The tables below show you lists of software that I installed on my PC.
The package name helps you to install the application via Synaptic
(System → Administration → Synaptic Package Manager).
The linked websites provide additional information like screenshots or manuals.
| I wrote this list in 2007 while using Ubuntu Linux 7.04 (Feisty Fawn). |
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Geany is a small text editor with syntax highlightning and an integrated terminal. |
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A small text editor with syntax highlightning and good support for many character sets. |
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KHexEdit is an easy to handle hex editor. |
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A PDF viewer with several useful functions for extraction of text an images from PDF files. |
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XCHM is an application to view Microsoft Compressed HTML Help files. |
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A free and easy-to-use software for painting and editing image files. |
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The GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) is a comprehensive raster graphics editor application. |
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Octave is a free application for performing numerical computations. It is mostly compatible with MATLAB. |
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The GNU Fortran (GFortran) compiler is an application to compile fortran77, fortran95 and parts of fortran2003 source codes. |
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Glipper is a clipboard utility for the GNOME panel, that allows you cache text and reselect it for pasting. |
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Free Application for burning CD’s and DVD’s that was designed for KDE (K Desktop Environment). |
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GParted is the GNOME Partition Editor application that helps you to create, destroy, resize, move, check and copy partitions, and the file systems on them. |
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Gnome-art is a small tool that helps you to download and install desktop themes and backgrounds from the GNOME Art Website. |
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This nautilus plugin allows you to open terminals in arbitrary local paths and on SSH servers by using the context menue. |
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This nautilus extension allows you to apply own scripts to selected files via the menue of the right mouse button. |
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An easy way to install many of Microsoft’s TrueType core fonts (like 'Comic Sans MS', 'Courier New', 'Georgia', 'Verdana', 'Times New Roman' and 'Arial') on Linux. |
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Xnest opens a window that works like another screen. That allows you for example to take screenshots form the login window. |
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This commandline application allows you to execute programs on linux that were originally written for Microsoft Windows. |
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Dvdbackup is a commandline tool to create backups of DVD’s. |
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This commandline tool comprises many functions like joining or decrypting PDF files. |
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This package allows you (in your terminal) to convert PDF files to PostScript/text files ( |
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Mmv is a commandline program to move ( |
This commandline tool scans for rootkits, backdoors and possible local exploits. |
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This program for the commandline helps you to check your system for known rootkits. |
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The FileZilla Client is a free und open source FTP client that is available for several platforms like Windows and Linux. |
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Mozilla Thunderbird is a free e-mail and news client with a good spam filter that is available for several platforms like Windows and Linux. |
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Downloader for X (D4X) is a powerful graphical download manager. |
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Wget is a commandline download manager that allows you to download single files as well als whole websites. |
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Konqueror is a web browser, file manager and file viewer that was designed for KDE (K Desktop Environment) |
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XMMS (X MultiMedia System) is a player for various audio formats and is very similar to Winamp. |
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The VideoLan Client (VLC) media player is a free software media player by the VideoLAN project. |
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Audacity is a digital audio editor application available for various operating systems. |