List of Applications

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Internet

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BitTorrent Clients

Console

• aria2 — Lightweight download utility that supports simultaneous adaptive downloading via HTTP(S), FTP, BitTorrent (DHT, PEX, MSE/PE) protocols and Metalink. It can run as a daemon controlled via a built-in JSON-RPC or XML-RPC interface.

http://aria2.sourceforge.net/ || aria2

• Deluge — User-friendly BitTorrent client written in PyGTK that can run as a daemon.

http://deluge-torrent.org/ || deluge

• MLDonkey — Multi-protocol P2P client that supports BitTorrent, HTTP, FTP, eDonkey and Direct Connect.

http://mldonkey.sourceforge.net/ || mldonkey

• rTorrent — Simple and lightweight ncurses BitTorrent client.

http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/ || rtorrent

• Transmission — Simple and easy-to-use BitTorrent client with a daemon version, GTK+, Qt GUI, web and CLI front-ends.

http://transmissionbt.com/ || transmission-cli transmission-remote-cli transmission-remote-gtk (remote clients work with the daemon in the -cli package)

Graphical

• KGet — Download manager for KDE that supports HTTP(S), FTP and BitTorrent. Part of kdenetwork.

http://www.kde.org/applications/internet/kget/ || kdenetwork-kget

• KTorrent — Feature-rich BitTorrent client for KDE.

http://ktorrent.org/ || ktorrent

• qBittorrent — Open source (GPLv2) BitTorrent client that strongly resembles µtorrent.

http://qbittorrent.sourceforge.net/ || qbittorrent

• QTorrent — BitTorrent client written in PyQt.

http://thegraveyard.org/qtorrent.php^{[dead link 2012-09-20]} || qtorrent

• Transmission — Simple and easy-to-use BitTorrent client with daemon version, GTK+, Qt GUI, web and CLI front-ends.

http://transmissionbt.com/ || transmission-gtk transmission-qt

• Tribler — 4th generation file sharing system bittorrent client.

http://www.tribler.org || tribler

• Vuze — Feature-rich BitTorrent client written in Java (formerly Azureus).

https://www.vuze.com/ || vuze

eDonkey clients

eDonkey is still the second-largest p2p network (see Internet Study 2008/2009).

• aMule — Well-known eDonkey/Kad client with a daemon version and GTK+, web, and CLI front-ends.

http://www.amule.org/ || amule

• KaMule — KDE graphical front-end for aMule.

http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=150270 || kamule

eMoney

Bitcoin

See the main article: Bitcoin

• Armory — Bitcoin client with with features such as support for multiple wallets, importing keys and backups.

https://github.com/etotheipi/BitcoinArmory || armory-git

• Bitcoin — Official tool to manage Bitcoins, a P2P currency.

http://bitcoin.org/ || bitcoin-daemon bitcoin-qt

• Electrum — An easy to use Bitcoin client.

http://electrum.org/ || electrum

• MultiBit — A lightweight Bitcoin desktop client powered by the BitCoinJ library.

https://multibit.org/ || multibit

Instant messaging

This section lists all software with instant messaging support. Particularly, that are client and server applications.

Multi-protocol clients

All messengers, that support several networks by means of direct connections to them, belong to this section.

Many clients listed here (including Pidgin and all it's forks) support multiple IM networks via libpurple. The number of networks supported by these clients is very large but they (like any multiprotocol clients) usually have very limited or no support for network-specific features.

Console

• BarnOwl — Ncurses-based chat client with support for the Zephyr, AIM, Jabber, IRC, and Twitter protocols.

http://barnowl.mit.edu/ || barnowl

• Bitlbee — IRC client that provides a gateway to popular chat networks (XMPP, MSN, Yahoo, AIM, ICQ and Twitter).

http://bitlbee.org/ || bitlbee

• CenterIM — Fork of CenterICQ, a text mode menu- and window-driven IM interface.

http://centerim.org/ || centerim

• Finch — Ncurses-based chat client that uses libpurple and supports all its protocols.

http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Using%20Finch || finch

• naim — Ncurses chat client with support for AOL, ICQ, IRC and the Lily CMC.

http://naim.n.ml.org/ || naim

• pork — Programmable, ncurses-based AIM and IRC client that mostly looks and feels like ircII.

http://dev.ojnk.net/ || pork

Graphical

• Carrier — Pidgin fork providing minor GUI enhancements (formerly FunPidgin).

http://funpidgin.sourceforge.net/ || carrier

• Emesene — PyGTK instant messenger for the Windows Live Messenger network, also compatible with Jabber, Facebook and Google Talk.

http://emesene.org/ || emesene

• Empathy — GNOME instant messaging client using the Telepathy framework.

http://live.gnome.org/Empathy || empathy

• Galaxium Messenger — Messenger application designed for the GNOME desktop.

https://code.google.com/p/galaxium/ || galaxium

• Instantbird — Multi-protocol chat client using Mozilla's XUL and libpurple.

http://instantbird.com/ || instantbird

• Kopete — User-friendly IM supporting AIM, ICQ, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, Novell GroupWise Messenger, and other IM networks. Part of kdenetwork.

http://kopete.kde.org/ || kdenetwork-kopete

• KDE Telepathy — KDE instant messaging client using the Telepathy framework. Meant as a replacement for Kopete.

http://community.kde.org/Real-Time_Communication_and_Collaboration/ || kde-telepathy-meta

• Licq — Instant messaging client for UNIX supporting multiple protocols (currently ICQ, MSN and Jabber).

http://www.licq.org || licq

• Pidgin — Multi-protocol instant messaging client.

http://pidgin.im/ || pidgin pidgin-light

• qutIM — Simple and user-friendly IM supporting ICQ, Jabber, Mail.Ru, IRC and VKontakte messaging.

http://qutim.org/ || qutim-stable

XMPP (Jabber)

Console clients

• Freetalk — Console-based Jabber client.

https://gnu.org/s/freetalk/ || freetalk

• jabber.el — Minimal Jabber client for Emacs.

http://emacs-jabber.sourceforge.net/ || emacs-jabber

• MCabber — Small Jabber console client, includes features: SSL, PGP, MUC, OTR, and UTF8.

http://mcabber.com/ || mcabber

• Profanity — A console based Jabber client inspired by Irssi.

http://www.profanity.im/ || profanity profanity-git

Graphical clients

• Gajim — Jabber client written in PyGTK.

https://gajim.org/ || gajim

• Jabbim — Jabber client written in PyQt.

http://www.jabbim.com/ || jabbim-svn

• Psi — Qt-based Jabber client.

http://psi-im.org/ || psi

• Psi+ — Enhanced version of the Psi Jabber client with many new features.

https://code.google.com/p/psi-dev/ || psi-plus

• Tkabber — Easy to hack feature-rich XMPP client by the author of the ejabberd XMPP server.

http://tkabber.jabber.ru/ || tkabber

Servers

• Prosody — An XMPP server written in the Lua programming language. Prosody is designed to be lightweight and highly extensible. It is licensed under a permissive MIT license.

http://prosody.im/ || prosody

• Ejabberd — Jabber server written in Erlang

http://www.ejabberd.im/ || ejabberd

• Jabberd2 — An XMPP server written in the C language and licensed under the GNU General Public License. It was inspired by jabberd14.

http://jabberd2.org || jabberd2

IRC clients

Console

• BitchX — Console-based IRC client developed from the popular ircII.

http://www.bitchx.org/ || bitchx-git

• ERC — Powerful, modular, and extensible IRC client for Emacs.

http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/erc/ || erc-git

• ii — Featherweight IRC client, literally tail -f the conversation and echo back your replies to a file.

http://tools.suckless.org/ii || ii

• Ircfs — File system interface to IRC written in Limbo.

http://www.ueber.net/code/r/ircfs || not packaged? (search in AUR)

• Irssi — Highly-configurable ncurses-based IRC client.

http://irssi.org/ || irssi

• ScrollZ — Advanced IRC client based on ircII.

http://www.scrollz.com/ || scrollz

• sic — Extremely simple IRC client, similar to ii.

http://tools.suckless.org/sic || sic

• WeeChat — Modular, lightweight ncurses-based IRC client.

http://weechat.org/ || weechat

Graphical

• HexChat — Fork of XChat for Linux and Windows.

http://hexchat.github.io/ || hexchat

• Konversation — Qt-based IRC client for the KDE desktop.

http://konversation.kde.org/ || konversation

• KVIrc — Qt-based IRC client featuring extensive themes support.

http://kvirc.net/ || kvirc

• Loqui — GTK+ IRC client with only one dependency: GNet.

https://launchpad.net/loqui || loqui

• LostIRC — Simple GTK+ IRC client with tab-autocompletion, multiple server support, logging and others.

http://lostirc.sourceforge.net || lostirc

• pcw — Frontend for ii that opens a new terminal for each channel.

https://bitbucket.org/emg/pcw || pcw-hg

• Quassel — Modern, cross-platform, distributed IRC client.

http://quassel-irc.org/ || quassel-core quassel-client

• Smuxi — Cross-platform IRC client for the GNOME desktop inspired by Irssi.

http://smuxi.org/ || smuxi

• XChat — GTK-based IRC client that works on both Linux and Windows.

http://xchat.org/ || xchat

Softphone

Clients

• Blink — State of the art, easy to use SIP client.

http://www.icanblink.com/ || blink-darcs

• Ekiga — VoIP and video conferencing application with full SIP and H.323 support (formerly known as GNOME Meeting).

http://www.ekiga.org/ || ekiga

• Empathy — GNOME instant messenger client using the Telepathy framework with SIP support (using the Sofia-SIP library).

https://live.gnome.org/Empathy || empathy

• iaxComm — Open source softphone for the Asterisk PBX (using the IAX protocol).

http://iaxclient.sourceforge.net/iaxcomm/ || not packaged? (search in AUR)

• Jitsi — Audio/video SIP VoIP phone and instant messenger written in Java (formerly SIP-Communicator).

https://jitsi.org/ || jitsi

• Kiax — Qt-based IAX/2 Softphone.

http://www.forschung-direkt.eu/projects/kiax2/ || kiax

• KPhone — Qt SIP User Agent with voice, video and text messaging support.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/kphone/ || not packaged? (search in AUR)

• Linphone — VoIP phone application that allows you to to communicate freely with people over the internet, with voice, video, and text instant messaging.

http://www.linphone.org/ || linphone

• Minisip — SIP User Agent with focus on security (supports TLS, end-to-end security, SRTP, MIKEY (DH, PSK, PKE)).

http://www.minisip.org/ || not packaged? (search in AUR)

• Mumble — Voice chat application similar to TeamSpeak.

http://mumble.sourceforge.net/ || mumble

• Psi — Qt-based Jabber client which supports video conferencing (since version 0.13).

http://psi-im.org/ || psi psi-plus

• QuteCom — Softphone which allows you to make free PC to PC video and voice calls, and to integrate all your IM contacts in one place (formerly Wengo Phone).

http://trac.qutecom.org/ || qutecom

• SFLPhone — Open-source SIP/IAX2 compatible softphone with PulseAudio support.

http://sflphone.org/ || sflphone

• Skype — Popular P2P application for high-quality voice communication.

http://www.skype.com/ || skype

• TeamSpeak — Proprietary VoIP application with gamers as its target audience.

http://www.teamspeak.com/ || teamspeak3

• Twinkle — Qt softphone for VoIP and IM communication using SIP.

http://www.twinklephone.com/ || twinkle

• X-Lite — Proprietary freeware VoIP soft phone that uses SIP.

http://www.counterpath.net/x-lite || xlite_bin

• Zfone — Softphone application for secure voice communication over the Internet (VoIP), using the ZRTP protocol.

http://zfoneproject.com/ || zfone

Utilities

• Gladstone — Educational ITU-T G.729 compliant codec with a GStreamer plugin.

https://gitorious.org/gladstone || gladstone-drizztbsd-git

• SIPp — Open source test tool and traffic generator for the SIP protocol.

http://sipp.sourceforge.net/ || sipp

• Sipsak — Small command-line tool for developers and administrators of SIP applications.

http://sipsak.org/ || sipsak

Pastebin clients

Pastebin services are often used to paste information into IRC channels to help with troubleshooting. There are services for both text (e.g. sprunge.org, pastie.org, codepad.org) and images (e.g. imgur.com, picpaste.com). Pastebin clients allow you to post directy from the cli without using a web browser.

Tip: The sprunge pastebin can be accessed directly via curl:

<command> | curl -F 'sprunge=<-' http://sprunge.us

There is also a sprunge plugin for oh-my-zsh (a configuration tool for the Zsh command shell).

Warning: Do not use pastebin.com. It appears to be the most popular site but it is slow, full of adverts, formats the text badly (it will mess up your code) and many people can not even open the site due to aggressive spam filters.

• Elmer — Pastebin client similar to wgetpaste and curlpaste, except written in Perl and usable with wget or curl. Servers: codepad.org, rafb.me, sprunge.us, ompldr.org.

https://github.com/sudokode/elmer || elmer

• Fb-client — Client for the paste.xinu.at pastebin.

http://paste.xinu.at || fb-client

• Gist — Command-line interface for the gist.github.com pastebin service.

http://github.com/defunkt/gist || gist

• Haste — Universal pastebin tool, written in Haskell. Servers: hpaste.org, paste2.org, pastebin.com and others.

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/haste || not packaged? (search in AUR)

• Hg-paste — Pastebin extension for Mercurial which can send diffs to various pastebin websites for easy sharing. Servers: dpaste.com and dpaste.org.

http://bitbucket.org/sjl/hg-paste || hg-paste

• Ix — Client for the ix.io pastebin.

http://ix.io || ix

• Npaste-client — Client for the npaste.de pastebin.

http://npaste.de || npaste-client

• Pastebinit — Really small Python script that acts as a Pastebin client. Servers: pastie.org, paste.kde.org, paste.debian.net, paste.ubuntu.com and others (for a full list see pastebinit -l).

http://launchpad.net/pastebinit || pastebinit

• Uppity — The pastebin client with an attitude.

https://github.com/Kiwi/Uppity || uppity-git

• Vim-gist — Vim script for gist.github.com.

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2423 || vim-gist

• Vim-paster — Vim plugin to paste to any pastebin service using curl.

http://eugeneciurana.com/site.php?page=tools || vim-paster

• Wgetpaste — Bash script that automates pasting to a number of pastebin services. Servers: pastebin.ca, codepad.org, dpaste.com and pastebin.osuosl.org.

http://wgetpaste.zlin.dk/ || wgetpaste

Email clients

Console

• Alpine — Fast, easy-to-use and Apache-licensed email client based on Pine.

https://washington.edu/alpine || alpine

• Gnus — Email, NNTP and RSS client for Emacs.

http://gnus.org/ || emacs-gnus-git

• S-nail — a mail processing system with a command syntax reminiscent of ed with lines replaced by messages. Provides the functionality of mailx and much more.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/s-nail/ || s-nail

• mu/mu4e — Email indexer (mu) and client for emacs (mu4e). Xapian based for fast searches.

http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e.html || mu

• Mutt — Small but very powerful text-based mail client.

http://www.mutt.org/ || mutt

• Sup — CLI mail client with very fast searching, tagging, threading and GMail like operation.

http://sup.rubyforge.org/ || sup

• Wanderlust — Email client and news reader for Emacs.

http://www.gohome.org/wl/ || wanderlust

Graphical

• Balsa — Simple and light email client that is part of the Gnome project.

http://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ || balsa

• Claws Mail — Lightweight GTK-based email client and news reader.

http://claws-mail.org/ || claws-mail

• Evolution — Mature and feature-rich e-mail client used in GNOME by default. Part of gnome-extra.

http://projects.gnome.org/evolution/ || evolution

• Geary — Simple desktop mail client built in Vala.

http://redmine.yorba.org/projects/geary/wiki || geary

• Kmail — Mature and feature-rich email client. Part of kdepim.

http://kde.org/applications/internet/kmail/ || kdepim-kmail

• Manitou Mail — Database-driven email system.

http://www.manitou-mail.org/ || manitou-mdx manitou-ui

• Sylpheed — Lightweight and user-friendly GTK+ email client.

http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/ || sylpheed

• Thunderbird — Feature-rich email client from Mozilla written in GTK+.

http://www.mozilla.org/thunderbird/ || thunderbird

• Trojitá — Qt IMAP email client.

http://trojita.flaska.net/ || trojita

Network Managers

• Connman — Daemon for managing internet connections within embedded devices running the Linux operating system. The Connection Manager is designed to be slim and to use as few resources as possible, so it can be easily integrated.

https://connman.net/ || connman

• netctl — Simple and robust tool to manage network connections via profiles. Works well with systemd.

https://projects.archlinux.org/netctl.git/ || netctl

• NetworkManager — Manager that provides wired, wireless, mobile broadband and OpenVPN detection with configuration and automatic connection.

http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/ || networkmanager

• Wicd — Wireless and wired connection manager with few dependencies and GTK+, KDE and command-line interfaces.

http://wicd.sourceforge.net/ || wicd

News aggregators

Console

• Canto — Ncurses RSS aggregator.

http://codezen.org/canto/ || canto

• Gnus — Email, NNTP and RSS client for Emacs.

http://gnus.org/ || emacs-gnus-git

• Newsbeuter — Ncurses RSS aggregator with layout and keybinding similar to the Mutt email client.

http://newsbeuter.org || newsbeuter

• Rawdog — "RSS Aggregator Without Delusions Of Grandeur" that parses RSS/CDF/Atom feeds into a static HTML page of articles in chronological order.

http://offog.org/code/rawdog.html || rawdog

• Snownews — Text mode RSS news reader.

http://kiza.kcore.de/software/snownews/ || snownews

Graphical

• Akregator — News aggregator for KDE, part of kdepim.

