Post your Linux Programs [Archive]

howax

01-11-2004, 06:31 PM

centericq for all your icq, msn and ... well all messaging needs :)
http://konst.org.ua/centericq/

and irssi for your IRC needs :)
http://irssi.org/

its very powerfull if you want to do all messaging needs over a server with screen and an ssh connection, i use this alot, iam using a computer at home and one at school, Then its just to open the ssh connection and then you programs is like then you left them at home and so on.

Regards ;P

NoTiG

01-11-2004, 11:34 PM

are there ANy graphical tax programs for linux like turbo tax??

NewBlackDak

01-12-2004, 12:40 AM

Google (http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+tax+program&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8) works great. :rolleyes:

You can also go to the IRS website, and file for free without spending any money on a tax program.

dino the pizzaman

01-25-2004, 11:23 AM

intPanis

02-02-2004, 10:43 AM

I didn't see this in the list so I'll post it now.

LinNeighborhood is a great GUI front end for Samba. Browsing your workgroup and mounting shares is a BREEZE. It's gotten things to work when I couldnt figure out how to do it with the command line smbmount.

Link: http://www.bnro.de/~schmidjo/

Enjoy :)

DJFinch

02-05-2004, 03:12 PM

Originally posted by dino the pizzaman
i am looking for something like exchange for linux. it should have the same abilities fo exchange. so i can access with outlook to everything like mails, calendar, contacts. and it should have a webinterface with the same functionality. ideas?

That would be just about any pop or imap mail server that runs under linux...

or if you mean a client...just about any fully functioned mail client...

you're not very clear.

Try www.sourceforge.net

dino the pizzaman

02-06-2004, 07:06 PM

pop or imap mail server, thats not the problem. but i need calendar, contacts too. is that a problem with normal linux mail servers?

m1abram

02-06-2004, 11:17 PM

Originally posted by dino the pizzaman
pop or imap mail server, thats not the problem. but i need calendar, contacts too. is that a problem with normal linux mail servers?

Well calendar and contacts are not mail systems. One thing that linux and most *nix do is seperate out program tasks usually. This means that you do not see too many "exchange" type programs that do everything. This idea has its good points and its bad. The good part is the program is meant to do one thing very well, however the bad part is getting a collection of programs to do a bunch of things in unison can sometimes be a bit harder to accomplish.

If you want a good email server, with virus and spam filtering on server side that is easy with linux. If you want a corporate style directory system, OpenLDAP will work fairly well. I have not done a whole lot with full groupware systems, which is what you are looking for. However there are a few types of systems for linux in development. PHPgroupware is one that I can think of now. I however have not really used it much so can not comment on it. Do a search for groupware, should get you started in the right direction.

dino the pizzaman

02-07-2004, 05:15 AM

thanks a lot! if i'll find something that fits my demands, i'll post it here :)

Phantum

02-21-2004, 04:18 PM

How about a good proxy program?

arkaine

02-23-2004, 06:26 AM

As a window manager i use Blackbox on all my machines,
pimped up with tools like bbkeys, bbpager, bbmail, and gkrellm.
I use mplayer for video playback, and xmms for audio. Also i use
a software called xmr (found at fud.no (http://www.fud.no/))
to play songs on my server, via the network.

The one and only browser is Mozilla. It rocks! As well i use
irssi as an irc chat client. ncftp for ftp transfers, ssh is quite
frequently used and a must. The l33t editor is vim, though i use
emacs at times.

hmm.. those are the most important ones at least.. :)

arkaine

02-23-2004, 06:27 AM

Originally posted by Phantum
How about a good proxy program?

do a google on squid..

NewBlackDak

03-18-2004, 01:16 PM

If you need anything like Quark then I suggest trying Scribus (http://www.scribus.net/). It works very well from what I've seen, and haven't seen any stability issues.

