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A collection of awesome Linux applications and tools for developers.

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Frameworks for Hybrid Apps

  • AppJS

    Build desktop application for Linux, Windows and Mac using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

  • Electron

    Build cross platform desktop application with JavaScript, HTML and CSS.

  • nw.js

    Build desktop application with HTML and JavaScript.

  • React Native for Ubuntu

    Build Ubuntu desktop apps using React Native.

System

  • Baobab

    Graphical application to analyse disk usage.

  • Glances

    Glances is a cross-platform curses-based system monitoring tool.

  • LNav

    Log file navigator.

  • sysdig

    System-level exploration: capture system state and activity from a running Linux instance, then save, filter and analyze.

Command Line Tools

  • bash-it

    Shameless ripoff of oh-my-zsh for Bash.

  • Fish Shell

    A smart and user-friendly terminal, similar to zsh.

  • mycli

    A command line client for MySQL that can do auto-completion and syntax highlighting.

  • oh-my-fish

    Like oh-my-zsh, for Fish Shell.

  • oh-my-zsh

    It comes bundled with a ton of helpful functions, helpers, plugins, themes, and a few things that make you shout.

  • Prezto

    The configuration framework for zsh: it enriches the command line interface environment with sane defaults, aliases, functions, auto completion, and prompt themes.

Design and Graphics

  • Blender

    3D creation software.

  • GColor

    Color-picking tool.

  • Gimp

    A cross-platform image editor.

  • GPick

    Advanced color picker.

  • Inkscape

    The vector graphics editor.

  • Krita

    Professional free and open source painting program.

Virtual Machines

  • Boxes

    A simple application to access remote or virtual systems.

  • Virtual Box

    A powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product.

Editors and IDE

  • BracketsEditors

    A modern, open source text editor that understands web design.

  • CodeBlocksIDE

    The open source, cross platform, free C, C++ and Fortran IDE.

  • EclipseIDE

    Popular open-source IDE, mainly for Java but with plugin support for a wide array of languages and platforms.

  • EmacsEditors

    A popular text editor used by programmers, scientists, engineers, students, and system administrators.

  • Gnome BuilderIDE

    IDE for the Gnome platform.

  • KateEditors

    An advanced editor integrated in the KDE desktop environment.

Development Tools

  • BrunoTest Tools

    Git-friendly and offline-first open-source API client.

  • Certificate RipperTest Tools

    A CLI tool to extract server certificates from a URL.

  • FakeSMTPTest Tools

    Fake SMTP server with GUI for testing emails in applications easily.

  • FakeSmtpServerTest Tools

    A simple SMTP server for testing purpose.

  • Gisto

    Snippets manager, desktop frontend for GitHub Gist.

  • Git

    The Version Control Tool.

Database

  • Chrome MySQL Admin

    This is a powerful Chrome app to manage your MySQL.

  • ElectroCRUD

    Modern MySQL CRUD Application.

  • MySQL Workbench

    MySQL Official GUI.

  • SQLiteBrowser

    High quality, visual, open source tool designed for people who want to create, search, and edit SQLite or SQLCipher database files.

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