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Software reviews (102)
| Software | Score |
|---|---|
| firefox "In the Terminal just enter the following commands: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade" |
5 |
| extcalc "It is designed to use the full performance of a modern computer for mathematical calculations." |
5 |
| webilder "Check out the official website at www.webilder.org to learn more about a neat way to change your desktop wallpaper every few minutes." |
5 |
| fyre "This is a great tool for easier rendering of high-resolution, high quality images." |
5 |
| fish "The friendly interactive shell, full of new ideas, fixes for a lot of old problems, and a well thought design." |
5 |
| singularity "A really, really great game!" |
5 |
| ailurus "Ailurus is like an extra package manager with a few goodies that makes Linux easier to use. The project's website is now available at http://code.google.com/p/ailurus/" |
5 |
| gmusicbrowser "This is the best music library browser/manager I could find!" |
5 |
| gcursor "It sets a GConf key that is used by the GNOME session manager. You also need to log in to GNOME again to make the changes." |
4 |
| startupmanager "Change the boot loading screen so your startup will be different." |
4 |
| synergy "Wih this app you can copy the texts from Linux to and from Windows." |
4 |
| gdeskcal "A nice desktop calendar, a bit like Rainlendar." |
4 |
| htmldoc "It is great when you find a guide that you want to save." |
4 |
| nautilus-actions "This can add things to Nautilus right-click menu." |
4 |
| kmidimon "Especially useful if you want to debug MIDI software or your MIDI setup." |
4 |
| enigma "Probably one of the most popular and addictive puzzle games on Linux." |
4 |
| pythoncard "Useful for application development." |
4 |
| devilspie "You can use this to place a transparent terminal as your background, to dock your Pidgin contacts list to the side of the desktop or to pin the GIMP toolbar/layers windows to ALL workspaces allowing you to manipulate images full screen over multiple desktops without having to go looking for the panels!" |
4 |
| easytag "Best music tagging program around." |
4 |
| freespeak "Excellent little translation tool." |
4 |
| revelation "A great little password manager for your websites." |
4 |
| hellanzb "Definitely the best program that exists for grabbing binary files from Usenet." |
4 |
| macopix-gtk2 "Make small little Japanese girls sit on the menu bar of your window. The mascots just sit on your desktop, performing whatever actions the creator programmed them to do." |
4 |
| basket "Easily take all sort of notes, collect research results and share them, centralize your project, organize your thoughts, keep track of your information in a smart way and more." |
4 |
| gsynaptics "GSynaptics will be obsolete and you should try the GPointing Device Settings GUI tool for setting pointing device such as TrackPoint or Touchpad." |
4 |
| easyh10 "This perfectly sets the database for the player so you can navigate using the native firmware, as opposed to using Rockbox, which eats battery power big time." |
4 |
| meld "Check diffs on files, from code to text files. Features colored output and editing/merging/cut on the fly." |
4 |
| slim "I liked it because it is lightweight and very customizable." |
4 |
| nautilus-open-terminal "Adds a right click menu option to open the terminal, either from the desktop or in a Nautilus directory. If you use it in a Nautilus directory, it will open terminal in that directory. To use it, I always have to log out and back in when I first install it." |
4 |
| scite "Excellent file editor with colored syntax, automplete, compilation window and a thousand options." |
4 |
| texmacs "A great scientific editor, it works too as a GUI for a lot of apps like Maxima, gnuplot, R, Axiom, etc." |
4 |
| conky-all "It can be used to gather and display almost any type of information on the user's desktop." |
5 |
| chkrootkit "I find it handy and useful!" |
4 |
| wicd "An easy-to-use utility that does its job well." |
4 |
| ntop "Find out who and what is consuming the network bandwidth!" |
4 |
| krename "Useful for renaming pictures by number, it can do MP3s by tag and other stuff too." |
4 |
| tilda "A GTK alternative for YaKuake." |
4 |
| rxvt-unicode "By far, the best-looking terminal emulator." |
4 |
| xfe "The fastest graphical file manager I can find." |
4 |
| xcompmgr "Because Openbox users can do transparency too." |
4 |
| lxpanel "Because Openbox users need to dump PyPanel." |
4 |
| kazehakase "A Gecko-based browser that will run circles around Firefox, especially on older machines." |
4 |
| qingy "A framebuffer substitute for getty (a command-line login manager) that is much, much lighter than KDM/GDM and looks better than XDM/WDM." |
4 |
| leafpad "Only the most essential features are implemented in this text editor." |
4 |
| epdfview "Opens most (even encrypted) PDF files, saves copies of documents and has support for printing using CUPS." |
4 |
| mirage "A very straightforward GTK image viewer that may be I used on old machines that would suffer under the Gimp." |
4 |
| yakuake "Useful for people who like the terminal to always be accessible." |
4 |
| streamripper "You can easily rip the music that is being streamed to your computer. It's a very easy way to accumulate a nice music library." |
4 |
| streamtuner "Listen to Internet Radio streams on your Linux box. The interface is clean and easy to navigate." |
4 |
| exfalso "It takes a bit to really see the power the application has... but it's well worth the curve if you have a decent size music directory." |
4 |