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Welcome to the Slackware Documentation Project

This page is a work in progress…

Common software

In case you are wondering whether you can use application X or Y in Slackware, the following list will help you answer your browsing, multimedia, office… needs.

Web-browser

File Management

  • Dolphin
  • Thunar
  • Midnight Commander
  • Rodent
  • Ranger

Chat & IRC

  • Pidgin
  • Kopete
  • Irssi
  • XChat
  • WeeChat

Torrent clients

  • ktorrent
  • rtorrent

Office

Email

  • Thunderbird
  • Kmail
  • Claws Mail
  • mailx

RSS Readers

Multimedia

  • Mplayer
  • Rythmbox
  • Audacious
  • XMMS
  • gogglesmm

Graphics

  • Inkscape
  • Darktable
  • Digikam
  • Blender

Development tools

Database

  • Postgresql
  • SQLite

Virtualization

  • Virtualbox
  • kvm
  • qemu

Other

  • Google Earth
  • Marble
  • Wine

Sources

 slackware:common_software ()