http://kde.org/applications/internet/akregator/ || kdepim-akregator

• Blam — Simple newsreader for GNOME written in C Sharp.

https://git.gnome.org/browse/blam || blam

• BlogBridge — Excellent Java-based aggregator, which gives users the option to synchronize their feeds across multiple computers.

http://blogbridge.com || blogbridge

• Liferea — GTK+ news aggregator for online news feeds and weblogs.

http://liferea.sourceforge.net || liferea

• RSS Guard — Very tiny RSS and Atom news reader developed using Qt framework.

https://code.google.com/p/rss-guard/ || rss-guard

• RSSOwl — Powerful aggregator for RSS and Atom feeds, written in Java using Eclipse Rich Client Platform and SWT as a widget toolkit.

http://boreal.rssowl.org || rssowl

• Thunderbird — Email client from Mozilla which also functions as a pretty nice news aggregator.

http://www.mozilla.org/thunderbird/ || thunderbird

• Tickr (formerly News) — GTK-based RSS Reader that displays feeds as a smooth scrolling line on your Desktop, as known from TV stations.

http://newsrssticker.com/ || tickr

• Urssus — Cross platform GUI news aggregator.

https://code.google.com/p/urssus/ || urssus

• quite-rss — RSS/Atom feed reader written on Qt/С++.

http://code.google.com/p/quite-rss/ || quiterss

Web browsers

Console

• ELinks — Advanced and well-established feature-rich text mode web browser (Links fork, barely supported since 2009).

http://elinks.or.cz/ || elinks

• Links — Text WWW browser, similar to Lynx, but with CSS-based rendering. It is much more advanced and includes detailed menus, similiar to GUI.

http://links.twibright.com/ || links

• Lynx — Text browser for the World Wide Web.

http://lynx.isc.org || lynx

• retawq — Interactive, multi-threaded network client (web browser) for text terminals.

http://retawq.sourceforge.net/ || retawq

• w3m — Pager/text-based web browser. It has vim-like keybindings, and is able to display images. It has javascript support too.

http://w3m.sourceforge.net/ || w3m

Graphical

• Abaco — Multi-page graphical web browser for the Plan 9 OS.

http://lab-fgb.com/abaco/ || abaco

• Arora — Cross-platform web browser built using QtWebKit. Development stopped in January 2012.

https://code.google.com/p/arora/ || arora

• Chromium — Web browser developed by Google that uses the WebKit layout engine and application framework, the open source project behind Google Chrome.

http://www.chromium.org/ || chromium

• Conkeror — Highly programmable web browser, with Emacs-like keybindings, based on Mozilla's XULRunner.

http://conkeror.org/ || conkeror-git

• Dillo — Small, fast graphical web browser built on FLTK.

http://dillo.org/ || dillo

• dwb — Lightweight, highly customizable web browser based on the WebKit engine with vi-like shortcuts and tiling layouts.

http://portix.bitbucket.org/dwb/ || dwb

• Epiphany — Browser which uses the WebKit rendering engine, part of gnome.

http://projects.gnome.org/epiphany/ || epiphany

• Firefox — Extensible browser from Mozilla based on Gecko with fast rendering.

https://mozilla.com/firefox || firefox

• Hv3 — Minimalist web browser based on Tkhtml3.

http://tkhtml.tcl.tk/hv3.html || hv3

• Jumanji — Highly customizable and functional web browser.

http://pwmt.org/projects/jumanji || jumanji

• Kazehakase — Much lighter, but rather feature-lacking alternative to other browsers, based on GTK+ and Gecko.

http://kazehakase.sourceforge.jp/ || not packaged? (search in AUR)

• Konqueror — Web browser based on Qt and KHTML, part of kdebase.

http://konqueror.org/ || kdebase-konqueror

• Luakit — Highly configurable, micro-browser framework based on the WebKit engine and the GTK+ toolkit. It is very fast, extensible by Lua and licensed under the GNU GPLv3 license.

http://mason-larobina.github.com/luakit/ || luakit

• Midori — Lightweight web browser based on GTK+ and WebKit.

http://twotoasts.de/index.php/midori/ || midori

• NetSurf — Featherweight browser written in C, notable for its lack of JavaScript support and fast rendering through its own custom rendering engine.

http://netsurf-browser.org || netsurf

• Opera — Highly customizable browser with focuses on an adherence to web rendering standards.

http://opera.com || opera

• QupZilla — New and very fast open source browser based on WebKit core, written in Qt framework.

http://www.qupzilla.com || qupzilla

• Rekonq — WebKit-based web browser for KDE.

http://rekonq.kde.org/ || rekonq

• Sb — Very lightweight WebKit-based browser that uses keybindings to perform most things the URL bar would usually do.

https://github.com/mutantturkey/sb/ || sb-git

• Surf — Lightweight WebKit-based browser, which follows the suckless ideology (basically, the browser itself is a single C source file).

http://surf.suckless.org || surf

• Uzbl — Group of web interface tools which adhere to the Unix philosophy.

http://uzbl.org/ || uzbl-browser

• Vimprobable — Browser that behaves like the Vimperator plugin available for Mozilla Firefox. It is based on the WebKit engine and uses the GTK+ bindings.

http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/vimprobable/ || vimprobable-git

• Xombrero — Webkit minimalist web browser with sophisticated security features designed-in, BSD style.

https://opensource.conformal.com/wiki/xombrero || xombrero-git

Blog software

• Wordpress — An easy to setup and administer FLOSS content management system featuring a strong and vibrant community with thousands of plugins and themes.

http://wordpress.org/ || wordpress

• Drupal — An open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications. It is built, used, and supported by an active and diverse community of people around the world.

http://drupal.org/ || drupal

• Nanoblogger — A small weblog engine written in Bash for the command line. It uses common UNIX tools such as cat, grep, and sed to create static HTML content.

http://nanoblogger.sourceforge.net/ || nanoblogger

Microblogging clients

• Choqok — Microblogging client for KDE that supports Twitter.com, Identi.ca and opendesktop.org services.

http://choqok.gnufolks.org/ || choqok

• Gwibber — GTK-based microblogging client with support for Facebook, Identi.ca, Twitter, Flickr, Foursquare, Sina and Sohu.

http://gwibber.com/ || gwibber

• Hotot — Lightweight and open source microblogging client with support for Twitter and Identi.ca and integration with various image sharing services and URL shorteners.

http://hotot.org || hotot

• Pino — Simple and fast client for Twitter and Identi.ca. written in Vala.

http://pino-app.appspot.com/ || pino

• Polly — Linux Twitter client designed for multiple columns of multiple accounts.

https://launchpad.net/polly/ || polly

• Qwit — Cross-platform client for Twitter using the Qt toolkit.

http://code.google.com/p/qwit/ || qwit

• ttytter — Easily scriptable twitter client written in Perl.

http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/ || ttytter

• Turpial — Multi-interface Twitter client written in Python.

http://turpial.org.ve/ || turpial-git

• tyrs — Simple client for for Twitter and Identi.ca supporting virtually all its features with nice console UI (unmaintained).

http://tyrs.nicosphere.net/ || tyrs

• turses — Twitter client for the console based off tyrs with major improvements.

http://turses.rtfd.org/ || turses

FTP

FTP clients

• CurlFtpFS — Filesystem for acessing FTP hosts based on FUSE and libcurl.

http://curlftpfs.sourceforge.net/ || curlftpfs

• FatRat — Download manager with support for HTTP, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent, RapidShare and more.

http://fatrat.dolezel.info/ || fatrat

• FileZilla — Fast and reliable FTP, FTPS and SFTP client.

http://filezilla-project.org/ || filezilla

• fuseftp — FTP filesystem written in Perl, using FUSE.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/fuseftp/ || fuseftp

• gFTP — Multithreaded FTP client for Linux.

http://gftp.seul.org/ || gftp

• LFTP — Sophisticated command-line FTP client.

http://lftp.yar.ru/ || lftp

• tnftp — FTP client with several advanced features for NetBSD.

http://freecode.com/projects/tnftp || tnftp

Some file managers like Dolphin, Nautilus and Thunar also provide FTP functionality.

FTP servers

• Pure-FTPd — Free (BSD-licensed), secure, production-quality and standard-compliant FTP server.

http://www.pureftpd.org/project/pure-ftpd || pure-ftpd

• vsftpd — Lightweight, stable and secure FTP server for UNIX-like systems.

https://security.appspot.com/vsftpd.html || vsftpd

• bftpd — Small, easy-to-configure FTP server.

http://bftpd.sourceforge.net/ || bftpd

Others

• Sharelin — Gnutella2 only client with a web UI.

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/sharelin || Sharelin

Multimedia

Codecs

See the main article: Codecs

Image viewers

Console

• fbi — Image viewer for the linux framebuffer console.

https://www.kraxel.org/blog/linux/fbida/ || fbida

• fbv — Very simple graphic file viewer for the framebuffer console.

http://s-tech.elsat.net.pl/fbv/ || fbv

• fim — Highly customizable and scriptable framebuffer image viewer based on fbi.

http://www.autistici.org/dezperado/fim/ || fim-svn

• jfbview — Framebuffer PDF and image viewer based on Imlib2. Features include Vim-like controls, rotation and zoom, zoom-to-fit, and fast multi-threaded rendering.

http://cjix.info/blog/jfbview/ || jfbview

Graphical

• Eye of GNOME — Image viewing and cataloging program, which is a part of the GNOME desktop environment.

http://projects.gnome.org/eog/ || eog

• feh — Fast, lightweight image viewer that uses imlib2.

http://feh.finalrewind.org || feh

• GalaPix — OpenGL-based image viewer for simultaneously viewing and zooming large collections of image files,

http://code.google.com/p/galapix/ || galapix

• Geeqie — Image browser and viewer (fork of GQview) that adds additional functionality such as support for RAW files.

http://geeqie.sourceforge.net/ || geeqie

• Gimmage — Gtkmm image viewer.

http://gimmage.berlios.de/ || gimmage

• GPicView — Simple and fast image viewer for X, which is part of the LXDE desktop.

http://lxde.sourceforge.net/gpicview/ || gpicview

• GQview — Image browser that features single click access to view images and move around the directory tree

http://gqview.sourceforge.net/ || gqview-devel

• gThumb — Image viewer for the GNOME desktop.

https://live.gnome.org/gthumb || gthumb

• Gwenview — Fast and easy to use image viewer for the KDE desktop.

http://gwenview.sourceforge.net/ || kdegraphics-gwenview

• Mirage — PyGTK image viewer featuring support for crop and resize, custom actions and a thumbnail panel.

http://mirageiv.berlios.de || mirage

• nomacs — Free image viewer (Qt) for windows, linux, and mac systems, which is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.

http://www.nomacs.org/ || nomacs

• Picasa — Image organizer and viewer from Google that has editing capabilities and integration with the photo-sharing website.

http://picasa.google.com/ || not packaged? (search in AUR)

• Quick Image Viewer — Very small and fast image viewer based on GTK+ and imlib2.

http://spiegl.de/qiv/ || qiv

• Ristretto — Fast and lightweight image viewer for the Xfce desktop environment.

http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/ristretto || ristretto

• sxiv — Simple image viewer based on imlib2 that works well with tiling window managers.

https://github.com/muennich/sxiv || sxiv

• Viewnior — Minimalistic GTK+ image viewer featuring support for flipping, rotating, animations and configurable mouse actions.

http://xsisqox.github.com/Viewnior/ || viewnior

• Xloadimage — Classic X image viewer.

http://sioseis.ucsd.edu/xloadimage.html || xloadimage

• XnView MP — Efficient image viewer, browser and converter.

http://www.xnview.com/en/index.html || xnviewmp

• xv — Shareware program written by John Bradley to display and modify digital images under the X Window System.

http://www.trilon.com/xv/ || xv

Graphics and image manipulation

Raster editors

• AfterShot Pro — Professional workflow and RAW conversion. Successor of Bibble Pro.

http://www.corel.com/corel/pages/index.jsp?pgid=12800164 || aftershotpro

• Bibble Pro — Digital imaging program designed to assist photographers in post-production work and efficient optimization of images created in the Raw image format.

http://www.corel.com/corel/pages/index.jsp?pgid=12800164 || bibblepro

• darktable — Photography workflow and RAW development application.

http://www.darktable.org// || darktable

• digiKam — KDE-based image organizer with built-in editing features via a plugin architecture. digiKam asserts it is more full featured than similar applications with a larger set of image manipulation features including RAW image import and manipulation.

http://www.digikam.org/ || digikam

• GIMP — Image editing suite in the vein of proprietary editors such as Adobe Photoshop. GIMP ( GNU Image Manipulation Program) has been started in the mid 1990s and has acquired a large number of plugins and additional tools.

http://www.gimp.org/ || gimp

• Gpaint — Paintbrush clone for GNOME.

http://www.gnu.org/software/gpaint/ || gpaint

• GraphicsMagick — Fork of ImageMagick designed to have API and command-line stability. It also supports multi-CPU for enhanced performance and thus is used by some large commercial sites (Flickr, etsy) for its performance.

http://www.graphicsmagick.org/ || graphicsmagick

• ImageMagick — Command-line image manipulation program. It is known for its accurate format conversions with support for over 100 formats. Its API enables it to be scripted and it is usually used as a backend processor.

http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php || imagemagick

• KolourPaint — Free, raster graphics editor for KDE, similar to Microsoft's Paint application before Windows 7, but with some additional features such as support for transparency. Part of kde andkdegraphics groups.

http://kolourpaint.org || kdegraphics-kolourpaint

• Krita — Digital painting and illustration software included based on the KDE platform and Calligra libraries. Part of calligra group.

http://krita.org/ || calligra-krita

• Luminance HDR — Open source graphical user interface application that aims to provide a workflow for HDR imaging.

http://qtpfsgui.sourceforge.net/ || luminancehdr

• mtPaint — Graphics editing program geared towards creating indexed palette images and pixel art.

http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/ || mtpaint

• MyPaint — Free software graphics application for digital painters.

http://mypaint.intilinux.com || mypaint

• Nathive — "Usable image editor", based on GNOME libraries with a focus on usability and a smooth learning curve.

http://www.nathive.org/ || nathive

• Pinta — Drawing and editing program modeled after Paint.NET. Its goal is to provide a simplified alternative to GIMP for casual users.

http://pinta-project.com/ || pinta

• Shotwell — Image organizer with a small set of image manipulation features (rotate, crop, color adjust, and red eye removal). It can import photos directly from digital cameras and export them to social media sites (Facebook, Flickr, Picasa Web Albums, etc.).

http://yorba.org/shotwell/ || shotwell

• XPaint — Color image editing tool which features most standard paint program options.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/sf-xpaint/ || xpaint

Vector graphics - illustration

• Dia — GTK+-based diagram creation program.

http://live.gnome.org/Dia || dia

• Inkscape — Vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) file format. Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. It's developers also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented development.

http://inkscape.org/ || inkscape

• Karbon — Vector graphics editor, part of the Calligra Suite. Part of calligra group.

http://www.calligra-suite.org/karbon/ || calligra-karbon

• sK1 — Replacement for Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw, oriented for "prepress ready" PostScript & PDF output.

http://sk1project.org/ || sk1

• Xara LX — Advanced vector graphics program, the open source version of the commercial Xara X.

http://www.xaraxtreme.org/ || xaralx

Vector graphics - CAD

• BRL-CAD — Constructive solid geometry (CSG) solid modeling computer-aided design (CAD) system that includes an interactive geometry editor, ray tracing support for graphics rendering and geometric analysis, computer network distributed framebuffer support, scripting, image-processing and signal-processing tools.

http://brlcad.org/ || brlcad

• FreeCAD — CAD/CAE program, based on OpenCascade, Qt and Python with features such as macro recording, workbenches and the ability to run as server.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/free-cad/ || freecad

• LeoCAD — CAD program for creating virtual LEGO models. It has an easy to use interface and currently includes over 6000 different pieces created by the LDraw community.

http://leocad.org || leocad

• LibreCAD — Powerful 2D CAD application based on Qt. It has been forked from QCad Community Edition.

http://www.librecad.org/ || librecad

• QCAD — Powerful 2D CAD application that began in 1999. QCaD includes DFX standard file format and supports HPGL format.

http://www.qcad.org/ || qcad

• VariCAD — 3D/2D CAD and mechanical engineering application which provides support for parameters and geometric constraints, tools for shells, pipelines, sheet metal unbending and crash tests, assembly support, mechanical part and symbol libraries, calculations, bills of materials, and more.

http://www.varicad.com/en/home/ || varicad

3D modeling/rendering

• Art of Illusion — 3D modeling and rendering studio written in Java.

http://www.artofillusion.org/ || aoi

• Blender — fully integrated 3D graphics creation suite capable of 3D modeling, texturing, and animation, among other things.

http://www.blender.org/ || blender

• MakeHuman™ — Parametrical modeling program for creating human bodies.

http://www.makehuman.org/ || makehuman

• POV-Ray — Script-based raytracer for creating 3D graphics.

http://www.povray.org/ || povray

• Wings 3D — Advanced subdivision modeler that is both powerful and easy to use.

http://www.wings3d.com/ || wings3d

Graphics utilities (helper apps)

Screen capture

See also: Taking a Screenshot

Screencast

Screencast utilities allow you to create a video of your desktop or individual windows.

