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| Internet & Networking |
| Internet and networking software has always been one of Linux’s strongest areas. |
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Security – Exhaustive survey of all the finest security tools |
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Email – Email clients, groupware, servers, utilities, security, filtering, mailing list managers and more |
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Instant Messaging Clients – Real-time text communication between two or more individuals |
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News Aggregators – Collect news, weblog posts, and other information from the web |
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Voice Over IP Software – Telephone-like voice conversations across IP based networks |
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Remote Display Software – Use the mouse and keyboard to control another computer remotely |
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IRC Clients – IRC is a type of real-time Internet text messaging |
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Twitter Clients – Popular social networking utility |
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System Monitoring Tools – Real-time incident notification, performance analysis etc |
| Desktop |
| Desktop environments consist of icons, windows, toolbars, folders, wallpapers, and desktop widgets. |
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Lean Desktops – The finest candidates for older hardware |
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File Managers – Orthodox, navigational and spatial file managers |
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Window Managers – Compositing, stacking and tiling window managers |
| Graphics & Multimedia |
| With a huge selection of open source software available, Linux offers the ideal environment for audio and video enthusiasts. |
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Graphics – Create, modify and convert 2D and 3D computer graphics |
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Audio – Music players/managers, recording/editing and more |
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Video – Players, video recorders, collection managers and more |
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Screencasting – Digital recordings of computer screen output |
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Computer Aided Design – Produce professional drawings |
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Console Based Multimedia – Light on system resources |
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Music Servers – Turn your Linux box into a music server, distributing digital tracks over a network |
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Dedicated multimedia distributions: 64 Studio, DeMiDi, dyne:bolic, and Ubuntu Studio |
| Backup |
| Backup software is used to perform a complete back up of a file, data, database, system or server. It enables users to make a duplicate of everything contained on the original source. This type of software is also used to perform a recovery of the data or system in the event of a disaster. |
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Backup Tools – Intuitive graphical interfaces, snapshot software, and command-line tools |
| Financial |
| Financial software covers a wide spectrum including personal finance, stock trading, investment analysis, accounting, business solutions and microfinance. |
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Financial – Keep track of stock market movements, analyse the markets, and more |
| Text Editors |
| A text editor is software used for editing plain text files. It has many different uses such as modifying system configuration files, writing programming code, jotting down thoughts, or even making a grocery list. |
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Editors – This article covers console, graphical, HTML editors, and text processing software |
| Family History |
| Tracing your ancestry is painstaking work, can be extremely addictive and creates large amounts of data. Software which offers tailored functionality, to store data and relationships between parents, spouses and children, as well as handling additional events in an individual’s life, photographs, free-form notes, and other multimedia, and source citations. |
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Family History – This article covers native Linux clients, Java and web based software |
| Scientific Software |
| Science really prospers and advances when individuals share the results of their experiments with others in the scientific community. There is a certain logic that scientific software should therefore be released in a freely distributable environment. |
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Scientific – Maths, biology, chemistry, physcis, electronics & enginnering and more |
| Free Proprietary Software |
| Software licenses stir up emotive feelings in the Linux community. Licenses generally fall into one of two broad categories: proprietary licenses and open source licenses. The type of software license an application uses is significant in the effect it has on the rights of the user of the application, and whether a programmer chooses to contribute his or her time to its development. |
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Closed-Source Software – Business, Internet, Graphics, System, Development |
| Web Applications |
| Applications that are accessed via web browser over a network such as the Internet or an intranet. It is also a computer software application that is coded in a browser-supported language (such as HTML, JavaScript, Java, etc.) and reliant on a common web browser to render the application executable. |
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Web Content Management Systems – Keeps track of content on a website |
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Wiki Engines – A type of collaborative software that runs a Wiki system |
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Blog Applications – Maintain an ongoing chronicle of information on a website |
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eCommerce – Shopping cart software |
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Human Resource Management – Managing an organisation’s human capital |
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ERP – Enterprise Resource Planning Software |
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CRM – Customer Relationship Management Software |
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Data Warehouse – Real time access to information and data |
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