This page is dedicated to providing a comprehensive list of the most popular GNU/linux applications, and will link you to them,
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Frostwire is an excellent file sharing application. its almost identical to Lime Wire and connects to the same network
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Apollon is a Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing Program written for Linux.
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The Fastest File Sharing Program on the Planet
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Transmission has been built from the ground up to be a lightweight yet powerful BitTorrent client
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The award-winning Web browser is now faster, more secure, and fully customizable to your online life. With Firefox 2, we’ve added powerful new features that make your online experience even better.
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Dillo is a web browser project completely written in C.
Dillo is small: source is less than 420 KB, and the binary is around 350 KB!
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Opera Software develops the Opera Web browser, a high-quality, multi-platform product for a wide range of platforms, operating systems and embedded Internet products. We strive to offer a superior Internet experience through state-of-the-art technology, innovation, leadership and partnerships.
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Graphics and Image Viewers

Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems
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GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages
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GQview, an image browser that features single click access to view images and move around the directory tree.
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A drawing tool, for creating circles squares boxes lines etc as well as import images
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Xpdf is an open source viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files.
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Video Players

Kaffeine is a versatile video player for Linux, it plays a wide rage of formats including WMV files.
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VLC media player 0.8.6d
It is a free cross-platform media player
It supports a large number of multimedia formats, without the need for additional codecs
It can also be used as a streaming server, with extended features (video on demand, on the fly transcoding, ...)
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Mplayer is perhaps the most popular video player for Linux and is very versatile
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Miro is used to play internet tv, you can watch free internet tv channels
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E-Mail

Mozilla’s Thunderbird 2 email application is more powerful than ever. It’s now even easier to organize, secure and customize your mail.
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Evolution provides integrated mail, address book and calendaring functionality to users of the GNOME desktop.
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Word Processors / Office

AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks.
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Emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor.

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The goal of Gnumeric is to be the best possible spreadsheet. We are not attempting to clone existing applications. However, Gnumeric can read files saved with other spreadsheets
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LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance.
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OpenOffice.org is a multi platform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute
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DVD Ripping

dvd::rip is a full featured DVD copy program written in Perl. It provides an easy to use but feature-rich Gtk+ GUI to control almost all aspects of the ripping and transcoding process.
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Hand Break is an open source, multi platform dvd to MPEG-4 converter
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The goal of Gnumeric is to be the best possible spreadsheet. We are not attempting to clone existing applications. However, Gnumeric can read files saved with other spreadsheets
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XDVDShrink is a project in BASH and Perl-Gtk2 that allows you to create fair-use archival copies of DVD content on single-layer writable DVDs.

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Kasablanca is an ftp client, written in c++, using the kde libraries. among its features are
currently encryption (auth tls) support, fxp, site bookmarks, and queued transfers.
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gFTP is a free multithreaded file transfer client for *NIX based machines.
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April 30, 2008 11:23 AM