[edit] BitTorrent client

[edit] azureus

(BitTorrent client) Azureus implements the BitTorrent protocol using java language and comes bundled with many invaluable features for both beginners and advanced users.

[edit] deluge

Deluge is a python bittorrent applicaton with support for rss broad-catching.

[edit] frostwire

See below under P2P Network.

[edit] ktorrent

(K) KDE bittorrent client.

rtorrent (Snapshot, but works on current) Rtorrent is a BitTorrent client for ncurses, using the libtorrent library. The client and library is written in C++ with emphasis on speed and efficiency, while delivering equivalent features to those rtorrent: found in GUI based clients in an ncurses client.

Basic operations:
*backspace to load torrent files
*Ctrl+s to start downloads
*Ctrl+d to stop downloads

More commands can be found at http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/wiki/RTorrentUserGuide.

[edit] Bluetooth

[edit] kdebluetooth

(K) kdebluetooth is a kde front-end for managing bluetooth devices.

[edit] Desktop Sharing

[edit] kvpnc

(Frontend for various VPN clients) KVpnc is a KDE frontend for various VPN clients. It supports Cisco VPN (vpnc) and IPSec (FreeS/WAN, racoon). vpnc is a replacement for the Cisco VPN client, and is used as client for the cisco3000 VPN Concentrator. FreeS/WAN (OpenS/WAN) is a IPSec client for Linux 2.4.x, and raccoon is a IPSec client for Linux 2.6.x and *BSD. It also supports PPTP (pptpclient) and OpenVPN.

[edit] rdesktop

(Remote Desktop Protocol client) rdesktop is a client for Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), used in a number of Microsoft products including Windows NT Terminal Server, Windows 2000 Server, Windows XP, and Windows 2003 Server. For more information, see here.

[edit] tightVNC

TightVNC is a VNC client/server suite for Unix/Linux/Windows systems under GPL licence.

[edit] Downloader

[edit] d4x

(Downloader for X) d4x lets you download files from the Internet using the FTP and the HTTP protocols. It has the following main features: multithreaded design, convient user-friendly interface, automatic resuming after connection breaks, multiple simultaneous downloads, recursive FTP and HTTP downloading, proxy support, supports for traffic limitation, FTP search, drag'n'drop sup- port, and many more.

[edit] httpfs

Httpfs is a FUSE-based file system. You may think of it, as a downloader with the speed of light. It is a bit like sshfs. An unprivileged user is able to link a remote site to a folder, and browse the folder as if of your own.

To run the program, type in Terminal.

httpfs http://IP address/file target folder

[edit] Email Clients

[edit] Claws

Sylpheed-Claws - it bites! A GTK+ based, lightweight, and fas claws-mail: e-mail client and newsreader. Supports POP3, APOP, IMAP, SMTP, SMTP AUTH, NNTP, LDAP. Features multiple accounts, spell-checking, address book, SSL, GPG/PGP, filtering, scoring, i18n, & more. Extra plugins and themes are also available.

[edit] evolution and evolution

Evolution is a groupware suite which integrates mail, calendar, address book, to-do list and memo tools. Additional features include integration with Exchange and Groupwise servers, newsgroup client, LDAP support, web calendars and synchronization with Palm devices.

evolution-exchange is an exchange plugin for the Evolution groupware suite The Evolution Exchange Connector adds support for Microsoft Exchange 2000 and 2003 to the Evolution groupware suite. It uses the functionality of Outlook Web Access (OWA) to integrate with Exchange. Therefore, it is a requirement that OWA is enabled on the corporate Exchange infrastructure.

[edit] kcheckgmail

(K) kcheckgmail is a Gmail/Google mail notifier for KDE. KCheckGMail is a simple KDE systray application that notifies when new email is received in a Gmail/Google Mail/Google Hosted Domains account.

[edit] SeaMonkey

See below under Internet Browsers.

[edit] Firewall

[edit] firestarter

(GTK firewall administration tool) With Firestarter you will have a firewall up and running in minutes. After that it is up to you how deep you choose to go.

[edit] Internet Browsers

[edit] epiphany

(G) Epiphany is a simple yet powerful GNOME web browser targeted at non-technical users. Its principles are simplicity and standards compliance.

[edit] jd

JD for linux is a browser for 2ch, once the largest BBS in Japan.

[edit] elinks

ELinks is an advanced and well-established feature-rich text mode web (HTTP/FTP/..) browser. ELinks can render both frames and tables, is highly customizable and can be extended via Lua or Guile scripts.

[edit] lynx

Lynx (Text Web Browser) Lynx is a text browser for the World Wide Web. Type in 'lynx' on Terminal to start the program.

[edit] midori

Midori is a lightweight web browser.

• Full integration with GTK+2.
• Fast rendering with WebKit.
• Tabs, windows and session management.
• Bookmarks are stored with XBEL.
• Searchbox based on OpenSearch.
• User scripts support.

