage: http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net
18.12.7. Wellenreiter
(I haven't tried it yet)
Wireless network discovery and auditing tool.
Homepage: http://www.wellenreiter.net
18.12.8. Wireless-tools
Set of tools to manage a wi-fi adapter
18.13. Wireshark
The ethereal network analyzer tool has been renamed to Wireshark, since Gerald Combs, the founder of the project, has changed job and left the Ethereal trademark behind.
Homepage: http://www.wireshark.org
19.1. Gnucash
Personal of business finance manager.
Homepage: http://www.gnucash.org
19.2. Gnumeric
Gnome version of Microsoft Excel.
Homepage: http://www.gnumeric.org
19.3. OpenOffice.org
The best office suite available in the free software. For most things, it's really better as Microsoft Office.
The things I find good:
- supports more formats than Microsoft Office (very good conversion filters)
- can generate PDF documents just with a click
- can handle very large documents (e.g.: books)
The project is relatively new (I thinks it was started in 2000) but has enhanced its functionality very fast.
It is a valid alternative to Microsoft Office (also for Windows users because there is also a Windows version) and in the future it will probably become the office suite of reference.
OpenOffice is very stable, flexible and gives to the user working features (have you ever tried to make a book with Microsoft Word?).
Homepage: http://www.openoffice.org
Dictionary:
Since version 1.0.1, openoffice uses "myspell" as dictionary. Therefore, to have for example the italian dictionary:
apt-get install myspell-it
Thesaurus:
This is the package that provides synonyms.
To install the english thesaurus:
apt-get install openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us
Note: at the current state (August 2004), this package exists only for a few languages.
Hyphenation:
This is the package for splitting words at the end of a line.
To install the italian hyphenation:
apt-get install openoffice.org-hyphenation-it
Help:
This is the manual where you can take a look if you have simple trouble about using openoffice.
To install the italian help:
apt-get install openoffice.org-help-it
19.4. StarOffice
Sun version of Microsoft Office.
20.1. Jpilot
This tool is similar to the official Palm tool.
It is possibile to make syncronitations and backups.
20.2. Jpilot backup
This is a plugin for jpilot.
This program enhances jpilot's own backup, making it much more flexible, handling automatic backups, configuring which applications/databases to back up and which to ignore, etc.
Homepage: http://jasonday.home.att.net/code/backup/backup.html
20.3. Jpilot syncmal
This is a plugin for jpilot.
Here an extract of the official description:
Jpilot-syncmal is a MAL (Mobile Application Link) plugin for jpilot. The real job to synchronise over the Internet is done by malsync.
The most famous MAL site is AvantGo (www.avantgo.com).
jpilot-syncmal-prc-install(1) can be used to fetch and install AvantGo Palm application (.prc) on the Palm pilot.
Homepage: http://jasonday.home.att.net/code/syncmal
20.4. Gnome-pilot and Evolution
Installing gnome-pilot, it's possible to syncronize the palm with evolution and do backups in a specified directory.
Suggested package: autopilot
20.5. Autopilot
Palm daemon.
Start the syncronitation directly from cradle. The datas are stored according the configuration of gnome-pilot.
21.1. Acroread
This is the official tool of Adobe. Since short time, they have started supporting a GNU/Linux version.
Homepage: http://www.adobe.com
22.1. Compressor
22.1.1. Bzip2recover
(I haven't tried it yet)
Recover damaged .bz2, .bz, .tbz2 and .tbz compressed archive.
This tools is delivered with the package bzip2.
Homepage: www.bzip.org
22.1.2. Gzrecover
(I haven't tried it yet)
Recover damaged .gz and .tgz compressed archive.
Homepage: http://www.urbanophile.com/arenn/coding/gzrt/gzrt.html
22.2. DVD
22.2.1. DVDisaster
Adds error correction data to DVD. In case of DVD corruption, these data can be used to try to recover the DVD.
