Collection:GNU/Linux

High Priority Projects

Programs related to FSF's High Priority Free Software Projects.

This collection is maintained by the Free software replacement project team.

Common distros usually provides a repository of nonfree software, we urge all GNU/Linux users to switch to a free distribution as soon as possible.

For non-Linux device drivers and firmware dependencies, see collection: Device drivers and firmware.

Type	Local executable		Important note
	Free program[1]	Replacement for
3D computer graphics software	Blender FreeCAD OpenSCAD	Autodesk Maya ("Maya")
Accessibility	Orca
Anonymous P2P	GNUnet
BitTorrent client	Tribler qBittorrent
Compiler	Mingw-w64
Desktop publishing	Scribus
Diagramming software	Dia
Document viewer	Evince	Adobe Reader
Email client, news aggregator	Claws Mail Icedove[3]
File archiver	p7zip p7zip-full	rar (extraction)	The p7zip-full (Trisquel), or p7zip (guix) package provides the 7z command-line tool to extract proprietary RAR archives, including RAR 5.0, which Engrampa sometimes fails to process without proprietary packages.[7]
		unrar
GPG manager	GnuPG	-
Multimedia communication	Dino Ekiga Empathy Fractal Gajim GNUnet Messenger Jami Jitsi Desktop KDE Telepathy Linphone Pidgin qTox SimpleX Chat Wire	Microsoft Skype
		Element
		Signal
		Viber
Instant messaging client	Briar Delta Chat Pidgin (pidgin-otr) Psi PyBitmessage Ricochet Refresh	ICQ
		Telegram
		Trillian
		Yahoo! Messenger
Live USB	dd from Coreutils Gnome Multi-Writer	balenaEtcher
		UNetbootin[5]
		Ventoy
Media player	VLC media player (VLC)	RealPlayer Basic
Numerical computing	GNU Octave Scilab	MATLAB
Office suite	LibreOffice
Online storage	ownCloud (client only)	Dropbox
		Nextcloud (client only)
Time management	Workrave
Package manager	AppMan Flatpak Guix Nix
Password manager	KeePassXC Seahorse	1Password Bitwarden
Proxy server
Raster graphics editor	GIMP Krita Tux Paint
Text editor	Emacs Gedit Vim[2]
Vector graphics editor	Inkscape Xfig
VPN client	OpenVPN
Web browser	GNU IceCat[3][4] Midori Tor Browser	Chromium
		Google Chrome

1. This is a selection of the more common free software applications available for GNU/Linux distributions, and is nothing like a comprehensive list. All software in the Directory runs on GNU/Linux systems.
2. Included in the operating system.
3. Mozilla branded programs such as Firefox and Thunderbird are not free software unless their names are changed. This is due to Mozilla's trademark policy that forbids selling copies of unmodified executables.
4. GNU IceCat is a freedom focused fork of Mozilla Firefox ESR.
5. Recommends nonfree software.
6. We don't know any GUI program
7. The p7zip-full package provides the command-line tool 7z, a powerful and versatile archiver capable of extracting and managing numerous archive formats, including RAR 5.0 files, even without the non-free p7zip-rar package installed in Trisquel GNU/Linux. Engrampa, the graphical archive manager, depends on p7zip-full and uses 7z to extract RAR archives. Both 7z and Engrampa successfully extract the full set of RAR 5.0 test files available at ssokolow's rar-test-files repository. However, while 7z consistently succeeds, Engrampa fails to extract certain RAR 5.0 archives from various sources unless at least one of the proprietary packages p7zip-rar, rar, or unrar is installed. Since free GNU/Linux distributions like Trisquel strictly exclude proprietary software and do not even provide repositories for such packages, these tools are unavailable. Consequently, for these problematic archives, using the terminal with the 7z command is the most dependable extraction method, making 7z an essential tool on Trisquel for comprehensive handling of RAR files via the command line.

See also

• FSD: UserNotices

External links

• Adobe's Software is Malware
• Apple's Operating Systems Are Malware
• Google's Software is Malware
• Microsoft's Software is Malware

Free distros

Free distros package wish lists that has been synced with this page:

• Guix