[edit] opera

Opera is a light, fast and full-featured Internet browser, most notably a fully standard conforming Opera includes pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, integrated searches, and advanced functions like a password manager, mouse gestures, native Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) support, an email program, RSS newsfeeds, and IRC chat. It is designed to be fast and highly customizable.

Opera flash plugin is also available (opera-plugin-flash).

[edit] SeaMonkey

The SeaMonkey browser suite. SeaMonkey features a state-of-the-art web browser and powerful email client, as well as a WYSIWYG web page composer and a feature-rich IRC chat client. For web developers, mozilla.org's DOM inspector and JavaScript debugger tools are included as well.

[edit] skipstone and skipstone-plugins

skipstone is a Gtk+ Web Browser that embeds Mozilla's rendering component Gecko. It aims to be light and fast with few dependencies.

Its plugin package consists of the following plugins: AutoComplete, HistorySideBar, NewButton, SearchToolBar, Launcher, Throbber, Up, and Zoomer

[edit] w3m

w3m is a text-based web browser as well as a pager like `more' or `less'. With w3m you can browse web pages through a terminal emulator window (xterm, rxvt or something like that). Moreover, w3m can be used as a text formatting tool which typesets HTML into plain text.

[edit] Internet Telephone/VoIP

[edit] skype

(Skype Void Software) Skype is a little piece of software that lets you make free calls to anyone else on Skype, anywhere in the world.

[edit] Messengers/IRC

[edit] amsn

aMSN (Alvaro's Messenger for MSN) is a Tcl/Tk clone that implements the Microsoft Messenger (MSN) for Unix, Windows, or Macintosh platforms. amsn: It supports file transfers, groups, and many more features.

[edit] ayttm

Ayttm is an instant messaging client that provides all-in-one chat functionality for several major instant messaging services (jabber, msn, yahoo, IRC, AIM and ICQ) from one simple program. Ayttm "Contacts" allow you to refer to several accounts of the same person from a single contact name, making it one of the cleanest and simplest clients to use.

[edit] emesene

Emesene - an MSN Messenger client written in python and GTK

The main idea is to make a client similar to the official MSN Messenger client but kepping it simple and with a nice GUI. emesene is a python/gtk MSN messenger clone, it uses emesenelib MSNP13) and try to be a nice looking and simple MSN client.

[edit] gajim

(GTK2 Jabber/XMPP client) The goal of Gajim is to provide a full featured and easy to use Jabber client. Rather obsolete as there is pidgin which has a Jabber/XMPP client support.

[edit] irssi

(snapshot, but works on current) Irssi is a modular, terminal-based IRC client with Perl scripting. It also supports SILC and ICB protocols via plugins.

[edit] konversation

(K) Instant-messenger program for KDE. An easy to use kde/qt based irc client.

[edit] kvirc

(K) (The K-Visual-IRC Client) KVIrc is a portable Internet Relay Chat client based on the Qt GUI toolkit.

[edit] pidgin-encryption

(Encryption plugin for Pidgin) Encryption plugin for Pidgin, providing up to 4096 bit RSA encryption using the NSS crypto library from Mozilla. Keys are automatically transmitted and stored, making it very easy to use, but also resistant to man-in-the-middle attacks.

[edit] pidgin-guifications

(Guification plugin for pidgin) Guifications is a Pidgin plugin that displays msn style "toaster" popups in a user defined corner of the screen. It's highly configurable, and easy to use. There are a ton of preferences, that may be daunting at first, but are pretty straight forward. seamonkey

[edit] pidgin-otr

Off-the-record plugin for Pidgin IM - this is a plugin for Pidgin 2.x which implements Off-the-Record Messaging over any IM network Pidgin supports. This only works between two clients that both support the OTR protocol. OTR allows your IM's to be entirely encrypted, as well as ensuring the identity of the person your talking to.

[edit] SeaMonkey

See above under Internet Browsers.

[edit] weechat

WeeChat is a light and extensible IRC client on a console. Type weechat in Terminal to start.

[edit] xchat

(GTK IRC client) XChat is a graphical GTK+-based IRC client, with plugins for python and perl scripting, compiled with d-bus support.

[edit] Mobile Phone

[edit] gnokii

(Open source tools for your mobile phone) gnokii allows you to communicate with the phone over the serial cable connection, usb connection (support depends mostly on the operating system level support), infrared connection and bluetooth connection. gnokii provides many functionality of different areas for users to manipulate a mobile phone.

[edit] Networking

[edit] filezilla

FileZilla is a fast and reliable FTP/SFTP client and server with lots of useful features and an intuitive interface. (To me, it is very much like gFTP).

[edit] italc-client and italc-master

italc-client (Intelligent Teaching and Learning with Computers)

iTALC is a use- and powerful didactical tool for teachers. It lets you view and control other computers in your network in several ways. It supports Linux and Windows 2000/XP/Vista and it even can be used transparently in mixed environments!