Homepage: http://www.dvdisaster.com
23.1. Liferea
http://lifera.sourceforge.net
24.1. MailScanner
(I haven't tried it yet)
Homepage: http://www.mailscanner.info
24.2. SpamAssassin
(I haven't tried it yet)
Extensible email filter which is used to identify spam.
Homepage: http://spamassassin.apache.org
25.1. Encryption
25.1.1. GPG
This tool can be used to encrypt and sign files, email, ...
A lot of tools use it to encrypt datas (evolution, Nautilus, ...).
Homepage: http://www.gnupg.org
25.1.2. Outguess
This tool can hide a crypted message in a picture file. Same way, it can extract the crypted message.
Homepage: http://www.outguess.org
25.1.3. Stegdetect
This tool can be used to try to find out if a picture contains crypted messages.
This package contains the following program for this purpose:
stegdetect
stegbreak
Homepage: http://www.outguess.org/detection.php
25.1.4. Stegfs
This crypted filesystem provides the capability to encrypt confidential datas on more levels.
In this way, if you are forced to show your encrypted datas, you can just show the data encrypted on the lowest level, keeping secret the very confidential datas.
Furthermore, it is not possible to find out if there are more encrypted data as them just showed.
There is the limitation that this filesystem is only working on ext2.
Homepage: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ih99-stegfs.pdf
25.2. Firewall
25.2.1. Frazierwall
The goal of the author was to create a preconfigured router/firewall already built to provide DHCP and time services to any home or small business LAN. It's very small (one single 1.44MB floppy disk) and easy to use.
I just discovered the homepage is not anymore present. I have decided to keep anyway this link.
Homepage: http://www.frazierwall.com
25.2.2. Gibraltar
(I haven't tried it yet)
Gibraltar is a Debian GNU/Linux-based firewall package which boots up and runs completely from CD-ROM, so hard disk installation is not necessary. The configuration data is optionally stored on hard disk, floppy disk or an USB storage device.
Homepage: http://www.gibraltar.at
25.2.3. Gray World
(I haven't tried it yet)
Unusual firewall bypassing techniques, network and computer security. This programm can be used to access your home PC from internet also if it's protected behind a firewall.
Homepage: http://www.gray-world.net/index.shtml
25.2.4. Linux Router Project
LRP is small enough to fit on a single 1.44MB floppy disk, and makes building and maintaining routers, access servers, thin servers, thin clients, network appliances, and typically embedded systems next to trivial.
Homepage: http://www.linuxrouter.org
25.3. Password cracking
25.3.1. John
Fase password cracker. Detects weak Unix passwords.
Homepage: http://www.openwall.com/john
25.4. Rootkit
25.4.1. Chkrootkit
Homepage: http://www.chkrootkit.org
25.4.2. Tripwire
Homepage: http://www.tripwire.org
25.5. Secure data deletion
25.5.1. THC SecureDelete
(I haven't tried it yet)
Homepage: http://www.thc.org/releases.php?o=1#038;s=4
25.5.2. Shred
(I haven't tried it yet)
Homepage: http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?shred+1
25.5.3. SafeShred
(I haven't tried it yet)
Homepage: http://www.codetek.com/safeshred
25.5.4. Ultimate boot CD
Homepage: http://www.ultimatebootcd.com
26.1. Administration
26.1.1. Kcron
This is a GUI for easily configuring cron jobs.
26.1.2. Kuser
(I haven't tried it yet)
This is a GUI for easily configuring users and groups in your system.
26.2. Bootloader
26.2.1. Grub
This is the newest bootloader and is slowly replacing lilo.
Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub
26.2.2. Lilo
This is the first very large used GNU/Linux bootloader. I prefere Grub.
26.2.3. QGrubEditor
This is a GUI for easily configuring the GRUB bootloader.
Homepage: http://www.qt-apps.org/content/show.php/QGRUBEditor?content=60391
26.2.4. Startup-manager
This is a GUI for easily configuring the GRUB bootloader.
