This is pretty much a mirror of this, but i will likely be making some changes to it later.
ALTERNATIVES TO BLOATWARE
The list is built pointing to software that has alternatives with less dependencies, and addressing dependencies was the easy thing. Some tools in particular were included because they add less dependencies overall while keeping a system functional. One such example is imagemagick and ffmpeg, by which you can do a lot of work and replace many tools by just using those with scripts and replace something like a screenshot utility. Certainly it would be great to have a comparative on resource usage. However, a new revision now includes software that was previously discarded for better comparison and featured recommendations will not be highlight for the moment.
TL;DR: is about the unix principle, having a fully functional system pretty damn minimal with that.
TOC
- ANDROID APPS
- Command Line
- Communication
3.1. Desktop Client
- Data
- Decentralized Networking
- Emulation And Virtualization
- File Utilities
- Filesharing
- Forensics
- Hardware
- Monitoring
- 1. Benchmarking
- 2. System Information
- 3. System Monitoring
- Multimedia
- 1. ASCii Art
- 2. Audio
- 3. Image
- 4. Metadata
- 5. Video
- Network Setup
- Office
- Package Management
- Pentesting
- 1. Exploitables
- 2. Network Scanner
- 3. Network Tampering
- 4. Password Cracking
- 5. Vulnerability Scanner
- Privacy
- Programming
- Remote Access
- Science And Engineering
- Security
- 1. Containment
- 2. Honeypots
- 3. Host Intrusion
- 4. Network Intrusion
- Server
- 1. Server Authentication
- System Utilities
- 1. Init
- 2. Job Scheduler
- X Desktop
ANDROID APPS
- Launcher: OpenLauncher (8,3 MB) -> Catapult (4,7 MB) -> Lawnchair (3,1 MB) -> Paper Launch (2,8 MB) -> Launch Time (2,5 MB) -> Silverfish (1,5 MB) -> T-UI (1,2 MB) -> Search Based Launcher (622 KB) -> KISS (431 KB) -> Emerald Launcher (172 KB) -> Hayai Launcher (106 KB) -> Fast (76 KB) -> Essential Launcher (26 KB) -> Null Launcher (12 KB)
- Facebook: FaceSlim (1,3 MB) -> Tinfoil for Facebook (525 KB) -> SlimSocial (313 KB)
- Twitter: Tinfoil for Twitter -> SlimSocial for Twitter (699 KB)
- YouTube: NewPipe (5,0 MB) -> SkyTube (4,9 MB) -> WebTube (2,1 MB) -> MinTube (981 KB)
- Photo Gallery: Simple Gallery (12 MB) -> LeafPic (10/2016: 4.3 MB) -> Cameraroll (2.4 MB) -> A Photo Manager (1.3MB)
- E-Books: Document Viewer (8.5 MB)
- Notes: Orgzly (3.9 MB) -> Markor (3 MB) -> miniNoteViewer (452 KB)
- Keyboards: Hacker's Keyboard (1,2 MB) -> Simple Keyboard (835 KB)
- File Manager: Amaze -> OI File Manager
- Dictionary: Quickdic
- Firewall: NetGuard -> AFWall+
- E-Mail: K-9 Mail
Most apps are from F-Droid, we are just starting.