There are ebuilds if you're using Gentoo.

cloaked

03-24-2004, 04:40 PM

i will throw in my assortment of programs
wm-fluxbox, newest dev version. although i want to try tvwm, heard good things about it
media-xine+mplayer and xmms
mail client-sylpheed-claws, very functional and easy
chat-irssi/xchat+gaim
editor-vim, what else? who doesnt like nice colors?
term-aterm, nice and low resources
other-gkrellm, lots of plugins, and moz firefox

ShimmyT

04-16-2004, 04:11 PM

I didn't see a couple of my fav apps so I shall add them:

kismet (http://www.kismetwireless.net) - Very good wireless network detector.
Ethereal (http://www.ethereal.com) - TCP/IP analyzer

ExtremeFragFest

04-18-2004, 11:23 AM

Just got my Fedora Server Up and running.. wow never knew linux was this good :)

d33k

04-18-2004, 01:57 PM

superadduser is a nice little script for user creation.

BillLeeLee

05-30-2004, 11:26 PM

Well, it's been a while, and I've been trying out a smattering of Linux progs lately.

Desktop Environment: (rarely) KDE-3.2
Window manager: openbox-3, Fluxbox
Fluxbox addins: fluxspace, fbdesk
Terminal: aterm or rxvt-unicode
IRC: irssi
Video players: xine, vlc, mplayer
Music players: zine and Rhythmbox (Rhythmbox is very good)
Console music player: mpg123
Coding environment: KDevelop
CD/DVD burning: K3B (xcdroast does not perform very well with ATAPI mode)
PDF reader: XPDF
Internet time synchronizing: NTP
FTP: ncFTP
Email: Sylpheed Claws
Internet Browser: Mozilla Firefox
Image editor: GIMP 2.0
Messenging Client: Gaim
Picture viewer: Pornview, Feh
Panel: Perlpanel (this rocks)
VNC: tightVNC + gemsVNC
RSS Reader: Liferea
File Manager: Rox (mostly terminal though)
To run winprogs: WINE
Firewall: Shorewall
Office: Ximian OpenOffice 1.1.1
Concurrent Versioning System: CVS, RCS
Text editor: Vim (of course)
ID3 Tags: Easytag
Bittorrent: Bittornado
SVG Editor: Inkscape

Various others: xlockmore, gkrellm, udev, root-tail, Prelink, Screen

Great_Melinko

06-01-2004, 07:32 PM

good to see my stickied post doing well :D

Great_Melinko

06-01-2004, 07:34 PM

Google (http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+tax+program&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8) works great. :rolleyes:

You can also go to the IRS website, and file for free without spending any money on a tax program.
this is exactly the shit that ppl should be banned for, not for telling some one they are a dumbass for wrecking there car... :mad: :mad: :mad:

oliver

06-03-2004, 07:57 AM

pop or imap mail server, thats not the problem. but i need calendar, contacts too. is that a problem with normal linux mail servers?

evolution looks just like outlook.. and ximian-connector is now opensource so you can hook into exchange and get the GAL and calendars. Your exchange server needs to allow web access (usually mail.yourcompany.com/exchange)

oliver

06-03-2004, 09:38 AM

forgot to mention my favourite apps:

i) fanout
for sending the same command to multiple servers over ssh

ii) ayttm
IM client

iii) multi-gnome-terminal

iv) quickswitch
lets you pass an option to grub/lilo and uses a different n/w configuration depending on choice. Nice for my laptop where at work I have a static IP, home where it's DHCP and traveling where I don't want to look for a network.

Jebus

06-07-2004, 03:05 AM

Mozilla-Firefox - Web browser
Xchat2 - IRC Client
Ximian Evolution - Mail client
Gnome-dev 2.7.1 - WM
Openoffice.org Ximian patchset - Office suite
Gaim - IM client

blackedge

06-07-2004, 10:11 AM

mutt coupled w/ fetchmail and procmail and nbsmtp for email purposes. :) Gotta love console based stuff!

Apart from that, KDE for my desktop, mplayer for my media player (thanks BillLeeLee and the other person who told me about it), and a few various other things here and there. Opera for browsing too. GAIM for instant messaging. Probably other stuff too, but I can't remember.

