Awesome Puppy Linux

Puppy Linux is an awesome Linux distro, and here's a list of all the best Puppy Linux releases, derivatives and supported programs.

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Official releases
Puppy Derivatives (spins-offs, remixes, etc)
Puppy Sites
Puppy Documentation
Applications
General Linux Websites
Contributors
Guideline to Contribute

Official releases:

Release Name	Supported systems	Release Date	Built from
FossaPup64	64 bit	Sep, 2020	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal) amd64
Rasppup	armhf 32-bit	July 2020	Raspbian Buster armhf
BionicPup32	32 bit	April, 2018	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic) i686
BionicPup64	64 bit	Sept, 2018	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic) amd64
ScPup	32 and 64 bit	Dec 2018	Slackware Current
DpupStretch	32 bit	Dec 2017	Debian Stretch i686
Slacko-14.2	32 and 64 bit	April, 2016	Slackware 14.2
XenialPup	32 bit	April, 2016	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial) i686
XenialPup64	64 bit	June 2016	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial) amd64
Slacko-14.1	32 and 64 bit	Nov 2015	Slackware 14.1
TahrPup	32 bit	Oct 2014	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Tahr) i686
TahrPup64	64 bit	Dec 2014	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Tahr) i686

More versions are available on the official releases downloads page

Puppy derivatives:

Barebones Puppies - various stripped-down versions of Puppy Linux.
EasyOS - created by Barry Kauler, the original creator and developer of Puppy Linux.
FatDog64 - a 64 bit Linux OS, started life as a Puppy fork, now an (excellent) independent distro.
MacPup - a beautiful version of Puppy Linux, using the e3 window manager, styled similarly to Mac OS.
Puppy Arcade 11 - a retro gaming distro, supports many retro consoles and platforms.
Simplicity Linux - a fast, well-rounded distro, multiple flavours (Xfce, LDXE, others).
studio - a music production focused Puppy with excellent performance.

Many more derivatives, remixes, spin-offs and unofficial releases are available in the Puppy Derivatives of the Puppy forum.

Puppy Sites

Puppy Documentation

Installing Puppy Linux

Guides and Tutorials

A beginners guide to installing puppy - a guide from one of our most experienced members
Puppy How-To videos - useful tutorials and guides
What is Puppy Linux

IRC channels

#puppylinux

Applications

Puppy Linux programs

These open source programs are exclusive to Puppy Linux, and were developed by the Puppy Linux community.

FFConvert - Convert media files between different formats and presets.
pBurn - A nice CD/DVD burning program, supports lots of formats.
PeasyPrint - a simple GUI to help users print their photos, documents, etc.
Pkg - a powerful command-line package manager, similar to apt-get, pkg-tools, or yum (etc).
Pmount - a super easy way to mount and unmount your hard drives, USBs, etc.
Pmusic - A very powerful and flexible music player, supports local files, online streams, radio, playlist management, and much more.
Pnethood - Access your local networks "network neighbourhood".
pRecord - A simple GUI to make it easy to record audio.
Pup-advert-blocker - easily block adverts, adware, malware etc (uses /etc/hosts)
PuppyPhone - A free, easy to use VoIP program.
PupSnap - A more advanced screen capture program, with lots of settings.
PupSysInfo - A really simple to use, informative system hardware info program (similar to HardInfo).
TakeAShot - A simple screen capture program.
UExtract - very, very powerful file archive manager (unzip/unpack almost any format!)
Woofy - A simple GUI to create custom versions of Puppy Linux from an ISO file.
YASSM - Yet Another Samba Setup Manager - manager your SAMBA (Windows and NFS) network shares.

Visit the Puppy forums for many more Puppy Linux specific programs, scripts, hacks and tricks.

Audio

Airtime - Airtime is the open broadcast software for scheduling and remote station management
Ardour - Record, Edit, and Mix on Linux
Audacity - Free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds.
Clementine - Play numerous lossy and lossless audio formats.
Hydrogen - Advanced drum machine for GNU/Linux.
Let's make music - Making music on your PC by creating melodies and beats, synthesizing and mixing sounds, arranging samples and much more.
Mixxx - Free DJ software that gives you everything you need to perform live mixes, veritable alternative to Traktor.
SoundJuicer - CD Ripping tool for GNOME

Chat Clients

Messenger for Desktop - An app for Facebook messenger.
Pidgin - A universal chat client.
ScudCloud - A Slack-client for linux.
Skype - Skype keeps the world talking, for free.
Telegram - A messaging app with a focus on speed and security, it’s super fast, simple and free.
Viber -Viber for Linux lets you send free messages and make free calls to other Viber users on any device and network, in any country
Whatsie - Whatsapp unofficial client for ubuntu/linux.

