Graphics Pinta - open source drawing application modeled after italic italic KolourPaint - paint application with elemental functions italic MyPaint - paint application with a large variety of brushes italic The GIMP - free software replacement for Adobe Photoshop italic Shotwell Photo Manager - full-featured personal photo management application for the GNOME desktop italic Internet Firefox Opera Chromium - Google's open-source browser italic Thunderbird - email and news client italic Evolution -bines e-mail calendar address book and task list management functions italic Deluge - free cross-platform BitTorrent client italic Transmission BitTorrent Client - Bittorrent client italic Vuze - Java BitTorrent client italic qBittorrent - free alternative to ub5torrent italic Marble - desktop globe similar to google earth italic GoogleEarth - Google's desktop globe italic Flash Player 11 FileZilla - multithreaded FTP client italic Pidgin IM Client - multi-platform instant messaging client italic Skype Dropbox Client - cloud storage italic Gwibber Social Client - open-source microblogging client (Twitter Facebook etc.) italic Office Adobe Reader Evince - document viewer italic Okular - document viewer italic LibreOffice Writer - replacement for Microsoft Word italic LibreOffice Calc - replacement for Microsoft Excel italic GnuCash - double-entry book-keeping personal finance system similar to Quicken italic Scribus - open source desktop publishing (DTP) application italic Sound & Video Banshee - audio player can encode various formats and synchronize music with Apple iPods italic Amarok - audio player italic MPlayer - media player (video) supports WMA italic Rhythmbox Music Player - audio player similar to Apple's iTunes with support for iPods italic gtkPod - software similar to Apple's iTunes supports iPod iPod nano iPod shuffle iPod photo and iPod mini italic Sound Juicer CD Extractor - CD ripping tool supports various audio codecs italic Nightingale - audio player similar to Winamp but not yet as feature rich (Songbird fork) italic XMMS - audio player similar to Winamp italic Clementine - Amarok 1.4 fork Exaile - audio playern VLC Media Player - media player plays all kinds of videos (video) italic Totem - media player (video) italic Xine - media player supports various formats; can play DVDs italic Winff - free video converter italic n SoundConverter - free audio converter italic Soundkonverter - free audio converter italic XFCA - free video converter and rippern K3B - CD burning program italic Brasero - CD burning program italic Audacity - free open source cross platform digital audio editor italic Kino - free digital video editor italic dvdrip - full featured DVD copy program italic Multimedia Codecs Programming KompoZer - WYSIWYG HTML editor similar to Macromedia Dreamweaver but not as feature-rich (yet) italic Bluefish - editor suitable for many programming and markup languages italic Eclipse - Extensible Tool Platform and Java IDE italic Other VirtualBox OSE - lets you run your old Windows desktop as a virtual machine under your Linux desktop so you don't have to entirely abandon Windows italic TrueType fonts Java gedit - simple editor italic gdebi - package installer taking care of dependencies italic