List Of Linux Compatible Software For Every Need

It is an attempt to list down varied software to meet all your needs on Linux. From browser to anti-virus, we bring you six categories in this feature.

New to Linux and wondering which software will be compatible with your new platform? Well, we are making an attempt to list down a complete directory of your Linux software needs. In this on-going series we will try and bring to you software from different utility categories! Today we bring Anti-virus, Firewall, Backup, System Maintenance, Browsers and E-mail Clients. Stay tuned to know about applications on Communication, Images, Audio, Video and more! List Of Linux Compatible Softwares For Every Need (Part-1) Anti-virus Softwares: Avast!: A Linux software offering of the popular Avast antivirus scanner.http://www.avast.com/linux-home-edition Clam AntiVirus: The original open source virus scanner. http://www.clamav.net/ AVG: A version of AVG’s Virus Scanner for Linux. http://free.avg.com/us-en/download.prd-alf Firewall Applications: Mondo Rescue: A capable disk recovery toolkit. http://gufw.tuxfamily.org/ Firestarter: A good quality firewall with graphical interface http://www.fs-security.com/ Backup Applications: CrashPlan: An excellent, sophisticated backup program. http://www.crashplan.com Rsync: A configurable console-based synchronization program that is commonly used in backup situations. http://rsync.samba.org  Fwbackups: A flexible backup program which can backup to another computer.http://www.diffingo.com/oss/fwbackups  System Maintenance: Ubuntu-Tweak: A great control panel to manage many features in Ubuntu.http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnome-system-monitor/ System Monitor: Simple and interesting Linux software to view systems stats.http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnome-system-monitor/ Browsers: Google Chrome/Chromium: A great browser from Google based on open source projects.http://www.google.com/chrome Firefox: The world’s most popular open source web browser. http://www.firefox.com/ reKonq: A refreshed default KDE browser which sports an uncluttered interface.http://rekonq.kde.org/ Opera: The “fastest and most advanced” browser available today. http://www.opera.com/ Email Clients: Thunderbird: Most popular cross-platform open source email client.http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/ Claws Mail: A user-friendly, lightweight, and fast email client. http://www.claws-mail.org/ Evolution: A great email and calendar program for GNOME. http://projects.gnome.org/evolution/

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