Command Line
- Commands Cheatsheet: CLI Companion -> xman -> cheat / howdoi / clf / fu / bro -> curl cht.sh/PROGRAM
- Copy and Move Progress Bar: progress -> Advanced Copy
- Daemonize: dtach -> abduco -> GNU Screen
- Directory Bookmarks: Apparix -> fasd
- Framebuffer Environment: jfbterm/Fbterm -> yaft (because sixel) -> hterm (because regis) -> Fbpad -> FramebufferUI
- Hacker Culture: ddate, fortune, The Hacker Test, The Jargon File
- Login: fgetty -> mingetty -> stty (GNU Coreutils) -> agetty (util-linux)
- Menu: pdmenu -> tmenu -> iSelect -> pick -> fzy -> slmenu
- Multiplexer: Byobu -> Tmux -> GNU Screen (+sixel patch) -> dvtm
- Notification: skroll
- Progress Bar: vramsteg -> clpbar- > pv - Pipe Viewer -> sob - simple output bar -> dbar
- Scripting: Multipipe -> GNU Parallel (+ GNU SQL) -> execline -> Expect -> empty
- Shells: Xonsh -> PowerShell -> Bash (+ bash-completion + bash-completion-extras) -> zsh -> tcsh -> PC-DCL -> mksh -> dash -> rc -> s -> Danshell
- Terminal Colorizer: colout -> lolcat -> Bashish
- Terminal Dropdown: tdrop -> YeahConsole -> alwaysontop
- Terminal Emulator: PuTTY -> Cool Retro Term -> Terminology -> rxvt-unicode (a.k.a. urxvt) -> Termite -> UXTerm (XTerm) -> st -> Qodem
- Terminal Pager: most -> less (+ lesspipe)
- Terminal Screensaver: bb, sl, tty-clock, CMatrix, cowsay (or cowthink), rice, Asciiquarium, pipes, nyan.sh, rickrollrc, NCMatrix, terminal-screensaver, No More Secrets
Communication
Desktop Client
Data
Decentralized Networking
Emulation And Virtualization
- Containers: sandbox -> fakechroot -> FakeRoot -> PRoot -> chroot -> containerd -> OpenVZ -> User-mode Linux (UML) -> LXC -> Linux-VServer -> containers
- Emulators: Systemd/Linux: systemd-shim, Windows: Wine (+ Wine Staging), Android: Anbox, OS X: Darling, Atari: Hatari (16/32-bit) and Atari800 (8-bit), CP/M: cpm (+ cpmtool), Spectrum: FBZX, Commodore: VICE, DOS: DOSBox
- Hypervisors: Xen -> NOVA -> KVM
- Network Virtualization: GNS3 -> nsnam
- Video Game Console Emulation (ATARI): Stella
- Video Game Console Emulation (XBOX): XQEMU
- Video Game Console Emulation (MULTIPLE): Higan -> Mednafen -> RetroArch -> MAME -> AdvanceMAME (framebuffer support)
- Video Game Console Emulation (NINTENDO): FCEUX/Citra, DeSmuME (Nintendo DS), Mupen64Plus (Nintendo 64), Dolphin (GameCube and Wii)
- Video Game Console Emulation (SCUMM): ScummVM
- Video Game Console Emulation (SEGA): Gens/GS, Exodus, Yabause (Sega Saturn), Lxdream, Reicast (Dreamcast)
- Video Game Console Emulation (PLAYSTATION): PPSSPP, RPCS3, PCSX2
- Virtual Assembler: GNUSim8085, spim
- Virtual Machine: VirtualBox -> AQEMU + kvm -> Qemu + kvm -> Bochs
- Virtual Machine (IBM Mainframes): Hercules
- Virtual Machine (DEC): SIMH
File Utilities
- Batch Renamer: Metamorphose -> GPRename -> vidir -> qmv (renameutils) -> mmv
- Duplicate Files Removal: dupeGuru -> FSlint -> freedup -> fdmf -> dupmerge -> duff -> Fdupes -> jdupes -> rmlint
- File Archiver: PeaZip -> Xarchiver -> Patool -> dtrx -> Atool -> dar -> tar -> pax
- File Compression: arj, Zstandard (Zstd), Zip, lzop, Plzip, pxz, ECM (Error Code Modeler), p7zip, lbzip2, lrzip, pigz
- File Conversion: nrg2iso, dmg2iso (dmg to iso), mdf2iso (mdf to iso), daa2iso (daa to iso), UIF2ISO (uif to iso), ccd2iso (img to iso), bin2iso (bin-cue to iso), bchunk (bin-cue to iso), mpq-tools (MPQ or MoPaQ), Macutils
- File De-Compression Only: unace, cabextract, unrar, Lunzip, UnZip
