Open Source Linux Desktop Environment Software

Desktop Environment Software for Linux

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    KeePass

    KeePass

    A lightweight and easy-to-use password manager

    KeePass Password Safe is a free, open source, lightweight, and easy-to-use password manager for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, with ports for Android, iPhone/iPad and other mobile devices. With so many passwords to remember and the need to vary passwords to protect your valuable data, it’s nice to have KeePass to manage your passwords in a secure way. KeePass puts all your passwords in a highly encrypted database and locks them with one master key or a key file. As a result, you only have to remember one single master password or select the key file to unlock the whole database. And the databases are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms currently known, AES and Twofish. See our features page for details.
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    Downloads: 438,816 This Week
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    GnuCash

    GnuCash

    Personal and small-business finance manager

    GnuCash is a personal and small-business finance manager with a check-book like register GUI to enter and track bank accounts, stocks, income and expenses. GnuCash is designed to be simple and easy to use but still based on formal accounting principles.
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    Downloads: 8,384 This Week
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    Wine

    Wine

    Run Windows applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris, and Mac OS X

    Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix. Wine provides both a development toolkit for porting Windows sources to Unix and a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows binaries to run on x86-based Unixes.
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    Downloads: 943 This Week
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    An extremly fast and lightweight file manager which features tabbed browsing and user-friendly interface
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    Downloads: 841 This Week
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    uGet - Download Manager
    uGet, the Best Download Manager for Linux. uGet is a lightweight yet powerful Open Source download manager for GNU/Linux developed with GTK+, which also comes packaged as a portable Windows app. - Quick Links - Features: https://ugetdm.com/features Screenshots: https://ugetdm.com/screenshots Blog: https://ugetdm.com/blog Support: https://ugetdm.com/qa Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs): https://ugetdm.com/qa/faq RSS Feed: https://ugetdm.com/rss GitHub: https://github.com/ugetdm
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    Downloads: 628 This Week
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    OpenMandriva Lx

    OpenMandriva Lx

    Easy, yet powerful, GNU/Linux distribution

    OpenMandriva Lx is a unique and independent distribution and direct descendant of Mandriva Linux. It comes from a 100% community-driven association that believes in the values of free software & collaboration and whose founding values are development, equality, co-operation, openness, freedom, group achievement, independence, and solidarity. Source code: Software: https://github.com/OpenMandrivaSoftware Packages: https://github.com/OpenMandrivaAssociation Build system: https://abf.openmandriva.org/ Contact: * Chat - https://wiki.openmandriva.org/en/team/chat * Forum - https://forum.openmandriva.org Issue tracking and feature requests: * Issue Tracking - https://github.com/OpenMandrivaAssociation/distribution/issues Donate - https://liberapay.com/OpenMandriva
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    Downloads: 763 This Week
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    A GUI to ease the process of producing a multipage PDF from a scan. gscan2pdf should work on almost any Linux/BSD machine.
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    Downloads: 185 This Week
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    KShutdown

    KShutdown

    A graphical shutdown utility for Linux and Windows

    KShutdown is a graphical shutdown utility for Linux and Windows. It allows you to turn off or suspend a computer at a specified time. It features various time and delay options, command-line support, and notifications.
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    Downloads: 138 This Week
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    Domination (Risk Board Game)

    Domination (Risk Board Game)

    Domination is a game that is a bit like the board game Risk

    Domination is a game that is a bit like the well known board game of Risk or RisiKo. It has many game options and includes many maps. Written in java it includes a map editor, a simple map format, multiplayer network play, single player, hotseat, 5 user interfaces and many more features, it works in all OSs that run java 1.5 or higher, iOS and Android.
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    Downloads: 131 This Week
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    The Smart Common Input Method platform (SCIM), is an input method platform supporting more than thirty languages (CJK and many European languages) for POSIX-style operating systems including Linux and BSD.
    Downloads: 107 This Week
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    GCompris : I got IT

    GCompris : I got IT

    Educational Software for children aged 2 to 10.