• byzanz — Simple screencast tool that produces GIF animations.

http://blogs.gnome.org/otte/2009/08/30/byzanz-0-2-0/ || byzanz-git

• glc — Screencast tool that can capture the sound and video from OpenGL applications, such as games, where regular X11 screencast tools produce choppy results.

https://github.com/nullkey/glc || glc

• Istanbul — Simple desktop session recorder that produces ogg videos.

https://live.gnome.org/Istanbul || istanbul

• Kazam — Screencasting program with design in mind.

https://launchpad.net/kazam || kazam-bzr

• RecordMyDesktop — An easy to use utility that records your desktop into the ogg format with a CLI, Qt or GTK+ interface.

http://recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net/ || recordmydesktop gtk-recordmydesktop qt-recordmydesktop

• simplescreenrecorder — A feature-rich screen recorder that supports X11 and OpenGL.

http://www.maartenbaert.be/simplescreenrecorder/ || simplescreenrecorder

• vokoscreen — Simple screencast tool, GUI ffmpeg.

http://www.kohaupt-online.de/hp || vokoscreen

• XVidCap — Application used for recording a screencast or digital recording of an X Window System screen output with an audio narration.

http://xvidcap.sourceforge.net/ || xvidcap

Audio systems

See the main article: Sound system

Audio players

Music player daemons and clients

• Music Player Daemon — Lightweight and scalable choice for music management.

http://www.musicpd.org/ || mpd

• See also: List of MPD clients.
• XMMS2 — Complete rewrite of the popular music player.

https://xmms2.org || xmms2

Command-line players

• cmus — Very feature-rich ncurses-based music player.

http://cmus.sourceforge.net/ || cmus

• Cplay — Curses front-end for various audio players (ogg123, mpg123, mpg321, splay, madplay, and mikmod, xmp, and sox).

http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Cplay || cplay

• Herrie — Minimalistic console-based music player with native AudioScrobbler support.

http://herrie.info/ || herrie

• MOC — Ncurses console audio player with support for the MP3, OGG, and WAV formats.

http://moc.daper.net/ || moc

• mpg123 — Fast free MP3 console audio player for Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, HP-UX and nearly all other UNIX systems (also decodes MP1 and MP2 files).

http://www.mpg123.org/ || mpg123

• pianobar — Console-based frontend for Pandora.

http://6xq.net/projects/pianobar/ || pianobar

• PyTone — Advanced music jukebox with a console interface.

http://www.luga.de/pytone/ || pytone

• shell-fm — Console-based player for the streams provided by last.fm.

https://github.com/jkramer/shell-fm/ || shell-fm

• VLC — Highly portable multimedia player with ncurses interface module, and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/ || vlc

GUI players

• Amarok — Mature Qt-based player known for its plethora of features.

http://amarok.kde.org/ || amarok

• aTunes — Audio player written in Java.

http://www.atunes.org/ || atunes

• Audacious — Winamp clone like Beep and old XMMS versions.

http://audacious-media-player.org/ || audacious

• Banshee — iTunes clone, built with GTK+ and Mono, feature-rich and more actively developed.

http://banshee.fm/ || banshee

• Clementine — Amarok 1.4 clone, ported to Qt 4.

http://www.clementine-player.org/ || clementine

• Cuberok — Music player and collection manager with a lightweight interface.

http://code.google.com/p/cuberok/ || cuberok

• DeaDBeeF — Light and fast music player with many features, no GNOME or KDE dependencies, supports console-only, as well as a GTK+ GUI, comes with many plugins, and has a metadata editor.

http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net/ || deadbeef

• Exaile — GTK+ clone of Amarok.

http://www.exaile.org/ || exaile

• gmusicbrowser — Open-source jukebox for large collections of MP3/OGG/FLAC files.

http://gmusicbrowser.org/ || gmusicbrowser-git

• Goggles Music Manager — Music collection manager and player that automatically categorizes your music, supports gapless playback, features easy tag editing, and internet radio support. Uses the Fox toolkit.

http://code.google.com/p/gogglesmm/ || gogglesmm

• Guayadeque — Full featured media player that can easily manage large collections and uses the GStreamer media framework.

http://guayadeque.org/ || guayadeque

• Nightingale — Open source clone of iTunes-based on Songbird, that uses Mozilla technologies and the GStreamer framework.

http://getnightingale.com/ || nightingale-git

• LXMusic — A minimalist xmms2-based music player.

http://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXMusic || lxmusic

• Noise — Simple, fast, and good looking music player.

https://launchpad.net/noise || noise

• Nuvola Player — Integrated Google Music, Grooveshark, 8tracks and Hype Machine player.

http://nuvolaplayer.fenryxo.cz/ || nuvolaplayer

• Potamus — Lightweight, intuitive GTK+ audio player with an emphasis on high audio quality.

http://offog.org/code/potamus.html || potamus

• Pragha — GTK+ music manager. (fork of the Consonance Music Manager)

http://pragha.wikispaces.com/ || pragha

• Qmmp — Qt-based multimedia player with a user interface that is similar to Winamp or XMMS.

http://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/ || qmmp

• Quod Libet — Audio player written with PyGTK and GStreamer.

http://code.google.com/p/quodlibet/ || quodlibet

• Rhythmbox — GTK+ clone of iTunes, used by default in GNOME.

http://projects.gnome.org/rhythmbox/ || rhythmbox

• Spotify — Proprietary music streaming service. It supports local playback and streaming from Spotify's vast library (requires a free account).

http://www.spotify.com/ || spotify

• Tomahawk — Music player application written in C++/Qt. It decouples the name of the song from the source it was shared from - and fulfills the request using all of your available sources.

http://www.tomahawk-player.org/ || tomahawk

• VLC — Highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/ || vlc

• XMMS — Skinnable GTK+ standalone media player similar to Winamp.

http://legacy.xmms2.org/ || xmms

CD Ripping

• Abcde — Comprehensive command-line tool for ripping audio CDs.

http://code.google.com/p/abcde/ || abcde

• Asunder — GTK+-based CD ripping program.

http://littlesvr.ca/asunder/ || asunder

• cdparanoia — Compact Disc Digital Audio (CDDA) Digital Audio Extraction (DAE) tool.

http://xiph.org/paranoia/index.html || cdparanoia

• Gnac — Audio converter for GNOME.

http://gnac.sourceforge.net/ || gnac

• Goobox — CD player and ripper for GNOME.

https://people.gnome.org/~paobac/goobox/ || goobox

• Grip — Fast and light CD ripper within the GNOME project that resembles Audiograbber.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/grip/ || grip

• KAudioCreator — Program for ripping and encoding Audio CDs and encoding files from disk.

http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/KAudioCreator?content=107645 || kaudiocreator

• morituri — CD ripper aiming for accuracy over speed.

http://thomas.apestaart.org/morituri/trac/ || morituri

• rubyripper — Audiodisk ripper that tries to deliver a secure rip through multiple rippings of the same track and corrections of any differences.

http://code.google.com/p/rubyripper/ || rubyripper

• Sound Juicer — CD ripper for GNOME.

http://burtonini.com/blog/computers/sound-juicer || sound-juicer

• soundKonverter — Front-end to various audio converters.

http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=29024 || soundkonverter

Visualization

• ProjectM — Music visualizer which uses 3D accelerated iterative image-based rendering.

http://projectm.sourceforge.net/ || projectm

• VSXu — Free to use program that lets you create and perform real-time audio visual presets.

http://www.vsxu.com/ || vsxu

Audio tag editors

• Audio Tag Tool — Tool to edit tags in MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files.

http://tagtool.sourceforge.net/ || tagtool

• Cowbell — Elegant music organizer that supports many audio formats including MP3, Ogg/FLAC, and MusePack.

http://more-cowbell.org/ || cowbell

• EasyTag — Utility for viewing, editing and writing ID3 tags of your MP3 files.

http://easytag.sourceforge.net/ || easytag

• Ex Falso — Cross-platform free and open source audio tag editor and library organizer.

http://code.google.com/p/quodlibet/ || exfalso

• ID3 Mass Tagger — Command-line utility to edit ID3 1.x and 2.x tags.

http://freecode.com/projects/id3 || id3

• Kid3 — MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, FLAC, MPC, MP4/AAC, MP2, Speex, TrueAudio, WavPack, WMA, WAV and AIFF files tag editor.

http://kid3.sourceforge.net/ || kid3

• MP3Info — MP3 technical info viewer and ID3 1.x tag editor.

http://ibiblio.org/mp3info/ || mp3info

• MusicBrainz Picard — Cross-platform audio tag editor written in Python (the official MusicBrainz tagger).

http://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Picard || picard

• Puddletag — Replacement for the famous MP3tag for Windows.

http://puddletag.sourceforge.net/ || puddletag

Sound editing

• Ardour — Multichannel hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation.

http://ardour.org/ || ardour

• Audacity — Program that lets you manipulate digital audio waveforms.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ || audacity

• GNOME Sound Recorder — The Sound Recorder application enables you to record and play .flac, .ogg (OGG audio, or .oga), and .wav sound files.

https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-media || gnome-media

• Jokosher — Non-linear multi-track digital audio editor that is being developed in Python, using the GTK+ interface and GStreamer as an audio back-end.

http://www.jokosher.org/^{[dead link 2013-05-19]} || jokosher

• KWave — Sound editor for KDE.

http://kwave.sourceforge.net/ || kwave

• Qtractor — Qt-based hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation application that aims to provide digital audio workstation software simple enough for the average home user, and yet powerful enough for the professional user.

http://qtractor.sourceforge.net/qtractor-index.html || qtractor

• Rosegarden — Digital audio workstation program developed with ALSA and Qt that acts as an audio and MIDI sequencer, scorewriter and musical composition and editing tool.

http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ || rosegarden

• XCFA — Tool to extract the contens of audio CDs and convert them to various formats.

http://www.xcfa.tuxfamily.org/ || xcfa

E-book applications

• Calibre — E-book library management application that can also convert between different formats and sync with a variety of e-book readers. Supported formats include CBZ, CBR, CBC, CHM, DJVU, EPUB, FictionBook, HTML, HTMLZ, LIT, LRF, Mobipocket, ODT, PDF, PRC, PDB, PML, RB, RTF, SNB, TCR, TXT and TXTZ.

http://calibre-ebook.com/ || calibre

• Cool Reader — E-book viewer with many supported formats such as EPUB (non-DRM), FictionBook, TXT, RTF, HTML, CHM and TCR.

http://crengine.sourceforge.net/ || coolreader

• epub — Curses EPUB reader using Python and BeautifulSoup.

https://github.com/rupa/epub || python2-epub-git

• FBReader — E-book viewer with many supported formats such as EPUB, FictionBook, HTML, plucker, PalmDoc, zTxt, TCR, CHM, RTF, OEB, Mobipocket (non-DRM) and TXT.

http://fbreader.org/ || fbreader

• pPub — Simple EPUB reader using Python, GTK3 and WebKit.

https://github.com/sakisds/pPub || ppub

• Sigil — WYSIWYG ebook editor.

http://code.google.com/p/sigil/ || sigil

• Xournal — PDF viewer/note taking application.

http://xournal.sourceforge.net/ || xournal

Phone

• gnokii — Tools and user space driver for use with mobile phones.

http://www.gnokii.org/ || gnokii

• GNOME Phone Manager — Control your mobile phone from your GNOME desktop.

https://wiki.gnome.org/PhoneManager || gnome-phone-manager

• Moto4Lin — File manager and seem editor for Motorola P2K phones (like C380/C650).

http://sourceforge.net/projects/moto4lin/ || moto4lin

Video players

Console

• MPlayer — Video player that supports a complete and versatile array of video and audio formats.

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html || mplayer (See also a very similar fork: mplayer2)

• mpv — Movie player based on MPlayer and mplayer2.

http://mpv.io || mpv mpv-git

• xine-ui — Free multimedia player.

http://www.xine-project.org || xine-ui

• VLC ncurses — Command-line version of the famous video player that can play smoothly high definition videos in the TTY.

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/ || not packaged? (search in AUR)

Graphical

See also: MPlayer frontends, mpv

• Dragon Player — Simple video player for KDE. Part of kde and kdemultimedia groups

http://www.kde.org/applications/multimedia/dragonplayer/ || kdemultimedia-dragonplayer

• Kaffeine — Very versatile KDE media player that, by default, utilizes Xine as its backend and has excellent support of digital TV (DVB).

http://kaffeine.kde.org/ || kaffeine

• Parole — Modern media player based on the GStreamer framework.

http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/parole/ || parole

• Totem — Media player (audio and video) for the GNOME desktop that uses GStreamer. Part of gnome

http://projects.gnome.org/totem/ || totem

• VLC media player — Middleweight video player with support for a wide variety of audio and video formats.

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/ || vlc

• Whaaw! Media Player — Lightweight GStreamer-based audio and video player that can serve as a good alternative to Totem for those who do not like all of those GNOME dependencies.

http://home.gna.org/whaawmp/ || whaawmp

• Xnoise — GTK+ and GStreamer-based media player for both audio and video with "a slick GUI, great speed and lots of features.".

http://www.xnoise-media-player.com/ || xnoise

Video editors

Console

• Avidemux — Free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks.

http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/ || avidemux-cli

• HandBrake-CLI — Simple yet powerful video transcoder ideal for batch mkv/x264 ripping.

http://handbrake.fr/ || handbrake-cli

Graphical

• Avidemux — Free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks.

http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/ || avidemux-gtk avidemux-qt

• Cinelerra (Community Version) — Professional video editing and compositing environment.

http://cinelerra.org/ || cinelerra-cv

• HandBrake — Simple yet powerful video transcoder ideal for batch mkv/x264 ripping. GTK+ version.

http://handbrake.fr/ || handbrake

• Kdenlive — Non-linear video editor designed for basic to semi-professional work.

http://kdenlive.org/ || kdenlive

• Kino — GTK+-based non-linear digital video editor that supports many basic and detailed audio/video editing and assembling tasks.

http://www.kinodv.org/ || kino

• LiVES — Video editor and VJ (live performance) platform.

http://lives.sourceforge.net/ || lives

• Open Movie Editor — Video editing program designed for basic movie making capabilities, powerful, yet easy to use.

http://www.openmovieeditor.org/ || openmovieeditor

• Open Shot — Non-linear video editor based on MLT framework.

http://www.openshotvideo.com/ || openshot

• PiTiVi — Video editor designed to be intuitive and integrate well in the GNOME desktop.

http://www.pitivi.org/ || pitivi

• Transmageddon — Simple python application for transcoding video into formats supported by GStreamer.

http://www.linuxrising.org/ || transmageddon

Collection managers

• Alexandria — GNOME application to help you manage your book collection.

http://alexandria.rubyforge.org/ || alexandria

• GCstar — GNOME application for organizing various collections (board games, comic books, movies, stamps, etc.).

http://www.gcstar.org/ || gcstar

• Koha — Open source Integrated Library System (ILS), used world-wide by public, school and special libraries.

http://koha-community.org/ || koha

• Tellico — KDE application for organizing various collections (books, video, music, coins, etc.).

http://tellico-project.org/ || tellico

• XBMC — Application for organizing various collections and automatically retrieving infos about them (video, music, photos).

http://xbmc.org/ || xbmc

Utilities

Basic shell commands

• Core Utilities — The basic file, shell and text manipulation utilities of the GNU operating system

http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils || coreutils

Package management

See also: AUR Helpers and Pacman GUI Frontends

• Lostfiles — Script for detecting orphaned files.

https://github.com/graysky2/lostfiles || lostfiles

• Pacmatic — Pacman wrapper to check Arch News before upgrading, avoid partial upgrades, and warn about configuration file changes.

http://kmkeen.com/pacmatic || pacmatic

• pkgfile — Tool that finds what package owns a file.

http://github.com/falconindy/pkgfile || pkgfile

• pkgtools — Collection of scripts for Arch Linux packages.

https://github.com/Daenyth/pkgtools || pkgtools

• srcpac — Simple tool that automates rebuilding packages from source.

https://projects.archlinux.org/srcpac.git || srcpac

Disk usage display programs

• Disk Usage Analyzer (Baobab) — Disk usage analyzer for the GNOME desktop.

http://www.marzocca.net/linux/baobab || baobab

• Filelight — Disk usage analyzer that creates an interactive map of concentric, segmented rings that help visualise disk usage on your computer.

http://methylblue.com/filelight/ || kdeutils-filelight

• GdMap — Disk usage analyzer that draws a map of rectangles sized according to file or dir sizes.

http://gdmap.sourceforge.net/ || gdmap

• gt5 — Diff-capable "du-browser".

http://gt5.sourceforge.net || gt5

• ncdu — Simple ncurses disk usage analyzer.

http://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu || ncdu

CD/DVD burning tools

See also: Burning CD/DVD with GUI

Clipboard managers

• Anamnesis — Clipboard manager that stores all the clipboard history and offers an interface to do a full-text search. It has both a commandline and GUI mode available.

http://anamnesis.sourceforge.net/ || anamnesis

• ClipIt — Fork of Parcellite with additional features and bugfixes.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gtkclipit/ || clipit

• CopyQ — Clever clipboard manager with searchable and editable history, custom actions on items and command line support.

https://github.com/hluk/CopyQ || copyq

• Glipper — Clipboard manager for the GNOME desktop with many features and plugin support.

https://launchpad.net/glipper || glipper

• Klipper — Full featured clipboard manager for the KDE desktop.

http://userbase.kde.org/Klipper || kdebase-workspace

• loliclip — Clipboard synchronizer developed for WM users.

https://github.com/Cloudef/PKGBUILDS/tree/master/loliclip || loliclip

• Parcellite — Lightweight yet feature-rich clipboard manager.

http://parcellite.sourceforge.net/ || parcellite

• Pasteall — A clipboard monitor simple and functional.

https://github.com/LaraCraft304/Pasteall || pasteall

Compression tools

Console

• atool — Script for managing file archives of various types.

http://www.nongnu.org/atool/ || atool

• p7zip — Port of 7-Zip for POSIX systems, including Linux. The commandline tool is called 7z.

http://p7zip.sourceforge.net/ || p7zip

Graphical

• Ark — Archiving tool included in the KDE desktop.

http://kde.org/applications/utilities/ark/ || kdeutils-ark

• File Roller — Archive manager included in the GNOME desktop.

http://fileroller.sourceforge.net/ || file-roller

• p7zip — Port of 7-Zip for POSIX systems, including Linux. The GUI requires wxGTK and is called 7zFM.

http://p7zip.sourceforge.net/ || p7zip

• PeaZip — Open source file and archive manager.

http://www.peazip.org/peazip-linux.html || peazip-gtk2 peazip-qt

• Squeeze — Featherweight front-end for commandline archiving tools.

http://squeeze.xfce.org/ || squeeze-git

• Xarchive — Generic GTK2 front-end that uses external wrappers around commandline archiving tools.

http://xarchive.sourceforge.net/ || xarchive

• Xarchiver — Lightweight desktop independent archive manager built with GTK+.

http://xarchiver.sourceforge.net/ || xarchiver

File managers

Console

• Dired — Directory editor integrated with Emacs.