- File Manager: PCManFM -> Xfe -> SpaceFM -> File System Visualizer (“It’s a Unix system, I know this!”) -> Endeavour Mark II -> donnatella -> worker (+ imagemagick) -> Moxfm -> Emacs (Dired Plus Mode, Sunrise Commander, ranger.el, Image-Dired, ThumbsMode) -> Ranger -> Midnight Commander -> vifm -> FDclone -> Ytree -> rover -> CLEX -> nnn -> tree
- File Search: Beagle -> Puggle -> ANGRYsearch -> Tracker -> DocFetcher -> regain -> lightmediascanner -> find
- File Synchronization: Unison -> duplicity -> synk -> Rsync
- Pictures Organizer: hydrus network -> Shotwell -> GTKRawGallery -> digiKam -> gThumb (+ gphoto) -> Mapivi -> BASH-Booru
- RegEx Builder: regexxer -> Visual REGEXP -> txt2regex
Filesharing
Forensics
- Application Profiling: CGprof -> Valgrind (+ Callgrind)
- Browser Debugger: Firebug
- Debugger: DDD -> CGDB -> OpenOCD -> GDB
- Delta Encoding: xdelta -> Bsdiff
- Forensic Analysis Framework: The Sleuth Kit -> DFF -> Radare
- Hex Editors: HT Editor -> biew -> dhex -> hexedit
- Java Profiling: VisualVM -> Quilt
- Memory Scanner (Cheat Engine): scanmem & Gameconqueror -> varedit
- Sandbox: Cuckoo Sandbox
- Steganalysis: Virtual Steganographic Laboratory -> Stegdetect
Hardware
- Cameras: ZoneMinder (CCTV), Motion (motion detection), gPhoto (connecting digital cameras), ccdciel
- Car (as in automobile): can-utils
- CD-DVD Burn and Copy (Backends): cdrtools -> cdrkit -> cdrskin
- CD-DVD Burn and Copy (Frontends): K3b -> Brasero -> dvd+rw-tools -> xorriso -> cdw
- CD-DVD Cue Files: cuetools -> cuecmd
- CD-DVD Information: cd-discid -> cdstatus
- CD-DVD Ripping: Sound Juicer -> fre ac -> cdparanoia (+ ABCDE)
- Data Recovery: fatcat -> ext3grep -> giis (gET iT i sAY) -> extundelete -> Magic Rescue -> dvdisaster -> TestDisk (PhotoRec) -> ddrescue
- Device Management (and module autoloader): evdev -> udev -> vdev
- Disk Cloning and Writing: devio -> dd -> dcfldd -> dc3dd
- Display Color Temperature: Redshift -> sct -> luminous
- Display Settings: xrandr -> DDCcontrol -> fbset
- Displays (Miracast): MiracleCast
- Hardware Bus: multipath-tools, I2C Tools (i2c-tools), IPMI Tool (ipmitool, ipmiutil) (IPMI DANGEROUS IF ENABLED)
- Hardware RAID: mdadm -> dmraid
- Hibernation: TuxOnIce -> uswsusp -> pm-utils -> shutdownasap -> watchdog
- Home Automation: LinuxMCE
- Keyboard Bindings: Xbindkeys -> sxhkd -> bind (readline) -> loadkeys (+ keymaps)
- Keyboard Input Language: iBus -> SCIM -> Fcitx -> uim (+ Anthy)
- Keyboard Layout: XKB -> xmodmap -> KBD
- Media Transfer Protocol (MTP): MTPfs -> jmtpfs -> simple-mtpfs
- Microcontrollers: AVRDUDE
- Mounting: AcetoneISO -> Udisks (+ udevil) -> Lightweight Device Mounter (ldm) -> USBmount -> pmount -> bashmount -> mount (.ISO files too) -> udev rules
- Mouse: xbanish -> keynav -> GPM
- Power Management: tpfancontrol -> tpacpi-bat -> thinkfan -> TLP -> PowerTOP -> Powertweak
- Printers: CUPS -> LPR
- Scanners: Scanner Access Now Easy (SANE)
- Software-defined radio (SDR): GNU Radio (+ Gqrx) -> rtl-sdr
- Telescope: Talon
- Tv (DVR): xawtv -> tvtime
- Tv (Multicast): udpxy -> IGMPproxy
- Undevolting and Power Saving: TurionPowerControl -> Linux-PHC -> cpufrequtils -> cpupower -> schedtool
- UPS: egctl -> Network UPS Tools (NUT) -> apcupsd
Monitoring
Benchmarking
System Information
System Monitoring
- Database Monitoring: Mytop
- Disk Usage: QDirStat -> Baobab -> xdiskusage -> XDU -> dfc -> Ncdu -> ls++ -> tdu -> ncdt -> du + df (GNU coreutils)
- Geolocation: Prey
