Saurabh Joshi sbjoshi[at]cse[dot]iitk[dot]ac[dot]in sbjoshi[at]fedoraproject[dot]org Research Scholar Department of Computer Science and Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Links

Following is the links/list of softwares/application which can provide alternative to window based applications.

F - Free, O - Open Source

• Utilities
  • Synergy : Mouse and Keyboard sharing across multiple machines ( FO )
• Live USB
  • LiLi USB Creator : Software for windows which allows creating bootable Live USB ( F )
  • unetbootin : Allows creating bootable USB drives for Linux distributions from both windows and linux ( FO )

• Entertainment

  • SubtitleEditor : Create and Edit subitles ( FO )
  • SoX : Swiss Army knife of sound processing ( FO )
  • VLC : All in one media player ( FO )
  • MPlayer : All in one media player ( FO )
  • Mixxx : Free Digital DJ software ( FO )
    
  • MEncoder : Split, merge, convert, edit media files ( FO )
  • MPD : Music Player Daemon ( FO )
  • Ncmpcpp : Client for MPD. Extremely lightweight, ncurses based ( FO )
  • Audacity : Audio Editor, Mixer and Recorder ( FO )
  • Cheese : Use your webcam to take photos, videos and apply fancy special effects ( FO )
• Chess
  • Rybka : One of the most powerful chess engine. Version 2 is free.
  • RobboLito : Believed to be the most powerful chess engine ( FO )
  • Arena : One of the best chess GUI ( my opinion ). Runs on 'wine'. ( F )
  • Houdini : One of the most powerful chess engine. ( F )
• Virtualization
  • VirtualBox : Virtual Machine ( FO )
  • Qemu : Virtual Machine ( FO )
  • Wine : Windows Emulator. Run windows program on Linux ( FO )
  • OpenVZ : Container based virtualization for Linux ( FO )
• Office Applications
  • OpenOffice : Office Application Suite ( FO )
• Chat Messenger
  • Pidgin : Universal Internet Messenger (voice and video support) ( FO )
  • Empathy : Universal Internet Messenger ( voice and video support ) ( FO )
• System Administration
  • TrueCrypt : File/Drive/Volume Encryption utility ( FO )
  • iptables : Highly Configurable Linux Firewall ( FO )
• Web Browsers
  • FireFox : One of the best web browser ( html 5 compliant ). Lot of useful add-ons to customize to your needs. ( FO )
  • ELinks : Full-Featured Text www browser ( FO )
• Mail Clients
  • Thunderbird : GUI based email client/news reader. ( FO ).
  • Alpine : Text based ( ncurses based ) powerful, highly customizable email client/news reader. ( FO )
  • Mutt : Text based powerful email client ( FO )
  • Evolution : GUI based planner, organizer and email client ( FO )
• Editors
  • Vim : One of the most powerful editor on planet. Especially for programmers. ( FO )
  • Emacs : One of the most powerful editor on planet. ( FO )

  These editors may be a bit difficult to learn in the beginning, but they are worth it!

• IDE
  • Eclipse : platform independent development platform. One of the most popular IDE, especially in Java community. ( FO )

• Image Viewers/Editors

  • GThumb : Image Viewer and Browser ( FO )
  • Fspot : Image Viewer. Full-featured personal photo management ( FO )
  • GIMP : One of the most powerful image manipulation program ( FO )

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