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Dired.html || emacs

• Midnight Commander — Console-based, dual-paneled file manager.

http://www.midnight-commander.org || mc

• nffm — "Nothing Fancy File Manager", a mouseless ncurses file manager written in C.

https://github.com/mariostg/nffm || nffm-git

• Pilot — File manager that comes with the Alpine email client.

http://re-alpine.sourceforge.net/ || re-alpine

• Ranger — Console-based file manager with vi bindings, customizability, and lots of features.

http://nongnu.org/ranger || ranger

• Vifm — Ncurses-based two-panel file manager with vi-like keybindings.

http://vifm.sourceforge.net/ || vifm

Graphical

• Andromeda — Qt-based cross-platform file manager.

https://gitorious.org/andromeda || andromeda-git

• Dino — Easy to use and powerful file manager built in Qt.

http://dfm.sourceforge.net/ || dino-dfm

• Dolphin — File manager included in the KDE4 desktop.

http://dolphin.kde.org/ || kdebase-dolphin

• Double Commander — File manager with two panels side by side. It is inspired by Total Commander and features some new ideas.

http://doublecmd.sourceforge.net// || doublecmd-gtk2 doublecmd-qt

• emelFM2 — File manager that implements the popular two-panel design.

http://emelfm2.net/ || emelfm2

• Konqueror — File manager for the KDE desktop.

http://www.konqueror.org/ || kdebase-konqueror

• Krusader — Advanced twin panel (Midnight Commander style) file manager for the KDE desktop.

http://www.krusader.org/ || krusader

• Nautilus — Extensible, heavyweight file manager used by default in GNOME with support for custom scripts.

http://projects.gnome.org/nautilus/ || nautilus

• Nemo — Nemo is the file manager of the Cinnamon desktop. A good alternative to Nautilus.

http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/ || nemo

• PCManFM — Lightweight file manager which features tabbed browsing and can optionally manage the desktop background.

http://pcmanfm.sourceforge.net/ || pcmanfm

• QtFileMan — File manager similar to PCManFM from LXDE.

http://gitorious.org/qtfileman || qtfileman-git

• qtFM — Small, lightweight filemanager for Linux desktops based on pure Qt.

http://www.qtfm.org/ || qtfm

• ROX — Small and fast file manager which can optionally manage the desktop background and panels.

http://rox.sourceforge.net || rox

• SpaceFM — GTK+ multi-panel tabbed file manager.

http://ignorantguru.github.com/spacefm/ || spacefm

• Sunflower — Small and highly customizable twin-panel file manager for Linux with support for plugins.

http://code.google.com/p/sunflower-fm/ || sunflower

• Thunar — File manager that can be run as a daemon with excellent start up and directory load times.

http://thunar.xfce.org/index.html || thunar

• Tux Commander — Windowed file manager with two panels side by side similar to popular Total Commander or Midnight Commander file managers.

http://tuxcmd.sourceforge.net/description.php || tuxcmd

• Worker — Fast, lightweight and feature-rich file manager for the X Window System.

http://www.boomerangsworld.de/worker/ || worker

• Xfe — Microsoft Explorer-like file manager for X (X File Explorer).

http://roland65.free.fr/xfe/ || xfe

Merge tools

• Diffuse — Small and simple text merge tool written in Python.

http://diffuse.sourceforge.net/ || diffuse

• KDiff3 — File and directory diff and merge tool for the KDE desktop.

http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net/ || kdiff3

• Kompare — GUI front-end program for viewing and merging differences between source files. It supports a variety of diff formats and provides many options to customize the information level displayed.

http://www.caffeinated.me.uk/kompare/ || kdesdk-kompare

• Meld — Visual diff and merge tool that can compare files, directories, and version controlled projects.

http://meld.sourceforge.net || meld

Vim and Emacs provide merge functionality with vimdiff and ediff.

Taskbars

• Avant Window Navigator — Lightweight dock which sits at the bottom of the screen.

http://launchpad.net/awn || avant-window-navigator

• Bmpanel — Lightweight, NETWM compliant panel for the X11 system.

http://code.google.com/p/bmpanel2/ || bmpanel

• Cairo-Dock — Highly customizable dock and launcher application.

http://www.glx-dock.org/ || cairo-dock

• Docker — Docking application which acts as a system tray.

http://icculus.org/openbox/2/docker/ || docker

• Docky — Full fledged dock application that makes opening common applications and managing windows easier and quicker.

http://wiki.go-docky.com/ || docky

• fbpanel — Lightweight, NETWM compliant desktop panel.

http://fbpanel.sourceforge.net/ || fbpanel

• GNOME Panel — Panel included in the GNOME Flashback desktop.

https://wiki.gnome.org/GnomePanel || gnome-panel

• KoolDock — KDE3 docker with great effects that tries to resemble the Mac OS X dock.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/kooldock || kooldock-svn

• LXPanel — Lightweight X11 desktop panel and part of the LXDE desktop.

http://lxde.org/lxpanel || lxpanel

• pancake — Highly configurable, modular panel for the X11 system.

http://www.failedprojects.de/pancake/^{[dead link 2013-05-19]} || pancake

• PerlPanel — The ideal accompaniment to a light-weight Window Manager such as OpenBox, or a desktop-drawing program like iDesk.

http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/perlpanel || perlpanel

• PyPanel — Lightweight panel/taskbar written in Python and C.

http://pypanel.sourceforge.net/ || pypanel

• qtpanel — Project to create useful and beautiful panel in Qt.

https://gitorious.org/qtpanel/qtpanel || qtpanel-git

• Stalonetray — Stand-alone system tray.

http://stalonetray.sourceforge.net/ || stalonetray

• Tint2 — Simple panel/taskbar developed specifically for Openbox.

http://code.google.com/p/tint2/ || tint2

• Trayer — Lightweight GTK+-based systray.

https://gna.org/projects/fvwm-crystal/ || trayer

• wbar — Quick launch bar developed with speed in mind.

http://freecode.com/projects/wbar/ || wbar

• Xfce Panel — Panel included in the Xfce desktop.

http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/start || xfce4-panel

Batch renamers

• GPRename — GTK+ batch renamer for files and directories.

http://gprename.sourceforge.net || gprename

• KRename — Very powerful batch file renamer for the KDE desktop.

http://www.krename.net || krename

• metamorphose2 — wxPython based batch renamer with support for regular expressions, renaming multimedia files according to their metadata, etc.

http://file-folder-ren.sourceforge.net || metamorphose2

• pyRenamer — Application for the mass renaming of files.

http://www.infinicode.org/code/pyrenamer/ || pyrenamer

• rename.pl — Batch renamer based on perl regex.

http://search.cpan.org/~pederst/rename/bin/rename.PL || perl-rename

Documents

Document Readers

Console

• fbdjvu — DjVu viewer similar for fbpdf

http://repo.or.cz/w/fbpdf.git || not packaged? (search in AUR)

• fbpdf — Small framebuffer PDF viewer based off of MuPDF, with Vim keybindings and written in C

http://repo.or.cz/w/fbpdf.git || fbpdf-git

• jfbview — Framebuffer PDF and image viewer. Features include Vim-like controls, zoom-to-fit, a TOC (outline) view, fast multi-threaded rendering and asynchronous pre-caching

http://cjix.info/blog/jfbview/ || jfbview

Graphical

• apvlv — Lightweight PDF/DjVu/UMD/TXT viewer with Vim keybindings.

http://naihe2010.github.com/apvlv/ || apvlv

• Chrome — Web browser with a built-in PDF viewer.

http://www.google.com/chrome || google-chrome

• ePDFView — Free lightweight PDF document viewer using the Poppler and GTK+ libraries. Development stopped.

http://freecode.com/projects/epdfview || epdfview

• Evince — Document viewer for multiple document formats. Supports PDF, PostScript, DjVu, TIFF and DVI.

http://projects.gnome.org/evince/ || evince

• Firefox — Open source web browser with a built-in PDF viewer.

http://www.mozilla.org/firefox || firefox

• Foxit Reader — Small, fast (compared to Acrobat) PDF viewer. (closed source)

http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/desklinux/ || foxitreader

• llpp — Very fast PDF reader based off of MuPDF, that supports continuous page scrolling, bookmarking, and text search through the whole document.

http://repo.or.cz/w/llpp.git || llpp-git

• MuPDF — Very fast PDF and XPS viewer and toolkit written in portable C. Features CJK font support.

http://mupdf.com || mupdf

• Okular — Very powerful viewer for KDE.

http://okular.kde.org/ || kdegraphics-okular

• qpdfview — Tabbed PDF viewer using the Poppler and Qt libraries.

https://launchpad.net/qpdfview || qpdfview

• Xournal — Pdf viewer/note taking application.

http://xournal.sourceforge.net/ || xournal

• Xpdf — Viewer that can decode LZW and read encrypted PDFs.

http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/ || xpdf

• zathura — Highly customizable and functional PDF/DjVu/PostScript/ComicBook viewer (plugin based).

http://pwmt.org/projects/zathura/ || zathura

CHM Viewers

• ChmSee — CHM viewer based on xulrunner.

https://code.google.com/p/chmsee/ || chmsee

• GnoCHM — CHM viewer meant to integrate with GNOME, based on pychm.

http://gnochm.sourceforge.net/ || gnochm

• Kchmviewer — Qt-based CHM viewer that uses chmlib and borrows some ideas from xchm. It does not depend on KDE, but it can be compiled to integrate with it.

http://www.ulduzsoft.com/kchmviewer/ || kchmviewer

• xCHM — Lightweight CHM viewer, based on chmlib.

http://xchm.sf.net/ || xchm

Office suites

• Calligra — Actively developed fork of KOffice, the KDE office suite. It offers most of the features of OpenOffice while also having versions for smartphones (Calligra Mobile) and tablets (Calligra Active).

http://www.calligra-suite.org/ || calligra

• Kingsoft Office — Propietary office productivity suite, also named WPS.

http://www.kingsoftstore.com/ || kingsoft-office

• LibreOffice — More actively developed fork of OpenOffice.

https://www.libreoffice.org/ || libreoffice

• OpenOffice — Open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more, under the Apache Licence.

http://www.openoffice.org/ || openoffice-base-bin

• Siag Office — Extremely lightweight office suite that provides a word processor, spreadsheet, text editor, file manager and previewer.

http://siag.nu/ || siag-office

Indexers

• Pinot — Personal search and metasearch tool

http://code.google.com/p/pinot-search/ || pinot

• Recoll — Full text search tool with a Xapian backend.

http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/ || recoll

• Strigi — Fast crawling desktop search engine with a Qt GUI.

http://strigi.sourceforge.net/ || strigi

• Tracker — All-in-one indexer, search tool and metadata database.

http://projects.gnome.org/tracker/index.html || tracker

Word processors

• Abiword — Full-featured word processor.

http://www.abisource.com/ || abiword

• Abiword Minimal — Minimal version of Abiword.

http://www.abisource.com/ || abiword-minimal

• BlueGriffon — WYSIWYG content editor for the World Wide Web.

http://www.bluegriffon.com/ || bluegriffon

• Calligra Words — Powerful word processor included in the Calligra Suite.

http://www.calligra.org/words/ || calligra-words

• gLabels — program for creating labels and business cards.

http://glabels.org/ || glabels

• LibreOffice Writer — Full-featured word processor included in the LibreOffice suite.

https://www.libreoffice.org/ || libreoffice-writer

• Markdown — Text-to-HTML conversion tool that allows you to write using a simple plain text format.

http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown || markdown

• OpenOffice Writer — Full-featured word processor included in the OpenOffice suite.

http://www.openoffice.org/ || openoffice-base-bin

• Pandoc — Swiss-army knife for converting one markup format into another (supports Markdown).

http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc || haskell-pandoc

• Pathetic Writer — X-based rich text processor included in Siag Office.

http://siag.nu/pw/ || siag-office

• Scribus — Desktop publishing program.

http://www.scribus.net/canvas/Scribus || scribus

• Ted — Easy to use GTK+-based rich text processor (with footnote support).

http://www.nllgg.nl/Ted/ || ted

• txt2tags — Dead-simple, KISS-compliant lightweight, human-readable markup language to produce rich format content out of plain text files.

http://txt2tags.sourceforge.net || txt2tags

Spreadsheets

• Calligra Sheets — Powerful spreadsheet application included in the Calligra Suite

http://www.calligra.org/sheets/ || calligra-sheets

• Gnumeric — Spreadsheet program that is part of the GNOME desktop.

http://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/ || gnumeric

• LibreOffice Calc — Full-featured spreadsheet application included in the LibreOffice suite.

https://www.libreoffice.org/features/calc/ || libreoffice-calc

• OpenOffice Calc — Full-featured spreadsheet application included in the OpenOffice suite.

http://openoffice.org/product/calc || openoffice-base-bin

• Siag — Spreadsheet application based on the X Window System and the Scheme programming language included in Siag Office.

http://siag.nu/siag/ || siag-office

Scientific Documents

With LaTeX, creation of any scientific document, article, journal, etc. is made commonplace.

• AUCTeX — Extensible package for writing and formatting TeX files in Emacs.

https://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/ || auctex

• Gummi — Lightweight TeX/LaTeX GTK+-based editor.

http://dev.midnightcoding.org/projects/gummi || gummi

• Kile — User-friendly TeX/LaTeX editor for the KDE desktop with many features.

http://kile.sourceforge.net/ || kile

• LyX — Document processor that encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents (WYSIWYM) and not simply their appearance (WYSIWYG).

http://www.lyx.org/ || lyx

• TeXmacs — WYSIWYW editing platform with special features for scientists.

http://www.texmacs.org/ || texmacs

• Texmaker — Cross-platform, light and easy-to-use LaTeX IDE.

http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/index.html || texmaker

• Winefish — Editor for experienced LaTeX users with support for UTF-8, syntax highlight, auto-completion and auto-text.

http://winefish.berlios.de/ || winefish

OCR software

See the main article: Optical Character Recognition#OCR software.

Security

• For detailed guides, see the main ArchWiki page, Security.

Firewalls

See the main article: Firewalls.

Network security

• Arpwatch — Tool that monitors ethernet activity and keeps a database of Ethernet/IP address pairings.

http://ee.lbl.gov/ || arpwatch

• Honeyd — Tool that allows the user to set up and run multiple virtual hosts on a computer network.

http://www.honeyd.org/ || honeyd

• IPTraf — Console-based network monitoring utility.

https://fedorahosted.org/iptraf-ng/ || iptraf-ng

• Nmap — Security scanner used to discover hosts and services on a computer network, thus creating a "map" of the network.

http://nmap.org/ || nmap

• Ntop — Network probe that shows network usage in a way similar to what top does for processes.

http://www.ntop.org/ || ntop

• PortBunny — Extremly fast console port scanner.

http://www.recurity-labs.com/portbunny/index.shtml || portbunny

• Snort — Network intrusion prevention and detection system.

http://www.snort.org/ || snort

• Sshguard — Daemon that protects SSH and other services against brute-force attacts, similar to Fail2ban.

http://www.sshguard.net/ || sshguard

• vnStat — Console-based network traffic monitor that keeps a log of network traffic for the selected interfaces.

http://humdi.net/vnstat/ || vnstat

• Wireshark — Network protocol analyzer that lets you capture and interactively browse the traffic running on a computer network.

http://www.wireshark.org/ || wireshark-cli wireshark-gtk

Threat and vulnerability detection

• Nessus — Comprehensive vulnerability scanning program.

http://www.nessus.org/products/nessus || nessus

• Tripwire — Intrusion detection system.

http://tripwire.sourceforge.net/ || tripwire

File security

• AIDE — File and directory integrity checker.

http://aide.sourceforge.net/ || aide

• Logwatch — Customizable log analysis system.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/logwatch/ || logwatch

• Swatch — Utility that can monitor just about any type of log.

http://swatch.sourceforge.net/ || swatch

• Tcpdump — Common console-based packet analyzer that allows the user to intercept and display TCP/IP and other packets being transmitted or received over a network.

http://www.tcpdump.org/ || tcpdump

Backup programs

See the main article: Backup Programs

Screen lockers

• slock — Very simple and lightweight X screen locker. Offers only a black background when locked, there are no animations or text fields.

http://tools.suckless.org/slock || slock

• sflock — Simple screen locker utility for X, based on slock. Provides a very basic user feedback.

https://github.com/benruijl/sflock || sflock-git

• sxlock — Fork of sflock with a few enhancements. Provides basic user feedback, uses PAM authentication, supports DPMS and RandR.

https://github.com/lahwaacz/sxlock || sxlock-git

Games

Action and adventure

• Aquaria — 2D sidescrolling action-adventure game, heavily focused on exploration and puzzle-solving, with non-linear gameplay. The game engine is open source.

http://www.bit-blot.com/aquaria || aquaria-git (AUR)

• Astromenace — Modern 3D scrolling space shooter with ship upgrade possibilities.

http://www.viewizard.com/download.php || astromenace.

