2004-03-12, 13:16 | Link #1 |
外人、漫画訳者
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Austin, TX
Age: 41
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Post your favorite Linux apps
I was just inducted to the open source world when I installed Madrake 10.0 last night I was wondering what apps you guys use and think are the best for your Linux systems. The only apps that I have not liked so far were some instant messaging program that came with Mandrake (already installed GAIM in place of it), and the Totem movie/MP3 player. Also I was wondering what P2P programs you use. On Windows I like using WinMX and I'd like to find a program like it (I know I can use Wine, but I'm trying to eliminate all my dependcies on Windows software). Thanks!
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2004-03-12, 14:09 | Link #2 | |
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Join Date: Jan 2004
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thunderbird + enigmail mozilla xchat openoffice (though koffice is also very nice) And most importantly, su |
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2004-03-12, 15:10 | Link #5 |
外人、漫画訳者
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Austin, TX
Age: 41
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Ehhh, could you also post what function each application performs?
Also please give a reason why you prefer it over other applications. Thanks. My computer has been pretty slow, and I'm wondering how to speed things up. I'm on a PIII 800MHz with 512MB DDR RAM and an NVidia GeForce graphics card. I haven't installed any drivers or anything myself, so I'm wondering if I do that (especially for my graphic card) should I see a performance increase? In particular the games go WAYYYY slow. ( Hehe, I just posted off topic in my own thread ) |
2004-03-12, 15:49 | Link #6 |
r00t for life
Join Date: Jun 2003
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Well I use console apps whenever possible (yes I sometimes surf using elinks) and here are my favorite console apps:
pine - reading mail apache2 - best web server out there (really) smbd - sambe deamon for linux (I use it on....hmm daily baisis if not more) irssi - best console client nmap - security scanner (mostly for work to test out snort) netcat - net piping program (legend) nano - console editor with php hilighting I use blackbox on FBSD box and I always have like 3 terminals open (one is server logs tail -f and one irssi + one for coding) I guess I need medical help |
2004-03-12, 17:53 | Link #8 | |
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2004-03-12, 18:50 | Link #9 |
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k lets see
gaim- messaging service xmms - winamp clone for linux xine - good media player mplayer -also a good media player BitchX- imho one of best console irc clients with irssi being up there Irssi- as explained above apache- already explained by someone above winex-a must do emulate any direct x program in linux gkrellm - best docking monitoring utillity ^^' gimp - almost a mirror photoshop eclipse - probably my favorite IDE which inlcudes support for C and Java and theres more o.O ill think of it later OMg another blakbox fan ur my hero ^^' well ive been recently trying out fluxbox which is almost the same heheh |
2004-03-12, 18:55 | Link #10 |
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Age: 38
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gvim - gtk themeable (both gtk and vim themes) frontend to vim and the fastest gui editor I have ever seen with the most features (looks quite ugly by default)
evolution - ximians take of what outlook shoulda been (mail client and scheduling system etc) (g)mplayer- you should know gimp 2- the newer better gimp : ) gedit- a nice scite editor unfortunately takes over 2 seconds to load(so I mostly use gvim ; ) rox - blasing fast file browser xchat,BitchX - irc clients gkrellm - system monitor anjuta - the consistantly broken IDE, but it still looks good/promising XD gaim - the all in one IM client gcombust - good frontend for burning cds, a bit harder to use in 2.6, infact I have to trick it since ide-scsi is depricated ; ) amule - emule but like.... better gdesklets - fun, hard to use desktop-spiffifieres gpdf - pdf viewer gvv - post script viewer enlightenment 16 - best wm ever fluxbox - best wm for old machines if you can get used to right clicking for menu (eek) um... besides xmms&firebird I don't remember whatever else I use. |
2004-03-12, 19:12 | Link #12 | |
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2004-03-12, 19:25 | Link #13 | |
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and if the machine has enough power to not be considered slow (>p2@333mhz+>64megs of ram) I just run enlightenment on it cause I can work much more efficiently in enlightenment. |
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2004-03-12, 20:15 | Link #14 | |
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Join Date: Jan 2004
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and to be ontopic agian! gthumb- thumbnail viewer but generally I use it as something comparible to acdsee or something like that. abiword - all purpose document editor, comparible to ms word but it ofcourse doesn't have such an extensive spelling correction system so learn to spell better : )(on a side note, my professors latest .doc's don't work anymore thus ms has done something to make them incompatible yet agian >_> but anyone can view a doc made in abiword) bluefish - I'm still lost on what it has for capabilties but its an advanced html editor although it works also for a good text editor.. but when I say advanced, its advanced XD bash - >:| python - all purpose calculator and everything else thats a pain to do in a shell in interpritor mode |
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