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1 Internet

1.1 Network connection

1.1.1 Network managers

ConnMan — Daemon for managing internet connections within embedded devices running the Linux operating system. Comes with a command-line client, plus Enlightenment, ncurses, GTK and Dmenu clients are available.

https://01.org/connman || connman

dhclient — DHCP client from the Internet Systemis Consortium.

https://www.isc.org/downloads/dhcp/ || dhclient

dhcpcd — RFC2131 compliant DHCP client daemon.

https://roy.marples.name/projects/dhcpcd || dhcpcd

netctl — Simple and robust tool to manage network connections via profiles. Intended for use with systemd.

https://projects.archlinux.org/netctl.git/ || netctl

NetworkManager — Manager that provides wired, wireless, mobile broadband and OpenVPN detection with configuration and automatic connection.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/NetworkManager || CLI: networkmanager, GUI: network-manager-applet

systemd-networkd — Native systemd daemon that manages network configuration. It includes support for basic network configuration through udev.

http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-networkd.service.html || systemd

Wicd — Wireless and wired connection manager with few dependencies. Comes with ncurses and GTK+ interfaces.

https://launchpad.net/wicd || CLI: wicd, GUI: wicd-gtk

Wifi Radar — WiFi Radar is a Python/PyGTK2 utility for managing wireless (and only wireless) profiles. It enables you to scan for available networks and create profiles for your preferred networks.

http://wifi-radar.tuxfamily.org/ || wifi-radar

1.1.2 VPN clients

NetworkManager — Supports a variety of protocols (e.g. MS, Cisco, Fortinet) via a plugin system.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/NetworkManager/VPN || networkmanager

OpenConnect — Supports Cisco and Juniper VPNs.

http://www.infradead.org/openconnect/ || openconnect

OpenVPN — To connect to OpenVPN VPNs.

https://openvpn.net/ || openvpn

PPTP Client — To connect to PPTP VPNs, like Microsoft VPNs (MPPE). (insecure)

http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/ || pptpclient

strongSwan — IPsec-based VPN Solution.

https://www.strongswan.org/ || strongswan

tinc — tinc is a free VPN daemon.

https://www.tinc-vpn.org/ || tinc

Vpnc — To connect to Cisco 3000 VPN Concentrators.

https://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~massar/vpnc/ || vpnc

WireGuard — Next generation secure network tunnel.

https://www.wireguard.com/ || wireguard-tools

1.1.3 Proxy servers

Dante — SOCKS server and SOCKS client, implementing RFC 1928 and related standards.

https://www.inet.no/dante/ || dante

Privoxy — Non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and HTTP headers, controlling access, and removing ads and other obnoxious Internet junk.

https://www.privoxy.org/ || privoxy

Project V — Project V is a set of tools to help you build your own privacy network over internet.

https://www.v2ray.com/en/ || v2ray

Shadowsocks — Secure socks5 proxy, designed to protect your Internet traffic.

https://www.shadowsocks.org/en/index.html || Python: shadowsocks, C: shadowsocks-libev, Qt: shadowsocks-qt5

Squid — Caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more.

http://www.squid-cache.org/ || squid

Tinyproxy — Lightweight HTTP/HTTPS proxy daemon.

https://tinyproxy.github.io/ || tinyproxy

Trojan — An unidentifiable mechanism that helps you bypass GFW.

https://trojan-gfw.github.io/trojan/ || trojan

Varnish — High-performance HTTP accelerator.

https://varnish-cache.org/ || varnish

Ziproxy — Forwarding (non-caching) compressing HTTP proxy server.

http://ziproxy.sourceforge.net/ || ziproxy

1.1.4 Anonymizing networks

GNUnet — Framework for secure peer-to-peer networking.

https://gnunet.org/ || CLI: gnunet, GUI: gnunet-gtk

Tor — Anonymizing overlay network.

