10 Free And Amazing Linux Apps ...

10 Free And Amazing Linux Apps For Programmers

 

                          
                                      Linux, the open source OS might not be on same charts of popularity as Microsoft’s Windows OS or Apple’s OS X, but it’s hot favorite with computer enthusiast. They can fine tune the OS to suit their taste, since it’s open source; it is secure, as there are not many malwares that can affect the system; and for other good reasons.   

If you are thinking of getting the OS on your computer, then there are numerous amazing apps that can help you with the installations, read on to know 10 of them as compiled by EFY Times.

#10 Clam Tk

Though Linux users are unlikely to experience any infected files, but it doesn’t mean that you're safe. You might exchange files with the windows system and end up with infection. There are a number of commercial antivirus products available for Linux, but CalmTk is free and offers good protection. It has an impressive graphical front end, it’s light weight and features frequently updated widespread definitions list of any latent threats to yourself or others.

#9 GParted

GParted is used for creating, deleting, resizing, moving, checking and copying partitions, and the file systems on them. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems (works with Windows Vista / 7 System & Data partitions), reorganizing disk usage, copying data residing on hard disks and mirroring one partition with another (disk imaging). It offers a simple, user-friendly interface to a flexible, plain partition editor.

#8 Kate

Kate, short for KDE Advanced Text Editor, is a programmer's text editor with syntax highlighting for over 200 filetypes. The syntax highlighting is extendable via XML files and can also specify code folding rules. It has support for search and replace using regular expressions and supports auto-detection of file encodings. Kate can be used as a modal text editor by using its vi input mode which emulates the vi editor. By using sessions, one can customize Kate for different projects. You can expand Kate's functionality using extra plugins

#7 LibreOffice

LibreOffice is a free and open source office suite, comprises programs to do word processing, spreadsheets, slideshows, diagrams, maintain databases, and compose math formulae. LibreOffice is available in over 30 languages and for a variety of computing platforms, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger or newer, and Linux. It is the default office suite of most popular Linux distributions. Ports for FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD are being maintained by contributors to those projects, respectively.

#6 LuckyBackup

luckyBackup is a powerful, fast and reliable free backup application. It provides a GUI based on the cross-platform Qt framework and is not fundamentally console based or web based as many of the clients from the list of backup software are. It shares the data differencing and copying tool, rsync, with BackupPC, and several others. It will run on any Linux or Unix based system which provides Qt libraries and rsync.

#5 PeaZip

PeaZip is a free and open-source file manager and file archiver for Windows, Linux. The program features an archive browser interface with search and history features for intuitive navigation in archive's content, and allows the application of fine-grained multiple exclusion and inclusion filter rules to the archive; a flat browsing mode is possible as alternative archive browsing method. PeaZip allows users to run extracting and archiving operations automatically using command-line generated exporting the job defined in the GUI front-end.

#4 Shutter

Shutter is a rich screenshot and editing program which is available for Linux. It is an open-source program and so it is available for free. It allows you to capture nearly anything on your screen without losing control over your screenshots, utilizing a tabbed interface. It provides diverse image-capturing functionality to capture common targets. It allows you to capture certain areas, specific windows, the complete desktop or even menus and tooltips and comes with very basic built-in editor.

#3 SMPlayer

SMPlayer is a cross-platform free and open source multimedia player so it is extremely compatible wherever you want to run it. It supports nearly every possible format you can imagine. SMPlayer can remember settings on a per-file basis. So, you can expect it to remember where you stopped playing, and begin from the same audio track.

#2 Synapse

Synapse goes beyond the simple application launcher to tightly integrate with your Linux system. You can quickly access any recent action you've performed so you can return to it or perform something similar in an instant. It is very quickly due to its heavy assimilation with the Zeitgeist framework.

#1 Synaptic Package Manager

Synaptic package is the graphical user interface front-end to the Advanced Packaging Tool manager. It enables the user to install, to upgrade or to remove software packages. To install a package a user must search for the program they want and mark it for installation. Changes are not applied instantly; the user must first mark all changes and then apply them. It was a standard feature of Ubuntu until it was replaced by the Ubuntu Software Centre.