Command-line programs

TODO

Data Recovery

System Rescue CD - SystemRescueCd is a Linux system rescue disk available as a bootable CD-ROM or USB stick for administrating or repairing your system and data after a crash.
Test Disk - TestDisk is powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software.
Photorec - PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from hard disks, CD-ROMs, and lost pictures (thus the Photo Recovery name) from digital camera memory.

Desktop Environments and Window Managers

JWM - lightweight window manager with taskbar and menus.
JWM Desk - a GUI to manage and configure your JWM settings, themes, etc.
OpenBox - lightweight, minimalist window manager, often used with 3rd-party taskbars.
LXDE - fast yet beautiful desktop environment.
Xfce - Xfce Desktop Environment.

Development

Android studio -The Official IDE for Android : Android Studio provides the fastest tools for building apps on every type of Android device.
Atom - Hackable text editor for the 21st century.
Arduino IDE - The open-source Arduino Software (IDE) makes it easy to write code and upload it to the board.
Code::Blocks - Code::Blocks is a free C, C++ and Fortran IDE built to meet the most demanding needs of its users. It is designed to be very extensible and fully configurable.
Codelite - A Free, open source, cross platform C,C++,PHP and Node.js IDE.
Eclipse Eclipse is famous for our Java Integrated Development Environment (IDE), but our C/C++ IDE and PHP IDE are pretty cool too
Geany - Geany is a text editor using the GTK+ toolkit with basic features of an integrated development environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages.
Git - Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
IntelliJ IDEA - Powerful IDE for JAVA
Lighttable - the next generation code editor! Support live coding.
Nemiver - Nemiver is a project to write a standalone graphical debugger that integrates well in the GNOME desktop environment.
NodeJS - Node.js® is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine.
Oh-my-zsh A delightful community-driven framework for managing your zsh configuration.
PyCharm - Powerful IDE for Python
Postgresql - PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system.
Postman - Postman, help us test API quickly.
QT Creator Fully-stocked cross-platform integrated development environment for easy creation of connected devices, UIs and applications.
Rabbit VCS RabbitVCS is a set of graphical tools written to provide simple and straightforward access to the version control systems you use.
Sublime - One of the best text editor of all time.
Swift - Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns.
VSCode - Visual Studio Code is a lightweight but powerful source code editor which runs on your desktop and is available for Windows, OS X and Linux. It comes with built-in support for JavaScript, TypeScript and Node.js and has a rich ecosystem of extensions for other languages (C++, C#, Python, PHP) and runtimes.
Zsh - A powerful command line shell.

E-Book Utilities

Calibre - Incredibly ugly but powerful software for ebook management and conversion.
Foxit - Foxit Reader 8.0—Award-winning PDF Reader.
FBReader - One of the most popular eReader apps.
Lucidor - Lucidor is a computer program for reading and handling e-books. Lucidor supports e-books in the EPUB file format, and catalogs in the OPDS format.
Okualr - Okular is a universal document viewer based developed by KDE. Okular works on multiple platforms, including but not limited to Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, *BSD, etc.

Editors

Atom - Hackable text editor for the 21st century.
Bluefish - Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdevelopers, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code.
Brackets - A modern text editor that understands web design.
Geany - Geany is a text editor using the GTK+ toolkit with basic features of an integrated development environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages.
Gedit -gedit is the GNOME text editor. While aiming at simplicity and ease of use, gedit is a powerful general purpose text editor.
Leafpad - Leafpad is a simple, lightweight GTK+ text editor, designed to do the basics well.
Lighttable -the next generation code editor! Support live coding.
Sublime - One of the best text editor of all time.
VSCode - Visual Studio Code is a lightweight but powerful source code editor which runs on your desktop and is available for Windows, OS X and Linux. It comes with built-in support for JavaScript, TypeScript and Node.js and has a rich ecosystem of extensions for other languages (C++, C#, Python, PHP) and runtimes.
Vim -Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. It's useful whether you're already using vi or using a different editor.