- Hardware Monitoring: lm-sensors (psensor for a GUI) -> CrazyDiskInfo -> Hddtemp
- Log Monitoring: Webalizer -> lnav -> Logcheck -> multiTail
- Log Visualizer: glTail -> Logstalgia -> ccze
- Network Flow: Argos -> HFlow -> nfdump (nfsen for a GUI)
- Network Latency: OpenNMS -> SmokePing -> bmon
- Network Monitoring: IPTraf -> tcptrack -> IPTState -> NetHogs -> iftop, dnstop
- Port Monitoring: psad
- Process Monitoring: lsof, PSmisc (fuser, pkill, pstree)
- Serial Monitoring: slsnif -> interceptty -> ttylog
- System Latency: LatencyTOP
- System Monitor: gnome-system-monitor -> psDooM -> HardInfo -> GKrellM -> treeps -> Conky -> xosview -> Glances -> dstat -> atop -> htop -> nmon -> procinfo -> Sysstat (sar, mpstat, pidstat, iostat, sadf) -> procps (ps, free, vmstat, top, pmap, nice)
- User Monitoring: wuzzah -> Whowatch -> acct
- Web Log Analytics: AWStats -> W3Perl -> Analog -> pmacct
- Web State Monitor: Nagios (+ NagVis) -> Sysmond -> sysmon
- Wi-Fi Network Monitor: wavemon
Multimedia
ASCii Art
- ANSI Drawing: MysticDraw -> SHPaint
- ANSi Viewer: ANSiMat
- ASCii Animation: blessed -> Durdraw -> drawille
- ASCii Banner: shellpic -> TOIlet -> FIGlet -> sysvbanner
- ASCii Drawing: JavE -> Aewan -> cadubi -> CAVE WALL -> textdraw
- ASCii Presentations: wopr -> blessed-contrib
- Image to ASCii: jp2a
- Video to ASCii: libcaca -> AAlib
Audio
- Audio Editing: Audacity -> Snd -> Ecasound -> SoX
- Audio Effect Plugins: awesfx (SoundFont), Vamp, zam-plugins (LADSPA/LV2/VST/JACK), LV2 (x42-plugins), LADSPA (tap-plugins), DSSI (dssi-utils, dssi-vst), ALSA plugins (alsa-plugins)
- Background Sound: GNU GTick -> Ambient Noise -> ctronome
- Digital Audio Workstation: Rosegarden -> Ardour -> LMMS
- DJing: Mixxx
- Ear Training: LenMus -> GNU Solfege
- Multiple Audio Streams: pulseaudio -> apulse -> ALSA (aloop, Softvol, Dmix)
- Music Player: Audacious (+ Winamp Classic skin + GJay) -> Clementine -> Open Cubic Player -> MPD (vimus/ncmpcpp) -> cmus -> mp3blaster (runs with "aoss mp3blaster" or compiled with ALSA) -> MikMod -> MOC (+ moc-ffmpeg-plugin, dmenu_mocp) -> simple audio daemon (sad)
- Music Visualization: Spectrum3d -> Le Biniou -> projectM -> cava -> cli-visualizer
- Scorewriter: MuseScore -> LilyPond -> eTktab -> Emacs (lyqi) -> Philip's Music Writer (pmw) -> ABCmidi (abcpp + abc2prt + abcm2ps)
- Software Sampler: LinuxSampler -> orDrumbox -> Hydrogen
- Synthesizer: AlsaModularSynth -> ZynAddSubFX -> FluidSynth (+ SoundFonts)
- System Sound Compatibility: WineASIO, oss2jack, oss-compat, alsa-oss
- System Sound Extensions: pulseaudio -> Jack (jack, jack-audio-connection-kit) -> ESound (esound-common)
- System Sound Utilities: pavucontrol (pulseaudio) -> JACK Rack (for Jack) -> JAMin (for Jack) -> Qastools -> gnome-alsamixer -> aumix -> Rexima -> ALSA tools (alsa-tools, alsa-tools-gui) -> Alsaequal -> alsa-utils (alsamixer, amixer, aplay, arecord)
- Tonal Feature Analysis: CLAM Chordata -> Sonic-> Spek -> Pause
- Tracker Editors: MilkyTracker -> Schism
- Trackers: SID-Wizard -> GoatTracker
- Tray Icon: Volume Icon -> Volti
Image
- Bitmaps to Vector Conversion: AutoTrace -> Potrace
- Diagram Editor: Pencil Project -> Dia -> Graphviz
- Digital Drawing (Bitmap Graphics): Krita -> MyPaint -> Xournal -> XPaint -> GrafX2 / uberpaint
- Digital Drawing (Coloring): OpenColorIO -> deepcolor -> STYLE2PAINTS
- Digital Drawing (Fonts): FontForge
- Digital Drawing (Vector): Inkscape -> Xfig -> gozer -> ImageMagick