https://www.torproject.org/ || tor

1.2 Web browsers

1.2.1 Console

ELinks — Advanced and well-established feature-rich text mode web browser with mouse wheel scroll support (Links fork, barely supported since 2009).

http://elinks.or.cz/ || elinks

Links — Graphics and text mode web browser. Includes a console version similar to Lynx.

http://links.twibright.com/ || links

Lynx — Text browser for the World Wide Web.

http://lynx.invisible-island.net/ || lynx

w3m — Pager/text-based web browser. It has vim-like keybindings, and is able to display images.

http://w3m.sourceforge.net/ || w3m

1.2.2 Graphical

1.2.2.1 Gecko-based

1.2.2.2 WebKit-based

1.2.2.2.1 Browsers based on webkit2gtk

Eolie — Simple web browser for GNOME.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Eolie || eolie

GNOME Web — Browser which uses the WebKitGTK+ rendering engine, part of

gnome.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Web/ || epiphany

Midori — Lightweight web browser based on GTK+ and WebKit.

http://midori-browser.org/ || midori

surf — Lightweight WebKit-based browser, which follows the suckless ideology (basically, the browser itself is a single C source file).

https://surf.suckless.org/ || surf

1.2.2.2.2 Browsers based on qt5-webkit

Eric — QtWebKit-based HTML browser, part of the eric6 development toolset, can be launched with the eric6_webbrowser command.

https://eric-ide.python-projects.org/ || eric

qutebrowser — A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on PyQt5 with QtWebKit as an available backend.

https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser || qutebrowser

1.2.2.3 Other

Dillo — Small, fast graphical web browser built on FLTK. Uses its own layout engine.

http://dillo.org/ || dillo

Links — Graphics and text mode web browser. Includes a graphical X-window/framebuffer version with CSS, image rendering, pull-down menus. It can be launched with the xlinks -g command.

http://links.twibright.com/ || links

NetSurf — Featherweight browser written in C, notable for its slowly developing JavaScript support and fast rendering through its own layout engine.

http://netsurf-browser.org || netsurf

1.3 Web servers

A web server serves HTML web pages and other files via HTTP to clients like web browsers. The major web servers can be interfaced with programs to serve dynamic content (web applications).

Apache — A high performance Unix-based HTTP server.

http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd || apache

Hiawatha — Secure and advanced web server.

https://www.hiawatha-webserver.org/ || hiawatha

Lighttpd — A secure, fast, compliant and very flexible web-server.

http://www.lighttpd.net/ || lighttpd

nginx — Lightweight HTTP server and IMAP/POP3 proxy server.

https://nginx.org/ || nginx

sthttpd — Supported fork of the thttpd web server.

https://github.com/blueness/sthttpd || sthttpd

yaws — Web server/framework written in Erlang.

http://yaws.hyber.org/ || yaws

1.3.1 Static web servers

darkhttpd — A small and secure static web server, written in C, does not support HTTPS or Auth.

https://unix4lyfe.org/darkhttpd/ || darkhttpd

Webfs — Simple and instant web server for mostly static content.

http://linux.bytesex.org/misc/webfs.html || webfs

The Python standard library module http.server can also be used from the command-line.

1.3.2 WSGI servers

Gunicorn — A Python WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX.

https://gunicorn.org/ || gunicorn, python2-gunicorn

uWSGI — A fast, self-healing and developer/sysadmin-friendly application container server written in C.

https://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.io/ || uwsgi

Waitress — A WSGI server for Python 2 and 3.

https://github.com/Pylons/waitress || python-waitress, python2-waitress

Apache also supports WSGI with mod_wsgi.