• Barrage — Violent point-and-click shooting game with nice effects

http://lgames.sourceforge.net/index.php?project=Barrage || barrage

• Blob Wars: Metal Blob Solid — 3D Action-adventure game with various weapons and missions.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/blobwars/ || blobwars

• Blob Wars: Blob and Conquer — 3D Action-adventure game, sequel to 2D platform game, Blob Wars: Metal Blob Solid.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/blobandconquer/ || blobandconquer

• Bloodridge — Java based, 3D adventure fantasy game.

http://www.hayles.demon.co.uk/bloodridge/bloodridge.html || not packaged? (search in AUR)

• BZFlag — Multiperson, first-person tank shooter.

http://bzflag.org/ || bzflag

• Freedink — Free and enhanced version of the action-adventure "Dink Smallwood".

http://www.freedink.org/ || freedink

• Gish — 2D physics platformer about adventures of ball of tar.

http://www.gishgame.com/ || freegish-git

• Hammerfight — 2-dimensional physics-based combat game.

http://www.koshutin.com/ || hammerfight

• The open-source Unix port of the Haaf's Game Engine is available at icculus.org.

• Neverball — 3D game to guide a ball through a maze.

http://neverball.org/ || neverball

• Rune — 3rd person Adventure / Hack'n Slay using Unreal Engine. Runs great from box installation.

http://www.rune-world.com || rune

Arcade

• Bullet Candy Perfect — Fun shoot-em-up game, with sharp, super smooth 3D graphics and a cool techno soundtrack. Features cross-platform, achievements, and online scores. 'PAMAYW' scheme.

http://www.charliesgames.com/wordpress/?page_id=14/ || bulletcandyperfect-demo

• Bomberclone — Free Bomberman-like game for Linux and Windows. The rules of the game are simple: run though a level and bomb other players.

http://bomberclone.sourceforge.net/homepage/ || bomberclone

• Cave Story/Doukutsu — Addictive 1-man-made metroid-vania-esque platformer. If there happens to be a noticible lag when there are lots of enemies on screen or in larger levels, try running the Windows version through Wine. This should fix the problem.

http://cavestory.org || doukutsu

• Ceferino — Action game similar to Super Pang.

http://www.losersjuegos.com.ar/juegos/ceferino || ceferino

• Chromium — Fast paced, arcade-style, top-scrolling space shooter.

http://chromium-bsu.sourceforge.net/ || chromium-bsu

• Circus Linux! — Clone of the Atari 2600 game "Circus Atari", produced by Atari, Inc.

http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/circus-linux || circuslinux

• Counter-Strike 2D — 2D clone (+additional features) of the popular Counter-Strike Mod

http://cs2d.com || counter-strike-2d

• Crack-attack — Free OpenGL game, based on the Super Nintendo classic Tetris Attack.

http://www.nongnu.org/crack-attack/ || crack-attack

• Frogatto — Much enjoyable platformer, in which you help a small green fellow named Frogatto walk and jump between solid footholds without getting hurt; have a look at this review.

http://frogatto.com || frogatto

• Frozen Bubble — Arcade game with colorful animated penguin eyecandy

http://frozen-bubble.org || frozen-bubble

• Hedgewars — Yet another Worms clone, considered to be better than its predecessor by many. Take turns to blast your opponents into oblivion with comedic results! Best in Multiplayer.

http://hedgewars.org/ || hedgewars

• Irukandji — Cross-platform 'pay as much as you want' (minimum $1 USD) scheme. A fun score attack shooter, set in an abstract underwater trench. Features unlockables, online score system, and challenges.

www.charliesgames.com || irukandji

• lbreakout2 — Breakout-style arcade game in the manner of Arkanoid

http://lgames.sourceforge.net/index.php?project=LBreakout2 || lbreakout2

• LTris — Arcade version of Tetris

http://lgames.sourceforge.net/index.php?project=LTris || ltris

• Mari0 — The Mario game with Portal gun mechanics.

http://stabyourself.net/mari0/ || mari0

• Nikki and the Robots — Cute physics platformer

http://joyridelabs.de/game/ || nikki

• Noiz2sa — Vertical shooter arcade game with nice abstract graphics, music, and joystick support.

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cs8k-cyu/windows/noiz2sa_e.html || noiz2sa

• Penguin Command — Clone of the classic game "Missile Command" with improved graphics and sound.

http://www.linux-games.com/penguin-command/ || penguin-command

• Pinball — Open source pinball simulator for Linux and other Unix systems.

http://pinball.sourceforge.net/ || pinball

• PowerManga — Arcade 2D shoot-em-up game with 41 levels and more than 200 sprites.

http://linux.tlk.fr/games/Powermanga/ || powermanga

• Streets of Rage Remake — A remake of the classic Streets of Rage 1, 2 and 3 by Sega.

http://sorr.forumotion.net/ || streetsofrageremake

• Open Syobon Action — Cross platform, open source version of the unforgiving Japanese parody of Super Mario Bros

https://github.com/Alexander--/open-syobon || open-syobon

• Teeworlds — Fast-paced 2D multiplayer shooter

http://teeworlds.com/ || teeworlds

• Tetrinet — Multiplayer online Tetris game for up to six people.

http://www.tetrinet.info/ || gtetrinet

• Tuxanci — Multiplatform game, inspired by well-known czech game Bulanci.

http://www.tuxanci.org/en/start || tuxanci

• Ultrastar-ng — Clone of SingStar, a music video game.

http://performous.org/ || ultrastardx-svn

• Viruskiller — Your computer has been invaded! Using your trusty mouse you must shoot the buggers before they can destroy your files!

http://www.parallelrealities.co.uk/projects/virusKiller.php^{[dead link 2013-05-19]} || viruskiller

• Wormux (now Warmux) — Somewhat similar to Worms 2/Worms Armageddon

http://sourceforge.net/projects/warmux.mirror/ || warmux

Casual games

• bs — Battleships based shooter for the console

http://www.catb.org/~esr/bs/ || bs

• BSD Games — Collection of classic text games distributed with *BSD

http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/BSD_games || bsd-games

• Fortune — Displays Random messages/quotes/jokes when invoked

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_(Unix) || fortune-mod

• nInvaders — Ncurses based space invaders clone

http://ninvaders.sourceforge.net/ || ninvaders

Chess simulators

• GNU Chess — One of the oldest computer chess programs for Unix-based computers, lets most modern computers play a full game of chess

https://gnu.org/s/chess || gnuchess

• Eboard — Chess interface to ICS and chess engines

http://bergo.eng.br/eboard || eboard

• Knights — Simple chess board for KDE 4. It is a rewrite of the KDE3 Knights.

http://noughmad.com/knights/ || knights

Education

• GCompris — Educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10.

http://gcompris.net/-en- || gcompris

• Tux Paint — Free drawing program designed for young children.

http://tuxpaint.org/ || tuxpaint

• Tux Type — Educational typing tutor for kids starring Tux.

http://tux4kids.alioth.debian.org/tuxtype/ || tuxtype

• TuxMath — Arcade game that helps kids practice their math facts.

http://tux4kids.alioth.debian.org/tuxmath/ || tuxmath

Interactive fiction

• Inform — Design system for interactive fiction based on natural language

http://inform7.com/ || inform7

• INSTEAD — Quest interpreter using Lua macros as game writing language

https://code.google.com/p/instead/ || instead-launcher instead

• TADS — Prototype-based domain-specific programming language and set of standard libraries for creating interactive fiction (IF) games

http://tads.org || frobtads

Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMO)

Note: All games listed here should be pure massive multiplayer online games without LAN mode and single player.

• Dofus — Free, manga inspired, Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Game (MMORPG) for Adobe AIR

http://www.dofus.com || dofus

• Heroes of Newerth — Online, multi-player strategy game that is based upon DoTA (Defense of the Ancients)

http://heroesofnewerth.com/ || hon

• Landes Eternelles — 3D fantasy online role playing game

http://www.eternal-lands.com || eternallands

• Minecraft — Java based sandbox game. Very addictive game, big community, lots of updates, do not miss this one.

http://minecraft.net || minecraft

• Planeshift — Role Playing Game immersed into a 3D virtual fantasy world which is FULLY FREE to play. Fully free means you will have no surprises of premium content which will limit your gameplay or unbalance the game. There are no limitations in skills, ranks, abilities, items you can gain with your free account

http://www.planeshift.it || planeshift

• Regnum Online — Cross-platform 3D Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Game

http://www.regnumonline.com.ar || regnum-online

• Runescape — Official RuneScape client

http://www.runescape.com || runescape-client-bin

• Savage - The Battle For Newerth — Online multiplayer team-based FPS/RTS hybrid. Completely free as of September 2006. (Includes SFE Patches)

http://www.s2games.com/savage/ || savage

• Savage2 - A tortured soul — Fantasy themed online multiplayer team-based FPS/RTS/RPG hybrid. Completely free as of December 2008

http://savage2.com || savage2

• Second Life — Online, 3D virtual world imagined and created by its residents

http://secondlife.com/ || secondlife-bin

• Spiral Knights — Free to play Java game developed by Three Rings Design and published by Sega.

Play in browser || http://www.spiralknights.com/

• Stendhal — Fully fledged multiplayer online adventure game developed using the Arianne game development system

http://stendhalgame.org || stendhal

• The Mana World — Serious effort to create an innovative free and open source MMORPG

http://themanaworld.org || mana

• Vendetta Online — 3D space combat MMORPG for Windows, Mac, Linux and Android. This MMO permits thousands of players to interact as the pilots of spaceships in a vast universe

http://www.vendetta-online.com || not packaged? (search in AUR)

• Wurm Online — 3D MMO produced by Code Club AB in Sweden that allows players to choose between a PvP game and a non-PvP game based on different servers.

Play via Web Start || http://www.wurmonline.com

Platformer

• Knyttstories — Platformer with adventure elements, heavy exploration and downloadable levels.

http://nifflas.ni2.se/ || knyttstories

• Secret Maryo Chronicles — Mario-style game.

http://www.secretmaryo.org/ || smc

• SuperTux — Mario-style game featuring Tux.

http://supertux.lethargik.org/ || supertux

• Toppler — Reimplementation of the classic jump & run game "Nebulus".

http://toppler.sourceforge.net/ || toppler

Puzzle

• Cgoban3 — Kiseido Go and SGF client.

http://www.igoweb.org/~wms/comp/cgoban/ || cgoban

• Chroma — Puzzle game like Sokoban with ncurses and graphics mode

http://www.level7.org.uk/chroma/ || chroma

• Crack Attack! — Free OpenGL game based on the Super Nintendo classic Tetris Attack.

http://www.aluminumangel.org/attack/ || crack-attack

• glChess — 3D Chess Frontend.

http://live.gnome.org/Chess || glchess

• Gnono — GNOME version of the classic card game UNO.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnono/ || not packaged? (search in AUR)

• Hitori — Small application written to allow one to play the eponymous puzzle game, which is similar in theme to more popular puzzles such as Sudoku.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Hitori || hitori

• Ksudoku — Sudoku game and more for KDE. Part of kdegames.

http://ksudoku.sourceforge.net/ || kdegames-ksudoku

• Netris — Unfinished developmental version of Netris, a free networked version of Tetris.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/netris/ || netris

• Pingus — Lemmings clone, i.e. a level-based puzzle game.

http://pingus.seul.org/ || pingus

• Portal — Original puzzle game by Valve. Using Source Engine.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/400/ || Steam

• Ri-li — Toy wood engine GPL game

http://ri-li.sourceforge.net/ || ri-li

• Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection — 30+ "quick" puzzle games with simplistic but polished GTK GUI

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/ || puzzles

• VVVVVV — Highly praised 2D puzzle platform indie game with a C64 retro theme, with a great chiptune soundtrack. You can buy the full version for £1.67, or play the demo in a browser.

Tip: You may want to backup your save file, which is found at ~/.macromedia/Flash_Player/#SharedObjects/string/localhost....

http://thelettervsixtim.es/ || vvvvvv

• Xscorch — Clone of the classic DOS game Scorched Earth.

http://www.xscorch.org/ || xscorch

• World of Goo — Great 2D puzzle game.

http://www.2dboy.com || worldofgoo

Racing

• Armagetron Advanced — Tron Clone in 3D.

http://armagetronad.net/ || armagetronad

• Extreme Tux Racer — 3D game where you guide Tux the penguin down a course of snow and ice collecting herring.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/extremetuxracer || extremetuxracer

• Maniadrive — Arcade car game on acrobatic tracks with quick and nervous gameplay.

http://maniadrive.raydium.org/ || maniadrive

• Moon Buggy — Simple game for the text mode.

http://seehuhn.de/pages/moon-buggy/ || moon-buggy

• Speed Dreams — Fork of Torcs, aiming to implement exciting new features as well as improving realism.

http://speed-dreams.org/ || speed-dreams

• Stunt Rally — Game with track editor, based on VDrift and OGRE.

http://code.google.com/p/vdrift-ogre/ || stuntrally

• Supertux Kart — Kart racing game featuring Tux and his friends.

http://supertuxkart.sourceforge.net/ || supertuxkart

• Torcs — 3D racing cars simulator using OpenGL.

http://torcs.sourceforge.net/ || torcs

• Trigger Rally — Free OpenGL rally car racing game.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/trigger-rally/ || trigger

• Ultimate Stunts — Remake of the famous DOS-game 'stunts'.

http://www.ultimatestunts.nl/ || ultimatestunts

• VDrift — Open source driving simulation made with drift racing in mind.

http://vdrift.net/ || vdrift

• XMoto — Challenging 2D motocross platform game, where physics play an important role.

http://xmoto.tuxfamily.org/ || xmoto

Rogue-like

• ADOM — Ancient Domains Of Mystery.

http://adom.de || adom

• Angband — Roguelike dungeon exploration game based on the writings of JRR Tolkien.

http://rephial.org/ || angband

• ASCIIpOrtal — Sidescrolling game with ANSI text graphics in which you are a person holding a device which creates portals, or links to other parts of the level.

http://cymonsgames.com/asciiportal || asciiportal

• Crawl (aka Dungeon Crawl) — Linley's Dungeon Crawl).

http://www.dungeoncrawl.org/ || crawl

• DoomRL — Simple roguelike game, based on Doom. Perfect for starters.

http://doom.chaosforge.org/ || doomrl

• Dwarf Fortress — Single-player fantasy game. You control a dwarven outpost or an adventurer in a randomly generated persistent world.

http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/ || dwarffortress

• Nethack — Single player dungeon exploration game.

http://www.nethack.org/ || nethack

• Rogue — Original dungeon crawl game.

http://rogue.rogueforge.net/rogue-5-4/ || rogue

• Stone Soup — Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.

http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/ || stone-soup

• Troubles of Middle Earth (now Tales of Maj'Eyal) — A dungeon crawler similar to Angband, based on the works of Tolkien.

http://tome.te4.org/ (archived old site)^{[dead link 2013-05-20]} || tome tome3 tome4

Role-Playing Game (RPG)

• Arx Libertatis — This project is a fully working, open source port of Arx Fatalis, a 2002 first-person role-playing game developed by Arkane Studios. It features some improvements over the original engine like bug fixes and wide screen support.

http://arx-libertatis.org/ || arx-libertatis

• Egoboo — Open-source action RPG/dungeon crawling adventure with OpenGL 3D graphics.

http://egoboo.sourceforge.net/ || egoboo

• Eschalon: Book I — Classical isometric RPG like Ultima, Might & Magic or Wizardry.

http://basiliskgames.com/ || eschalon1

• Eschalon: Book II — Isometric, turn-based RPG.

http://basiliskgames.com/ || eschalon2

• fheores2 — Attempt to reimplement the Heroes of Might and Magic II engine using SDL.

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/fheroes2/index.php || fheroes2-svn

• Flare — Action game similar to Diablo.

http://www.flarerpg.org/ || flare-rpg

• FreedroidRPG — Mature science fiction role playing game set in the future

http://freedroid.org/ || freedroidrpg

• GemRB — Attempt to reimplement the Bioware's Infinity Engine under GNU GPL.

http://www.gemrb.org/ || gemrb

• OpenMW — Attempt to reimplement the popular role-playing game Morrowind. OpenMW aims to be a fully playable, open source implementation of the game's engine.

http://openmw.org || openmw

• Sacred Gold — Hack'n Slay Roleplay Game like Diablo.