- Fonts Conversion: bdftopcf, PSF Tools, pcf2bdf, otf2bdf, bdf2psf
- Fractals and Random Computer Artwork: Mandelbulber -> Fyre -> Wassily
- Image Editing: RawTherapee -> darktable -> Gimp -> Netpbm -> G'MIC -> GraphicsMagick -> ImageMagick (display, import) -> Gifsicle
- Image Optimizing: OptiPNG -> pngcrush -> pngquant
- Image Viewer: Feh -> sxiv -> zgv -> lsix -> sdump -> display (ImageMagick) -> fim / fbi (fbida) -> idump
- Plotting: Gnuplot -> Ngraph-gtk -> ygraph -> PLplot -> FRTPLOT -> Picviz
- Screenshots: Shutter -> scrot -> maim -> shot.sh -> import (ImageMagick) -> fbcat (FBGrab)
Metadata
Video
- Compositing: CinePaint -> Natron
- Datamoshing: Autodatamosh
- Digital Animation (2D): Synfig -> OpenToonz
- Digital Animation (3D): Blender
- Flash Player: Lightspark -> Gnash
- HDR (High-Dynamic-Range): pfstools
- Screencasting: Open Broadcaster Studio -> SimpleScreenRecorder -> XVidCap -> glc -> FFmpeg -> ttyrec (+ seq2gif)
- Video Editing: Kdenlive -> Avidemux -> OpenShot -> Cinelerra-cv -> Melt -> AvxSynth -> blind -> FFmpeg
- Video Effects Plugins: Frei0r
- Video Player: nvlc (VLC) -> MPV -> MPlayer -> fbff -> ffplay
- Video to gif: Video2Gif -> QGifer -> convert (ImageMagick) -> FFmpeg
- Video Transcoding: HandBrake -> WinFF -> FFmpeg / avconv
Network Setup
Office
- Address book: abook
- Desktop Publishing: Scribus
- Dictionary: Goldendict -> Artha -> Dico, dict -> wtf
- Document Format Conversion: unoconv -> Pandoc -> Yodl -> GNU a2ps -> inf2manp
- Document Processor: Emacs (AUCTeX) -> LyX -> GNU TeXmacs
- Ebook Utilities: DeDRM_tools
- Ebook Utilities (CHM): xCHM -> CHMLib (extract_chmLib)
- Ebook Utilities (Epub): Ebook Tools (ebook-tools)
- Ebook Utilities (PDF): PDF SaM -> Poppler -> PDFtk
- Ebook Utilities (PostScript): PSUtils -> ghostscript
- Ebook Viewer: Calibre -> Okular -> Zathura -> JFBView / fimgs (fim) / fbgs (fbida) / fbpdf
- Flashcards: awk flashcards -> Anki
- Gamification: HabitRPG -> Habitica
- Mind Mapping: FreeMind
- Office Suites: LibreOffice -> Siag Office -> catdoc (xls2csv, catppt, wordview)
- Outliner: TreeSheets -> Vault 3 -> GJots2 -> TuDu -> Emacs (Org-mode) -> Vim (Vimoutliner or Vim-orgmode) -> hnb -> snb
- Personal Accounting: GnuCash -> Ledger -> GNU Pem
- Personal Assistant: Mycroft -> Lucida (aka Sirius) -> betty
- Personal Organizer: Task Coach -> Wyrd -> wtf -> Taskwarrior -> calcurse -> todo.txt-cli -> when -> cal
- Presentation: Beamer -> Sozi -> Text Presentation Program
- Repetitive Strain Injury: Workrave
- Speed Reading: Flinks -> WordFlashReader -> GnomeRSVP -> spread0r -> speedread
- Spell Check: Ispell -> Aspell
- Spreadsheets: Libreoffice Calc -> Gnumeric -> Oleo -> SC-IM
- Text Editor: Vim -> Nano -> Neovim -> Kakoune -> vile -> mg -> GNU Zile (minimalist Emacs clone) -> nvi -> Elvis (minimalist Vi clone) -> ed
- Text Editor (IDE): Atom -> NetBeans -> Code Blocks -> Emacs (nox) -> Vim -> xwpe (full IDE in the terminal)
- Text Encoding: fuse-convmvfs, Dos2Unix, ASCII
- Text Formatting and Pretty Printing: par -> fmt (Textutils) -> MSORT
- Text-To-Speech: Orca -> Gespeaker -> eBook-speaker (+ pandoc) -> eSpeak
- Typesetting: LaTeX -> Texinfo + Pinfo -> Discount (Markdown) -> AFT -> groff (tbl, pic, eqn, chem, music, dpic, grohtml)
- Typing Training: Klavaro -> nlkt -> GNU Typist
- Word Processor: LibreOffice Writer -> Abiword -> MinEd -> WordGrinder
Package Management
