Page 4 | Best System Utilities for Linux of 2025

surf

suckless.org

surf is a simple web browser based on WebKit2/GTK+. It is able to display websites and follow links. It supports the XEmbed protocol which makes it possible to embed it in another application. Furthermore, one can point surf to another URI by setting its properties. You can navigate by clicking on links on the displayed page. Hit Ctrl-g to enter a new URL. Compile your own webkit or expect hell. The packaging of webkit is purely insane. Surf uses upstream stable webkit2gtk by default, but the previous version based on webkit1gtk is still available as a branch. surf is actively developed. You can browse its source code repository or get a copy with the simple commands. Adblocking is a non-trivial task, but there are trivial solutions. The gethostszero file can of course be reused to create the /etc/hosts file. A cronjob can be used to update the file and run hosts-gen again.

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jumanji

pwmt

jumanji is a highly customizable and functional web browser based on the libwebkit web content engine and the gtk+ toolkit. The idea behind jumanji is a web browser that provides a minimalistic and space-saving interface as well as an easy usage that mainly focuses on keyboard interaction like vimperator does. The customization of jumanji is be managed via a configuration file called jumanjirc. The jumanjirc file is a simple plain text file that can be populated with various commands to change the behavior and the look of jumanji. Each line besides empty lines and comments (which start with a prepended #) is evaluated on its own, so it is not possible to write multiple commands in one single line. It is possible to map or remap new key bindings to shortcut functions which allows a high level of customization. jumanji offers more options to be changed and makes those changes permanent.

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AdBlock

Block Chrome ads everywhere you browse! Block pop-ups, autoplay video ads, and ads on Facebook, YouTube, and your favorite sites in the Chrome browser. AdBlock is the most dependable ad blocker for Chrome. Install AdBlock today and enjoy faster browsing and a safer web. AdBlock for Chrome is an ad-blocking browser extension, which means it removes ads from Chrome and provides protection from third-party trackers. In fact, with over 60 million users, AdBlock is the most widely trusted ad blocking extension for Chrome available today. AdBlock is used by millions of folks across the globe to block Chrome ads, improve page load speed, and help protect their privacy. That's because AdBlock for Chrome is simple to use, completely customizable, and provides a dramatic improvement to your online experience.

Starting Price: $1 per month

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Ghostery Tracker & Ad Blocker

Ghostery

Ghostery is a powerful privacy extension. Block ads, cookies, popups & other trackers. Ghostery counts more than 100+ million downloads worldwide. The browser extension upgrades your browser and supplies full adblock functionality, stops trackers from accessing your personal data, and annoying cookie consent pop-ups. Ghostery has three main components: * Ad-Blocking - blocks all ads on websites you visit including Youtube and Facebook, helping you to focus only on what's important to you. * Anti-Tracking - stops trackers’ ability to collect your personal data, replacing it with random values and anonymizing your identity for data brokers. * Never-Consent - automatically removes intrusive cookie popups and expresses dissent to online tracking. This unequaled feature adds convenience to each website visit and acts like your privacy advocate. Ghostery delivers the online privacy protection our users have come to know and love while minimising the need for customisation.

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uBlock

uBlock is the ideal ad blocker for stopping unwanted ads and speeding up your browsing experience. uBlock will block annoying ads, obnoxious video ads, and intrusive trackers. It also functions as a pop-up blocker and helps protect against some forms of malware. If you’re looking for an ad blocker to remove ads from your Internet experience and help improve your overall online security, then uBlock is the tool for you. uBlock is a fast but powerful tool to help you block annoying ads and speed up your browsing in Safari. uBlock starts blocking ads on millions of websites, including Facebook, YouTube, and Spotify, from the moment it’s installed. You can pause uBlock, allowing ads to appear temporarily when needed, or turn it off entirely on sites where you want to allow ads every time you visit. You can also make sure your filter lists are up-to-date if an ad slips past uBlock.

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SponsorBlock

Users submit when a sponsor happens from the extension, and the extension automatically skips sponsors it knows about using a privacy-preserving query system. It also supports skipping other categories, such as intros, outros and reminders to subscribe, and skipping to the point with highlight. To prevent one submission with a lot of votes never being able to be replaced, I decided to use a weighted random distribution based on the equation on the right. This formula makes the first few votes matter a lot more than votes on a submission that already has a lot of votes. This gives newly submitted segments a better chance of being sent out to users to get votes. So, most users will get the best submission, but some users will get lesser votes submissions so that they can either be upvoted or downvoted.

