Top 10: My Favorite Linux Applications

As of late I've been giving OS X and Windows much love since I use them everyday, but today I'm going back to my roots. Thats right ladies and gents I'm doing a top 10 of my favorite Linux Applications.

1. Firefox (Web Browser) - I'd recommend this browser on any platform, but if you want to know the main reason why I keep going back to this piece of software. Extensions, this feature allows for a ton of additional functionality to be added to the browser with little effort.
2. Gaim (Pidgin) (IM Client) - This has been on of my favorite IM Clients for a while, it works with AIM, MSN, Jabber, etc...
3. VLC (Video Media Player) - VLC is the swiss army knife of video codec players, there is a good chance if it can't play your video file, then its probably DRM'ed or broken (some might argue there is no difference)
4. Vim (Text Editor) - in the Linux world they say your either an Emacs or Vi user, I'm the latter. So I do all my text editing in one of the best text editors out there.
5. IP Tables (Firewall) - you may think that because your using Linux your safe from attack but one should not surf the inter-webs without a firewall and IP tables gets the job done.
6. Evolution (Email Client) - This e-mail client is the closest thing to a Linux alternative to Outlook.
7. Open Office (Office Replacement) - Some time you just need a word processor, its not Microsoft Office but its a pretty good alternative.
8. K3B (CD Burning Software) - I know Nero has a Linux version of their software now but I've been a fan of this software for a while. It's simple, easy, and works a lot like Nero.
9. E-Term (Terminal) - if you run in Linux you'll want a decent terminal window client.
   
10. GKrellem (System Monitor) - got to love fancy system monitor widgets.
    

Note worthy applications:

Democracy (IPTV Media Aggregator) - integrates RSS subscriptions and Bit torrent what's not to like?

The plus side to this list is that all of the software is open source meaning its free as in beer.