Email

Evolution - Evolution is a personal information management application that provides integrated mail, calendaring and address book functionality.
Geary - Geary is an email application built for GNOME 3. It allows you to read and send email with a simple, modern interface.
Thunderbird - Thunderbird is a free email application that’s easy to set up and customize and it’s loaded with great features.
Wmail - Gmail & Google Inbox unofficial desktop client for linux

File Manager

7Zip - Unzip any zip files
Double Commander - Double Commander is a cross platform open source file manager with two panels side by side. It is inspired by Total Commander and features some new ideas.
Marlin - The sexiest fish in the large sea of file managers, Marlin is well-designed with a focus on speed, simplicity, ease of use.
Nautilus - Nautilus (Files) is a file manager designed to fit the Gnome desktop design and behaviour, giving the user a simple way to navigate and manage its files.
Ranger - a very powerul and easy to use terminal based file manager, with support for Vim key bindings, plugins and more.
ROX - The ROX-filer file manager is an excellent, powerful file manager with many features, such as executing shell commands, custom right click options and more.
Synapse - Best application launcher on linux.
Double Commander - Double Commander is a cross platform open source file manager with two panels side by side. It is inspired by Total Commander and features some new ideas.

Filesystem

Bleach bit -BleachBit quickly frees disk space and tirelessly guards your privacy. Free cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, shred temporary files, delete logs, and more ...
GD map - A tool to visualize disk usage.
GParted - Disk Partition utility for ubuntu/linux.

Games

Civilization5 - Sid Meier’s Civilization® is recognized as one of the greatest strategy franchises of all-time.
FreeCiv - An open source remake of Sid Meier’s Civilization® 2, recognized as one of the greatest strategy franchises of all-time.
Minecraft - Minecraft is a game about placing blocks and going on adventures. Explore randomly generated worlds and build amazing things from the simplest of homes to the grandest of castles.
PlayOnLinux - Play Windows Game on Linux.
Steam - Awesome Gaming platform, which open the gates to many games.
Wine - Wine (originally an acronym for "Wine Is Not an Emulator") is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux, Mac OSX, & BSD

Graphics

Aftershot - A powerful alternative to Adobe Photoshop!
Agave - Agave is a very simple application for the GNOME desktop that allows you to generate a variety of colorschemes from a single starting color
Blender - a free and open source complete 3D creation pipeline for artists and small teams.
Cinepaint - Open source deep paint software
Darktable - darktable is an open source photography workflow application and RAW developer
Digikam - digiKam is an advanced digital photo management application for Linux
Fotoxx - Fotoxx is a free open source Linux program for image editing and collection management.
GIMP - GIMP is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring
Hugin - an easy to use cross-platform panoramic imaging toolchain based on Panorama Tools.
Inkscape - A powerful, free design tool for you , whether you are an illustrator, designer, web designer or just someone who needs to create some vector imagery
Krita - Open Source Software for Concept Artists, Digital Painters, and Illustrators
Luminance HDR - Luminance HDR is an open source graphical user interface application that aims to provide a workflow for HDR imaging.
OpenShot - OpenShot is a free, simple-to-use, feature-rich video editor for Linux.
Pitivi - A free video editor with a beautiful and intuitive user interface, a clean codebase and a fantastic community.
Radiance - Radiance - A Validated Lighting Simulation Tool
Shotwell - Shotwell is a photo manager for GNOME 3.
StopMotion - Linux Stopmotion is a Free Open Source application to create stop-motion animations. It helps you capture and edit the frames of your animation and export them as a single file.
Xara Extreme - Xara Xtreme for Linux is a powerful, general purpose graphics program for Unix platforms including Linux, FreeBSD

Internet

Chrome - A popular Web Browsers with a lot of plugins/apps.
Firefox - A popular Web Browsers with a lot of plugins/apps.
Midori - very small and lightweight WebKit based browser.
NetSurf - tiny browser, very fast, custom rendering engine, even works in the framebuffer.
Palemoon - a lightweight browser, based on Firefox, minimal dependencies, low CPU and RAM usage.

