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APTonCD is a tool with a graphical interface which allows you to create one or more CDs or DVDs (you choose the type of media) with all of the packages you've downloaded via APT-GET or APTITUDE, creating a removable repository that you can use on other computers. APTonCD will also allow you to automatically create media with all of your Beagle: Beagle is a search tool that ransacks your personal information space to find whatever you're looking for. More technically, Beagle is a Linux desktop-independent service which transparently and unobtrusively indexes your data in real-time. For example: Files are immediately indexed when they are created, are re-indexed when they are modified, and are dropped from the index upon deletion. ClamAV: Clam AntiVirus is an open source (GPL) anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. It provides a number of utilities including a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, Conky: Conky is a light-weight system monitor under active development, a highly configurable system monitor for X based on torsmo Ekiga: Ekiga (formely known as GnomeMeeting) is an open source VoIP and video conferencing application for GNOME. Ekiga uses both the H.323 and SIP protocols. It supports many audio and video codecs, and is interoperable with other SIP compliant software and also with Microsoft NetMeeting. Endeavour Mark II: Endeavour Mark II is a complete file management suite that comes with a File Browser, Image Browser, Archiver, Recycled Objects system, and a set of file & disk management utility programs. FileZilla: FileZilla is a fast FTP and SFTP client. GParted: GParted is an industrial-strength package for creating, destroying, resizing, moving, checking and copying partitions, and the filesystems on them. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, copying data residing on hard disks and mirroring one partition with another (disk imaging). gZIP: gzip (GNU zip) is a compression utility designed to be a replacement for compress. Its main advantages over compress are much better compression and freedom from patented algorithms. K3b: K3b was created to be a feature-rich and easy to handle CD burning application. MondoRescue: Mondo Rescue is a GPL disaster recovery solution. It supports Linux (i386, x86_64, ia64) and FreeBSD (i386). OpenBerg: Read, write, publish e-Books with open standards and free software. OpenOffice: OpenOffice.org the product is a multi-platform office productivity suite. It includes the key desktop applications, such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager, and drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to other office suites. Sophisticated and flexible, OpenOffice.org also works transparently with a variety of file formats, including those of Microsoft Office, and the vendor-neutral OpenDocument standard from OASIS. Available in over 65 supported languages with more being constantly added by the community, OpenOffice.org runs stably and natively on Solaris, Linux (including PPC Linux), Windows, Mac OS X (X11), and numerous other platforms. Our porting page lists the platforms (ports) that OpenOffice.org can run on. openSSH: OpenSSH is a FREE version of the SSH connectivity tools that technical users of the Internet rely on. Users of telnet, rlogin, and ftp may not realize that their password is transmitted across the Internet unencrypted, PDFedit: Free (and open source) editor for manipulating PDF documents. GUI version + command line interface. Pidgin: Pidgin is a multi-protocol Instant Messaging client that allows you to use all of your IM accounts at once. AIM PuTTY: PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix platforms, Reconstructor: Reconstructor is an Ubuntu GNU/Linux CD Creator. For the Ubuntu Desktop base, you can customize the entire environment. For instance, you can add/remove software, change the default look (splash, themes, fonts, wallpaper, etc.), add desktop links, For the Alternate and Server bases, you can add any additional software to the disc that you would like installed. Rox-Filer: ROX is a desktop environment, like GNOME, KDE and XFCE. It is an attempt to bring some of the good features from RISC OS to Unix and Linux. However, recent desktop efforts (such as KDE and GNOME) seem to be following the Windows approach of trying to hide the filesystem and get users to do things via a Start-menu or similar. Modern desktop users, on Windows or Unix, often have no idea where their programs are installed, or even where their data files are saved. This leads to a feeling of not being in control, and a poor understanding of how the system works. The ROX Desktop, however, is based around the file system. Its core component is ROX-Filer, a powerful graphical file manager which, in addition to being a popular filer in its own right, provides a couple of extra features which allow it to solve the above problems. TrueCrypt: Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP, Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk. Provides two levels of plausible deniability, in case an adversary forces you to reveal the password: 1) Hidden volume (steganography – more information may be found here). 2) No TrueCrypt volume can be identified (volumes cannot be distinguished from random data). VNC: VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. WINE: Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X, Think of Wine as a compatibility layer for running Windows programs. XFE: X File Explorer (Xfe) is an MS-Explorer or Commander like file manager for X. Especially since most file managers are Desktop dependent (KDE, Gnome, Xfce, etc.), requiring you to load all kinds of unwanted bloat onto your system. |