All on my Gentoo box, which was completely compiled from scratch! b d

[H]EMI_426

06-07-2004, 11:48 AM

Under FreeBSD I use irssi or BitchX for an IRC client, depending on which network I'm on. I run WindowMaker for a window manager, vim for my editor, mplayer if I feel like watching anything, xmms if I want to listen to anything, Thunderbird if I need a GUI mail client and mutt when I don't...I use Firebird/Firefox or sometimes the full-blown Mozilla for a web browser.

I used to run KDE, but it just didn't do anything for me.

For document-creation I use TeX (I used to do TeX for a living so it's easy for me) coupled with dvips or a version of TeX that outputs directly to PDF (even though I despise PDF). If I need anything Office-like I just use OpenOffice.

On the server side I use samba at home for sharing files, as well as FreeBSD's built-in NFS server for sharing files to other *nix machines. I'm looking in to using LDAP for account synchronization across my herd of *nix machines at home.

For my domain I run apache+mod_ssl, sendmail (SMTP AUTH and STARTTLS required for non-local users), imap-uw (POP3S and IMAPS required for non-local users), bind8 (thinking about switching to bind9, but that'll happen when bind9 gets imported in to FreeBSD's base system), MySQL and various other things. Procmail is kicking around and is sendmail's default LDA in case anyone wants to use it.

Games...I used to run a fairly high-traffic Unreal Tournament server on a FreeBSD box (constant load of 20 or more players for several months). I still run the office Quake II server (using Quake2LNX) on a FreeBSD box and I actually play some games under FreeBSD...WINE works just fine for the Windows-only bits and most games built for Linux will work under FreeBSD. The stuff I have the source to (Quake II) I just build and run natively.

blackedge: what's the big deal about building from scratch? My FreeBSD world gets built "from scratch" every time I do a buildworld/buildkernl.

Too bad the thread topic is "post your Linux programs;" maybe I shouldn't post.

blackedge

06-07-2004, 02:21 PM

EMI_426']blackedge: what's the big deal about building from scratch? My FreeBSD world gets built "from scratch" every time I do a buildworld/buildkernl.

Just proud of myself that I did it, rather than using pre-compiled binaries or anything like that. It's quite a learning experience for someone who only knew the basics of the enviroment before, but is getting a little more into it now. Not a major big deal I suppose, but still proud of it nonetheless, as I'm a relatively simple user at the moment. But, building the OS from scratch like that is exhilarating too. Prior to doing all of this, I was primarily a Windows guy who only built an occasional Linux box as a server, usually nothing spectacular.

[H]EMI_426

06-07-2004, 04:58 PM

Heh, understandable. It's neat when stuff works. I guess I'm to the point where I'm so jaded nothing (at least as far as computers go) really excites me any more. :(

blackedge

06-07-2004, 07:10 PM

Well, I feel your pain there. Other than the stuff I do at home for fun, nothing in the computer field has any thrill for me any more. Guess being unemployed from the IT field for the past 3 months can have that effect. Doesn't help either that I despise it so much that I'm trying to change fields of endeavor.

Ah well. At least home computers still have some thrill to me. :)

el_jackhole

06-07-2004, 10:31 PM

are there ANy graphical tax programs for linux like turbo tax??

Google (http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+tax+program&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8) works great. :rolleyes:

You can also go to the IRS website, and file for free without spending any money on a tax program.

this is exactly the shit that ppl should be banned for, not for telling some one they are a dumbass for wrecking there car... :mad: :mad: :mad:

It must be lovely in the parallel universe where you mod these forums. At least the user database must be small and tidy. The banned IP list, on the other hand...

ShimmyT

06-08-2004, 10:25 AM

Another cool webserver that a buddy of mine used, and I've had it set up on a Mac server and a Linux box is Continuity (http://www.ashpool.com/). Really good software, and crazy easy to set up.

Carloswill

06-13-2004, 12:32 PM

centericq for all your icq, msn and ... well all messaging needs :)
http://konst.org.ua/centericq/

apt-cache search centericq

I find nothing
:confused:

oliver

06-15-2004, 02:50 PM

apt-cache search centericq

I find nothing
:confused:

re-install and put gentoo on :-)

* net-im/centericq
Latest version available: 4.9.12

Carloswill

06-15-2004, 05:06 PM

I dont need an IM client that bad :eek:

BillLeeLee

06-15-2004, 05:23 PM

You could just use Gaim for an IM client.

