80 of the Best Linux Security Applications

Security is paramount. Security involves defense in depth. Approaching security one step at a time, with consistency and rigour, you can mitigate threats, and keep intruders at bay. Intruders use a variety of different techniques in an attempt to compromise

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Specto – watches configurable events

Specto is a desktop application that watches configurable events (such as website updates, emails, file and folder changes, system processes, etc) and then triggers notifications. For example, Specto can watch a website for updates (or a syndication feed, or an

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Jokosher – simple multi-track studio

Jokosher is a simple yet powerful multi-track studio. This software application can be used to create and record music, podcasts and more, all from an integrated simple environment. Jokosher provides a complete application for recording, editing, mixing and exporting audio,

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Screem – web development environment

SCREEM (Site CReating and Editing EnvironMent) is a tag-based Web page editor which aims not only to aid in creating web pages, but also to provide useful site maintenance facilities, including automatic link updating and site upload facilities. SCREEM has

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Mono – .NET framework

Mono provides the necessary software to develop and run .NET client and server applications. Mono includes compilers, an ECMA-compatible runtime engine (the Common Language Runtime, or CLR), and many libraries. The libraries include Microsoft .NET compatibility libraries (including ADO.NET, System.Windows.Forms

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Traverso DAW – multitrack audio recorder and editor

Traverso is a multitrack audio recording and editing program with special emphasis on an intuitive, clean, and above all efficient user interface. The program supports recording of any number of audio tracks (only limited by hardware capabilities), basic mixing features,

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GNOME Do – application launcher

GNOME Do allows you to quickly search for many items present in your GNOME desktop environment. These include applications, Evolution contacts, Firefox bookmarks, files, artists and albums in Rhythmbox, Pidgin buddies, etc.), as well as letting you perform commonly used

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Gourmet Recipe Manager

Gourmet Recipe Manager is a manager, editor, and organizer for recipes intended for the GNOME desktop environment (although it does not need all of the GNOME libraries to run). It currently has support for MealMaster and MasterCook import, including 1

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energyXT2 – create and record music

energyXT2 is a fully featured easy-to use music production sequencer. It provides music producers with a high quality solution for creating music. It has a wide set of features including no loading-time, all-in-one synth, fx and sequencer, drum machine track,

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SPSS – statistical analysis and data management

SPSS is a suite of products for statistical analysis and data management. It enables analysts and researchers to access, prepare, manage, analyze, and report on data in order to solve business and research problems in the context of the analytical

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Keep **AWOL**

Keep is an automatic backup program that allows users to set the parameters of the backup, including the frequency and the number of backups. It is designed to be a simple backup system for KDE. Keep is no longer maintained.

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KLibido – KDE binaries downloader

KLibido is a KDE program to download encoded articles from the usenet news service, using the nntp protocol. It supports multiple servers, multiple download threads per server, automatic joining and decoding of articles. KLibido is not a newsreader. It doesn’t

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Mail Notification – mail notification software

Mail Notification monitors your mailboxes for new mail. It works with system trays implementing the freedesktop.org System Tray Specification, such as the GNOME Panel Notification Area, the xfce4 Notification Area and the KDE System Tray. Its user interface is deliberately

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Gmail Notifier – email notifier software

Gmail Notifier is a MSN Messenger like popup written in Python that pops up an alert when new mail is received to a Gmail account. It provides an attractive and simple way to check for new messages. gmailusername – fairly

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CheckGmail – alternative Gmail Notifier

CheckGmail is an alternative Gmail Notifier for Linux and other *nix systems. It is fast, secure and uses minimal bandwidth via the use of Atom feeds. CheckGmail is a system tray application that checks a Gmail account for new mail.

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