Productivity

Ambient Noise - Install ambient noise for extra focus on Linux
Autokey - A desktop automation utility for Linux allows you to manage collection of scripts and phrases, and assign abbreviations and hotkeys to these.
Brightness - Brightness indicator for ubuntu.
California - Complete Calendar app replacement which uses natural language for creating events.
Caligra Office - offers a comprehensive set of 8 applications which satisfies the office, graphics and management needs.
CopyQ -CopyQ is advanced clipboard manager with editing and scripting features.
f.lux - Automatically adjust your computer screen to match lighting.
Gnome-dictionary - A powerful
Go For It - Go For It! is a simple and stylish productivity app, featuring a to-do list, merged with a timer that keeps your focus on the current task.
Libre Office - Best office bundle for linux.
Plank - Plank is meant to be the simplest dock of apps on the planet.
Recent Noti - An indicator for recent notification.
Shutter - Shutter is a feature-rich screenshot program for Linux based operating systems such as Puppy.
Simplenote - Cross platform notetaking app. Evernote competitor.
Springseed - Simple and beautiful note taking app for daily user.
Stickynote - Sticky note on desktop of linux.
Todo.txt - todo.txt-focused editors which help you manage your tasks with as few keystrokes and taps possible.
Todoist - Unofficial client of Todoist, the Cross-platform to-do manager with mobile apps, great UI and has some optional premium features.
Undistract me - Notifies you when long-running terminal commands complete.
Xmind - Mind Mapping Tool.
Weather - Weather indicator and widget for ubuntu.

Security

ClamAV - Clam Anti Virus
GnuPG - Gnu Privacy Guard
OpenSSH - OpenSSH Secure Shell Server and Client
Seahorse - Gnome frontend for GnuPG
Tcpdump - TCP Debugging/Capture Tool

Sharing Files

D-lan - A free LAN file sharing software.
Dropbox - Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily.
Meiga - a tool that makes possible to share selected local directories via web.
ownCloud - The goal of ownCloud is to give you access to your files wherever you are
Quazaa - A cross platform multi-network peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing client.
PushBullet - Pushbullet connects your devices, making them feel like one.
Resilio - Multi platform sync tool using BitTorrent protocol.
SpiderOak - Real-time collaboration for teams and businesses that care about privacy
Teamviewer - PC remote control/remote access software, free for personal use.
Transmission - Simple, lightweight, multi-platform torrent client.

Terminal

GnomeTerminal - A widely preinstalled terminal emulator in linux world
Guake - Guake is a top-down terminal for Gnome
Konsole - Best terminal for KDE dekstop environment.
mlterm - lightweight terminal with great support for CJK, Arabic, etc, and good framebuffer and image-in-terminal support.
Terminator - it’s quite clear that the most powerful terminal emulator on Linux is the feature-filled Terminator.
Xterm - The xterm program is a terminal emulator for the X Window System. It provides DEC VT102 and Tektronix 4014 compatible terminals for programs that can't use the window system directly.

Utilities

Actionaz - Automation tasks utility for ubuntu/Linux
Brasero - CD/DVD burner.
Caffeine - Prevents ubuntu from automatically going to sleep.
Convertall - Convert all units.
Gnormalize - Audio converter.
GRadio - Radio software for ubuntu linux.
Handbrake - Video converter.
KeepPass - Cross platform password manager.
ImageMagik - ImageMagick is a suite of command-line utilities for modifying and working with images.
LastPass - Cross platform password
Powertop - Diagnose issue with powerconsumption.
Pulse Audio - Improve Linux Audio with customized Profiles.
Peazip - Utility to unzip any zipped files
Remarkable - Best Markdown editor in Linux.
Systemload - Show systemload in status bar.
Synaptic - Synaptic is a graphical package management program for apt.
TLP - Optimize Linux battery.
WallpaperChange - Automatically change your wallpaper.

Video

VLC - VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

Web-based applications

TODO

General Linux Websites

Linux News, Apps, and more ...

Learn Linux

Command Line Utilities

Top 10 command line tools

Contributors

List of contributors

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Guideline to contribute

Simeply put the name of the application in the list. Link to its homepage or a guide on how to install it.
Also write a short description for the application + add icon. Make sure it is put under the appropriate topic. If the application doesnt fit in any existing topic, make a new one for it. Ensure everything is alphabetically sorted.

Items marked with are open-source software and link to the source code. Items marked with are free (as in free beer).

License

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