10 Free And Amazing Linux Apps For Programmers


#9 GParted

GParted is used for creating, deleting, resizing, moving, checking and copying partitions, and the file systems on them. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems (works with Windows Vista / 7 System & Data partitions), reorganizing disk usage, copying data residing on hard disks and mirroring one partition with another (disk imaging). It offers a simple, user-friendly interface to a flexible, plain partition editor.

#8 Kate

Kate, short for KDE Advanced Text Editor, is a programmer's text editor with syntax highlighting for over 200 filetypes. The syntax highlighting is extendable via XML files and can also specify code folding rules. It has support for search and replace using regular expressions and supports auto-detection of file encodings. Kate can be used as a modal text editor by using its vi input mode which emulates the vi editor. By using sessions, one can customize Kate for different projects. You can expand Kate's functionality using extra plugins.

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