- CD/USB (Custom Installer): Respin -> Remastersys -> Distroshare -> PinguyBuilder -> Customizer -> Ubuntu Customization Kit -> Mklivecd
- CD/USB (Live): UNetbootin -> MultiCD
- Gaming Platform: LGOGDownloader (GOG.com), SteamCMD (Steam), Lutris, Gelide
- Language Specific: bpkg (Bash scripts) -> CPAN (+ Pinto) (Perl) -> clib (C)
- Package Creation: OBS (Open Build Service) -> src2pkg -> CheckInstall -> GNU Stow -> lt
- Portable Apps: Flatpak -> Snappy -> AppImage
- System Backup: Systemback -> Bacula -> FSArchiver -> CYA
- Universal Package Managers: Alien -> LinuxBrew -> pkgsrc -> GNU Guix
Pentesting
Exploitables
Network Scan
- Bluetooth: btscanner -> bluesniff
- DNS Client: whois, dnsenum, dnstracer, slookup, bind-tools (nslookup, host, dig)
- Link Scanner: Metagoofil -> LinkChecker -> Linklint (+ linklint2dot)
- Network Enumeration: SSLScan, xprobe2, p0f, WhatWeb, PRADS
- Network File Retrieval: Driftnet -> VoIPong -> tcpxtract
- Network Mapping: Open Visual Traceroute -> EtherApe -> Paris Traceroute -> Dublin Traceroute -> MTR -> Layer Four Traceroute (LFT) -> tcptraceroute -> iputils (Ping, traceroute, tracepath, arping) -> ipcalc -> GeoIP
- OSINT: SpiderFoot -> TheHarvester -> Creepy -> Netglub
- Packet Sniffer: Tshark (Wireshark TUI) -> tcpflow -> tcpdump + tcpick
- Reconnaissance Framework: Recon-ng -> DMitry -> dsniff (urlsnarf, filesnarf, webspy, Tcpkill, macof, arpspoof) -> Nmap -> ngrep
- WiFi Scanner: FLUXION -> Kismet
Network Tampering
Password Cracking
Vulnerability Scanner
Privacy
Programming
- Build Automation: Ninja -> mk -> GNU make -> bmake -> Icmake -> Jam, Gnulib
- Build Script Generation: Gradle -> Cmake (+ cmocka + ECM) -> Autotools (Automake, Autoconf + GNU Autoconf Archive, Libtool) -> mk-configure
- Code Beautifier: TagSoup -> UniversalIndentGUI -> HTML Tidy -> tidyp -> Indent
- Compilers (Assembly): NASM -> Yasm -> as (GNU binutils)
- Compilers (C): clang -> Tiny C Compiler (tcc)
- Compilers (Java): Java SE (JDK) -> IcedTea (OpenJDK) -> GraalVM (compile multiple languages into JVM) -> JamVM (JVM) -> FastJar (Compiler)
- Compilers (Multiple languages): GCC (GNU -native- Compiler for Java, GnuCOBOL, GNU Fortran) + colorgcc
- Compiling Speeding Up: distcc, ccache
- Cross-compiler: Buildroot -> Crosstool-NG -> dev86
- Documentation Browser: Devhelp -> Zeal
- Documentation Generator: perlpod, bashdoc, Doxygen, GNU help2man
- Issue Tracking System: Bugzilla -> GNATS
- Linting: ShellCheck, GNU Source-highlight
- Memory Allocation: jemalloc -> boehm-gc
- Parser Generators: ANTLR -> Ragel-> AutoGen -> GNU bison and Flex -> re2c + lemon -> GNU m4
- Program Transformation: FermaT, Coccinelle, CIL, Stratego/XT
- Random Hacks: patchelf, elfhacks, SWIG, Gengetopt
- Source Code Count: Unified Code Count (UCC) -> CLOC
- Source Code Navigation: GNU idutils, cflow (+ cflow2dot), LXR: The Linux Cross Referencer -> GNU GLOBAL -> cscope -> Ctags -> cgvg -> ack -> ag
- Source-to-Source Compiler: ROSE
- System Query: sysconftool, Installwatch, pkgconf
- Version Control: Git (+ tig) -> CVS (+ CVSGraph) -> Fossil -> tla (GNU Arch) -> RCS + mr + quilt
Remote Access
- Configuration Management: Puppet -> LCFG -> CFEngine -> cdist
- Control Panel: ZPanel -> Vesta Control Panel -> Webmin
- Diskless Booting: iPXE -> netboot
- PC-Mobile Connection: KDE Connect -> Wammu -> BitPim -> AndroidTools
- Remote Desktop (Client): rdesktop -> Remmina -> fbvnc
- Remote Desktop (Client and Server): X2Go
- Remote Desktop (Server): xrdp
