De MEPIS Documentation Wiki

This is not an exhaustive list of Linux software, it's just a list of most common used and generally considered as the "best" software that's available in Linux. See also linux app finder

Packages that don't have installation instructions are installed by default in Mepis, otherwise see Installing Software

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Tabla de contenidos 1 Office Productivity 1.1 Office Suites 1.2 Text Editing 1.3 PDF Readers 1.4 PDF Writers 1.5 PDF Conversion 1.6 Business Management 2 Internet 2.1 Browser 2.2 RSS Reader 2.3 Communication Software 2.3.1 Email Client 2.3.2 Instant Messenger 2.3.3 IRC 2.3.4 Voice/Video Chat/Telephony/Conference 2.4 File Sharing 2.5 FTP Client 2.6 FTP Server 2.7 Web Page Design 2.8 Web Server 2.9 Content Management System 2.10 E-Mail Server 2.11 PBX Server 2.12 Wireless Portal Authentication 3 Graphics 3.1 Image Editors 3.2 Image Viewers 3.3 CAD 3.4 Scanner 4 Audio 4.1 Music Player 4.2 Music Ripper 4.3 Music composer/editor 5 Video 5.1 Video Player 5.2 Video Recording/Ripping 5.3 Video Editor 6 Security 6.1 Firewall 6.2 AntiVirus 6.3 AntiRootKit 6.4 Vulnerability Scanner 7 Utilities 7.1 Backup 7.2 System Admin 7.3 Network Monitor 7.4 Bandwidth Manager 7.5 SNMP 7.6 SQL Database Server 7.7 Terminal Server 7.8 Distributed Filesystem 7.9 Clustering 7.10 Virtual Machine 7.11 Emulation & Compatibility 7.12 Genealogy 7.13 Screen Saver 7.14 Remote Access 8 Programming 9 Science 10 Games 10.1 Adventure Games 10.2 Arcade Games 10.3 Board Games 10.4 Card Games 10.5 Tactics & Strategy 11 Children 11.1 Graphics

Office Productivity

Office Suites

• openoffice.org ^preinstalled-- extra templates - extra macros - training videos - latest betas .deb
• Kile ^synaptic -- Kile is a user friendly TeX/LaTeX editor for the KDE desktop environment.

Text Editing

Simple Word processing / rich text

• abiword -- Simple and quick wordprocessor with basic features. available through Synaptic/apt-get

GUI textfile editors

• kate -- Good textfile editor and "IDE lite" for programming and config files. Features syntax highlighting for many languages, multiple files open in a single instance, many other nice features.
• kwrite -- very like kate; haven't figured out the difference.
• kedit --- KDE's ultra-lite text editor.
• nedit -- available through Synaptic/apt-get

Console text editors

• nano -- text based (console application) editor.
• vi -- default text editor for console; also try vim, it's similar but works better with a standard pc keyboard.
• qemacs -- text based (console application) editor available through Synaptic/apt-get

PDF Readers

• kpdf -- available through Synaptic/apt-get
• acroread (Adobe Reader 7)

PDF Writers

• Open Office Writer -- preinstalled on Simply Mepis
• KWord -- part of KOffice preinstalled in Mepis Lite
• kprinter -- kprinter has a "print to PDF file" feature, any program that can print using kprinter can potentially print to PDF.

PDF Conversion

• pdftohtml -- available through Synaptic/apt-get
• kprinter -- KDE capabilty: any program that can print through kprinter can print a PDF file.

Business Management

• vtiger -- Manage customers, inventory, purchasing, sales, marketing; easy setup, pre-configured, GPL.

• simpleticket -- A simple Trouble Ticket System for IT, Non-Tech Customer Support, ISP/TelCo, etc., GPL.

• journyx -- Employee time and expenses tracking for Projects, Billing, Payroll, etc. Free full unlimited use for up to 10 users (not open source).