Starting Price: Free

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hBlock

hBlock is a POSIX-compliant shell script that gets a list of domains that serve ads, tracking scripts and malware from multiple sources and creates a hosts file, among other formats, that prevents your system from connecting to them. On our website, you can download the latest build of the default blocklist and you can generate your own by following the instructions on the project page. Improve your security and privacy by blocking ads, tracking and malware domains. hBlock is available in various package managers. Additionally, a system timer can be set to regularly update the host's file for new additions. The default behavior of hBlock can be adjusted with multiple options. Nightly builds of the host's file, among other formats, can be found on the hBlock website. Sometimes you may need to temporarily disable hBlock, a quick option is to generate a hosts file without any blocked domains.

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Bluhell Firewall

Diego Casorran

Get a faster browsing experience by blocking nasty web resources using Bluhell Firewall, the lightweight ad-blocker, and the tracking/privacy protector. All we know is the availability of popular AdBlockers lying around, but frankly, these are too bloated with several features and options which most of us don't use beyond the defaults. So, this extension was made for those of us who don't care about all that stuff but do about just getting rid of all the nasty resources being loaded by websites. This is a lightweight extension (ie, 30KB compared to ~700KB of other popular adblockers), which was made with performance in mind. No configurable options, subscriptions, additional features, etc. You can turn the extension on/off at any time by clicking the toolbar button (Fx Desktop) or touching the menu item entry (Fx for Android). Every time a certain resource wants to be loaded we will have to iterate through a list of seven compiled patterns.

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Technitium DNS Server

Technitium

Block ads & malware at DNS level for your entire network! Self host a DNS server for privacy & security. Technitium DNS Server is an open-source authoritative as well as recursive DNS server that can be used for self-hosting a DNS server for privacy & security. It works out-of-the-box with no or minimal configuration and provides a user-friendly web console accessible using any modern web browser. Nobody really bothers about domain name resolution since it works automatically behind the scenes and is complex to understand. Most computer software uses the operating system's DNS resolver that usually queries the configured ISP's DNS server using UDP protocol. This way works well for most people but, your ISP can see and control what website you can visit even when the website employs HTTPS security. Not only that, some ISPs can redirect, block or inject content into websites you visit even when you use a different DNS provider like Google DNS or Cloudflare DNS.

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Webmail Ad Blocker

jasonsavard.com

Removes the ads and sponsored links and squeezes out the empty space left behind by other adblockers to give you more room to write your messages. There are also options to hide various other items on your pages to make it more zen. Blocks annoying ads when you use Gmail, Outlook.com, Hotmail, and Yahoo Mail giving you more space for the message. For Gmail users, you can choose to remove the People Widget in the options. Great for parental control to childproof those ads.

Starting Price: Free

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Domain Blocker

Peta Sittek

Helps you hide ads, avoid tracking, load pages faster, fight procrastination. Domain Blocker is written to be as efficient as possible, in terms of speed (CPU) and memory (RAM). The main idea is that there's little meaning to use a predefined blocklist consisting of tens of thousands of rules when you'll ever use only a small percentage of it. In Domain Blocker you build the blocklist as you go along. By blocking advertisement domains you disable the display of some of those pervasive ads. By blocking tracking domains you prevent the services to acquire information about your browsing behavior. By blocking unnecessary domains (requests) you save traffic and make pages loading faster! Just keep Facebook out of the Whitelist and do more! Read and change all your data on the websites you visit, to be able to intercept HTTP requests before they leave your browser. Completely free and with no ads.

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Domain Whitelist

Peta Sittek

Ultimate blocker which says no to every network packet until you explicitly allow it. By default Domain Whitelist blocks everything. Everything. It's up to you to build your very customized whitelist of domains you trust. Everything else is blocked and well kept out of your browser. It's like AdBlock the other way around, completely. By blocking advertisement domains you're free of most of those pervasive ads. By blocking tracking domains you're protected from services that acquire information about your browsing behavior. By blocking unnecessary domains (requests) you save a lot of traffic and make pages load faster! Read and change all your data on the websites you visit to be able to intercept HTTP requests before they leave your browser. Completely free and with no ads.