- Remote Execution: PSSH -> pconsole -> DSH
- Remote File Manager: KodExplorer
- Remote Login: Mosh -> OpenSSH -> lsh -> Dropbear
- Remote X Apps: Xpra > X11 forwarding
- Reverse Shell: icmpsh -> RevSh
- Serial Console: Minicom -> Picocom -> Qodem -> GNU Screen
- Server Provisioning: FAI
- Wake-on-LAN: wakeonlan
Science And Engineering
- Artificial Intelligence: Arcade Learning Environment, ETHNOS, Conscious Artificial Intelligence, OpenCog, OpenAI
- Astronomy: Sky Chart (Cartes du Ciel) -> astroTools + evTools -> GNU Astronomy Utilities (Gnuastro)
- Astronomy (Planetarium): Stellarium -> Celestia -> XEphem -> SkyCat
- Astronomy (Satelline Tracking): SaVi satellite constellation visualizer
- Bioinformatics: OpenSim, Cytoscape, BioJava -> UGENE -> EMBOSS -> SAMtools -> BioPerl
- CAD: AutoCAD -> Blender -> FreeCAD -> LibreCAD -> OpenSCAD
- Chemistry: MolComp, RasMol, PerlMol
- Circuit Simulator: KiCad -> ngspice -> Gnucap
- Computational Fluid Dynamics: TELEMAC -> FEATFLOW -> OpenFOAM -> Gerris
- Computer Algebra System: Singular -> Axiom -> Maxima (+ PLplot) -> bc + GNU Units
- Data Visualization: SocNetV -> Gephi -> Tulip
- Geography (Geographic Information System): qGIS -> FWTools (OGDI, PROJ.4, GDAL/OGR, MapServer, OpenEV)
- Geography (Street Map): JOSM -> Osmosis
- Geography (Subway Map): qMetro
- Geography (Virtual Globe): Marble
- Graphing Calculator: GraphMonkey -> Lybniz -> KAlgebra -> TilEm
- Multi-Agent (MA) Simulation: Mobility Testbed -> Galatea -> NetLogo -> Golly (Conway's Game of Life clone)
- Physics Simulation: OpenModelica -> CalculiX -> Elmer -> MCSim
- Semiconductor Modeling (TCAD): GNU Archimedes (and GNU Nano-Archimedes)
- Statistical Package: SageMath -> Physics Analysis WorkStation -> ROOT -> gretl -> PSPP (+ PSPP-Perl)
- Theorem Prover: Coq -> Abella -> Vampire -> Metamath
- Weather Forecast: XTide -> AWeather -> My Weather Indicator -> wego -> Weather Util -> rrdweather -> curl wttr.in/YOURCITY, YOURCOUNTRY
Security
Containment
- Access Control (Kernel Patches): grsecurity + gradm -> Linux Intrusion Detection System -> SecurelLevel -> PaX -> RSBAC
- Access Control (Linux Security Modules (LSM)): SELinux -> TOMOYO Linux -> Smack -> AppArmor
- Authentication: Polkit -> ConsoleKit -> Sudo (visudo) -> Linux PAM -> checkpassword -> shadow
- Extended File Attributes: EVM -> IMA -> inotify
- Resource Usage Control: cpulimit -> ulimit (Bash) -> Disk Quota -> quotatool
- Sandbox: Arkose -> Firejail -> nsjail -> Bubblewrap
Honeypots
Host Intrusion
Network Intrusion
- Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) Block (Layer 7 Firewall): ipp2p -> l7-filter -> OpenDPI
- Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) Circumvention: zapret
- Firewall: ufw (Uncomplicated Firewall) + gufw (GUI) -> arptables -> ebtables -> iptables (+ ipset) -> nftables + conntrack-tools
- Man-In-The-Middle (MITM) Detection: arpwatch -> ArpON -> Arpalert
- Network Intrusion Detection: Snort -> Suricata
- Network Intrusion Prevention: Fail2ban -> Sshguard
- Network Logging: CoCaLoRes -> ulogd
Server
Server Authentication
System Utilities
- BIOS: efibootmgr -> SeaBIOS -> Coreboot -> Libreboot
- Boot Loader: GRUB 2 -> GRUB Legacy -> SYSLINUX (+ Hardware Detection Tool -HDT-) -> LILO (or ELILO for UEFI) -> AiR-Boot -> Das U-Boot (u-boot-tools)
- Boot Loaders (load on running machine): loadlin -> Kexec (kexec-tools)
- Cache: Memcached, EnhanceIO -> dm-cache -> bcache