Carloswill

06-15-2004, 07:24 PM

Gaim? Is that anything to do with AOL :eek:

blackedge

06-15-2004, 11:08 PM

Gaim? Is that anything to do with AOL :eek:

Not exactly. Does AIM, YM, MSN, ICQ, and a couple of others that are escaping me at the moment. I use it now and love it, especially considering I finally have it configured the way I like it (for the most part).

BillLeeLee

06-16-2004, 01:33 AM

Gaim is an open source instant messenging client like blackedge says; I'm almost 100% sure they don't have anything to do with AOL or Time Warner.

http://gaim.sourceforge.net

Also, it supports the Jabber protocol, to add to blackedge's list.

emailthatguy

07-05-2004, 09:36 PM

i personally know the guy that maintains gaim. i can promise you, they have nothing to do w/ aol or time warner

Clockwork

08-08-2004, 01:19 PM

i am looking for something like exchange for linux. it should have the same abilities fo exchange. so i can access with outlook to everything like mails, calendar, contacts. and it should have a webinterface with the same functionality. ideas?

Well, theres Opengroupware, and Open-xchange. Plus there's also Samsung Contact, which used to be HP's OpenExchange if memory serves me correctly. MS Exchange really isn't a mail server, per se, it's more of a groupware tool. So these aforementioned products emulate most or all of MS Exchange's functionality.

Tweakin

08-18-2004, 10:53 PM

My main desktop apps...

Xfce (http://xfce.org) - window manager
Eterm (http://www.eterm.org/) - terminal
Rox (http://rox.sourceforge.net/) - file manager
GEdit (http://gedit.sourceforge.net/)/vim (http://www.vim.org/) - text editors

Firefox (http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/) - web browser
Thunderbird (http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/) - email client
GAIM (http://gaim.sourceforge.net/) - aim/etc client (i use aim/msn)
XChat (http://xchat.org/) - IRC client

XMMS (http://xmms.org/) - music player
Xine (http://xinehq.de/) - movie player

KDevelop (http://www.kdevelop.org/) - platform programming (mainly c++)
The GIMP (http://gimp.org/) - when i am forced to do graphics
OOo (http://www.openoffice.org/) - work related, but you need a good word processor
Quanta (http://quanta.sourceforge.net/) - web development

Tons more non0gui stuff, network related, configuration, etc... saving for another post ;)

shieldforyoureyes

08-22-2004, 03:17 PM

desktop: fvwm
graphic design: vi & ghostscript
web browsing: lynx
mail: my own & exim

kerrle

08-26-2004, 12:43 PM

It must be lovely in the parallel universe where you mod these forums. At least the user database must be small and tidy. The banned IP list, on the other hand...

Really, it would have been better to point him to GNUCash ( at http://www.gnucash.org/ ) or one of the others than to keep this up.

Try searching for linux accounting on Google sometime. Sure, I know google; I can find what I want. But for people who don't realize what search terms they need, they're going to get pages full of advertisements for corporate level accounting software to be run over terminals.

As far as GUI'ed money apps on linux, you have the above mentioned GNUCash, Moneydance (at http://moneydance.com/ ), and a few others.

Josh_B

08-30-2004, 11:37 PM

Well calendar and contacts are not mail systems. One thing that linux and most *nix do is seperate out program tasks usually. This means that you do not see too many "exchange" type programs that do everything. This idea has its good points and its bad. The good part is the program is meant to do one thing very well, however the bad part is getting a collection of programs to do a bunch of things in unison can sometimes be a bit harder to accomplish.

If you want a good email server, with virus and spam filtering on server side that is easy with linux. If you want a corporate style directory system, OpenLDAP will work fairly well. I have not done a whole lot with full groupware systems, which is what you are looking for. However there are a few types of systems for linux in development. PHPgroupware is one that I can think of now. I however have not really used it much so can not comment on it. Do a search for groupware, should get you started in the right direction.

