[Web Pack] 318 Essential Collection: Linux
Each issue we’re going to be hunting down the best Linux applications available on the internet so you don’t have to. This could be anything from image manipulation to web browsers, from hardware monitoring to encryption and everything in between.
Best of all, everything you’ll find on this page will be free and open source. So no nagging popups, no time restrictions and no feature limitations. Just strictly no holds barred functionality! Read on to find out what we’ve been digging during the last month.
Clonezilla NEW
Once you’ve gone through the painful process of re-installing your operating system for whatever reason and spent the day installing all your software, updates and drivers, you’ll wish you’d made a system backup to fall back on. Clonezilla enables you to make that boot drive backup and compares itself to Norton Ghost, a well respected commercial alternative. Clonezilla works off a live Linux distro, so you simply boot off a CD or USB Flash drive and follow some basic menus to either backup or restore a backup.
Tomboy Notes NEW
Tomboy Notes is a virtual sticky notes program for your desktop. You can have as many or few onscreen at once, and notes can be hidden from view to keep them from dominating the screen. Another useful feature makes it possible to link notes each other, great for organising related information and making them easily found.
Amarok NEW
Amarok is more than a music player. It’s interface hosts an intergrated Wikipedia lookup and lyrics download browser, automatically updating while your music runs through the current playlist, offering an opportunity learn more about your music and discover new artists.
Discover new music and learn more about your favourite artists through Amarok
BleachBit NEW
BleachBit works tirelessly get rid of the hidden file junk that accumulates on your drive from general computer computer use. The utility wipes clean junk from over 90 applications, including web browsers, Adobe Reader, Flash, GIMP, Google Earth, OpenOffice.org, Skype, Thunderbird, and VLC media player. For added privacy, users can opt for the file shredding.
Firestarter NEW
Firestarter is a visual Firewall program providing real time data on incoming and outgoing traffic. The administrator can track data activity from any application, and where appropriate block throughout. Policies can be set on traffic to white and blacklists for permanent measures to control data through the firewall.
Firestarter is a complete software firewall for both local and server systems
Phraseanet
With nearly every device we own nowadays able to take photographs, it’s little wonder that we can all get swamped by the large volume of images. Phraseanet is an online solution for managing all manner of digital media. This application is perfect for organisations that need to get to grips with photos, videos, sounds and pdf documents.
Kontact
Kontact is the culmination of several KDE PIM (personal information manager) applications in one program. The various components work in harmony to bring you an all-in-one personal organisation tool. You can integrate KDE’s Akregator for feed reading, KAddressBook to manage your contacts and the KMail email client. You can also monitor tasks with KTimeTracker which will help you manage your projects more easily.
Scribus
This program gives you the ability to bring professional desktop publishing projects to life. Don’t be fooled by the easy-to-use interface as Scribus holds as much power as other well-known desktop publishing software. Furthermore, Scribus is XML-based and open which means even damaged documents can be recovered and repaired, using a simple text editor.
Hedgewars
For all of you Worms and Wormux lovers out there, here is possibly the closest to Worms’ game-play that can be found on the web today. Except this time you are taking control of the meanest Hedgehogs the world has ever seen. Hedgewars is just as addictive and a large online presence means you can pit yourself against real foes instead of the all-to-easy-to-beat PC.
ZiK
ZiK is a Linux audio player based on gstreamer. Rather than using a library, files are added by their location path, which makes for an extremely lightweight and fast program. It uses your GTK theme for button, and can play CDs and webradio streams as well as a wide range of audio formats (exactly which are supported will depend on the gstreamer plug-ins installed).
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Posted on Thursday, January 19th, 2012 at 2:45 pm under Linux, Web Packs. You can subscribe to comments. You can leave a comment, or trackback from your own site.