Tip: If running on a low resolution (netbook etc) either play it on external monitor, but you can't see the skill/action bar. You can move the Window pressing Alt+left_mouse. You can see the action bar, but then you can't see the health bar anymore. Email Michael from linuxgamepublishing.com and ask for a fix - would be really great if we could fully enjoy this game on Linux netbooks

http://forum.sacred2.com || not packaged? (search in AUR)

• VCMI — Attempt to reimplement Heroes of Might and Magic III.

http://forum.vcmi.eu/portal.php || vcmi-svn

• Vulture — Isometric graphical interface for NetHack, SlashEM and UnNethack.

http://www.darkarts.co.za/vulture || vulture

Shooters (FPS, Third Person)

• Alien Arena — Free, standalone FPS focused mainly on online multiplayer, but can also be played singleplayer against bots.

http://red.planetarena.org/ || alienarena

• AssaultCube — Free multiplayer FPS, based on the cube engine. Realistic environments, fast, arcade gameplay. Much like Counter-Strike.

http://assault.cubers.net/ || assaultcube

• AssaultCube Reloaded — AssaultCube improved.

http://acr.victorz.ca || assaultcube-reloaded

• Counter-Strike — Team-based, semi-realistic FPS. Condition Zero is also available.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/10/ || Steam

• Counter-Strike Source — Team-based, semi-realistic FPS using Source Engine.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/240/ || Steam

• Cube — Open source multiplayer and singleplayer first person shooter game.

http://cubeengine.com/ || cube

• Cube 2: Sauerbraten — Improved version of the Cube engine.

http://sauerbraten.org/ || sauerbraten

• Day of Defeat — WWII online FPS.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/30/ || Steam

• Day of Defeat: Source — WWII online FPS. Using Source Engine. Still in beta as of July 2013.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/300/ || Steam

• Deathmatch Classic — Half-Life modification of the multiplayer deathmatch mode.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/40/ || Steam

• Doom: the famous shooter from ID Software has several ports for Linux. None of the id-engine games have copyleft game resources, only the game engine code was open sourced. See [1] for details.

• Doom 1 Demo data – doom1-wad
• Freedoom — Project aimed at creation of free Doom data files.

http://www.nongnu.org/freedoom/ || freedoom

• Chocolate Doom — Doom port reproducing the behavior of the original DOS version.

http://www.chocolate-doom.org/ || chocolate-doom

• Doomsday — Advanced port of the Doom game engine, capable also of running Heretic, and Hexen games.

http://www.dengine.net/ || doomsday

• GZDoom — Doom source port based on ZDoom with an OpenGL renderer.

http://www.osnanet.de/c.oelckers/gzdoom/index.html || gzdoom

• PrBoom Plus — Enhanced version of the PrBoom Doom engine port.

http://prboom-plus.sourceforge.net/ || prboom-plus

• Remood — advanced Doom game engine based on Doom Legacy.

http://remood.org/ || remood

• Strawberry Doom — Fork of Chocolate Doom extending certain engine limits.

http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Strawberry_Doom || strawberry-doom-svn

• Vavoom — Highly advanced Doom engine port with added support for Heretic/Hexen/Strife.

http://vavoom-engine.com/ || vavoom

• ZDoom — Enhanced Doom port with additional support for Heretic, Hexen and Strife.

http://www.zdoom.org/ || zdoom

• Doom 3 — Stock Doom 3 binaries

http://www.idsoftware.com/games || doom3-bin

• Doom 3 Engine — Source-based Doom 3 engine

http://www.idsoftware.com/games || doom3

• ezQuake — Fast paced multiplayer FPS focusing on movement and trick jumps. The popular, modern and maintained Quake/QuakeWorld client. Manual post-installation setup required. Can play on-line for free

http://ezquake.sourceforge.net/ || ezquake

• Duke Nukem 3D

• Duke 3D — Original port.

http://icculus.org/projects/duke3d/ || duke3d-svn

• eduke32 — Advanced source port.

http://eduke32.com/ || eduke32

• Enemy Territory: Quake Wars — Commercial team and class-based multiplayer game. Full version requires retail DVD to play.

http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/linux/etqw/ || etqw

• Half-Life — Science-fiction FPS. The two extensions, Opposing Force and Blue Shift, are also available.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/70/ || Steam

• Half-Life 2 — Science-fiction FPS. Lost Coat, Episode One and Epise Two are also available. In beta as of July 2013

http://store.steampowered.com/app/220/ || Steam

• HHeretic — Linux port of Raven Game's old shooter, Heretic.

http://hhexen.sourceforge.net/hheretic.html || hheretic

• Heretic Demo game data – heretic1-wad
• Blasphemer — Project aimed at creation of free Heretic data files.

http://code.google.com/p/blasphemer/ || blasphemer

• HHexen — Linux port of Raven Game's old shooter, Hexen.

http://hhexen.sourceforge.net/hhexen.html || hhexen

• Hexen 1 Demo game data – hexen1-wad

• Left 4 Dead 2 — Coop survival horror. Using Source Engine.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/550/ || Steam

• Nexuiz — Free, open-source first person shooter. Development ceased, most of the developers moved to project Xonotic.

http://alientrap.org/nexuiz || nexuiz

• nQuake — Fast paced multiplayer FPS focusing on movement and trick jumps. This is the popular Quake / QuakeWorld package, including ezQuake client, 24bit textures, maps, bots and more. Automatic post-installation set up. Can play on-line for free.

http://nquake.sourceforge.net/ || not packaged? (search in AUR)

• Open Arena — Fast multiplayer shooter based on the quake3-engine.

http://openarena.ws || openarena

• Prey — First Person Shooter released in 2006 (with a GNU/Linux port in 2008), published by 3D Realms.

http://www.3drealms.com/prey/index.html || prey

• Quake

• Advanced Quake 1 game engine – darkplaces
• Another modern Quake1 engine port – fitzquake
• Free content replacement project for Quake 1 – oqplus-svn
• High quality textures for Quake from the Quake Revitalization Project – quake-qrp-textures

• Quake 2 — Built by Icculus

http://www.icculus.org/quake2/ || quake2

• Advanced Quake 2 engine – qudos-svn
• Enhanced Quake 2 engine with Lazarus mod support – kmquake2
• A true color retexture pak for Quetoo and other Quake2 engines supporting 32bpp tga textures – quake2-retexture
• Quake 2 engine focused on single player and 64bits. yamagi-quake2

• Quake III Arena

• Quake III Arena binaries – quake3
• ioquake3 — De-facto FOSS Quake 3 distribution.

http://ioquake3.org/ || ioquake3

• Quake 4

• Demo version – quake4-demo
• Quake 4 engine – quake4

• Quake Live — MMO shooter running in browser as plugin

http://www.quakelive.com/ || quakelive

• Red Eclipse — Single-player and multi-player first-person ego-shooter, built as a total conversion of Cube Engine 2.

http://redeclipse.net || redeclipse

• Ricochet — Futuristic arena battles.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/60/ || Steam

• Serious Sam: The First Encounter — Fast-paced and frenetic FPS where the player must face huge waves of enemies.

Linux Installers for Linux Gamers || not packaged? (search in AUR)

• Serious Sam: The Second Encounter — Fast-paced and frenetic FPS where the player must face huge waves of enemies.

Linux Installers for Linux Gamers || not packaged? (search in AUR)

• Serious Sam II — Fast-paced and frenetic FPS where the player must face huge waves of enemies.

Linux Installers for Linux Gamers || not packaged? (search in AUR)

• Serious Sam 3: BFE — Fast-paced and frenetic FPS where the player must face huge waves of enemies.

http://www.serioussam.com || Steam

• Team Fortress Classic — Class-based online FPS.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/20/ || Steam

• Team Fortress 2 — Class-based online FPS with cartoonish style. Using Source Engine.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/440/ || Steam

• Tremulous — FPS with elements of real time strategy, featuring humans and aliens.

http://tremulous.net/ || tremulous

• Unreal Tournament (UT99) — Fast-paced first person shooter featuring arena combat.

http://www.unrealtournament2004.com/utgoty/ || ut1999

• Unreal Tournament 2003 (UT2003) — Fast-paced first person shooter featuring arena combat.

http://www.unrealtournament.com || not packaged? (search in AUR)

• Unreal Tournament 2004 (UT2004) — Fast-paced first person shooter featuring arena combat. UT2004 is almost a superset of UT2003.

http://www.unrealtournament2004.com || ut2004 for the retail version, ut2004-anthology for the anthology version

• Unvanquished — Team-based fps/rts hybrid game which pits aliens against humans. Monthly release that can be played on official servers.

http://unvanquished.net/ || unvanquished

• Urban Terror — Modern multiplayer FPS based on the ioquake3 engine.

http://urbanterror.info || urbanterror

• Warsow — Fast paced multiplayer FPS focusing on movement and trick jumps.

http://warsow.net || warsow

• Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory

• Completely free, standalone, team-based, multiplayer FPS – enemy-territory
• Advanced open source fork of ET engine and fully compatible client and server – etlegacy
• Advanced open source fork of ET engine – iowolfet-hg, bin32-iowolfet-hg

• World Of Padman — Stand slone somplex – cartoon-style multiplayer first-person shooter.

http://worldofpadman.net/website || worldofpadman

• Xonotic — Free, open-source first person shooter (a fork of Nexuiz but with modified gameplay).

http://xonotic.org || xonotic

• Blood Frontier – Team oriented multiplayer FPS based on the Cube2 (Sauerbraten) engine
• Tesseract
• Futuristic Arenas
• Jake 2
• Scared
• True Combat: Elite(TCE) - Completely free, realistic, team-based modification for Enemy Territory.
• TUER
• Ancient Arenas

Simulation

• Beyond The Red Line — Completely free stand-alone conversion of Freespace 2 based on the TV show Battlestar Galactica.

http://www.beyondtheredline.net/ || btrl

• Bygfoot — Football (soccer) management game.

http://bygfoot.sourceforge.net/ || bygfoot

• Danger from the Deep — Submarine simulator.

http://dangerdeep.sourceforge.net/ || dangerdeep-svn

• Flight Gear — Open-source, multi-platform flight simulator.

http://www.flightgear.org/ || flightgear

• Foobillard++ — Successor to Foobillard, OpenGL billiard game for Linux.

http://foobillardplus.sourceforge.net/ || foobillard++

• FreeSpace 2 — Open sourced space emulator.

http://icculus.org/freespace2/ || fs2_open

• Pydance — Python Dance Dance Revolution style game.

http://icculus.org/pyddr/ || not packaged? (search in AUR)

• Stepmania — Advanced dance simulation game.

http://www.stepmania.com/ || stepmania

• VegaStrike — 3D action-space-sim allowing player to trade and bounty hunt in a vast universe.

http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/ || vegastrike

Strategy

• 0 A.D. — 3D and historically-based real-time strategy game, alpha stage.

http://play0ad.com/ || 0ad

• Advanced Strategic Command — Turn based strategy game in the tradition of the Battle Isle series.

http://www.asc-hq.org/ || asc

• Boson — OpenGL real-time strategy game, with the feeling of Command&Conquer(tm) or StarCraft(tm).

http://boson.sourceforge.net/ || not packaged? (search in AUR)

• Crimson Fields — Tactical war game in the tradition of Battle Isle.

http://crimson.seul.org/ || crimson

• Dark Oberon — Open source real-time strategy game similar to Warcraft II.

http://dark-oberon.sourceforge.net/ || dark-oberon

• Dota 2 — The sequel to the famous Defense of the Ancient map for WarCraft III, which itself was based on the popular Aeon of Strife StarCraft map.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/570/ || Steam

• Endgame Singularity — Turn based single player strategy/simulation about a AI hiding, growing and evolving.

http://www.emhsoft.com/singularity/ || singularity

• Freeciv — Multiuser clone of the famous Microprose game of Civilization.

http://freeciv.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page || freeciv

• FreeCol — Turn-based strategy game based on Colonization.

http://www.freecol.org/ || freecol

• FTL: Faster Than Light — Popular rogue-like space-sim released to positive reception in 2012.

http://www.ftlgame.com/ || ftl

• Glest — Free 3D real-time strategy game, where you control the armies of two different factions: Tech, which is mainly composed of warriors and mechanical devices, and Magic, that prefers mages and summoned creatures in the battlefield.

http://glest.org || glest

• Globulation 2 — Multiplayer RTS with some "economic" elements minimizing the amount of micromanagement.

http://globulation2.org/wiki/Main_Page || glob2

• Lgeneral — Turn-based strategy engine heavily inspired by Panzer General.

http://lgames.sourceforge.net/index.php?project=LGeneral || lgeneral

• MegaGlest — Fork of Glest, a 3D real-time strategy game in a fantastic world.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/megaglest/ || megaglest

• Netpanzer — Realtime Strategy game like Command and Conquer but without building bases.

http://www.netpanzer.org/ || netpanzer

• Spring — RTS game engine inspired by the game Total Annihilation.

http://springrts.com/wiki/Games || spring

• Kernel Panic — A game based around combat inside a computer, with 3 unique sides: the System, the Hacker and the Network waging war in a matrix of DOOM! No resource economy exists in KP, with the only constraints being time and space.

http://springrts.com/wiki/Kernel_Panic || spring-kp

• Spring: 1944 — Spring:1944 is a WWII themed game with four fully functional sides (US, Germany, USSR, Britain), period-accurate units and strengths. Realism comes second only to creating a game that is fun and accessible to play.

http://spring1944.org/ || spring-1944

• The Battle for Wesnoth — Free, turn-based tactical strategy game with a high fantasy theme, featuring both single-player, and online/hotseat multiplayer combat.

http://www.wesnoth.org/ || wesnoth

• UFO Alien Invasion — Fight aliens trying to capture Earth.

http://ufoai.ninex.info/wiki/index.php/News || ufoai

• Unknown Horizons — 2.5D isometric realtime strategy simulation with an emphasis on economy and city building. Expand your small settlement to a strong and wealthy colony, collect taxes and supply your inhabitants with valuable goods. Increase your power with a well balanced economy and with strategic trade and diplomacy.

http://www.unknown-horizons.org/ || unknown-horizons-git

• Widelands — Slow-paced strategy like "the Settlers 2".

http://widelands.org || widelands

• Warzone 2100 - 2.* — You command the forces of The Project in a battle to rebuild the world after mankind has almost been destroyed by nuclear missiles. The game offers campaign, multi-player, and single-player skirmish modes. An extensive tech tree with over 400 different technologies, combined with the unit design system, allows for a wide variety of possible units and tactics.

http://wz2100.net/ || warzone2100

Tycoon/Management Games

• Lincity-ng — City simulation game in which you are required to build and maintain a city. You can win the game either by building a sustainable economy or by evacuating all citizens with spaceships.

http://lincity-ng.berlios.de/ || lincity-ng

• Simutrans — Another Transport simulation that works on linux with sdl.

http://www.simutrans.com/ || simutrans

• OpenTTD — Open source clone of the Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe", a popular game originally written by Chris Sawyer. It attempts to mimic the original game as closely as possible while extending it with new features.

http://www.openttd.org/ || openttd

• Tropic Euro — Free online adaptation of the board game Puerto Rico for 2-5 players.

Play via Web Start || http://www.tropiceuro.com

Visual novels

• Digital: A Love Story — Computer mystery/romance set five minutes into the future of 1988.

http://www.scoutshonour.com/digital/ || digital

• Don't take it personally — Almost kinetic visual novel that tells a story of a new high school literature teacher, set in a prestigious private high school, and on the social networks of 2027.

http://scoutshonour.com/donttakeitpersonallybabeitjustaintyourstory/ || donttakeitpersonally

• Juniper's Knot — Short game about boy and fiend.

http://junipersknot.dischan.org/ || junipersknot

• Katawa Shoujo — Bishoujo-style visual novel game that tells a story of a young man and five other girls suffering with varying disabilities.

http://katawa-shoujo.com/ || katawa-shoujo

• Narcissu — Visual novel, telling the story of a terminally ill young man and woman.

http://narcissu.insani.org/ || narcissu2-en

• RE: Alistair++ — English otome game (subtype of visual novel) that tells a story of a young girl fond of MMORPGs, her online and everyday life.

http://sakevisual.com/realistair/ || realistair

See Also

• Linux Installers for Linux Gamers
• The Linux Gamers' Game List
• The Humble Bundle

• Linux Steam Games

Science

Note: For possibly more up to date selection of scientific applications, try checking the AUR 'science' category

Scientific documents

See the main article: List of Applications/Documents#Scientific Documents

Mathematics

Calculator

• bc — Arbitrary precision calculator language.

http://www.gnu.org/software/bc/ || bc

• calc — Arbitrary precision console calculator.

http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/calc/ || calc

• Extcalc — Qt-based scientfic graphical calculator.

http://extcalc-linux.sourceforge.net/ || extcalc

• GCalctool — Scientific calculator included in the GNOME desktop.

http://www.gnome.org || gcalctool-oldgui

• KAlgebra — Calculator and 3D plotter included in KDE EDU.

http://www.kde.org/applications/education/kalgebra/ || kdeedu-kalgebra

• KCalc — Scientific calculator included in the KDE desktop.

http://kde.org/applications/utilities/kcalc/ || kdeutils-kcalc

• Qalculate — Calculator and equation solver with fault-tolerant parsing, constant recognition and units.

http://qalculate.sourceforge.net/ || libqalculate

• SpeedCrunch — Fast, high precision and powerful cross-platform calculator.

http://speedcrunch.org || speedcrunch

• xcalc — Scientific calculator for X with algebraic and reverse polish notation modes.

http://xorg.freedesktop.org/ || xorg-xcalc

Computer algebra system

• Fermat — Computer algebra system that does arithmetic of arbitrarily long integers and fractions, multivariate polynomials, symbolic calculations, matrices over polynomial rings, graphics, and other numerical calculations.

http://home.bway.net/lewis/ || fermat

• GAP — Computer algebra system for computational discrete algebra with particular emphasis on computational group theory.

http://www.gap-system.org || gap-math

• Mathomatic — General purpose Computer Algebra System written in C.

http://www.mathomatic.org/ || mathomatic

• Maxima — Maple/Mathematica-like program with a wxWidgets based frontend.

http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ || maxima wxmaxima

• PARI/GP — Computer algebra system designed for fast computations in number theory.

http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/ || pari

• Xcas — User interface to Giac, a free, basic computer algebra system.

http://www-fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr/~parisse/giac.html || xcas

Scientific or technical computing

• EngLab — Cross-compile mathematical platform with a C like syntax.

http://englab.bugfest.net || englab

• Euler — Numerical application designed for higher level math such as calculus, optimization, and statistics that uses Maxima for symbolic operations.