If someone hasn't already, it would be fun to write a gnome 2.6-based app for reading LDAP records. *Starts getting ideas... hmmm...* Hopefully, it would also support SSL for encrypting the LDAP calls... (hard to do from what I've read.)

Josh_B

08-30-2004, 11:40 PM

EMI_426']Under FreeBSD I use irssi or BitchX for an IRC client, depending on which network I'm on. I run WindowMaker for a window manager, vim for my editor, mplayer if I feel like watching anything, xmms if I want to listen to anything, Thunderbird if I need a GUI mail client and mutt when I don't...I use Firebird/Firefox or sometimes the full-blown Mozilla for a web browser.

I used to run KDE, but it just didn't do anything for me.

For document-creation I use TeX (I used to do TeX for a living so it's easy for me) coupled with dvips or a version of TeX that outputs directly to PDF (even though I despise PDF). If I need anything Office-like I just use OpenOffice.

On the server side I use samba at home for sharing files, as well as FreeBSD's built-in NFS server for sharing files to other *nix machines. I'm looking in to using LDAP for account synchronization across my herd of *nix machines at home.

For my domain I run apache+mod_ssl, sendmail (SMTP AUTH and STARTTLS required for non-local users), imap-uw (POP3S and IMAPS required for non-local users), bind8 (thinking about switching to bind9, but that'll happen when bind9 gets imported in to FreeBSD's base system), MySQL and various other things. Procmail is kicking around and is sendmail's default LDA in case anyone wants to use it.

Games...I used to run a fairly high-traffic Unreal Tournament server on a FreeBSD box (constant load of 20 or more players for several months). I still run the office Quake II server (using Quake2LNX) on a FreeBSD box and I actually play some games under FreeBSD...WINE works just fine for the Windows-only bits and most games built for Linux will work under FreeBSD. The stuff I have the source to (Quake II) I just build and run natively.

blackedge: what's the big deal about building from scratch? My FreeBSD world gets built "from scratch" every time I do a buildworld/buildkernl.

Too bad the thread topic is "post your Linux programs;" maybe I shouldn't post.

Not that my opinion counts for much, but I don't really care if anyone who knows more than the average NT admin posts in the thread. Personally, I think *nix of any kind is [H]ard.

Great_Melinko

09-01-2004, 11:27 AM

what happened to the one started by Fraggster?

BillLeeLee

09-01-2004, 11:35 AM

This is the one started by Fraggster. When the boards were pruned several months back, all the posts made before 2004 were wiped out, which is why you don't see the earlier posts.

Anyways, new programs I've been using since last:
Mono Develop
Eclipse 3.0
sciTE
Bluefish

gtodo - a to-do list program
Mozilla Sunbird - a calendar program from Mozilla
Grip - cd ripper

And moved to the 2.6.8.1 kernel.

jterrell

09-14-2004, 04:03 PM

gkrellm for monitoring system
liquid weather for 5 day forecast
xmms/amaroK for mp3/ogg
mplayer for video
gtk-gnutella for p2p
gimp 2.0 for graphics
kde/enlightenment for windows manager
mozilla for browsing
evolution for email

scoob8000

09-30-2004, 02:44 PM

I see one of my favorite apps missing in that list..

Kbear ftp client. The best linux based ftp client I've used.

Definatly Gaim for IM (yahoo, icq, aim, etc)

-scoob8000

HHunt

09-30-2004, 03:11 PM

I use kate on four different FreeBSD installs and in windows (kde/cygwin). Nice little editor, and fish:// for editing files over ssh is perfect for what I'm doing. Syntax highlighting for everything I've written so far, as well, and the integrated shell is nice for compiling/testing C- and java- programs.

Zarathustra[H]

11-03-2004, 06:08 PM

hmmm lesseee..

Xserver -- Xorg
Window manager -- KDE 3.3
mp3's -- Xmms
videos -- Xine
browser -- Mozilla Firefox
cd burning -- K3B
email (before switching to gmail) -- Evolution
soulseek client -- Nicotine

And some other stuff..