    GCompris is a high quality educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10. Some of the activities are game oriented, but nonetheless still educational.
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    Downloads: 43 This Week
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    PDF Split and Merge

    PDF Split and Merge

    Split and merge PDF files on any platform

    Split and merge PDF files with PDFsam, an easy-to-use desktop tool with graphical, command line and web interface.
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    Downloads: 225 This Week
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    Parcellite is a lightweight GTK+ clipboard manager. This is a stripped down, basic-features-only clipboard manager with a small memory footprint for those who like simplicity.
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    Downloads: 33 This Week
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    emesene
    emesene is a platform independent instant messaging client for the Windows Live Messenger (tm) network. emesene is distributed free of charge under the GNU General Public License 2 or any later version.
    Downloads: 9 This Week
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    Krusader is a twin-panel (commander style) filemanager for KDE. It supports mime-type, complete drag n' drop, multiple filesystems, archives, bookmarks etc. Krusader's GUI is intuitive, and allows an easy access to all of your file-management needs.
    Downloads: 11 This Week
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    Regain is a Java search engine based on Jakarta Lucene. It provides indexing and searching files for plenty of formats (HTML,XML,doc(x),xls(x),ppt(x),oo,PDF,RTF,mp3,mp4,Java). A TagLibrary eases integrating search results in your JSP based web page.
    Downloads: 9 This Week
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    Wally is a Qt4 wallpaper / background changer, using multiple sources like files, folders, FTP remote folders, Flickr, Panoramio, Ipernity, Photobucket, Buzznet, Picasa, Smugmug, Google, Vladstudio and deviantART images.
    Downloads: 8 This Week
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    Comix is a user-friendly, customizable image viewer. It is specifically designed to handle comic books, but also serves as a generic viewer. It reads images in ZIP, RAR or tar archives (also gzip or bzip2 compressed) as well as plain image files.
    Downloads: 9 This Week
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    KRadio

    KRadio

    The KDE Frameworks 5 Internet/AM/FM Radio App

    KRadio is an Internet and/or AM/FM radio application for KDE Frameworks 5. It has support for V4L and V4L2 radio devices, internet radio, RDS, lirc remote control, MP3 and Ogg/Vorbis recording, TimeShift playing, alarms and much more. Try out!
    Downloads: 14 This Week
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    FVWM-Crystal

    FVWM-Crystal

    FVWM-Crystal aims to create an easy to use and powerful desktop.

    FVWM - Crystal aims to create an easy to use, eye-candy but also powerful desktop environment for Linux or other Unix-like operating systems. Its goals include seeking for better ways of using window manager and providing it with eyecandy interface. It try to exercise FVWM quite a bit. It has some very interesting features unique to Linux/Unix desktops like direct controls for several media players and its ability to bring in full screen virtualy any application. It can flow through the full screened applications and the desktop in a manner similar to the application stack of the Amiga OS, which provides an innovative way to go around the desktop space, without compromising traditional X multiple desktop pages. The core code was written by harnir Maciej Delmanowski with contributions from many other folks. The current developments are led by Dominique Michel.
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    Downloads: 21 This Week
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    HotShots

    HotShots

    a screenshot and annotation tool

    HotShots is an application for capturing screens and saving them in a variety of image formats as well as adding annotations and graphical data (arrows, lines, texts, ...).
    Downloads: 7 This Week
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    Syllable Desktop is a complete operating system that is easy to use, powerful, lightweight and extraordinarily fast and responsive. It has its own kernel, filesystem, GUI and applications. Syllable Server is a matching small and efficient Linux server.
    Downloads: 7 This Week
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    LuninuxOS

    LuninuxOS

    LuninuxOS is a Debian/Ubuntu based Linux distribution.

    A Linux operating system, designed and developed to be beautiful, simple, fast, and stable on many computer hardware.
    Downloads: 9 This Week
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    Gourmet

    GNOME Recipe Manager w/ nutrition information and other useful plugins

    Gourmet Recipe Manager is now housed at http://thinkle.github.io/gourmet/ Gourmet is a recipe-organizer for GNOME that generates shopping lists and allows rapid searching and entry of recipes. It imports mealmaster & mastercook files, as well as providing tools to help users import from text files or webpages. Gourmet can exports webpages & other formats. Gourmet has a plugin infrastructure allowing users to choose add-ins they want, such as a plugin to calculate nutritional information. Gourmet also includes an interactive python shell plugin which is a great way for new developers to get started playing around. Gourmet is now built on Python, SqlObject, and GTK tools. Among the plugins is an experimental web front-end which shows the way forward to other possible future front-ends.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    Gnome Subtitles
    Gnome Subtitles is a subtitle editor for the GNOME desktop. It supports the most common text-based subtitle formats, video previewing, timings synchronization and subtitle translation.
    Downloads: 15 This Week
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