Linux Necessary Free and Open Source Softwares

By admin on March 26th, 2009

1. Connectivity
1) Bluetooth Utilities [Bluz Package]
2) Bluetooth File Sharing (in Accessories)* (Not necessary for Ubuntu 8.10 )
3) Network Manager (or)
4) Wicd
5) Samba or NFS for File Sharing on Network

2. Sound and Video
1) Amarok – Audio Player
2) Audacity – Audio Editor like Sound Forge
3) Totam Movie Player
4) Real Player for rm and rmvb file
5) MPlayer
6) VLC Media Player
7) ffmpeg – video editiong software
8) Cinelerra – Video editing s/w

3.CD/DVD Softwares
1) K3B CD/DVD Writer
2) DeVeDe – Convert Movie file to Video DVD format
3) ISO Master – Create and Edit ISO Files
4) DVD rip – Rip mp3s and Videos from DVD
5) Acrobat Reader / Professional

4. Desktop Applications
1) gtk-recordMyDesktop – Record your desktop in ogg video format
2) Acrobat Reader 8
3) Open Office.org
4) Grisbi – Personal Account Management Software
5) gnome-theme-manager
6) gdesklets
7) Dictionary softwares
8) GNU Paint
9) Kile – Latex Editor for Document Preparation
10) Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary [comes with Oxford Dictionary]
11) WordNet English Dictionary
It can be downloaded from
i) Synaptic Package Magaer or
ii) http://wordnet.princeton.edu/obtain
12) Wine – Running Windows Applications in Linux
13) rar – Archive Software
14) chm – Compile HTML File Opener
15) PuTTy – Telnet, SSH, ftp Graphical Tool

5. Internet
1) Firefox Browser
2) Opera Browser
3) Elinks Command Line Browser
4) lynx Command line Browser
5) Evolution – Email Client
6) Pidgin Messenger
7) Skype – Audio and Video Chatting
8) Transmission Bittorrent Client

6. Programming
1) Python,PHP, Perl , C, C++,TCl/TK
2) Netbeans IDE
3) Eclipse IDE
4) GNU Ocatve
5) Scilab – Scientific Computing Package.
6) JDk 1.6 – http://developers.sun.com/downloads/
7) Computer Aided Design (CAD) – Archimedes – http://archimedes.incubadora.fapesp.br/portal/downloads
8) Blender 3D Animation Software

7.Administration
1) Partition Editor [Gparted]

8.Themes and Wallpapers

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No Responses to “Linux Necessary Free and Open Source Softwares”

  1. தமிழ்நெஞ்சம் says:
    March 31, 2009 at 10:42 am

    Very good work.

    Congrats.

    by
    TamilNenjam

  2. Raja Sekharan says:
    April 1, 2009 at 11:41 pm

    I suggest adding ffmpeg.

    It is a command line tool to conver any video format to any other video format.

    Raja sekharan

  3. somnath says:
    May 20, 2009 at 10:28 pm

    Super!! pls add adobe flash & gvdown too

  4. balaji says:
    May 30, 2010 at 8:57 pm

    Sir,

    Any software for download manager which is good for downloading online videos

  5. admin says:
    May 31, 2010 at 6:39 am

    Try these softwares
    Mobile Media Converter
    Downthemall

  6. balaji says:
    June 2, 2010 at 11:22 am

    Sir,

    I found the (flv movies downloader) url–(https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/65949/) tool for downloading flv, movies / music from the favorite websites such as Youtube, Google Video, Dailymotion ,Metacafe,and all the others sites etc…

    the site where all the movies available is http://www.movies-links.tv/

  7. balaji says:
    June 2, 2010 at 11:34 am

    For greater speed downloding copy the link of the location of the video file using (flv movies downloader) and add the link to the (Downthemall) for downloading with full speed..

    Try it now…

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