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Metiix Blockade

Metiix

Block malware, tracking, & ads on every device in your network. Choose a single device, a group, or your entire network. Simple software deployment and configuration. Custom blocklist & exceptions. Blockade is DNS-based server software designed to block third-party tracking software, analytical software, ads and access to sites known to carry malware for all computers and devices on your network that can browse the internet. A single server software license is all that is needed to protect all of the devices (computers, servers, laptops, Chromebooks, handhelds, smart TVs, tablets, phones) connected on your network and across your WI-FI from internet tracking software and ads. Load Blockade directly onto any Windows or Linux computer on your network not currently running DNS services or web services. Blockade keeps advertisements, tracking, and analytical software off of your network.

Starting Price: Free

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Malwarebytes Browser Guard

Malwarebytes

Filters out annoying ads and scams while blocking trackers that spy on you. Download free for Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari browsers. Malwarebytes Browser Guard crushes unwanted and unsafe content, giving you a safer and faster browsing experience. Not only that, it is the world’s first browser extension that can identify and stop tech support scams. We take on the bad guys so you don’t have to. Speeds up how fast web pages display by blocking third-party ads and other unwanted content, saving your sanity and bandwidth. Identifies and stops browser lockers, browser hijackers, and other scare tactics tech support scammers use to con you out of money. Puts the hurt on tech support scammers. Blocks third-party ad trackers that follow you around the Internet and target you with the same ads over and over again. Removes annoying ads that often point to the content of questionable value.

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Vimb

fanglingsu

Vimb is a fast and lightweight vim-like web browser based on the WebKit web browser engine and the GTK toolkit. Vimb is modal like the great vim editor and also easily configurable during runtime. Vimb is mostly keyboard-driven and does not distract you from your daily work. If you are familiar with vim or have some experience with pentadactyl the use of Vimb would be a breeze, if not we missed our target. Enable visualization of some runtime settings. Allows controlling the website access to the notification API. it’s modal like Vim. Vim-like keybindings, assignable for each browser mode. Nearly every configuration can be changed at runtime with Vim-like set syntax. History for ex-commands, search queries, URLs. Completions for commands, URLs, bookmarked URLs, variable names of settings, search-queries. Hinting marks links, form fields, and other clickable elements to be clicked, opened or inspected. SSL validation against the ca-certificate file. user-defined URL shortcuts.

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Luakit

Luakit is a highly configurable browser framework based on the WebKit web content engine and the GTK+ toolkit. It is very fast, extensible with Lua, and licensed under the GNU GPLv3 license. It is primarily targeted at power users, developers and anyone who wants to have fine-grained control over their web browser’s behavior and interface. While switching to the WebKit 2 API means a vastly improved security situation, not all distributions of Linux package the most up-to-date version of WebKitGTK+, and several package very outdated versions that have many known vulnerabilities. As of September 2019, Arch, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, and Ubuntu all have the latest version of WebKitGTK+, but OpenSUSE ships an outdated and vulnerable version in their stable channel. If you use Luakit for browsing, it is your responsibility to ensure that your distribution packages an up-to-date version of WebKitGTK+!

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TestDisk

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, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table). Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy. Fix partition table, recover deleted partition. Recover FAT32 boot sector from its backup. Rebuild FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 boot sector. Fix FAT tables. Rebuild the NTFS boot sector. Recover the NTFS boot sector from its backup. Fix MFT using MFT mirror. Locate ext2/ext3/ext4 Backup SuperBlock. Undelete files from FAT, exFAT, NTFS, and ext2 filesystem. Copy files from deleted FAT, exFAT, NTFS and ext2/ext3/ext4 partitions. TestDisk has features for both novices and experts. For those who know little or nothing about data recovery techniques, TestDisk can be used to collect detailed information about a non-booting drive.

