Open Source Linux Desktop Environment Software

Desktop Environment Software for Linux

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  • Paessler: Easy to Use With Enterprise Power. Free Trial Icon
    Paessler: Easy to Use With Enterprise Power. Free Trial

    A low-code dashboard makes monitoring intuitive for any admin, while scripting and custom sensors give experts full control.

    You shouldn't have to choose between a monitoring tool that's easy to use and one that's powerful enough for a complex environment. PRTG's low-code interface lets any admin build dashboards, set alerts and monitor devices without scripting, while custom sensors and full API access are there when your team needs deeper control. One platform, no compromise. Download a free 30-day trial now.
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    Can you recover when it matters most? Take this quick assessment to identify gaps and build greater recovery confidence.

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    KeePass

    KeePass

    A lightweight and easy-to-use password manager

    KeePass Password Safe is a free, open source, lightweight, and easy-to-use password manager for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, with ports for Android, iPhone/iPad and other mobile devices. With so many passwords to remember and the need to vary passwords to protect your valuable data, it’s nice to have KeePass to manage your passwords in a secure way. KeePass puts all your passwords in a highly encrypted database and locks them with one master key or a key file. As a result, you only have to remember one single master password or select the key file to unlock the whole database. And the databases are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms currently known, AES and Twofish. See our features page for details.
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    Downloads: 198,062 This Week
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    GnuCash

    GnuCash

    Personal and small-business finance manager

    GnuCash is a personal and small-business finance manager with a check-book like register GUI to enter and track bank accounts, stocks, income and expenses. GnuCash is designed to be simple and easy to use but still based on formal accounting principles.
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    Downloads: 6,133 This Week
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    Wine

    Wine

    Run Windows applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris, and Mac OS X

    Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix. Wine provides both a development toolkit for porting Windows sources to Unix and a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows binaries to run on x86-based Unixes.
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    Downloads: 799 This Week
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    Domination (Risk Board Game)

    Domination (Risk Board Game)

    Domination is a game that is a bit like the board game Risk

    Domination is a game that is a bit like the well known board game of Risk or RisiKo. It has many game options and includes many maps. Written in java it includes a map editor, a simple map format, multiplayer network play, single player, hotseat, 5 user interfaces and many more features, it works in all OSs that run java 1.5 or higher, iOS and Android.
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    Downloads: 731 This Week
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  • Build Agents and Models on One Platform Icon
    Build Agents and Models on One Platform

    Everything you need to build production-ready agents and models. Access 200+ Google and third-party AI models and tools.

    Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform is Google Cloud's comprehensive platform for developers to build, scale, govern, and optimize agents and models. Choose from Google's most advanced models and third-party models like Anthropic's Claude Model Family.
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    A GUI to ease the process of producing a multipage PDF from a scan. gscan2pdf should work on almost any Linux/BSD machine.
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    Downloads: 127 This Week
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    KShutdown

    KShutdown

    A graphical shutdown utility for Linux and Windows

    KShutdown is a graphical shutdown utility for Linux and Windows. It allows you to turn off or suspend a computer at a specified time. It features various time and delay options, command-line support, and notifications.
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    Downloads: 99 This Week
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    PDF Split and Merge

    PDF Split and Merge

    Split and merge PDF files on any platform

    Split and merge PDF files with PDFsam, an easy-to-use desktop tool with graphical, command line and web interface.
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    Downloads: 380 This Week
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    JNode is a Java New Operating system Design Effort. JNode is a simple to use and install Java operating system for personal use on modern devices. Any java application runs on it, fast and safe. See our homepage for additional information.
    Downloads: 65 This Week
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    LuninuxOS

    LuninuxOS

    LuninuxOS is a Debian/Ubuntu based Linux distribution.

    A Linux operating system, designed and developed to be beautiful, simple, fast, and stable on many computer hardware.
    Downloads: 65 This Week
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    Save Up to 91% on Cloud Compute With Spot VMs

    Automatic sustained-use discounts. One free VM per month. No negotiation needed.

    Run batch jobs at 60-91% off with Spot VMs. Long-running workloads get automatic discounts with sustained use.
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    GCompris : I got IT

    GCompris : I got IT

    Educational Software for children aged 2 to 10.

    GCompris is a high quality educational software suite comprising of numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10. Some of the activities are game oriented, but nonetheless still educational.
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    Downloads: 29 This Week
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    Syllable Desktop is a complete operating system that is easy to use, powerful, lightweight and extraordinarily fast and responsive. It has its own kernel, filesystem, GUI and applications. Syllable Server is a matching small and efficient Linux server.
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    Downloads: 30 This Week
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    Comix is a user-friendly, customizable image viewer. It is specifically designed to handle comic books, but also serves as a generic viewer. It reads images in ZIP, RAR or tar archives (also gzip or bzip2 compressed) as well as plain image files.
    Downloads: 15 This Week
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    KeyTouch makes it possible to easily configure the extra function keys (like multimedia keys) of your keyboard. You can define which program will be executed while pressing a key. KeyTouch 2 is the first program of its kind that works on kernel 2.6.
    Downloads: 21 This Week
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    emesene
    emesene is a platform independent instant messaging client for the Windows Live Messenger (tm) network. emesene is distributed free of charge under the GNU General Public License 2 or any later version.
    Downloads: 10 This Week
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    Krusader is a twin-panel (commander style) filemanager for KDE. It supports mime-type, complete drag n' drop, multiple filesystems, archives, bookmarks etc. Krusader's GUI is intuitive, and allows an easy access to all of your file-management needs.
    Downloads: 9 This Week
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    Wcd is another Norton Change Directory (NCD) clone. Wcd is a command-line program to change directory fast. It includes a full screen interactive directory tree browser with speed search and a fast way to choose between multiple matches.
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    Downloads: 22 This Week
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