Electric Fence – detect programming bugs

Electric Fence (eFence) is a debugger that uses virtual memory hardware to detect illegal memory accesses. It can detect two common programming bugs: software that overruns or underruns the boundaries of a malloc() memory allocation, and software that touches a

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Bitbucket – Git and Mercurial Solution

Bitbucket is a Git and Mercurial based source code management and collaboration solution in the cloud. The software is written in Python using the Django web framework. Bitbucket provides Git and Mercurial code management for professional teams. Their main market

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GNU Screen – full-screen window manager

GNU Screen is a terminal multiplexer that runs several separate “screens” on a single physical character-based terminal. Screen prevents a session from “timing out” or disconnecting SSH connections or local terminal emulators. Each virtual terminal emulates a DEC VT100 plus

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cool-old-term – terminal emulator

cool-old-term is an open source terminal emulator that is in a very early stage of development. It tries to mimic the look and feel of the old cathode tube screens. The developer has not forgotten to include some eye-candy. The

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Final Term **AWOL**

Final Term is billed as a new breed of terminal emulator. Final Term is an open source terminal emulator written solely in Vala, an object-oriented programming language with a self-hosting compiler that generates C code. Final Term’s source code is

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GnomeBaker – CD/DVD burning software

GnomeBaker is a free CD/DVD authoring application for GNU/Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. GnomeBaker features an intuitive interface. It is part of the GNOME desktop environment. Features include: Create data CDs. Blank rewritable disks. Burn DVDs. Burn data cds

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ScreenCloud – makes screenshot sharing easy

ScreenCloud is an easy to use open source screenshot tool. With this software, users can take a screenshot using one of the 3 hotkeys or simply click the ScreenCloud tray icon. Users can choose where you want to save the

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HotShots – screenshot and annotation tool

HotShots is an application for capturing screens and saving them in a variety of image formats as well as adding annotations and graphical data (arrows, lines, texts, …). You can also upload your creations to the web (FTP/some web services).

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Google Desktop **AWOL**

Google Desktop was a computer program with desktop search capabilities, created by Google for Linux, Apple Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows systems. It allowed text searches of a user’s email messages, computer files, music, photos, chats, Web pages viewed,

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LXQt – lightweight Qt desktop environment

LXQt is billed as an advanced, easy-to-use, and fast desktop environment based on Qt technologies. It is the product of the merge between the LXDE-Qt and the Razor-qt projects. The idea of pooling resources between the two projects is to

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PDFedit – a PDF editor

PDFedit allows users complete control of editing PDF documents. It’s primary created for simple editing and manipulation of documents in PDF format. There is a graphical and command line interface available. The software lets you change either raw PDF objects

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Ubuntu Internet Browser – web browser

Ubuntu Web Browser is a lightweight open source web browser tailored for Ubuntu, based on the Oxide browser engine and using the Ubuntu UI components. It is the default web browser for Ubuntu Phone OS. Features include: Private mode. Good

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Liri – material design web browser

Liri is an open-source, cross-platform and material-design Chrome based web browser. The purpose of this web browser is to build a minimalist-looking modern web browser with the power of Chromium under the bonnet. But it removes lots of unnecessary features

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Breach – modular web browser

Breach is an open source modular browser written entirely in JavaScript. Breach’s functionality is provided by interchangeable modules. In essence, Breach does not expose any internal functionalities but an API for developers to build modules that can be added, removed,

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Dooscape – web browser

Dooscape is an open source web browser written with the Qt framework and using WebKit as the web engine. It is different to other web browsers with its interface, modern appearance, and innovative features. Features include: Simple and clean interface

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Fifth – web browser

Fifth is a Linux-only open source browser that offers the best features from Opera, as well as a few unique features that are aimed for Linux power users. It’s based on a custom WebKit port to FLTK. Fifth gives you

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