[edit] iTest-client and iTest-server

iTest-client is a Qt application consisting of a Server and a Client designed for easy computerised examination.

[edit] nxclient

Client to connect to a remote desktop NX server like FreeNX. For how to use, see HOWTO_Install_FreeNX.

[edit] Smb4K

(K) Smb4K is a SMB/CIFS share browser for KDE. It uses the Samba software suite to access the SMB/CIFS shares of the local network neighborhood Its purpose is to provide a program that's easy to use and has as many features as possible.

[edit] ZSI

ZSI, the Zolera SOAP Infrastructure, is a Python package that provides an implementation of SOAP messaging, as described in The SOAP 1.1 Specification. In particular, ZSI parses and generates SOAP messages, and converts between native Python datatypes and SOAP syntax. It can also be used to build applications using SOAP Messages with Attachments. ZSI is transport neutral, and provides only a simple I/O and dispatch framework; a more complete solution is the responsibility of the application using ZSI.

[edit] Network Monitors/Analysers

[edit] etherape

etherape (graphical network monitor for unix) Etherape is a graphical network monitor for Unix modeled after etherman.Featuring link layer, ip and TCP modes, it displays network activity graphically. Hosts and links change in size with traffic. Color coded protocols display.

[edit] knemo

(K)(A KDE network monitor) KNemo offers a network monitor similar to the one found in that other operating system. Supports Ethernet (including wireless) and PPP connections, showing both incoming and outgoing traffic.

[edit] wireshark

(the world's most popular network protocol analyzer) Wireshark is the world's most popular network protocol analyzer. It has a rich and powerful feature set and runs on most computing platforms including Windows, OS X, and Linux. Network professionals, security experts, developers, and educators around the world use it regularly.

[edit] zenmap

Zenmap is the official Nmap Security Scanner GUI. It is a multi-platform (Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, BSD, etc.) free and open source application which aims to make Nmap easy for beginners to use while providing advanced features for experienced Nmap users. Frequently used scans can be saved as profiles to make them easy to run repeatedly. A command creator allows interactive creation of Nmap command lines. Scan results can be saved and viewed later. Saved scan results can be compared with one another to see how they differ. The results of recent scans are stored in a searchable database.

[edit] News/RSS Reader

[edit] claws

See above under Email Clients.

[edit] liferea

Liferea is an aggregator for online news feeds. There are many other news readers available, but some of those are not available for Linux or require many extra libraries to be installed. Liferea tries to fill this gap by creating a fast, easy to use, easy to install news aggregator for GTK/GNOME.

[edit] Pan

Pan is a GTK based newsreader for Unix/Linux/Windows systems under GPL licence.

[edit] snownews

Snownews is a text mode RSS/RDF newsreader. It supports all versions of RSS natively and supports other formats via plugins.

[edit] P2P Network

[edit] amule

(P2P software) aMule is an eMule-like client for the eD2k and Kademlia networks, supporting multiple platforms.

[edit] FrostWire

(Snapshot, but works on current) Frostwire is an open-source peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing program. It uses the Gnutella network and is heavily based on the better-known LimeWire program. Frostwire looks almost like an exact replica of LimeWire. It also recently included BitTorrent support.

[edit] Gtk-Gnutella

is a GTK2 UI based Gnutella servent Gtk-Gnutella is a GUI based Gnutella servent, following the original look of Gnutella v0.5.

[edit] Linuxdcpp

It is a DC++ client for linux. Linuxdcpp is a port of the win32 DC++ direct connect client to POSIX-like systems. Linuxdcpp uses the GTK+2 toolkit.

[edit] Lopster2

Lopster is a file-sharing client that supports napster-like server such as OpenNap or SlavaNap. Napster is a protocol for sharing files between users. With Napster, the files stay on the client machine, never passing through the server. The server provides the ability to search for particular files and initiate a direct transfer between the clients. In addition, chat forums similar to IRC are available.

[edit] mldonkey

MLDonkey is a multi-platform multi-networks peer-to-peer client.

Currently it supports several large networks, such as ed2k (eDonkey), Overnet, Bittorrent, Gnutella (Bearshare, Limewire, etc), Gnutella2 (Shareaza), Fasttrack (Kazaa, Imesh, Grobster), Soulseek, etc.

[edit] Telecommunication

[edit] seyon

(telecommunications package) Seyon is a complete full-featured telecommunications package for the X Window System. Some of its features are: Dialing directory that supports an unlimited number of entries. Terminal emulation window supporting DEC VT02, Tektronix 4014, and ANSI. Script language to automate tedious tasks such as logging into remote hosts. Unlimited number of slots for external file transfer protocols. Support for zmodem auto-download. Seyon is intended to be both simple and extensively configurable.