http://euler.sourceforge.net || euler

• FreeMat — Matlab-like program that supports many of its functions and features a codeless interface to external C, C++, and Fortran code, further parallel distributed algorithm development (via MPI), and 3D visualization capabilities.

http://freemat.sourceforge.net/ || freemat

• Octave — Matlab-like language and interface for numerical computations.

http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ || octave

• PyLab — Collection of Python modules (pyplot, numpy, etc.) used for scientific calculations.

http://www.scipy.org/PyLab || python2-matplotlib

• Sage — Mathematics software system, that combines many existing open-source packages into a common Python interface. Alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica and Matlab.

http://www.sagemath.org || sage-mathematics

• Scilab — Matlab alternative used for numerical computations. Its syntax is not equivalent to that of Matlab, but it can be easily converted.

http://www.scilab.org/ || scilab

Statistics

• JAGS (Just another Gibbs sampler) — Cross-platform program for analysis of Bayesian hierarchical models using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulation.

http://mcmc-jags.sourceforge.net/ || jags

• PSPP — Free SPSS implementation.

http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/ || pspp

• R — Software environment for statistical computing and graphics.

http://cran.r-project.org/ || r

• RKWard — Frontend for the statistical language R.

http://rkward.sourceforge.net/ || rkward

Data evaluation

• Extrema — Visualization and data analysis tool.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/extrema || extrema

• Fityk — Curve fitting and data analysis application, predominantly used to fit analytical, bell-shaped functions to experimental data.

http://fityk.nieto.pl/ || fityk

• Gnuplot — Command-line program that can generate 2D and 3D plots of functions, data, and data fits.

http://www.gnuplot.info/ || gnuplot

• Grace — WYSIWYG 2D graph plotting tool.

http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/ || grace qtgrace gracegtk

• LabPlot — Free software data analysis and visualization application, similar to SciDAVis.

http://labplot.sourceforge.net/ || labplot2

• QtiPlot — Platform-independent application used for interactive scientific graphing and data analysis, similar to the proprietary Origin or SigmaPlot.

http://soft.proindependent.com/qtiplot.html || qtiplot

• ROOT — Data analysis program and library (originally for particle physics) developed by CERN.

http://root.cern.ch/drupal/ || root

• SciDAVis — Fork of QtiPlot with the goal of being better documented and more user friendly.

http://scidavis.sourceforge.net/ || scidavis

See also List of Applications#Spreadsheets

Chemistry and biology

Computational biology and bioinformatics

• BALL (Biochemical Algorithms Library) — Application framework in C++ that provides an extensive set of data structures as well as classes for molecular nechanics, advanced solvation methods, comparison and analysis of protein structures, file import/export, and visualization.

http://www.ball-project.org/ || ball

• BioJava — Set of Java tools for computational biology, as well as bioinformatics.

http://biojava.org/wiki/Main_Page || biojava

• Biopython — Python package with tools for computational biology, as well as bioinformatics.

http://biopython.org/wiki/Biopython || python-biopython python2-biopython

• EMBOSS (European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite) — Open source software analysis package specially developed for the needs of the molecular biology and bioinformatics user community.

http://emboss.sourceforge.net/ || emboss

• MEGA (Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis) — Integrated tool for conducting automatic and manual sequence alignment, inferring phylogenetic trees, mining web-based databases, estimating rates of molecular evolution, inferring ancestral sequences, and testing evolutionary hypotheses.

http://www.megasoftware.net/ || mega

• MUMmer — Bioinformatics software system for sequence alignment based on suffix trees.

http://mummer.sourceforge.net/ || mummer

• UGENE — Application that integrates dozens of well-known biological tools and algorithms, providing both graphical user and command-line interfaces.

http://ugene.unipro.ru/ || ugene

Molecule viewer

• Avogadro — Editor, viewer and simulator for 3D molecule structures (also supports downloading files from the Protein Data Bank).

http://avogadro.openmolecules.net/wiki/Main_Page || avogadro

• BALLView — Standalone molecular modeling and visualization application, part of the BALL framework.

http://www.ballview.org/ || ball

• Ghemical — Computational chemistry software package used to edit, view and simulate molecular structures.

http://bioinformatics.org/ghemical/ghemical/index.html || ghemical

• PyMOL — Open-source molecular visualization system that can produce high quality 3D images of small molecules and biological macromolecules, such as proteins.

http://pymol.org || pymol

• RasMol — Computer program written for molecular graphics visualization intended and used primarily for the depiction and exploration of biological macromolecule structures.

http://www.rasmol.org/ || rasmol

Molecule drawing

• BKChem — Practical and goodlooking skeletal formula molecule drawing program.

http://bkchem.zirael.org/ || bkchem

• Chemtool — GTK+-based program for drawing chemical structural formulas.

http://ruby.chemie.uni-freiburg.de/~martin/chemtool/chemtool.html || chemtool

• EasyChem — Simple skeletal formula molecule drawing program with a focus on producing press-quality figures.

http://easychem.sourceforge.net/ || not packaged? (search in AUR)

• Gabedit — Graphical user interface to computational chemistry packages like GAMESS, Gaussian, MOLCAS, MOLPRO, MPQC, OpenMopac, Firefly (previously PC GAMESS) and Q-Chem.

http://gabedit.sourceforge.net/ || gabedit

• XDrawChem — Extensive skeletal formula molecule drawing program (includes spectroscopy prediction).

http://xdrawchem.sourceforge.net/ || xdrawchem

Periodic table

• gElemental — Periodic table of the elements with additional information.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/gelemental || gelemental

• Kalzium — Periodic table of the elements with molecule editor and equation solver from the KDE desktop.

http://edu.kde.org/kalzium/ || kdeedu-kalzium

Biochemistry

• Bioclipse — Java-based visual platform for biochemestry that uses the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP).

http://www.bioclipse.net/ || not packaged? (search in AUR)

Molecular modeling

• GROMACS (GROningen MAchine for Chemical Simulations) — Versatile package to perform molecular dynamics, i.e. simulate the Newtonian equations of motion for systems with hundreds to millions of particles.

http://www.gromacs.org || gromacs

• Quantum ESPRESSO — Integrated suite of applications for electronic-structure calculations and materials modeling at nanoscale. It is based on density-functional theory, plane waves, and pseudopotentials (both norm-conserving and ultrasoft).

http://www.quantum-espresso.org/ || quantum-espresso

Image manipulation

• ImageJ — Java-based image processing and analysing program that provides extensibility via plugins and macros. It is widely used in microscopy (e.g. for cell counting).

http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij || imagej

• Fiji — ImageJ distribution (and soon ImageJ2) with a lot of plugins organized into a coherent menu structure.

http://fiji.sc || fiji-binary

Astronomy

• Celestia — 3D astronomy simulation program that allows users to travel through an extensive universe, modeled after reality, at any speed, in any direction and at any time in history.

http://www.shatters.net/celestia/ || celestia

• GIMP Astronomy Plugins — Set of GIMP plugins for astronomical image processing.

http://hennigbuam.de/georg/gimp.html || gimp-plugin-astronomy

• GoQat — Camera acquisition software, especially for QSI cameras, that provides other features such as autoguiding, focusing help and others.

http://canburytech.net/GoQat/ || goqat

• KStars — Planetarium application that provides an accurate graphical simulation of the night sky, from any location on Earth, at any date and time. It is included in KDE Edu.

http://edu.kde.org/kstars/ || kdeedu-kstars

• Open PHD Guiding — Telescope autoguiding software based on the famous PHD Guiding.

http://code.google.com/p/open-phd-guiding/ || open-phd-guiding-svn

• Qastrocam-g2 — Webcam acquisition software for planetary imaging.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/qastrocam-g2/ || qastrocam-g2

• Skychart / Cartes du Ciel — Planetarium that maps out and labels most of the constellations, planets, and objects you can see with a telescope. It can also download Digitized Sky Survey Charts and superimpose images over these charts.

http://www.ap-i.net/skychart/start/ || skychart

• StarPlot — 3-dimensional star chart viewer.

http://starplot.org/ || starplot

• Stellarium — Beautiful 3D planetarium that uses OpenGL to render a realistic sky in real time.

http://www.stellarium.org/ || stellarium

• XEphem — Motif-based ephemeris and planetarium program.

http://www.clearskyinstitute.com/xephem/xephem.html || xephem

Physics

Electronics

• gEDA — Full suite and toolkit of Electronic Design Automation tools that are used for electrical circuit design, schematic capture, simulation, prototyping, and production.

http://www.geda-project.org/ || geda-gaf

• KiCAD — Software suite for electronic design automation (EDA) that facilitates the design of schematics for electronic circuits and their conversion to PCB (printed circuit board).

http://www.kicad-pcb.org/display/KICAD/KiCad+EDA+Software+Suite || kicad

• KLogic — Application used for easily building and simulating digital circuits.

http://www.a-rostin.de/ || klogic

• KTechLab — IDE for electronic and PIC microcontroller circuit design and simulation featuring an extensive circuit designer with autorouting and simulation of all common electronic components and logic elements.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ktechlab/ || ktechlab

• Oregano — Graphical software application for schematic capture and simulation of electrical circuits. The actual simulation is done by the ngspice or Gnucap engines.

https://github.com/marc-lorber/oregano || oregano

• QElectroTech — Application used to draw advanced electrical circuits.

http://qelectrotech.org/ || qelectrotech

• Qucs — Electronics circuit simulator application that gives you the ability to set up a circuit with a graphical user interface and simulate its large-signal, small-signal and noise behaviour.

http://qucs.sourceforge.net/ || qucs

Physics simulation

• Code_Aster — Software package for Civil and Structural Engineering finite element analysis and numeric simulation in structural mechanics.

http://www.code-aster.org || aster

• Step — Two-dimensional physics simulation engine that is included in the KDE desktop as part of KDE Edu.

http://edu.kde.org/step/ || kdeedu-step

Unit conversion

• ConvertAll — Unit conversion application that allows one to combine units in any way (e.g. inches per decade), even if it does not make sense.

http://convertall.bellz.org/ || convertall

• Gonvert — Conversion utility that allows conversion between many units like CGS, Ancient, Imperial with many categories like length, mass, numbers, etc.

http://www.unihedron.com/projects/gonvert/ || gonvert

• Units — Command-line unit converter and calculator that can handle multiplicative scale changes, nonlinear conversions such as Fahrenheit to Celsius or wire gauge and others.

http://www.gnu.org/s/units/ || units

Others

Note Taking Organizers

Console

• hnb (hierarchical notebook) — Program to organize many kinds of data (addresses, to-do lists, ideas, book reviews, etc.) in one place using the XML format.

http://hnb.sourceforge.net/ || hnb

Graphical

• BasKet — Application for organizing, sharing, and taking notes. It can manage various types of information such as to-do lists, links, pictures, and other types, similar to a scrapbook.

http://basket.kde.org/ || basket

• Cherrytree — Hierarchical note taking application, featuring rich text and syntax highlighting, storing data in a single xml or sqlite file.

http://giuspen.com/cherrytree/ || cherrytree

• Gnote — Experimental port of Tomboy to C++.

http://live.gnome.org/Gnote || gnote

• KeepNote — Cross-platform GTK+ note-taking application with rich text formatting.

http://keepnote.org || keepnote

• KJots — Small program which is handy for keeping and organizing miscellaneous notes, part of kdepim.

http://www.kde.org/applications/utilities/kjots/ || kdepim-kjots

• NoteCase — Portable hierarchical note manager, coded in C++ using bindings to the GTK+ toolkit.

http://notecase.sourceforge.net || notecase

• org-mode — Emacs mode for notes, project planning and authoring.

http://orgmode.org || emacs-org-mode

• Tomboy — Desktop note-taking application for Linux and Unix with a wiki-like linking system to connect notes together.

http://projects.gnome.org/tomboy/ || tomboy

• zim — WYSIWYG text editor that aims at bringing the concept of a wiki to the desktop.

http://zim-wiki.org/ || zim

Time Management

Console

• Calcurse — Text-based ncurses calendar and scheduling system.

http://calcurse.org/ || calcurse

• Doneyet — Ncurses-based hierarchical To-do list manager written in C++.

https://code.google.com/p/doneyet/ || doneyet

• Pal — Very lightweight calendar with both interactive and non-interactive interfaces.

http://palcal.sourceforge.net/ || pal

• Remind — Highly sophisticated text-based calendaring and notification system.

http://roaringpenguin.com/products/remind || remind

• Taskwarrior — Command-line To-do list application with support for lua customization and more.

http://taskwarrior.org/ || task

• Todo.txt — Small command-line To-do manager.

http://ginatrapani.github.com/todo.txt-cli/ || todotxt

• TuDu — Ncurses-based hierarchical To-do list manager with vim-like keybindings.

http://code.meskio.net/tudu/ || tudu

• When — Simple personal calendar program.

http://lightandmatter.com/when/when.html || when

• Wyrd — Text-based front-end to Remind, a calendar and alarm program used on UNIX and Linux computers.

http://pessimization.com/software/wyrd/ || wyrd

Graphical

• etm (Event and Task Manager) — Simple application with a "Getting Things Done!" approach to handling events, tasks, activities, reminders and projects.

http://duke.edu/~dgraham/ETM/ || etm

• Glista — Simple GTK+ To-do list manager with notes support.

http://prematureoptimization.org/glista/ || glista

• GTG (Getting Things GNOME!) — Personal tasks and To-do list items organizer for the GNOME desktop.

http://gtg.fritalk.com || gtg

• Hamster — Time tracking application that helps you to keep track on how much time you have spent during the day on activities you choose to track.

http://projecthamster.wordpress.com/ || hamster-time-tracker

• KOrganizer — Calendar and scheduling program, part of kdepim.

http://www.kde.org/applications/office/korganizer/ || kdepim-korganizer

• Lightning — Extension to Mozilla Thunderbird that provides calendar and task support.

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/ || lightning

• Orage — GTK+ calendar and task manager often seen integrated with Xfce.

http://www.xfce.org/projects || orage

• Osmo — GTK+ personal organizer, which includes calendar, tasks manager and address book modules.

http://clayo.org/osmo/ || osmo

• Rachota — Portable time tracker for personal projects.

http://rachota.sourceforge.net/ || rachota

• Task Coach — Simple open source To-do manager to manage personal tasks and To-do lists.

http://taskcoach.org || taskcoach

• Tasque — Easy quick task management app written in C Sharp.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Tasque || tasque

• TkRemind — Sophisticated calendar and alarm program.

http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind || remind

• wxRemind — Python text and graphical frontend to Remind.

http://duke.edu/~dgraham/wxRemind/ || wxremind

Translation and localisation

• Apertium — Free and open source rule-based machine translation platform with available language data. It supports the following formats: HTML, Microsoft Office 2007 XML, OpenDocument, TMX, MediaWiki and others.

http://apertium.org/ || apertium

• Gtranslator — Enhanced gettext po file editor for the GNOME. It handles all forms of gettext po files and includes very useful features.

https://projects.gnome.org/gtranslator/ || gtranslator

• Lokalize — Standard KDE tool for software translation. It includes basic editing of PO files, support for glossary, translation memory, project managing, etc. It belongs to kdesdk

http://userbase.kde.org/Lokalize || kdesdk-lokalize

• Moses — Statistical machine translation tool (language data not included).

http://statmt.org/moses || not packaged? (search in AUR)

• OmegaT — General translator's tool which contains a lot of translation memory features and can give suggestions from Google Translate. It supports the following formats: HTML, Microsoft Office 2007 XML, OpenDocument, XLIFF/Okapi, MediaWiki, plain text, TMX and others.

http://omegat.org || omegat

• Poedit — Simple gettext/po-based translation tool.

http://poedit.net || poedit

• Pology — Set of Python tools for dealing with gettext/po-files.

http://techbase.kde.org/Localization/Tools/Pology || pology

• Virtaal — Editor for translation of both software and other text, based on Translate Toolkit. It supports the following formats: gettext, XLIFF , TMX, TBX, Wordfast, Qt Linguist , Qt Phrase Book, OmegaT glossary and others. It can also show suggestions from Apertium, Google Translate, Bing Translator, Moses and others.

http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/virtaal || virtaal

Work environment

The default installation of Arch provides Bash as shell interpreter and does not contain any Desktop Environment, therefore forces users to choose one themselves. Most Arch boxes run some X11 Window Manager and/or Desktop Environment, but of course there are still people who prefer doing everyday tasks in bare console.

Command shells

See the main article: Command shell

Desktop environments

See the main article: Desktop Environment#List of desktop environments

Window managers

Console

• dvtm — dwm-style window manager in the console.

http://brain-dump.org/projects/dvtm/ || dvtm

Graphical

See the main article: Window Manager#List of window managers

Support applications

Login managers

See the main article: Display Manager#List of display managers

Terminal multiplexers

• dtach — Program that emulates the detach feature of screen.

http://dtach.sourceforge.net/ || dtach

• GNU Screen — Full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal.

https://gnu.org/s/screen/ || screen

• tmux — BSD licensed terminal multiplexer.

http://tmux.sourceforge.net/ || tmux

System Monitoring

• adesklet SystemMonitor — Collection of modular stackable system monitors for adesklets.

http://adesklets.sourceforge.net/desklets.html || adesklet-systemmonitor

• Conky — Lightweight, scriptable system monitor.

http://conky.sourceforge.net/ || conky

• GKrellM — Simple, flexible system monitor package for GTK+ with many plug-ins.

http://members.dslextreme.com/users/billw/gkrellm/gkrellm.html || gkrellm

• htop — Simple, ncurses interactive process viewer.

http://htop.sourceforge.net/ || htop

• LXTask — Lightweight task manager for LXDE.

http://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXTask || lxtask

• dstat — Versatile resource statistics tool.

http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/dstat/ || dstat

Terminal emulators

Power users use terminal emulators quite often, so unsurprisingly lots of X11 terminal emulators exist. Most of them emulate Xterm that emulates VT102, which emulates typewriter, so you will have to read the Wikipedia article and other sources to get a hold on these things.