1.3.3 Performance testing

vegeta — HTTP load testing tool, written in Go.

https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta || vegeta

1.4 File sharing

1.4.1 Download managers

1.4.1.1 Console

Wikipedia:aria2 — Lightweight download utility that supports HTTP, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink. It can run as a daemon controlled via a built-in JSON-RPC or XML-RPC interface.

https://aria2.github.io/ || aria2

Axel — Light command line download accelerator. Supports HTTP and FTP.

https://github.com/eribertomota/axel || axel

cURL — An URL retrieval utility and library. Supports HTTP, FTP and SFTP.

https://curl.haxx.se/ || curl

LFTP — Sophisticated file transfer program. Supports HTTP, FTP, SFTP, FISH, and BitTorrent.

http://lftp.yar.ru/ || lftp

mps-youtube — Terminal based YouTube jukebox with playlist management. Plays audio/video through mplayer/mpv.

https://github.com/mps-youtube/mps-youtube || mps-youtube

Plowshare — A set of command-line tools designed for managing file-sharing websites (aka Hosters).

https://github.com/mcrapet/plowshare || plowshare

RTMPDump — Download FLV videos through RTMP (Adobe's proprietary protocol for Flash video players)

http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu/ || rtmpdump

snarf — Command-line URL retrieval tool. Supports HTTP and FTP.

http://www.xach.com/snarf/ || snarf

Streamlink — Launch streams from various streaming services in a custom video player or save them to a file.

https://streamlink.github.io/ || streamlink

Streamripper — Records and splits streaming mp3 into tracks.

http://streamripper.sourceforge.net/ || streamripper

You-Get — Download media contents (videos, audios, images) from the Web.

https://you-get.org/ || you-get

youtube-dl — Download videos from YouTube and many other web sites.

https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ || youtube-dl

youtube-viewer — Command line utility for viewing YouTube videos.

https://github.com/trizen/youtube-viewer || youtube-viewer

Wget — A network utility to retrieve files from the Web. Supports HTTP and FTP.

https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/ || wget

1.4.1.2 Graphical

ClipGrab — Downloader and converter for YouTube, Vimeo and many other online video sites.

https://clipgrab.org/ || clipgrab

gtk-youtube-viewer — GTK+ utility for viewing YouTube videos.

https://github.com/trizen/youtube-viewer || youtube-viewer + gtk2-perl + perl-file-sharedir

Gwget — Download manager for GNOME. Supports HTTP and FTP.

https://projects.gnome.org/gwget/ || gwget

KGet — Download manager for KDE. Supports HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent and Metalink. Part of

kdenetwork.

https://www.kde.org/applications/internet/kget/ || kget

Steadyflow — Simple download manager for GNOME. Supports HTTP and FTP.

https://launchpad.net/steadyflow || steadyflow

uGet — GTK+ download manager featuring download classification and HTML import. Supports HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent, Metalink, YouTube and Mega.

http://ugetdm.com/ || uget

1.4.2 Cloud storage servers

Cozy — A personal cloud you can hack, host and delete.

https://cozy.io/ || cozy-stack

Nextcloud — A cloud server to store your files centrally on a hardware controlled by you.

https://nextcloud.com || nextcloud

1.4.3 Cloud synchronization clients

Tip:

Some synchronization and backup programs provide direct support for some cloud-storage services.
Some FUSE filesystems provide a way to mount cloud-storage as a filesystem. Google Drive can be accessed also by gvfs-google for GVFS-based applications (like Nautilus), and by kio-gdrive for KIO-based applications (like Dolphin).
See Disk encryption#Cloud-storage optimized to achieve zero-knowledge (client-side transparent encryption) storage on any third-party cloud service.

aws-cli — CLI for Amazon Web Services, including efficient file transfers to and from Amazon S3.

https://aws.amazon.com/cli/ || aws-cli

Cozy Drive — Desktop client for Cozy.

https://cozy-labs.github.io/cozy-desktop/ || cozy-desktop

Nextcloud Client — Desktop client for Nextcloud.

https://nextcloud.com/ || nextcloud-client

ownCloud Desktop Client — Desktop syncing client for ownCloud.

https://owncloud.com/client/ || owncloud-client

S3cmd — Unofficial CLI for Amazon S3.

http://s3tools.org/s3cmd || s3cmd

1.4.4 FTP

1.4.4.1 FTP clients

FileZilla — Fast and reliable FTP, FTPS and SFTP client.

