 Linux Users: The Best Linux Software? |
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 Dec 23 2004, 05:20 AM
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Super Member  Group: Members Posts: 692 Joined: 25-November 04 Member No.: 1,523  |
Ok linux users. Which software packages, in your mind, are the best/most necessary for a good linux system.
In particular, which OSS application software do you like the most? |
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Dec 23 2004, 11:26 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 101 Joined: 7-December 04 From: australia Member No.: 1,640 |
QUOTE(MajesticTreeFrog @ Dec 23 2004, 04:20 PM) Ok linux users. Which software packages, in your mind, are the best/most necessary for a good linux system. In particular, which OSS application software do you like the most?  Howdy, I'm unsure what you mean by OSS. Things I can't live without on my box are: the GIMP (graphics) XMMS (multimedia - mp3 player) K3B (burner) GtKam (digital camera software) Open Office Firefox gFTP Quanta (html editor) Enlightenment (Windows Manager) GAIM (instant Messenger) Kooka (Scanner software) and of course ... all the command line goodies such as: vi bash shell pine just to name a few of my most often used. cheers hashbang 
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Dec 23 2004, 11:48 AM
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Member - Active Contributor Group: Members Posts: 82 Joined: 17-November 04 Member No.: 1,392 |
QUOTE(hashbang @ Dec 23 2004, 04:56 PM) Howdy, I'm unsure what you mean by OSS. Things I can't live without on my box are: the GIMP (graphics) XMMS (multimedia - mp3 player) K3B (burner) GtKam (digital camera software) Open Office Firefox gFTP Quanta (html editor) Enlightenment (Windows Manager) GAIM (instant Messenger) Kooka (Scanner software) and of course ... all the command line goodies such as: vi bash shell pine just to name a few of my most often used. cheers hashbang i think that much you get with the installation... but if we need to add more... i use the borland Jbuilder for Java Development... in Linux in addition to the above mentioned utilities... |
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Dec 24 2004, 10:39 AM
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Way Out Of Control - You need a life :) Group: Members Posts: 1,366 Joined: 14-September 04 From: Nottingham England Member No.: 570 |
anyone lpayed around with a program called "lightspeed"
its a kickass program that lets you see what objects look like at different speeds.... anywhere from 0 meters per second, to 0.999999% the speed of light. one of the moddels is the star trek ship Voyager... its so cool, you can make it accelerate and look at it from different angles... it warps and bends the models, does doppler effect colour shifts... its a totally useless program,,, but its just sooo cool. |
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Dec 24 2004, 12:28 PM
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Newbie [ Level 1 ] Group: Members Posts: 9 Joined: 22-December 04 From: Dalian,China Member No.: 1,835 |
almost the same.
I use d4x in Linux instead of FlashGet in Windows. JBuilder and Eclipse run as well in Linux. I use mplayer to play all medias in Linux. I like the screensave "MATRIX" in Linux. When nVidia driver is installed correctly, 3D acceleration is fully supported. |
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Dec 27 2004, 04:00 PM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 595 Joined: 4-September 04 Member No.: 228 |
#!'s list was good but I'm on the emacs side of the never-ending debate
 . And I'm just somehow more used to TCSH instead of bash (just because my university had it as default shell). And on the matter of email client I agree 100%. |
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Dec 27 2004, 09:48 PM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 692 Joined: 25-November 04 Member No.: 1,523 |
ick, no thanks on the pine. Believe it or not I actually like graphical email!
As for emacs and vi, I hate them both. So there! 
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Dec 29 2004, 03:40 AM
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Newbie [ Level 1 ] Group: Members Posts: 6 Joined: 29-December 04 Member No.: 1,903 |
IPod anybody? I had gtk pod for awhile but that was a pain. It took a super long time to load the list from the ipod and anything i did had to refresh the list. Needless to say I abandoned that. I think it may have something to do with the way gtk does menus, but there has to be a better way!!
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Jan 4 2005, 03:10 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 165 Joined: 22-September 04 From: IS - IT - US - BE Member No.: 804 |
QUOTE(TailGrab @ Dec 29 2004, 05:40 AM) IPod anybody? I had gtk pod for awhile but that was a pain. It took a super long time to load the list from the ipod and anything i did had to refresh the list. Needless to say I abandoned that. I think it may have something to do with the way gtk does menus, but there has to be a better way!! I have an Ipod but I haven't try yet, which distro do you have? In linux i think the most important apps not in the base pack are: Mplayer Apt-4-Rpm (i think only for SuSE) FireFox Thunderbird Superkaramba IPtables (a kernel module & the apps) Ksensors Nmap IMHO Kwrite is better than Vim, but vim requires less memory and it's not necessary X, so if you connect through SSh vim is very useful |
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Jan 4 2005, 06:40 PM
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Way Out Of Control - You need a life :) Group: Members Posts: 1,366 Joined: 14-September 04 From: Nottingham England Member No.: 570 |
Still no mention of Xorg-X11 ? lol.
these is so much FOSS, it would be impossable to mention it all. People are always saying there isnt as much software available for Linux / BSD, but i think the opposite is true. Anways... Kickass Software that works on Linux... (i dont say for Linux simplly because most of it will run on anything that isnt Windows) CD-Burning = K3B Web Browser = Firefox (work on windows) Email = Thunderbird (works on windows) FTP server = vsftpd Web Server = Apache (works on windows too) Desktop = KDE, GNOME, iceWM, XFCE. Multimedia (music and video) = Xine, Mplayer Multimedia (audio only) = beep-media-player (winamp equivelant) xmms(old version of beep) , Amerok (definatly the best mp3 / ogg player) Ohh.... and the greatest program ever... Emerge/Portage (never sure what to call it) no package management system will EVER beat it... EVER. |
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