• aterm — Xterm replacement with transparency support.

http://aterm.sourceforge.net/ || aterm

• Eterm — Terminal emulator intended as a replacement for xterm and designed for the Enlightenment desktop.

http://eterm.org || eterm

• Konsole — Terminal emulator included in the KDE desktop.

http://kde.org/applications/system/konsole/ || kdebase-konsole

• Mrxvt — Tabbed X terminal emulator based on rxvt.

http://materm.sourceforge.net/index.html || mrxvt

• rxvt — Popular replacement for the xterm

http://rxvt.sourceforge.net/ || rxvt

• st — Simple terminal implementation for X.

http://st.suckless.org || st

• terminator — Terminal emulator supporting multiple resizable terminal panels.

http://tenshu.net/p/terminator.html || terminator

• Terminology — Terminal emulator by the Enlightenment project team with innovative features: file thumbnails and media play like a media player. It belongs to e17-extra.

http://enlightenment.org/p.php?p=about/terminology || terminology

• Tilda — Terminal inspired by many classic terminals from first person shooter games such as Quake, Doom and Half-Life.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/tilda/files/ || tilda

• urxvt — Highly extendable (with Perl) unicode enabled rxvt-clone terminal emulator featuring tabbing, url launching, a Quake style drop-down mode and pseudo-transparency.

http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode || rxvt-unicode

• xterm — Simple terminal emulator for the X Window System. It provides DEC VT102 and Tektronix 4014 compatible terminals for programs that can't use the window system directly.

http://invisible-island.net/xterm/ || xterm

• Yakuake — Drop-down terminal (Quake style) emulator based on Konsole.

http://yakuake.kde.org/ || yakuake

VTE-based

VTE (Virtual Terminal Emulator) is a widget developed during early GNOME days for use in the GNOME Terminal. It has since given birth to many terminals with similar capabilities.

• evilvte — Very lightweight and highly customizable terminal emulator with support for tabs, auto-hiding and different encodings.

http://calno.com/evilvte/ || evilvte

• GNOME Terminal — A terminal emulator included in the GNOME desktop with support for Unicode and pseudo-transparency.

http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#bug_gnometerm || gnome-terminal

• Guake — Drop-down terminal for the GNOME desktop.

http://guake.org/ || guake

• LilyTerm — Very light and easy to use X Terminal Emulator

http://lilyterm.luna.com.tw/ || lilyterm

• LXTerminal — Desktop independent terminal emulator for LXDE.

http://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXTerminal || lxterminal

• mt (multi-terminal) — Terminal emulator written as more lightweight replacement for Sakura while keeping most of its functionality.

https://github.com/mutantturkey/mt/ || mt

• ROXTerm — Tabbed terminal emulator with a small footprint.

http://roxterm.sourceforge.net/ || roxterm

• sakura — Terminal emulator based on GTK+ and VTE.

http://www.pleyades.net/david/projects/sakura || sakura

• Stjerm — GTK+-based drop-down terminal emulator that provides a minimalistic interface combined with a small file size, lightweight memory usage and easy integration with composite window managers such as Compiz.

https://code.google.com/p/stjerm-terminal-emulator/ || stjerm-git

• Terminal — Terminal emulator included in the Xfce desktop with support for a colorized prompt and a tabbed interface.

http://docs.xfce.org/apps/terminal/start || xfce4-terminal

• Termit — Simple terminal emulator based on the vte library that includes tabs, bookmarks, and the ability to switch encodings.

https://wiki.github.com/nonstop/termit/ || termit

• Termite — A keyboard-centric VTE-based terminal, aimed at use within a window manager with tiling and/or tabbing support.

https://github.com/thestinger/termite || termite

Text editors

Console

• dex — Small and easy to use text editor with support for ctags and parsing compiler errors.

https://github.com/tihirvon/dex || dex-editor-git

• ed — Line-oriented text editor, the original editor for Unix.

https://gnu.org/s/ed/ || ed

• GNU Emacs — Somewhat intimidating but famously extensible text editor with hundreds of tricks and add-ons.

https://gnu.org/s/emacs || emacs

• JED — Text editor that makes extensive use of the S-Lang library.

http://jedsoft.org/jed/ || jed

• Joe (Joe's Own Editor) — Terminal-based text editor designed to be easy to use.

http://joe-editor.sourceforge.net/ || joe

• mg — Small, fast, and portable Emacs-compatible editor.

http://homepage.boetes.org/software/mg || mg

• nano — Console text editor based on pico with on-screen key bindings help.

http://nano-editor.org/ || nano

• Vim (Vi IMproved) — Advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'vi', with a more complete feature set.

http://www.vim.org/ || vim

• Zile — A lightweight Emacs clone.

https://gnu.org/s/zile/ || zile

Graphical

• Acme — Minimalist and flexible programming environment developed by Rob Pike for the Plan 9 operating system.

http://acme.cat-v.org || plan9port

• Beaver — A GTK+ editor designed to be modular, lightweight and stylish.

http://beaver-editor.sourceforge.net/ || beaver

• cssed — GTK+-based Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) editor.

http://cssed.sourceforge.net/ || not packaged? (search in AUR)

• emendo — Simple Gtk+3 text editor with syntax highlighting written in Vala

https://bitbucket.org/simargl/emendo || emendo

• Edile — PyGTK code and scripting editor implemented in one file.

https://code.google.com/p/edile/ || edile

• Gedit — GTK+ editor for the GNOME desktop with syntax highlighting, automatic indentation, matching brackets, etc., and a number of add-ons to increase functionality.

http://projects.gnome.org/gedit/ || gedit

• gVim — Graphical interface for Vim.

http://vim.org/ || gvim

• JuffEd — Simple tabbed text editor with syntax highlighting, written in Qt.

http://juffed.com/en/index.html || juffed

• Kate — Full-featured programmer's editor for the KDE desktop with MDI and a filesystem browser.

http://kate-editor.org/ || kdesdk-kate

• KWrite — Lightweight text editor for the KDE desktop that uses the same editor widget as Kate.

http://kde.org/applications/utilities/kwrite/ || kdebase-kwrite

• Leafpad — Notepad clone for GTK+ that emphasizes simplicity.

http://tarot.freeshell.org/leafpad/ || leafpad

• medit — Programming and around-programming text editor.

http://mooedit.sourceforge.net/ || medit

• Mousepad — Fast text editor for the Xfce Desktop Environment.

http://www.xfce.org/ || mousepad

• PyRoom — Great distractionless PyGTK text editor, a clone of the infamous WriteRoom.

http://pyroom.org/ || pyroom

• QSciTE — Qt clone of the SciTE text and code editor.

http://code.google.com/p/qscite/ || qscite

• QXmlEdit — Simple Qt XML editor and XSD viewer.

http://code.google.com/p/qxmledit/ || qxmledit

• Sam — Minimalist text editor with a graphical user interface, a very powerful command language and remote editing capabilities, developed by Rob Pike.

http://sam.cat-v.org || plan9port or 9base

• SciTE — Generally useful editor with facilities for building and running programs.

http://scintilla.org/SciTE.html || scite

• Sublime Text 2 — Closed-source C++ and Python-based editor with many advanced features and plugins while staying lightweight and pretty.

http://sublimetext.com || sublime-text

• Tea — Qt-based feature rich text editor.

http://tea-editor.sourceforge.net/ || tea

Integrated Development Environments

• Anjuta — Versatile IDE with project management, an application wizard, an interactive debugger, a source editor, version control support and many more tools.

http://www.anjuta.org/ || anjuta

• Aptana Studio — IDE based on Eclipse, but geared towards web development, with support for HTML, CSS, Javascript, Ruby on Rails, PHP, Adobe AIR and others.

http://www.aptana.org/ || aptana-studio

• Bluefish — GTK+ editor/IDE with an MDI interface, syntax highlighting and support for Python plugins.

http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ || bluefish

• Bluej — Fully featured Java IDE used mainly for educational and beginner purposes.

http://bluej.org/ || bluej

• Code::Blocks — Open source and cross-platform C/C++ IDE.

http://www.codeblocks.org/ || codeblocks

• Cloud9 — State-of-the-art IDE that runs in your browser and lives in the cloud, allowing you to run, debug and deploy applications from anywhere, anytime.

https://c9.io/ || cloud9

• Eclipse — Open source community project, which aims to provide a universal development platform.

http://eclipse.org/ || eclipse

• Editra — Multi-platform text editor with an implementation that focuses on creating an easy to use interface and features that aid in code development.

http://www.editra.org || editra

• Eric — Full-featured Python 3.x and Ruby IDE in PyQt4.

http://eric-ide.python-projects.org/ || eric

• Gambas — Free development environment based on a Basic interpreter with object extensions.

http://gambas.sourceforge.net/en/main.html || gambas3-ide

• Geany — Text editor using the GTK+ toolkit with basic features of an integrated development environment.

https://geany.org || geany

• IntelliJ IDEA — IDE for Java, Groovy and other programming languages with advanced refactoring features.

http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/ || intellij-idea-community-edition

• KDevelop — Feature-full, plugin extensible IDE for C/C++ and other programming languages.

http://kdevelop.org/ || kdevelop

• Lazarus — Cross-platform IDE for Object Pascal.

http://lazarus.freepascal.org/ || lazarus

• MonoDevelop — Cross-platform IDE targeted for the Mono and .NET frameworks.

http://monodevelop.com/ || monodevelop

• NetBeans — Integrated development environment (IDE) for developing with Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, Groovy, C, C++, Scala, Clojure, and other languages.

http://netbeans.org/ || netbeans

• PyCharm — IDE used for programming in Python with support for code analysis, debugging, unit testing, version control and web development with Django.

http://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/ || pycharm-community

• QDevelop — Free and cross-platform IDE for Qt.

http://biord-software.org/qdevelop/ || not packaged? (search in AUR)

• Qt Creator — Lightweight, cross-platform C++ integrated development environment with a focus on Qt.

http://qt-project.org/downloads#qt-creator || qtcreator

Pagers

• more — A simple and feature-light pager. It is a part of the util-linux package.
• less — A program similar to more, but with support for both forward and backward scrolling, as well as partial loading of files.

http://www.gnu.org/software/less || less

• less-mouse — less with mouse scrolling support. It is present in the AUR as less-mouse.
• most — A pager with support for multiple windows, left and right scrolling, and built-in colour support

http://www.jedsoft.org/most/ || most

• mcview — A pager with mouse and colour support. It is bundled with midnight commander.

http://www.midnight-commander.org || mc

• vimpager — A script that turns vim into a pager. As a result, you get various vim features such as colour schemes, mouse support, split screens, etc.

https://github.com/rkitover/vimpager || vimpager

Application Launchers

• ADeskBar — Easy, simple and unobtrusive application launcher for Openbox.

http://adeskbar.tuxfamily.org/ || adeskbar

• dmenu — Fast and lightweight dynamic menu for X which is also useful as an application launcher.

http://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/ || dmenu

• Fehlstart — Small GTK+-based application launcher.

https://gitorious.org/fehlstart || fehlstart-git

• Gmrun — Lightweight GTK+-based application launcher, with the ability to run programs inside a terminal and other handy features.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gmrun/ || gmrun

• GNOME Do — Application launcher inspired by Quicksilver with many plugins, originally developed for the GNOME desktop.

http://do.cooperteam.net/ || gnome-do

• Kupfer — Convenient command and access tool for the GNOME desktop that can launch applications, open documents and access different types of objects and act on them.

https://live.gnome.org/Kupfer || kupfer

• Launchy — Very popular cross-platform application launcher with a plugin-based system used to provide extra functionality.

http://www.launchy.net/ || launchy

• Synapse — Synapse is a semantic launcher written in Vala that you can use to start applications as well as find and access relevant documents and files by making use of the Zeitgeist engine.

https://launchpad.net/synapse-project || synapse

Amateur radio

See the main article: Amateur Radio#Software list

Finance

• esniper — Simple, lightweight tool for sniping eBay auctions.

http://esniper.sourceforge.net/ || esniper

• GnuCash — Financial application that implements a double-entry book-keeping system with features for small business accounting.

http://www.gnucash.org/ || gnucash

• Grisbi — Personal finance system which manages third party, expenditure and receipt categories, as well as budgetary lines, financial years, and other information that makes it suitable for associations.

http://www.grisbi.org/ || grisbi

• HomeBank — Easy to use finance manager that can analyse your personal finance in detail using powerful filtering tools and graphs.

http://homebank.free.fr/ || homebank

• KMyMoney — Personal finance manager that operates in a similar way to Microsoft Money. It supports different account types, categorisation of expenses and incomes, reconciliation of bank accounts and import/export to the “QIF” file format.

http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html || kmymoney

• Ledger — Ledger is a powerful, double-entry accounting system that is accessed from the UNIX command-line.

http://ledger-cli.org/ || ledger

• Skrooge — Personal finances manager for the KDE desktop.

http://skrooge.org/ || skrooge

• openerp — Open source erp system purely in python.

http://openerp.com/ || openerp

Emulators

An emulator is a program which serves to replicate the functions of another platform or system so as to allow applications and games to be run in environments they were not programmed for.

Note: For possibly more up to date selection of emulators, try checking the AUR 'emulators' category

Warning: Owning an emulator itself is not illegal, but downloading/sharing copyrighted ROMs and using emulator to run them without the copyright holder's permission is illegal. Arch Linux is not responsible if you get in trouble.

Consoles

• DeSmuME — Nintendo DS emulator.

http://desmume.org/ || desmume

• Dolphin — Very nice GameCube and Wii emulator.

http://dolphin-emu.org/ || dolphin-emu

• epsxe — Emulator for the PlayStation video game console for x86-based PC hardware.

http://www.epsxe.com/ || epsxe

• fakenes — NES (Nintendo Famicom) emulator.

http://fakenes.sourceforge.net/ || fakenes

• FCEUX — NTSC and PAL 8 bit Nintendo/Famicom emulator that is an evolution of the original FCE Ultra emulator. It is accurate, compatible and actively maintained.

http://fceux.com/ || fceux

• Gens2 — Emulator for Sega Genesis, Sega CD and 32X that is written in assembly language and no longer actively developed.

• activate OpenGL, set video resolution per custom to 1024x600 for streched full-screen or 800x600 for non-streched;
• use "Normal" renderer, I couldn't find a visible advantage with the other ones.

http://www.gens.me/ || gens

• Gens-GS — Gens2, rewritten in C++, combining features from various Gens forks.

http://segaretro.org/Gens/GS || gens-gs

• gngeo — Command-line NeoGeo emulator.

http://gngeo.googlecode.com || gngeo

• higan — Multisystem emulator focusing on accuracy, supporting SNES, NES, GB, GBC, GBA.

http://code.google.com/p/higan/ || higan-gtk higan-qt

• mednafen — Command line driven multi system emulator.

http://mednafen.sourceforge.net/ || mednafen

• Mupen64Plus — Highly compatible Nintendo 64 emulator with plugin system.

http://code.google.com/p/mupen64plus/ || mupen64plus and m64py (graphical frontend)

• pSX — A not plugin-based PlayStation emulator with fairly high compatibility.

http://psxemulator.gazaxian.com/ || psx

• PCSXR — PlayStation emulator; Debian fork of the abandoned original PCSX

http://pcsxr.codeplex.com/ || pcsxr

• PCSX2 — PlayStation 2 emulator. It is still being maintained and developed. It requires BIOS files.

http://www.pcsx2.net/ || pcsx2

• snes-9x — Portable, freeware Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) emulator.

http://www.snes9x.com/ || snes9x

• Visual Boy Advance — Game Boy emulator with Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Color, and Super Game Boy support.

http://vba.ngemu.com/ || vbam-gtk

• ZSNES — Highly compatible Super Nintendo emulator.

http://www.zsnes.com/ || zsnes

Other

• DOSBox — Open-source DOS emulator which primarily focuses on running DOS Games.

http://www.dosbox.com/ || dosbox

• DOSEmu — Open-source DOS emulator.

http://www.dosemu.org/ || dosemu

• MAME — Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator.

http://mamedev.org/ || sdlmame

• ResidualVM — Cross-platform 3D game interpreter which allows you to play LucasArts' Lua-based 3D adventures.

http://residualvm.org/ || residualvm

• RetroArch — Frontend to libretro (emulation library, using modified versions of existing emulators as plugins).

http://github.com/Themaister/RetroArch || retroarch-git

• ScummVM — Virtual machine for old school adventures.

http://www.scummvm.org/ || scummvm

• X Neko Project II — PC-9801 emulator.

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~aw9k-nnk/np2/ || xnp2

See also

• List of terminal applications with their screenshots and reviews
• Arch Linux Forums / LnF Awards 2011 - The best Light & Fast apps of 2011.
• Arch Linux Forums / LnF Awards 2012 - The best Light & Fast apps of 2012.
• http://sourceforge.net/ open source software
• http://linuxappfinder.com/
• http://www.linuxlinks.com/
• Wikipedia:List of open source software packages
• http://linuxappfinder.com/alternatives - Windows and OS X Software Alternatives
• http://alternativeto.net/ - find alternatives to popular programs
• http://www.linuxalt.com/ - Linux equivalents of Windows software
• http://lin-app.com/ - on-line information service of various commercial applications and games for Linux
• Linux game database
• Penguspy
• Lists of Linux games on Wikipedia
• http://rewiki.regengedanken.de/wiki/Links_to_engine_reimplementations