Quick ref of things to load in linux
go a lot of these from dev's CLI Tools you won't be able to live without
- Plank - Simplest dock on the planet.
- Joplin - Drop in replacement for Evernote, robust, markdown editor mouse to the web clipper available for home in Firefox
- rofi - good app launcher
- jrnl - Notetaking application, recommended for people who want when it's based text focused set an a note.
- Nemo - excellent graphical file manager. default for Linux mint cinnamon
- MEGA- alternative to Dropbox free tier is 20 gig
- gvim
- Webapp Manager - allows you to create instances or profiles for chose the web browser for specific sites
- pandoc - take plain text, documentation and reformat into PDF, EPUB, and docx.
- mpv - Command line friendly media player front and include smplayer, celluloid, and more
- fzf -fuzzy finder for Linux, command line
- xdotool - nifty little utility, let you simulate the events like keypress, and mouse clicks, Can be used for some neat desktop tricks
- Ranger - text based file manager
- CopyQ - sophisticated clipboard manager with Rich suite of features
- Bat - A cat clone with wings
- XFCE - Anything with a drop down Quake mode is worth checking out
- timeshift - use this to create easy system, restore backups
- brackets? - open source code editoer for html, css, javascript, etc....
- komposer - was nvu - html editor
- meld - a graphical version of 'diff -y <file1> <file2>
- trickle - a lightweight userspace bandwidth shaper - allows you to restrict bandwidth that different processes use
- mmv - mass mover that can rename things enmasse...
- bum - manipulates rc*.d links
- synergy - Shares keyboards across screens
- sysv-rc-conf - manipulates rc*.d links
- TreeLine - Like ActionOutline - keeps track of information in a heirarchical/tree like structure
- btop - like top, but better
- tldr - instant documentation on linux (usually cli) apps
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- <gping<\a> - ping but with graphics
- thefuck - auto-correct mis-typed commands
- zoxide - better cd
- tldr - community-maintained docs (better man)
- scc - lines of code (better cloc)
- exa - better ls
- duf - better df
- aria2 - better wget
- bat - better cat
- - diff-so-fancy - better diff
- entr- watch for file changes
- exiftool - reading & writing metadata
- fdupes - duplicate file finder
- fzf - fuzzy file finder (better find)
- just - Modern command runner (better make)
- jq - JSON processor
- Multi-window scroll pager (better less)
- - better ps
- rip - Deletion tool (better rm)
- ripgrep- search within files (better grep)
- rsync - fast incremental file transfer
- sd - find and replace (better) sed
- xsel - access the clipboard
- bandwhich - bandwitdh utilization monitor
- ctop - like top, but for monitoring resource usage for running containers
- bpytop - Resouce monitoring (betterhtop)
- glances - resource monitor & web and API
- gping - interactive ping tool (better ping)
- dua-cli - Disk usage analyzer and monitor (better du)
- speedtest-cli - command speed test utilty
- dog - (better dig)
- browsh - CLI web browser
- buku - bookmark manager
- cmus - music browser / player
- cointop - track crypto prices
- ddgr - text browser like googler, but for duckduckgo
- micro - code editor (better nano) installation is as simple as curl https://getmic.ro | bash
- khal - calendar client
- mutt - email client
- newsboat - RSS / ATOM news reader and aggregator
- RSSOwl - multi-platform RSS reader
Server Elements
- Apache
- Drupal - Content Management system
- Open Atrium - small workgroup collaboration system built on Drupal
- ExtSQL - provides detailed stats for MySQL and PostgreSQL
- MariaDB - alternative to MySQL
- MySQL
- OpenVAS - open source fork of Nessus - server security scanning software
- PHP
Possible additional items
- anjuta - c/c++ ide
- Code::Blocks - c/c++ ide
- Conky - a (screen background) configurable system monitor
- Crypt Manager - An encrypted folder manager for Ubuntu Linux
- duplicity - Encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup using the rsync algorithm
- Eclipse - Java development or C development (w/ CDT addon)
- Eucalyptus - Cloud Computing software that comes with recent versions of Ubuntu
- fcheck - file change checker (ala tripwire)
- Geany - IDE (including c/c++)
- Gitso - reverse VNC connections http://www.ubuntugeek.com/gitso-frontend-to-reverse-vnc-connections.html
- IPTraf - a ncurses based LAN monitor
- LibreOffice - alternative to OpenOffice
- logcheck - simple log checker
- monit - monitor processes, files, directories, devices. Auto-maintenance and causal actions in error situations
- NetBeans with C/C++ development pack - another IDE
- Okular - KDE PDF editor
- OpenOffice.org
- PDFedit - PDF editor
- PDF Mod - application for modifying PDF documents
- Puppet - Multiserver administration
- QDevelop - IDE dedicated to Qt4 - uses ctags for code completion
- scribus - page layout tool ala Pagemaker. Supports PDFs and SVGs.
- shutter - screenshot program
- SystemRescueCD - data recovery
- tc-play - alternative to TrueCrypt - Fedora sponsored
- Tenshi - log monitor
- TestDisk - data recovery
- ubuntu-tweak - Ubuntu Tweak features program