Utilities included with Linux...?

[annownboi]

hi guys,

I just wanted to ask you which or if Linux comes with some utilitie software as a standard.

For example, Windows has defragger, windows defender, disk clean up etc.

Does Linux comes with similar things?

I have to compare linux and windows on their standard utilities as part of my college assignment, but i cant seem to find anythings about linux on that...

So please if you could list some, would be really helpful

Thanks a lot

[oz]

Hello and welcome!

You can check the following links for some alternative apps that will work under Linux:

The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux. (Official site of the table)

Linux App Finder | Helping find the Linux apps you need

[Irithori]

That question made me smile a bit

For example:
- A fedora 16 has more than 20000 packages available
- each package can have several binaries or scripts

$ repoquery -a | wc -l
20666

- These are only the packages in the standard repositories. There are other repos, maintained by single persons or groups
- Then there are websites hosting projects as sourcecode. Freecode SourceForge https://github.com/ to name just a few

[jayd512]

Hello and Welcome!

I just wanted to ask you which or if Linux comes with some utilitie software as a standard.

For example, Windows has defragger, windows defender, disk clean up etc.

Does Linux comes with similar things?

To answer that part... short answer, no.
Linux does a more efficient job of file allocation, so it doesn't really have any issue with disk fragmentation.
And the closest thing to a disk clean-up would be the package manager. It can be used to remove some unused portions of software (un-needed dependencies).

[Cabhan]

What comes with "Linux" is nothing but the kernel. Linux tends to be used as a distribution, which includes a number of pieces of software that run on Linux.

Each distribution is different, but the closest to a standard, core set of programs is probably the coreutils package:
Coreutils - GNU core utilities

A distribution does not have to include coreutils, however, and there are other versions than GNU coreutils, such as BusyBox.

[jmadero]

As jay has already said, most of those default system software with Windows is simply not needed in any linux distro. I've read that a deframent tool is being developed but it's really not necessary. If you want to read why (very technical but it does a good job explaining):

Why doesn't Linux need defragmenting?


As for spyware, anti-virus, maleware again Linux doesn't get affected by 99.9% of this stuff so it's not necessary. You can install anti-virus but I think the general consensus is, don't bother. If you're dual booting you might want to just have an anti-virus distro that you can liveboot once a week or month and scan your entire system with nothing mounted.

Cleaning up in general is best done by just removing packages through package manager and then in Ubuntu running "sudo apt-get clean", there are similar commands in other distros

Ultimately because Linux has such a superior filesystem and because it has refused to use a registry, most problems are avoided before they begin. This is unlike the Windows philosophy which says "make it breakable and fix it after the fact". In fact, Linux is so good that if you really wanted to remove a package you could just search for the program name and remove the folders/files system wide and the software would be completely removed, try this in Windows and you're bound to get a bluescreen and a ridiculous amount of leftovers in your registry

[blwnv8]

As for spyware, anti-virus, maleware again Linux doesn't get affected by 99.9% of this stuff so it's not necessary.

This is a giant plus over windows.

[cynwulf]

Cleaning up in general is best done by just removing packages through package manager and then in Ubuntu running "sudo apt-get clean", there are similar commands in other distros

In any Debian based system, while that is useful (though autoclean is probably more useful), it simply clears the package cache.

To remove unwanted cruft, one method is "apt-get autoremove" which will remove packages which are considered to be orphaned dependencies, but use it with caution. "aptitude purge ~c" is good for cleaning up stray configuration files.

deborphan is a tool for finding and listing orphaned packages and their configurations. It's quite thorough, so again "use with caution".