Internet

Browser

• firefox
• mozilla -- full Internet suite -- available through Synaptic/apt-get
• opera -- full Internet suite, available for free, ad free.
• dillo -- small and very fast browser. Ideal for viewing downloaded html files -- available through Synaptic/apt-get

RSS Reader

• akregator
• liferea -- available through Synaptic/apt-get

Communication Software

Email Client

• thunderbird -- available through Synaptic/apt-get
• kmail
• Evolution 2.0-- MS Outlook replacement with PDA support available through Synaptic/apt-get
• sylpheed-claws-- Simple and very fast email client based on GTK+ -- available through Synaptic/apt-get

Instant Messenger

• gaim -- multiprotocol client (AIM/ICQ, GoogleTalk, MSN, Yahoo, Jabber, IRC).
• kopete -- multiprotocol client (AIM/ICQ, GoogleTalk, MSN, Yahoo, Jabber, IRC).
• Useful service in case your company blocks IM: multiprotocol browser client http://www.meebo.com or https://www.meebo.com for secure connection.

IRC

• xchat
• chatzilla
• irssi-- A terminal based IRC client for UNIX systems -- available through Synaptic/apt-get

Voice/Video Chat/Telephony/Conference

• skype
• openwengo Open source alternative to Skype, it has webcam capability.
• kphone -- Available through Synaptic/apt-get

File Sharing

• aMule -- eDonkey Client.
• ktorrent -- BitTorrent Client
• azureus -- Java based BitTorrent Client.
• frostwire -- Gnutella2 Client, LimeWire Pro fork, open source, No content blocking, No restrictive trademark.

FTP Client

• kget -- advanced gui download manager
• Konqueor -- KDE's file browser, good for browsing FTP also!
• gftp
• ftp -- console application
• wget -- advanced cli download manager

FTP Server

• proftpd -- presinstalled on SOHO server, available through Synaptic/apt-get

Web Page Design

• nvu -- best visual editor, available through Synaptic/apt-get
• bluefish -- best code editor, available through Synaptic/apt-get
• aptana -- Dreamweaver-like Web Page builder / IDE (Integrated Development Environment), open source.
• quanta -- available through Synaptic/apt-get

Web Server

• lighttpd -- fast, efficient, available through Synaptic/apt-get
• apache

Content Management System

• joomla -- (free Mambo fork)
• xoops -- mepislovers.org web site is powered by this. Also get hack protector.

E-Mail Server

• zimbra -- Collaboration Suite (email server, calendar & scheduling) with AJAX web client, has an open source version.

• qmail -- Email Server Suite, open source.

• postfix -- See How-To's for anti-virus/spam (How-To or How-To).

PBX Server

• Asterisk PBX -- Private telephone Branch eXchange Server, VoIP compatibility, open source.

Wireless Portal Authentication

• chilispot -- open source
• publicIP -- easy setup, client is open source, server use is free but closed source for now.

Graphics

Image Editors

• gimp -- or gimpshop adds photoshop menu emulation.
• krita -- easy to use.
• inkscape -- Vector Graphics application. Available through Synaptic/apt-get

Image Viewers

• kuickshow preinstalled in Mepis

• gqview--Simple image browser with thumbnail capability. Uses GTK+ 2.x. Available through synaptic or apt-get.

• qiv--Quick Image Viewer (qiv) is a very small and fast GDK/Imlib image viewer. Available through synaptic or apt-get.

• gwenview --Feature-packed yet fast image viewer and browser; Can rotate and mirror images without harming EXIF data in jpegs (unlike some other simple viewers/editors).

CAD

• qcad -- 2D, available through Synaptic/apt-get

Scanner

• kooka -- Scan and OCR program

Audio

Music Player

• amarok
• juK
• xmms

Music Ripper

• streamripper -- Rips from online radio stations.