Wolf31o2

03-16-2005, 10:22 AM

Programs I use pretty heavily...

gnome-terminal
xmms
mplayer
firefox
cdrecord
catalyst
evolution
xchat
gaim
screen
nagios
snmpget
apache
sendmail
postfix
mailman
openldap
nessus
nmap

I think that covers the ones I use daily. ;)

locutus24

03-17-2005, 10:14 AM

Does anybody use an anti-virus prog, cause i was going to ask if anybody has used a good one but looks like nobody uses one. Cause for now im using bit defender i think it is, its a good konsole anti-virus prog but i was hoping to get one with a gui maybe.

BillLeeLee

03-17-2005, 01:06 PM

I use ClamAV and it's very good, but as far as I know, it's console only.

tom61

03-18-2005, 06:01 PM

Linux doesn't need an antivirus yet(as it gains popularity, it may), unless you're running a mail server for Windows boxes.

Anyways what I use:
Web Browser: Firefox most of the time, Konqueror for lieing to pages that 'need' IE.
MP3/steaming player: XMMS
Video of virtually any format: MPlayer (KMplayer GUI)
DVD and CD burning: K3B

Play a fair bit of UT2004 too.

Jake

04-04-2005, 04:04 PM

I use whichever terminal window is in Suse 9.2, SSH2, and VI. Some Nedit and X programs for our Redhat boxes (where the command line utils don't work so hot). That and a slew of mediocre shell scripts I've written and ones my co-workers have written.

I'd like to try the new Nero Linux version, but my old as hell work machine doesn't have a CD-RW drive.

(no extra box @ home for a linux machine yet)

locutus24

04-10-2005, 06:58 PM

Cedega for games (anyone know if cedega will work with programs)
Kopete for chat
Urpmi pkg management

Xipher

04-10-2005, 07:06 PM

Cedega for games (anyone know if cedega will work with programs)
For some yes. Games are programs any ways, so as long as you have the nessacary libraries for the program to run, it should work.

locutus24

04-10-2005, 07:43 PM

Well i couldnt get wine to work with some progs, so i had previously bought cedega for cs and other games. Thought i would try those on cedega, but ill look more into

One_Eye

04-14-2005, 06:01 PM

eGroupware is handy.
Some one say Webmin already?
phpMyAdmin?

cl0ckw0rk

04-17-2005, 08:05 PM

Amarok (http://amarok.kde.org/) - excellent fully featured music player that excels with huge music collections. instantly replaced xmms as my player due to its database, album covers, playlist manipulation and tons of bells & whistles

satriani5902

04-18-2005, 02:55 AM

yes Amarok is awesome!

jillande

04-28-2005, 05:22 AM

considering only the things i added, since linux comes so nicely equipped to begin with ... :)

staroffice, apache/php/perl/postgres, audacity, docker and wmclock for wmaker, gaim, glabels, mediawiki, mozilla, mplayer, swaret, and xcdroast.

Nazo

05-21-2005, 02:12 AM

How about a good proxy program?
do a google on squid..

Sorry, I just had to point this out. Squid is NOT a "good proxy program." Squid is a good HTTP proxy program. What's the difference? Squid is great if you want to cache some of that junk browsers end up reloading every time that they don't really need to be and save yourself some bandwidth. It's NOT a general purpose proxy. Not even a good general purpose HTTP proxy, though it probably could be used for that (might have occasional troubles since it's meant mainly for webpages if you wanted to do something complicated that uses an HTTP proxy.)

I don't mean to be rude. And, in fact, the truth is, I don't know what you should use as a proxy. This is because you can use iptables to make it act as a nat and you won't so much need it to act like a plain old proxy. That's always been good enough for my minor proxy-ish needs.

That said, in the spirit of this thread, I must admit I am running two commercial softwares, Cedega and Opera, in whatever Linux I use. It's getting tough to think up anything else people haven't already mentioned, but, one kind of worth mentioning thing is "links." It's a lot like lynx in that it works in the console and all, but, it actually can be compiled to support a graphical mode which still runs in the console. Mind you, it will never be like a true graphical browser, but, it at least lets you get rid of the worst of the problems associated with running lynx while still leaving you with a browser you don't have to start up X for.

upriverpaddler

07-04-2005, 10:20 PM

For the guy looking for the calender, I opened up Sunbird once and it seemed nice. But it is just a calender. It seems Mozilla is working to incorporate it into Thunderbird, but not quite yet. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/

HHunt

07-04-2005, 10:40 PM

Kontact is worth looking into if you need a calendar.

bmdean

07-05-2005, 12:02 AM

got rh9 running my samba server, just store little stuff over there, getting ready to redo it though. got it running one 18 gig scsi drive right now, gonna add another one and a hard drive for the os and raid the two 18's. don't really need any kind of raid, but what the hell, you got the stuff or an get it really cheap, why not do it?