http://filezilla-project.org/ || filezilla

gFTP — Multithreaded FTP client for Linux.

http://gftp.seul.org/ || gftp

ftp — Simple ftp client provided by GNU Inetutils

https://www.gnu.org/software/inetutils/manual/inetutils.html#ftp-invocation || inetutils

lftp — Sophisticated command line program that supports several file transfer protocols.

https://lftp.tech/ || lftp

ncftp — A set of free application programs implementing FTP.

http://www.ncftp.com/ || ncftp

tnftp — FTP client with several advanced features for NetBSD.

http://freecode.com/projects/tnftp || tnftp

Some file managers like Dolphin, GNOME Files and Thunar also provide FTP functionality.

1.4.4.2 FTP servers

bftpd — Small, easy-to-configure FTP server

http://bftpd.sourceforge.net/ || bftpd

chezdav — WebDAV server that allows to share a particular directory.

https://wiki.gnome.org/phodav || phodav

ftpd — Simple ftp server provided by GNU Inetutils

https://www.gnu.org/software/inetutils/manual/inetutils.html#ftpd-invocation || inetutils

SSH — SFTP is a network protocol that provides file access, file transfer, and file management over any reliable data stream.

https://www.openssh.com || openssh

vsftpd — Lightweight, stable and secure FTP server for UNIX-like systems.

https://security.appspot.com/vsftpd.html || vsftpd

1.4.5 BitTorrent clients

Some download managers are also able to connect to the BitTorrent network: Aria2, LFTP, FatRat, FrostWire, KGet, MLDonkey, uGet.

1.4.5.1 Console

Wikipedia:rTorrent — Simple and lightweight ncurses BitTorrent client. Requires libtorrent backend.

https://rakshasa.github.io/rtorrent/ || rtorrent

Wikipedia:Transmission CLI — Simple and easy-to-use BitTorrent client with a daemon version and multiple front-ends. This package includes backend, daemon, command-line interface, and a Web UI interface.

https://transmissionbt.com/ || transmission-cli

1.4.5.2 Graphical

Wikipedia:Deluge — User-friendly BitTorrent client written in PyGTK that can run as a daemon.

https://deluge-torrent.org/ || deluge

Fragments — Easy to use BitTorrent client which follows the GNOME HIG and includes well thought-out features.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/haecker-felix/Fragments || fragments

Ktorrent — Feature-rich BitTorrent client for KDE.

https://www.kde.org/applications/internet/ktorrent/ || ktorrent

qBittorrent — Open source (GPLv2) BitTorrent client that strongly resembles µtorrent.

https://www.qbittorrent.org/ || qbittorrent or qbittorrent-nox

Transmission — Simple and easy-to-use BitTorrent client with a daemon version and multiple front-ends.

https://transmissionbt.com/ || GTK+: transmission-gtk, Qt: transmission-qt

Transmission Remote — GTK+ client for remote management of the Transmission BitTorrent client, using its HTTP RPC protocol.

https://github.com/transmission-remote-gtk/transmission-remote-gtk || transmission-remote-gtk

Tribler — 4th generation file sharing system BitTorrent client.

https://www.tribler.org || tribler

1.4.6 Other P2P networks

Wikipedia:aMule — Well-known eDonkey/Kad client with a daemon version and GTK+, web, and CLI front-ends.

http://www.amule.org/ || amule

MLDonkey — Multi-protocol P2P client that supports HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent, Direct Connect, eDonkey and FastTrack.

http://mldonkey.sourceforge.net/ || mldonkey

Nicotine+ — A graphical client for the Soulseek P2P network.

https://www.nicotine-plus.org/ || nicotine+

1.4.7 Pastebin clients

1.5 Communication

1.5.1 Email clients

1.5.1.1 Console

alot — An experimental terminal MUA based on notmuch mail. It is written in python using the urwid toolkit.

