Do you like free softwares? Are you a freebie grazer in the net? Well I’ll give you some of the best freewares and open source projects these days. I listed 6 free softwares as well as their installation guide.

Azureus
Java-based BitTorrent client for both beginners and advanced users. There as features included, such as, multiple torrent downloads, advanced seeding rules, pausing a torrent, importing torrents, and much, much more.

INSTALLATION

Open Synaptic Package Manager and serach for “azureus”. Mark the program named “azureus” for installation. Click apply.

Deluge
A very lightweight, BitTorrent client using GTK and python. It is one of the most rapidly developing clients and is very comparable to µTorrent. Integrates well with the GNOME desktop environment.

INSTALLATION

Open Synaptic Package Manager and serach for “deluge-torrent”. Mark the program named “deluge-torrent” for installation. Click apply.

KTorrent
A BitTorrent client for KDE. It is very lightweight and has many of the features that most BitTorrent clients include. Though it is still missing many key features, is under heavy development.

INSTALLATION

Open Synaptic Package Manager and serach for “ktorrent”. Mark the program named “ktorrent” for installation. Click apply.

Beagle
A desktop search utility for indexing and searching user’s data. At the moment, it can index filesystems, Pidgin logs, Evolution data, RSS and many more.

INSTALLATION

Open Synaptic Package Manager and serach for “beagle”. Mark the program named “beagle” for installation. Click apply.

Nautilus
The official file manager for the GNOME desktop. It allows to browse directories, preview files and launch applications associated with them. It is also responsible for handling the icons on the GNOME desktop. It works on local and remote filesystems.

INSTALLATION

Installed by default on Ubuntu. The source can be found here.

Thunar
The file manager designed to be the default file manager of Xfce 4.4 It has been designed to be fast and easy to use.

INSTALLATION

Open Synaptic Package Manager and serach for “thunar”. Mark the program named “thunar” for installation. Click apply.

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