Brandon

HHunt

07-05-2005, 10:50 AM

bmdean

07-05-2005, 03:50 PM

Reliability issues, mainly. :)

no, i don't have any reliablity issues, it just sits there and "serves" my files that i kept over there, i tried to get a cd image server working, but couldn't so i just said forget it. probably gonna dedicate it to only music.

Brandon

fluxion

08-20-2005, 08:47 PM

it'll be fun to get it going anyway. although as a file server the single drive is probably more than enough to max a 100mbit ethernet line, i'd at least get a gigabit ethernet setup going if you haven't already so you could reap the benefits.

HHunt

08-20-2005, 09:11 PM

no, i don't have any reliablity issues, it just sits there and "serves" my files that i kept over there, i tried to get a cd image server working, but couldn't so i just said forget it. probably gonna dedicate it to only music.

Brandon

I was thinking more about how a non-redundant RAID means that you'll lose all the data if just one drive dies.

jml90

09-07-2005, 07:45 PM

Window Manager - Kde
Mp3 - Noatun
Cd Burning - K3B
Instant Messenger Client - Gaim
P2P - Limewire
Command Line - Konsole
Package Manager - Synaptic
Movies - Xine
One of my favorite programs is Kompose (http://kompose.berlios.de/)

MorfiusX

10-05-2005, 03:56 PM

So, would you consider IPcop a program? I use it on a Neoware thinclient. Runs very well.
Was a pain to get working with the thin client hardware. But, it was definitly worth it.

At work I have also used Nagios to monitor my systems. That's another one that was a pain to get configured, but was worth it in the end.

kethwika

10-27-2005, 04:46 PM

does anyone know of a good java compiler like eclipse for 64 bit. i use gentoo.

HHunt

10-27-2005, 05:24 PM

does anyone know of a good java compiler like eclipse for 64 bit. i use gentoo.
Eclipse isn't a compiler, it's an IDE. It uses the JDK you have installed.
Sun has JDK + netbeans - downloads for AMD64, so it's available. Have you checked portage?
(If it's not there, go here (http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp).)

I don't know about eclipse, but it ought to work. (Write once, run everywhere; Right?)

MorfiusX

12-01-2005, 10:54 AM

Thought I'd thow out a couple more: Apache, PHP, MySQL (LAMP anyone), phpMyAdmin, Nano, PHPNuke (not really Linux per say, but open source is nice)

HopePoisoned

01-10-2006, 06:00 PM

qb4ever

01-12-2006, 09:05 AM

Kde (http://www.kde.org/) - desktop

rxvt (http://sourceforge.net/projects/rxvt) - terminal
bash - file manager
vim - text editors
GAIM (http://gaim.sourceforge.net/) - aim client/ Aim 5.5.3583 under wine.
Firefox (http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/) - web browser
Thunderbird (http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/) - email client with mail on a network share for roaming access.

XMMS (http://xmms.org/) - music player
Totem (http://www.gnome.org/projects/totem/)- movie player
Quanta (http://quanta.sourceforge.net/) - web development
The GIMP (http://gimp.org/) - good stuff

nameless_centurian

03-02-2006, 03:27 PM

Konquest, anybody?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konquest

wangoflove

05-08-2006, 01:58 PM

Muine, Banshee, Amarok - MP3 player
Pan - newsreader
Bittornado, linuxdcpp, aMule - P2P programs
Thunderbird, Evolution - email
gaim - IM
mplayer, xine - movies
Comix - comic book reader
xgl/compiz - xserver/window manager....pretty much the only reason i'm using linux now