Homepage: https://sourceforge.net/projects/startup-manager
26.3. Hardware detection
26.4. Xwindow
26.4.1. Mdetect
(I haven't tried it yet)
This is a tool for autoconfiguring the mice.
26.4.2. Xresprobe
(I haven't tried it yet)
This probes both laptop and DDC-compliant screens for their standard resolutions, and returns a specifically-formatted, easy-to-parse output.
26.5. Installation
26.5.1. Checkinstall
(I haven't tried it yet)
If you want to install a not Debian package from the source, this utility will take a trace about the installed files, so that they can easily be removed.
Homepage: http://checkinstall.izto.org
26.5.2. Dh_make
(I haven't tried it yet)
This is a tool like checkinstall but for Debian only.
26.5.3. Installwatch
(I haven't tried it yet)
If you want to install a not Debian package from the source, this utility will take a trace about the installed files, so that they can easily be removed.
26.5.4. Stow
(I haven't tried it yet)
Manages the installation of software packages, keeping them separate (/usr/local/stow/emacs vs. /usr/local/stow/perl, for example) while making them appear to be installed in the same place (/usr/local).
Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/stow
26.6. Package management
26.6.1. apt-get
This is the most important tool to install, remove and upgrade packages in your system.
If you like a GUI version, see synaptic.
26.6.2. dpkg
This is the base tool used from Debian to install, remove and upgrade packages. It's normally better to use apt-get, because it can manage and solve dependencies problems.
26.6.3. dpkg-scanpackages
This tool sorts through a tree of Debian binary packages and creates a "Packages" file, used by dselect and other tools to tell the user what packages are available for installation.
26.6.4. gdebi
(I haven't tried it yet)
This tool installs local deb packages resolving and installing its dependencies.
The same task is done by apt-get, but this last only works for remote packages.
26.6.5. wajig
Easy interface to many Debian administrative tasks.
Homepage: http://www.togaware.com/linux/survivor/Wajig_Packages.html
26.6.6. synaptic
GUI for apt-get, apt-cache and more. Very nice and confortable.
26.7. Partitioning
26.7.1. Cfdisk
Easy to use console tool.
26.7.2. Parted
This tool is not for beginner, but is very powerful.
Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/parted
26.7.3. Qtparted
GUI for parted.
Homepage: http://qtparted.sourceforge.net
26.8. Printing
26.8.1. Cups
This is a very powerful print server.
Homepage: http://www.linuxprinting.org
26.9. Removable device (USB, ...)
26.9.1. Mountpy
Script for quick mounting removable devices.
Mountpy scans all devices connected to the system, and tries to mount them, creating mount directories as needed.
Warning: this runs setuid root and allows ordinary users to mount external filesystems. Do not install it on multiuser machines with untrusted users!
26.9.2. Udev
This is a program which dynamically creates and removes device nodes from /dev/. It responds to /sbin/hotplug device events and requires a 2.6 kernel.
See also my udev-microhowto: http://www.planamente.ch/emidio/docs/linux/udev-micro-howto.txt.
27.1. Dia
Homepage: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia
27.2. Gaphor
(I haven't tried it yet)
27.3. Umbrello
(I haven't tried it yet)
28.1. Automatically activate Num Lock key
To have the "Num Lock" key activated after have been logged in, just install the following package:
apt-get install numlockx
28.2. Converting DOS <-> UNIX
To convert a file from DOS to UNIX:
dos2unix yourFile
To convert a file from UNIX to DOS:
unix2dos yourFile
28.3. Converting BINARY <-> ASCII
To convert a BINARY file to an ASCII file:
uuencode yourFile /dev/stdout > yourFile.ascii
To convert an ASCII file to a BINARY file:
uudecode -o yourFile.binary yourFile.ascii
28.4. Disk usage
28.4.1. Filelight (GUI)
Recursive graphical display of disk usage.
Homepage: http://www.methylblue.com/filelight
28.5. File comparison
28.5.1. Meld
Graphical tool to diff and merge files, directories, ...
