1. Firefox – popular browser.
2. Thunderbird – mail client.
3. Mplayer -excellent video player
4. PidGin – instant messenging stable that supports all known protocols(Yahoo, Jabber/Google Talk, Msn)
5. mc – equivalent of Total Commander for Windows, an excellent file manager in text mode.
6. Vim – text editor
7. OpenOffice -an office suite from SUN
8. k3b – an excelent program for writing cd/dvd
9. Amarok – audio player
10. truecrypt – a program for crypting data.