In the last few years, secure text, voice, and video transmission have become major areas of free software development. One of the leaders in this field is Ring.

The upcoming release of LibreOffice will be available as a snap package

RetroShare helps you create a private, decentralized friends-to-friends network with encrypted communications, but how much does that increase security and privacy?

KDE's unofficial search engine may be the most usable choice of all. 

Calligra Suite goes beyond the standard four or five office suite programs by offering a range of applications for desktop and mobile computers.

You don’t always need a full-fledged YouTube or Flickr clone to share videos or images. Sometimes all you want is a quick place to upload, so you can link to your media or share it online. MediaCrush gives you just that, as well as some more interesting perks.

If you can use your desktop environment, then you can also write programs: All you need is your mouse, the Alice IDE, and some time to experiment.

Linux users didn’t need the recent NSA eavesdropping scandal to convince them that securing communication was a good idea. For years, free software developers have been creating secure tools that offer similar functionalities to all of those popular but very leaky services with ridiculous names.