Music composer/editor

• rosegarden sequencer + more
• muse mixer
• zynaddsubfx synth
• hydrogen drum machine
• djplay dj tools
• terminatorx dj scratching
• rivendell' radio station manager
• linux-sound many more sound applications

Video

Video Player

• mplayer -- kmplayer, win32 codecs deb's: debian/mepis or ubuntu
• xine
• kaffeine -- available through Synaptic/apt-get

Video Recording/Ripping

• k9copy -- similar to dvdshrink, easy to use.
• dvdrip -- rip dvds to avi/mpeg/divx/xvid, available through Synaptic/apt-get
• avidemux -- a virtualdub clone, available through Synaptic/apt-get
• option -- dvddecryptor plus dvdshrink run in MS Windows emulator wine.
• XDVDshrink -- open source dvdshrink, only copies the main film. Use alien to convert to .deb.
• tovid -- a collection of video disc authoring tools; it can help you create your own DVDs, VCDs, and SVCDs for playback on your home DVD player. Unofficial .deb available.
• lxdvdrip -- a Command Line Tool to make a copy from a Video DVD for privateuse.

Video Editor

• Jahshaka -- Realtime Editing and Effects System.
• Cinelerra .deb file - Professional level editor

Security

Firewall

• firestarter -- available through Synaptic/apt-get
• guarddog

AntiVirus

• clamav and klamav, it's KDE frontend. Available through Synaptic/apt-get

AntiRootKit

• rkhunter -- best, available through Synaptic/apt-get
• chkrootkit

Vulnerability Scanner

• nessus -- has open source version.
• snort -- Intrusion Detection Software, open source, in use by govt./military.

Utilities

Backup

• Mondo -- easy to use, gui, open source.
• amanda -- backup multiple computers to single large capacity tape drive.
• keep -- backup program preinstalled in Mepis
• partimage
• konserve

System Admin

• webmin -- web-based frontend for comprehensive system administration
• Puppet -- multi-server admin tool, automation, propagation, easier than other similar multi-server tools.

Network Monitor

• cacti -- easy to use frontend for RRDTool.
• Nagios -- host and service monitor designed to inform you of network problems before your users.
• OpenNMS -- Network Monitor System.

Bandwidth Manager

• bandwidth arbitrator -- fair division of bandwidth, dynamic, auto-configuring. Author also sells rack mount.

SNMP

• MRTG -- Multi Router Traffic Grapher, monitors SNMP network devices and graphs traffic.

SQL Database Server

• PostgreSQL -- feature rich, enterprise class, easy to use, standards compliant, in use by Hospitals, etc.
• FirebirdSQL -- not as easy to use, but solid, high performance, low overhead, enterprise class, in use by 911 call centers, etc.
• MySQL -- high compatibility; this once plebeian database is gaining ground in features and stability.
• EnterpriseDB -- Oracle compatible, built upon PostgreSQL, integrated pre-configured drivers, admin & reporting tools, closed source but has a free version. Sony Online (Everquest,SWG,etc.) is switching from Oracle to this.

Terminal Server

• FreeNX -- also features Clustering, Load Sharing, Clients for Linux/Windows/Mac/Solaris - review.
• LTSP -- Linux Terminal Server Project - deploy cheap low-maintenance Thin-Clients - setup instructions.

Distributed Filesystem

• OpenAFS -- phase-out your old insecure centralized file/ftp server. Available via Synaptic/apt-get

Clustering

• OpenSSI -- Single System Image (many computers appear as one system to the user/program), has debian Sarge version.
• dcc -- Debian Cluster Components, multi-server collaborative processing.
• article -- clustering tools overview and discussion.

Virtual Machine

• VMWare -- VMWare is a desktop virtualization software for software developers/testers and enterprise IT professionals that runs multiple operating systems simultaneously on a single PC. VMWare server is available for free.
• VMWare Player -- It can play images created with VMWare Server or Workstation. To create images without them you can use this howto. Create virtual machines online: http://www.easyvmx.com/ and http://www.consolevision.com/members/dcgrendel/vmxform.html
• Parallels -- (Not free) Parallels is a desktop virtualization solution that enables users to create multiple independently operating, completely self-contained virtual machines on a single PC.
• qemu -- Free, not terribly fast or sturdy, but fun to play with. Networking can be troublesome. Available via apt-get.
• xen -- open source
• user-mode-linux -- open source

