PhoroLinux

Qps is a visual process manager. With Qps, you not only can view CPU usage, memory usage, and swap partition usage, but also can terminate, hangup, or kill process. Anyway, Qps is a quite useful program.

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GPicView is a simple and fast image viewer for X. It is extremely lightweight and fast with low memory usage. Furthermore, GPicView is only used pure GTK+. It doesn’t require any specific desktop environment. This program is very suitable for default image viewer of desktop system.

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MeMaker is a nifty little program. With MeMaker, you can create an avatar of your liking. MeMaker is easy to use, you only need to select face, hair, eyes, mouth, ears and so on. Then MeMaker will automatically place them together. This program is very funny.

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Linkage is a lightweight BitTorrent client for Linux, created using C++. It based on libtorrent and uses the GTK+ toolkit (through gtkmm). The user interface of Linkage is very similar to µTorrent. If you’re looking for native GTK+ BitTorrent client on Linux, I suggest you try this program.

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Music Applet is really useful GNOME panel applet. With Music Applet, you can control various music players from the GNOME panel. Currently, Music Applet supports Banshee, Exaile, MPD, Muine, Quod Libet, Rhythmbox and XMMS/XMMS2.

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Guake is a new drop-down terminal for GNOME. It is quite similar to Tilda and Yakuake. Guake supports hotkeys, tabs, background transparent, etc. It’s really very nice program.

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Byzanz is an especially useful small program. With Byzanz, you can record your current Linux desktop to an animated GIF file. Byzanz is implemented as a GNOME applet. It also contains a command line interface.

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I recently found a good download utility. It’s called aria2. Because aria2 has segmented downloading feature, it can fast download files. In addition, aria2 supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and BitTorrent protocols. You can download a variety of files use it.

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The screenshot with style plugin for the GIMP is cool. With screenshot with style plugin, you can make 3D screenshots in GIMP. It’s very simple and easy.

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Everyone love music. How to manage and play your music collection in Linux? GMusicBrowser is my choice. GMusicBrowser is written in Perl. It supports mp3, ogg, flac and mpc files, includes tag editor, mass-renaming and plugin system. You can also custom window layouts of GMusicBrowser.

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