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DivFix++

DivFix++ is a video repair tool for AVI files. Sometimes you can't convert your AVI video files for your PSP or smartphone due to slight corruption. Because most "video conversion" software doesn't like corrupted AVI files. You can fix corruptions on your AVI file before starting the conversion. Also, you can't watch your video/movie properly on your favorite "video player" due to corruption. Sometimes downloaded videos/movies are corrupted too. You can fix them with DivFix++ if they are in AVI format. You can also preview "video download" with this tool, fix the file adds the seeking ability to the video and you can watch currently downloaded parts. So you can decide if you are continuing to download that video or not. It's a good thing if you are a heavy P2P user. Windows users can download ming32 compiled Win32 and ming64 compiled Win64 binaries. Mac OSX users can download precompiled static Universal binary.

Starting Price: Free

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Meteorite Project

MKV Repair

Meteorite Project is DivFix++ like the program but for Matroska/MKV files. It can repair your corrupted MKV video files to make them compatible with your player. Also, you can preview Matroska files that are already in download. New videos, especially in HD, high definition videos are in MKV format generally. You needed to fix them before watching. But unfortunately, there was no program that could fix Matroska files. So I make this tool, just for myself and then released the source and binary on my birthday. You can repair your half downloaded MKV/Matroska videos or broken movies with it too. Meteorite is a program for repairing broken MKV streams. It scans the MKV file and then removes all broken sections from it. After joining each frame together, you can watch your corrupted or half downloaded Matroska files at your favorite player.

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B1 Archiver

B1 Free Archiver

B1 Archiver is a 100%, free archive manager. You can use it on any computer and you don't have to register or pay anything. Feel free to share the B1 Archiver with your friends or co-workers. B1 Archiver works on all platforms - Windows, Linux, Mac, and Android. You no longer need different software on your PC, smartphone, or tablet. B1 is the best-unified solution for every device. Supports most popular formats - b1, zip, jar, xpi, rar, 7z, arj, bz2, cab, deb, gzip, tgz, iso, lzh, lha, lzma, rpm, tar, xar, z, dmg, and others. Works with split and password-protected archives and serves perfectly as a file manager. B1 Archiver is extremely simple to use, you don't need comprehensive manuals or guides. Just install it and enjoy. It also works light speed fast even with large archives and many files. We apply the highest safety standards and care about your privacy. B1 Archiver never gathers any kind of personal information and does not install any malicious software.

Starting Price: Free

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Gzip

GNU Operating System

GNU Gzip is a popular data compression program originally written by Jean-loup Gailly for the GNU project. Mark Adler wrote the decompression part. We developed this program as a replacement for compress because of the Unisys and IBM patents covering the LZW algorithm used by compress. These patents made it impossible for us to use compress, and we needed a replacement. The superior compression ratio of gzip is just a bonus. Stable source releases are available on the main GNU download server (HTTPS, HTTP, FTP) and its mirrors; please use a mirror if possible. gzip reduces the size of the named files using Lempel-Ziv coding (LZ77). Whenever possible, each file is replaced by one with the extension ‘.gz’, while keeping the same ownership modes, access, and modification times. (The default extension is ‘z’ for MSDOS, OS/2 FAT, and Atari.) If no files are specified, the standard input is compressed to the standard output.

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NuGet

NuGet is the package manager for .NET. The NuGet client tools provide the ability to produce and consume packages. The NuGet Gallery is the central package repository used by all package authors and consumers. New to NuGet? Start with a walkthrough showing how NuGet powers your .NET development. Browse the thousands of packages that developers like you have created and shared with the .NET community. Want to make your first NuGet package and share it with the community? Start with our walkthrough! The command-line tool, nuget.exe, builds and runs under Mono 3.2+ and can create packages in Mono. Although nuget.exe works fully on Windows, there are known issues with Linux and OS X. The primary source for learning about a package is its listing page on NuGet (or another private feed). Each package page on NuGet includes a description of the package, its version history, and usage statistics.

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Yarn

Yarn is a package manager which doubles down as project manager. Whether you work on one-shot projects or large monorepos, as a hobbyist or an enterprise user, we've got you covered. Split your project into sub-components kept within a single repository. Yarn guarantees that an install that works now will continue to work the same way in the future. Yarn cannot solve all your problems, but it can be the foundation for others to do it. We believe in challenging the status quo. What should the ideal developer experience be like? Yarn is an independent open-source project tied to no company. Your support makes us thrive. Yarn already knows everything there is to know about your dependency tree, it even installs it on the disk for you. So, why is it up to Node to find where your packages are? Instead, it should be the package manager's job to inform the interpreter about the location of the packages on the disk and manage any dependencies between packages and even versions of packages.