- Core Utilities: moreutils -> Mtools -> util-linux -> GNU Coreutils -> BusyBox -> Asmutils and ARMutils
- Custom Initramfs: mkinitcpio -> dracut -> Genkernel -> mkinitramfs -> umkinitramfs
- Filesystem: CP/M (cpmtools), HFS Utilities, SquashFS (squashfs-tools), fuseflt, UnionFS (unionfs-fuse), udftools (UDF), F2FS (f2fs-tools), exFAT (exfat-utils, fuse-exfat), FAT (dosfstools), Btrfs (btrfs-progs), XFS (xfsprogs, xfsdump), Ext4, JFS, Reiser4, Bcachefs
- IPC: DBus -> ubus -> RPCBind -> ipcs (util-linux)
- Kernel Modules: NDISwrapper -> ibm-acpi-> kmod (lsmod, insmod, modprobe)
- Kernel Patches: V86 mode support, GoboHide, Kernelgccpatch, Linux-ck, Liquorix, Linux-rt, GNU Linux-libre, Linux Tiny
- Kernels: LUnix, Linux + Lux (kernel updater), GNU Mach, RTLinux, Muen, HiStar
- Load in RAM: E4rat -> readahead -> preload, prelink
- Logical Volume Management: LVM2
- Multiplexer Wrappers: ucspi-unix, ucspi-ipc, socket_wrapper, nss_wrapper, uid_wrapper, resolv_wrapper, pam_wrapper
- Network Time Protocol: clockspeed -> Network Time Protocol daemon (ntpd) -> chrony -> OpenNTPD
- OS Frameworks: OpenStack -> Genode
- Partitioning: Gparted -> GNU Parted -> util-linux (cfdisk, fdisk, sfdisk, mkfs, mkswap, swapon, swapoff)
- Partitioning Fixes: u3_tool, ms-sys
- Settings Manager: Youker Assistant -> Linux Lite Control Center -> Elektra -> Augeas -> Climate -> The Fuck -> Suicide Linux
- Virtual Filesystem: FuseIso -> Autofs -> AVFS -> afuse -> bindfs
Init
Job Scheduler
- Event: incron -> inotify-tools -> entr -> wendy -> ACPI event daemon (acpid) -> waitfordevice (w4d)
- Queue: Slurm -> Task Spooler
- Time: Anacron -> fcron -> bcron -> dcron -> at
X Desktop
- Application Launcher: ratmenu -> xcmd -> dmenu -> nenu
- Boot Screen: Plymouth -> Splashy -> Fbsplash -> \
- Clipboard: CopyQ -> clipmenu -> snippy -> xclip -> XSel
- Compositing Window Manager: Compiz -> Compton -> Xcompmgr
- Desktop Animated Character: Kawari + Ninix-aya (for Ukagaka) -> Gnome KiSS -> Oneko -> xevilteddy -> Xteddy
- Desktop Automation: Autokey -> Sikuli -> Easystroke -> xdotool -> GNU Xnee
- Font Settings: xfontsel + mkfontdir -> fontconfig -> /etc/X11/xorg.conf
- Graphics Settings: RiceDB -> Wpgtk -> LxAppearance -> dconf -> Xset -> /etc/X11/xorg.conf
- Login Manager: SLiM -> Qingy
- Nested Display: Xephyr -> Xnest
- Notification (Daemon): dunst -> slstatus -> SiND (Simple Notification Daemon)
- Notification (Server): Libcanberra + Libnotify -> xmessage
- Panel: Avant Window Navigator -> Global Menu -> Tint2
- Screensaver: XScreenSaver -> XLockmore -> i3lock -> sxlock -> slock -> xset
- Status Bar (Client): Dzen -> bevelbar -> Lemonbar
- Status Bar (Server): monky -> i3status
- Wallpaper Changer (Animated): Xphoon, xfireworks, Xsnow, xmountains, Xplanet, ImageMagick (animate)
- Wallpaper Changer (Still): FEH -> xsetroot -> hsetroot -> imagemagick (but using 10MB more RAM than the others)
- Wallpaper Changer (Terminal As Wallpaper): xli -> root-tail -> xrootconsole
- Wallpaper Changer (Video): VLC (nvlc) -> mpv -> MPlayer
- Window Manager: FVWM (+ FvwmTabs and 4dwm theme) -> IceWM (Windows XP-like) -> i3 -> Amiwm (Amiga-like) -> mlvwm (Macintosh-Like) -> MWM -> Ratpoison -> dwm (+ dwmstatus) -> FrankenWM -> TinyWM -> s3d (+ s3dfm, it's a 3D desktop independent of X!) -> Twin (independent of X) -> VWM (independent of X)
- Window Manipulation: QuickTile -> wmctrl -> wmutils
- Worskpace Pager: 3D-Desktop -> Skippy-XD
- X Event Display: xprop -> xwininfo -> xev