Homepage: http://meld.sourceforge.net
28.5.2. Tkdiff
Nice tool to graphically compare two files and easily find out the differences between them.
I find the tool meld better.
Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tkdiff
28.6. Finding stuff
28.6.1. Beagle
(I haven't tried it yet)
Quickly find the stuff you care about: documents, emails, web history, IM/IRC conversations, source code, images, music files, applications, ...
Homepage: www.gnome.org/projects/beagle
28.6.2. FreeMind
Tool to create mind-mappings.
Homepage: http://freemind.sourceforge.net
28.6.3. Harvest
(I haven't tried it yet)
Collect info and make them available via browser.
Homepage: http://harvest.sourceforge.net
28.6.4. Regexxer (multiple find/replace)
This tool can find/replace a given string more time recursively.
29.1. DVD decoder
29.1.1. CSS
In order to see DVDs on your system, you need a CSS decoder. Since the law is not so clear about if it's allowed to use it, you won't find an official Debian package.
Instead, take a look at http://apt-get.org and search for a package like libdvdcss2. Install it and that's it.
29.2. Video burner
29.2.1. DVDauthor
Create DVD video filesystem. See also QDVDAuthor.
Homepage: http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net
29.2.2. DVDrtools
DVD writing program.
Homepage: http://www.nongnu.org/dvdrtools
29.2.3. QDVDauthor
GUI for creating DVD video filesystem.
Homepage: http://qdvdauthor.sourceforge.net
29.3. Video editor
29.3.1. Avidemux
Video editing tool. Actually, I prefere Kino.
Homepage: http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux
29.3.2. Cinelerra
(I haven't tried it yet)
Homepage: http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3
29.3.3. Kino
Nice tool to transfer videos from a videocamera via firewire to PC, make some video editing and store the result in many formats.
Very simple to use.
Homepage: http://kino.schirmacher.de
29.4. Video player
29.4.1. Gnash
(I haven't tried it yet)
Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash
29.4.2. Gxine
Gnome version of Xine.
29.4.3. Mplayer
Homepage: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/news.html
29.4.4. Ogle
Homepage: http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~dvd
29.4.5. Ogle-gui
GUI for ogle.
Homepage: http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd
29.4.6. Totem Movie Player
Official gnome movie player.
Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/projects/totem
29.4.7. VLC
Homepage: http://www.videolan.org/vlc
29.4.8. Xine
The best audio/video player I have never seen. It supports a very wide range of codecs.
29.4.9. Xine-ui
Same as xine but with interchangable skins.
Homepage: http://xinehq.de
29.5. Video ripper
29.5.1. DVD::Rip
Homepage: http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip
29.5.2. K9copy
Homepage: http://k9copy.free.fr
29.5.3. GMencoder
Gnome GUI to mplayer/mencoder.
Homepage: http://gmencoder.sourceforge.net
29.5.4. Mencoder
Homepage: http://www.mplayerhq.hu
29.5.5. Transcode
The most powerful encoder I have ever seen.
Homepage: http://www.transcoding.org
29.6. Video on mini DV
29.6.1. Dvgrab
Command line tool to get videos via firewire from a videocamera.
This functionality is normally already integrated in the video editing programms.
30.1. Apache Web Server
This is surely the best web server existing on the World.
30.2. Cget
(I haven't tried it yet)
Small web page downloader based in the Cherokee client library
30.3. Gftp
Gnome File Transfer Protocol.
Homepage: http://www.gftp.org
30.4. HTTrack
This is an offline browser. It downloads the desired homepages.
Homepage: http://www.httrack.com
30.5. Wget
Easily retrieves files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP.
Homepage: http://wget.sunsite.dk
31.1. Equivalents Windows tools in GNU/Linux
Homepage: http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html
31.2. Others
For other tools, have a look at my packages: http://www.planamente.ch/emidio/pages/linux_download_list.php. You might find something useful.
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