Starting Price: Free

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JDownloader

It is an open source platform written entirely in Java, designed to simplify downloading files from servers like Rapidshare.com or Megaupload.com, not only for Premium account users but also for free account users. JD offers multiple parallel downloads, captcha recognition, automatic file extraction, password management and much more. Additionally, it supports many "link encryption" sites, so you just have to paste the "encrypted" links and JD will do the rest. JD can import DLC, CCF and RSDF files. Of course, JD is free.

Starting Price: Free

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Zypper

SUSE

Zypper is a command-line package manager for installing, updating, and removing packages. It can also be used to manage repositories. Zypper works and behaves as a regular command-line tool. It features subcommands, arguments, and options that can be used to perform specific tasks. Zypper offers several benefits compared to graphical package managers. Being a command-line tool, Zypper is faster in use and light on resources. Zypper actions can be scripted. Zypper can be used on systems that do not have graphical desktop environments. This makes it suitable for use with servers and remote machines. The simplest way to execute Zypper is to type its name, followed by a command. Additionally, you can choose from one or more global options by typing them immediately before the command. Some commands require one or more arguments. Executing subcommands in the Zypper shell, and using global Zypper options are not supported.

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eoPKG

eoPKG is the package manager for the Solus operating system. It is used to manage installed software packages, search for available software, and to apply updates to the system. Change the system root for eoPKG commands. Set username used when connecting to Basic-Auth repositories. Set password used when connecting to Basic-Auth repositories. Enable full debug information and backtraces. Keep bandwidth usage under the specified (numeric) KBs. Disable the use of ANSI escape sequences for colorization by eoPKG. On success, 0 is returned. A non-zero return code signals a failure.

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APT

Distro Tracker Developers

This software lets you follow the evolution of a Debian-based distribution both with email updates and with a comprehensive web interface. Having all the information about packages conveniently available in a single place is particularly interesting for package maintainers, contributors, advanced users, etc.

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Nix

NixOS

Nix is a tool that takes a unique approach to package management and system configuration. Learn how to make reproducible, declarative, and reliable systems. Nix builds packages in isolation from each other. This ensures that they are reproducible and don't have undeclared dependencies, so if a package works on one machine, it will also work on another. Nix makes it trivial to share development and build environments for your projects, regardless of what programming languages and tools you’re using. Nix ensures that installing or upgrading one package cannot break other packages. It allows you to roll back to previous versions and ensures that no package is in an inconsistent state during an upgrade. Nix is a purely functional package manager. This means that it treats packages like values in purely functional programming languages such as Haskell, they are built by functions that don’t have side effects, and they never change after they have been built.

Starting Price: Free

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Pacman

Pacman is a utility which manages software packages in Linux. It uses simple compressed files as a package format, and maintains a text-based package database (more of a hierarchy), just in case some hand tweaking is necessary. Pacman does not strive to "do everything." It will add, remove and upgrade packages in the system, and it will allow you to query the package database for installed packages, files and owners. It also attempts to handle dependencies automatically and can download packages from a remote server. Version 2.0 of Pacman introduced the ability to sync packages (the - sync option) with a master server through the use of package databases. Prior to this, packages would have to be installed manually using the --add and - upgrade operations.

Starting Price: Free

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Snapcraft

This is the code repository for snapd, the background service that manages and maintains installed snaps. Snaps are app packages for desktop, cloud, and IoT that update automatically. Easy to install, secure, cross-platform, and dependency-free. They're being used on millions of Linux systems every day. Alongside its various service and management functions, snapd provides the snap command that's used to install and remove snaps and interact with the wider snap ecosystem, implements the confinement policies that isolate snaps from the base system and from each other, governs the interfaces that allow snaps to access specific system resources outside of their confinement. If you're looking for something to install, such as Spotify or Visual Studio Code, take a look at the Snap Store. And if you want to build your own snaps, start with our creating a snap documentation.

Starting Price: Free

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