Ubuntu applications

Below is the list of the applications, that are making my “Ubuntu experience” so damn enjoyable and productive. You should certainly check them out, and if you find them to be decent or even better alternatives to your current Windows selection, you might want to reconsider, what do you expect of your operating system and your work environment and maybe the next time when you need to renew your Windows license, give Ubuntu or some other Linux distribution a try. You can even test most of the major Linux distributions by live CD with no “obligations” whatsoever, while it doesn’t even touch your current operating system or other hard drive data. So here they are:

Graphics

F-spot //personal photo management
Gimp //image manipulation
gThumb //image viewer and browser
Phatch //photo batch processor
Synfig //vector-based 2D animation
Inkscape //vector-based drawing program
Xara Xtreme //vector graphics, illustration and DTP
Agave //color-scheme designer

Office

FreeMind //mind-mapping tool
PDF Editor //manipulate PDF documents
Thunderbird //mail client
Prism //web apps on your desktop
Writer //OpenOffice.org word processor
Impress //OpenOffice.org presentation
Calc //OpenOffice.org spreadsheet
Base //OpenOffice.org database
Incollector //collect various information
Evince //document viewer

Tools

Gnome Commander //file manager
Gnome Do //quickly perform actions
KeepassX //password manager
Tracker //desktop search tool
pyRenamer //batch rename files
Screenlets //widget-like mini-applications
SearchMonkey //search within text, code etc.
Phone Manager //control your mobile phone
Brasero //CD/DVD burning
recordMyDesktop //record your desktop

Internet

Deluge //bit-torrent client
Downloader for X //download manager
Filezilla //FTP client
Firefox //web browser
Skype //free Internet calls
Pidgin //instant messaging client

System tools

Firestarter //desktop firewall tool
gISOMount //mount and manage .iso images
ClamTk //anti-virus
GParted //partition editor

Multimedia

Audacity //audio editor
Avidemux //video editor
EasyTag //editing ID3 tags
Exaile //audio player
Last-Exit //last.fm alternative
Miro //RSS video aggregator
Totem //multimedia player
Vlc //multimedia player
Sound Juicer //CD ripper

WebDesign

KompoZer //web authoring
gEdit //text editor
Eclipse //extensible tool platform and Java IDE
Aptana Studio //web development environment
KImageMapEditor //edit image maps
Quanta Plus //web development environment
Joomla //open source CMS
phpMyAdmin //MySQL administration
Drupal //open source CMS
Magento //open source eCommerce
Wordpress //blog tool and publishing platform

Some other very useful apps

Banshee //media management and playback
Evolution //groupware suite with mail client and organizer
K3B //popular CD/DVD burning solution
GCStar //manage collections
GnuCash //personal finance tracking
Lyx //almost WYSIWYG-frontend for LaTeX
Planner //project management
aMSN //MSN alternative
aMule //ed2k client
DC++ //dc++ client
Liferea //feed aggregator
Blender //3D modeller/renderer
Dia //diagram editor
Scribus //desktop publishing
Wink //create tutorials and presentations

And even if the desired task performing application wasn’t find on the list, there are still hundreds of them available in the distribution’s repositories.

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