Software for Linux

Geany Geany

A free and open-source lightweight GUI text editor using Scintilla and GTK with basic IDE features. Geany is designed and developed with performance in mind, and provides limited dependency on separate packages or external libraries on Linux. Geany is available for a wide variety of operating systems including BSD, Linux, macOS, Solaris and Windows.

Jami Jami

Jami is a free, open-source. universal distributed communication platform which preserves the user's privacy and freedoms. Jami supports a variety of video input options, including mutliple cameras and image and video files, and the selection of audio inputs and outputs with high quality audio and video codecs.

Chromium Chromium

Chromium is a free and open source web browser developed by Google. The project builds the open source version of the Google Chrome web browser. Google make use of the source code to build and improve their proprietary version of Google Chrome. And Google is not alone, many other browsers like Microsoft Edge, Opera and others a based on Chromium.

Freenet Freenet

Freenet is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant communication and publishing. With the Freenet client you can browse websites, post on forums, and publish files within Freenet network with strong privacy protections.

Pidgin Pidgin

Pidgin is a chat application which lets you log into accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. Pidgin is developed and released fully free and open-source and provides a plugin architecture that allow anyone to build extensions and connections to new networks and third-party services.

 

Viber Viber

Viber is a cross-platform voice over IP application that allow people to make free and secure calls and messages to anyone, anywhere. With Viber, you can create group chats and make group calls, send stickers and emojis over chats that are 100% synced between devices, including 1-tap transfer of calls. Viber is available for free on Android, iOS, macOS, Linux and Windows.

Mumble Mumble

Mumble is a free and open-source voice over IP application primarily designed for gamers. The application features a customizable in game overlay, application skins, conversation recording, and advanced voice activity detection. Anyone can download and use Mumble for free, but if you want your own server, you can rent a managed solution from the company behind Mumble, or host your own.

PartedMagic PartedMagic

Parted Magic is a complete hard disk management solution. Disk Partitioning. PartedMagic has the tools to get the job done. With the Partition Editor you can re-size, copy, and move partitions. You can grow or shrink your C: drive. Create space for new operating systems. Attempt data rescue from lost partitions.

Eclipse Eclipse

Eclipse IDE is a leading open platform for professional developers. With the Eclipse IDE you can write applications in your favorite programming language with confidence.

PyCharm PyCharm

PyCharm is an integrated development environment (IDE) designed and developed by JetBrains specifically for the programming language Python. With PyCharm you can boost code quality and write maintainable code while maintain standards with PEP8 checks, testing assistance and smart refactoring. PyCharm also provides thorough intellisense with smart code completion, code inspection and real-time error highlighting. PyCharm is released as a commercial software but can be obtained for free as PyCharm Community Edition with a minimal limited feature set that close resembles the commercial version.