Emulation & Compatibility

• ifs -- provides MS Windows with read/write access to Linux Ext2/Ext3 file systems.
• WINE -- MS Windows API Implementation - Runs software made for MS Windows.
• Crossover Office -- (Not free) MS Windows API Implementation - Runs software made for MS Windows.
• LIFLG -- Loki Installers For Linux Gamers - Installs games made for MS Windows.
• DOSbox -- Nice DOS emulator, mostly good for playing old DOS games. Available through Synaptic/apt-get. Easier to use with dosbox front end.
• snes9x -- Super Nintendo emulator. Available through Synaptic/apt-get.
• stella -- Atari 2600 console simulator. Ahhh, nostalgia. Available through Synaptic/apt-get.

Genealogy

• gramps -- Genealogical Research and Analysis Management Programming System.

Screen Saver

• electric sheep -- automated collaborative screen saver.

Remote Access

• NX Client and Sever -- Very fast remote desktop program.
• ssh -- Terminal OpenSSH client, also available through GUI in Konqueror by using kioslave protocol fish://ip_address
• vncviewer
• vncserver

Programming

• NetBeans IDE -- Cross-platform Java IDE. Available free for non-commercial use.
• KDevelop -- KDevelop is an easy to use Integrated Development Environment for developing C/C++ applications under X11. Available through Synaptic/apt-get
• Django -- Python Web Development Framework (like "ruby on rails" for Python).
• OpenLaszlo -- Web application development framework. article.
• Gambas -- Gambas is a free development environment based on a Basic interpreter with object extensions, like Visual Basic™
• subversion -- Source code version control system, a compelling replacement for CVS.
• savane -- Web-based Free Software Development Hosting System with bug tracking, project & member management, mailing lists.

Science

• R -- Free/Open Source flavour of S-Plus, available through Synaptic/apt-get. R Installation Tips for MEPIS
• ESS -- (EMACS Speaks Statistics) R interface for the EMACS editor, available through Synaptic/apt-get
• GRASS -- GIS package, available through Synaptic/apt-get
• Celestia -- 3d model of the solar system, very educational; available through Synaptic/apt-get
• GnuPlot -- GnuPlot is a command-line driven interactive data and function plotting utility. Available through Synaptic/apt-get
• Octave -- GNU Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It uses GnuPlot for graphing. Available through Synaptic/apt-get
• Euler -- EULER is a program for quickly and interactively computing with real and complex numbers in the style of MatLab. Available through Synaptic/apt-get
• KStars -- KStars is a Desktop Planetarium for KDE. Available through Synaptic/apt-get
• rasmol -- shows different views of molecules. Available through Synaptic/apt-get
• Folding@Home -- Proteine folding distribute computing. KDE has a kfolding applet that's installable through Synaptic/apt-get for managing the Folding@Home client.

Games

Adventure Games

• adonthell
• kq

Arcade Games

• AlienArenaGE -- 3D FPS, has linux version, by CodeRED, not open source.
• Cube -- 3D FPS, has linux version, open source.
• tuxkart -- a Go-kart racing game.
• tuxracer/ppracer -- slalom ski-ing game
• supertux -- superMario type clone
• pingus -- a lemmings clone
• blobwars
• defendguin -- a defender clone, available through Synaptic/apt-get
• games -- A great Open Source Games collection, most have Linux versions.

Board Games

• xboard + gnuchess -- chess game, available through Synaptic/apt-get
• Risk -- Java-based Risk clone.

Card Games

• kpat --- a.k.a. patience; 14 versions of solitaire
• pysol --- probably the biggest collection of solitaire games in one program. dozens of cardsets available as well.

Tactics & Strategy

• freeciv -- clone of Civilization, available through Synaptic/apt-get
• lincity -- clone of Simcity, available through Synaptic/apt-get
• Battle for Wesnoth -- available through Synaptic/apt-get as wesnoth

Children

Graphics

• TuxPaint -- is meant to be a simple drawing program for young children. It IS meant to be fun and easy to use. Sound effects and a cartoon character help let the user know what's going on, and keeps them entertained., available through Synaptic/apt-get