https://github.com/pazz/alot || alot

S-nail — a mail processing system with a command syntax reminiscent of ed with lines replaced by messages. Provides the functionality of mailx.

https://www.sdaoden.eu/code.html#s-mailx || s-nail

mu/mu4e — Email indexer (mu) and client for emacs (mu4e). Xapian based for fast searches.

http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e.html || mu

Mutt — Small but very powerful text-based mail client.

http://www.mutt.org/ || mutt

NeoMutt — Command line mail reader (or MUA). It's a fork of Mutt with added features.

https://www.neomutt.org/ || neomutt

notmuch — A fast mail indexer built on top of xapian.

http://notmuchmail.org/ || notmuch

Wanderlust — Email client and news reader for Emacs.

http://www.gohome.org/wl/ || wanderlust

1.5.1.2 Graphical

Balsa — Simple and light email client for GNOME.

https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ || balsa

Claws Mail — Lightweight GTK-based email client and news reader.

https://www.claws-mail.org/ || claws-mail

Evolution — Mature and feature-rich e-mail client that is part of the GNOME project. Part of

gnome-extra.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution || evolution

Geary — Simple desktop mail client built in Vala.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Geary || geary

Gnubiff — Mail notification program that checks for mail and displays headers when new mail has arrived.

http://gnubiff.sourceforge.net/ || gnubiff

Iceape — Email client included in the libre internet suite Iceape based on SeaMonkey.

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mozillateam/iceape/ubuntu-1.1.x/files/head:/debian/ || iceape

Icedove — Fork of Mozilla Thunderbird.

https://wiki.debian.org/Icedove || icedove

Mailnag — Extensible mail notification daemon.

https://github.com/pulb/mailnag || mailnag

Sylpheed — Lightweight and user-friendly GTK+ email client.

http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/ || sylpheed

Trojitá — Qt IMAP email client. Only supports one IMAP account.

http://trojita.flaska.net/ || trojita

1.5.1.3 Web-based

Nextcloud Mail — An email webapp for NextCloud.

https://github.com/nextcloud/mail || nextcloud-app-mail

Roundcubemail — Browser-based multilingual IMAP client webapp with a native application-like user interface.

http://roundcube.net/ || roundcubemail

1.5.2 Mail servers

See Mail server.

1.5.3 Mail retrieval agents

fdm — Program to fetch and deliver mail.

https://github.com/nicm/fdm || fdm

Fetchmail — A remote-mail retrieval utility.

http://www.fetchmail.info/ || fetchmail

getmail — A POP3 mail retriever with reliable Maildir and command delivery.

http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/ || getmail

isync — IMAP and MailDir mailbox synchronizer

http://isync.sourceforge.net/ || isync

mpop — A small, fast POP3 client suitable as a fetchmail replacement

https://marlam.de/mpop/ || mpop

OfflineIMAP — Synchronizes emails between two repositories.

http://www.offlineimap.org/ || offlineimap

1.5.4 Instant messaging clients

This section lists all client software with instant messaging support.

1.5.4.1 Multi-protocol clients

Note: All messengers, that support several networks by means of direct connections to them, belong to this section.

The number of networks supported by these clients is very large but they (like any multi-protocol clients) usually have very limited or no support for network-specific features.

1.5.4.1.1 Console

BitlBee — IRC gateway to popular chat networks (XMPP, ICQ and Twitter).

http://bitlbee.org/ || bitlbee

Wikipedia:Finch (software) — Ncurses-based chat client that uses libpurple and supports all its protocols (Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Groupwise, ICQ, IRC, SIMPLE, XMPP, Zephyr).

http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Using%20Finch || finch

Minbif — IRC gateway to IM networks that uses libpurple.

https://symlink.me/projects/minbif/wiki || minbif

1.5.4.1.2 Graphical

Empathy — GNOME instant messaging client with audio/video support using the Telepathy framework.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Empathy || empathy

Kopete — User-friendly IM supporting Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, GroupWise, ICQ, XMPP.

https://userbase.kde.org/Kopete || kopete

KDE Telepathy — KDE instant messaging client using the Telepathy framework. Meant as a replacement for Kopete.

https://userbase.kde.org/Telepathy || telepathy-kde-meta

Pidgin — Multi-protocol instant messaging client with audio support that uses libpurple and supports all its protocols (Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Groupwise, ICQ, IRC, SIMPLE, XMPP, Zephyr).

http://pidgin.im/ || pidgin

Smuxi — Cross-platform IRC client that also supports Twitter and XMPP.

https://smuxi.im/ || smuxi

Yate Client — Instant messenger and softphone supporting XMPP, SIP and H.323.

http://yateclient.yate.ro/ || yate

1.5.4.2 IRC clients

1.5.4.2.1 Console

ERC — Powerful, modular and extensible IRC client for Emacs.

https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/erc/ || included with emacs

Wikipedia:Irssi — Highly-configurable ncurses-based IRC client.

https://irssi.org/ || irssi

pork — Programmable, ncurses-based IRC client that mostly looks and feels like ircII.

http://dev.ojnk.net/ || pork

WeeChat — Modular, lightweight ncurses-based IRC client.

https://weechat.org/ || weechat

Comparison

Name	Package	Written in	Extensible	SASL
ERC	emacs	ELisp	in ELisp	via script
Irssi	irssi	C	in Perl	Yes
pork	pork	C	in Perl	No
WeeChat	weechat	C	multiple languages	Yes

1.5.4.2.2 Graphical

HexChat — Fork of XChat for Linux and Windows.

https://hexchat.github.io/ || hexchat

Konversation — Qt-based IRC client for the KDE desktop.

https://konversation.kde.org/ || konversation

Polari — Simple IRC client by the GNOME project.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Polari || polari

Quassel — Modern, cross-platform, distributed IRC client.

http://quassel-irc.org/ || quassel-monolithic

1.5.4.3 XMPP clients

1.5.4.3.1 Console

MCabber — Small XMPP console client, includes features: SSL, PGP, MUC, OTR and UTF8.

https://mcabber.com/ || mcabber

Profanity — A console based XMPP client inspired by Irssi.

http://profanity.im/ || profanity

1.5.4.3.2 Graphical

Gajim — XMPP client with audio support written in PyGTK.

https://gajim.org/ || gajim

Psi — Qt-based XMPP client.

https://psi-im.org/ || psi or psi-nowebengine

1.5.4.4 SIP clients

Ekiga — VoIP and video conferencing application with full SIP and H.323 support (formerly known as GNOME Meeting).

http://www.ekiga.org/ || ekiga

Ring — SIP-compatible softphone and instant messenger for the decentralized Ring network. Formerly known as SFLphone.

https://ring.cx/ || ring-gnome

Ring KDE — SIP-compatible softphone and instant messenger for the decentralized Ring network. KDE client.

https://cgit.kde.org/ring-kde.git/ || ring-kde

1.5.4.5 Matrix clients

1.5.4.6 Tox clients

1.5.4.7 Serverless (decentralized) clients

1.5.4.8 Other IM clients

Esmska — Program for sending SMS over the Internet.

https://github.com/kparal/esmska || esmska

Licq — Instant messaging client for UNIX supporting ICQ.

http://licq.org/ || licq

Mumble — Voice chat application similar to TeamSpeak.

http://mumble.sourceforge.net/ || mumble

Telegram Desktop — Official Telegram desktop client.

https://desktop.telegram.org/ || telegram-desktop

1.5.5 Instant messaging servers

1.5.5.1 IRC servers

UnrealIRCd — Open Source IRC Server.

https://www.unrealircd.org/ || unrealircd

1.5.5.2 XMPP servers

Prosody — An XMPP server written in the Lua programming language. Prosody is designed to be lightweight and highly extensible. It is licensed under a permissive MIT license.

http://prosody.im/ || prosody