using ubuntu dapper btw

osalcido

05-10-2006, 04:50 PM

kbear is a buggy piece of crap

[H]EMI_426

05-10-2006, 09:43 PM

arm yourselves

http://directory.fsf.org/

PLEASE look at this page - it's the FSF Free Software DIrectory (by GNU.org) - 4,423 free programs - all secure and evaluated to do their jobs (a lot of weird programs but a lot of very great day to days as well)Call it what it is: the GNU Software Directory. I couldn't find any BSD-licensed apps listed, even though I'm fairly certain that there are some BSD-licensed apps that are better at their jobs than the GPL/LPGL-licensed apps listed. For being "free-software" people, GNU folks can be real closed-minded. Just don't forget that.

enelson125

06-27-2006, 02:44 PM

Awesome thread, just what I was looking for. I've been interested in finding cool linux programs that I haven't used before.

Here's my list:
Desktop Environment: KDE 3.5.3 (http://www.kde.org)
Window Manager: Compiz (http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Compiz) (for use with XGL)
Audio Player: Amarok (http://amarok.kde.org/)
Video Player: VLC (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/)
IM Client: Kopete (http://kopete.kde.org/)
Vector Graphics: Inkscape (http://www.inkscape.org/index.php)
Web Browser: Firefox (http://www.mozilla.com) (Of Course)
Mail Client: Thunderbird (http://www.mozilla.com)
BitTorrent: KTorrent (http://ktorrent.org/)

HHunt

06-27-2006, 03:13 PM

Do try opera (http://opera.com/download/) 9. It feels a lot faster than firefox for me.
(You might want to set up privoxy or something like it to block ads, though. There's still no integrated adblock.)

TrueGamer

07-10-2006, 09:13 PM

Perrupa

08-15-2006, 02:11 PM

No matter where i look i cant find XGL in .tgz ..and i cant find Compiz at all..can i have some linkage please..
Well for starters Wikipedia has some good info Compiz Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiz)
and there's always Compiz.net (http://compiz.net/)

but be warned, it's all in beta and can be a bit tricky to get it running. I had it working buggily at first, then changed to the vanilla packages and it worked great and then did an apt-get upgrade and that broke everything... It's not very well documented though there are some good sites that'll help you set it up. Also, like anything in Linux there's 2 or more ways to get it working :p

Peace and good luck

doylerules826

11-24-2006, 12:31 AM

wht file do i wanna download on the gaim website? i cant find wht file unbuntu will take.. thanks in advance

wow nvm i got it

Darundal

11-24-2006, 07:38 PM

uhh, its not "unbuntu" it's Ubuntu, and Gaim comes with the operating system...

cleric_retribution

12-10-2006, 05:19 PM

Here's what I use on a daily basis on my Xubuntu machine:

Audio Player: Amarok (http://amarok.kde.org/)
Video Player: VLC (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/)
CD Ripping: Sound Juicer (http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/sound-juicer)
DVD Ripping: AcidRip (http://untrepid.com/acidrip/)
CD / DVD Burning: k3b (http://www.k3b.org/)
TV Viewing: TVTime (http://tvtime.sourceforge.net/) / MythTV (http://www.mythtv.org/)
E-Mail: Evolution (http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution/)
IM: Gaim (http://gaim.sourceforge.net)
IRC: X-Chat (http://www.xchat.org/)
Web: Swiftfox (http://getswiftfox.com/)
PDF Viewer: Gpdf (http://freshmeat.net/projects/gpdf/)
Torrents: Azureus (http://azureus.sourceforge.net/)
Terminal: Eterm (http://www.eterm.org/)
System Monitor: Gkrellm (http://members.dslextreme.com/users/billw/gkrellm/gkrellm.html)

smizack

12-16-2006, 05:42 AM

SuSE workstation.

Desktop: KDE
Terminal: Bash
Audio: Amarok
Video: VLC and Mplayer
Bluetooth: Kbluetooth
MS Stuff: Crossover and Wine
P2P: Limewire
IM: Gaim
Bittorrent: Azureus
Browser: Firefox 2
Obvious: Gimp, OpenOffice, Konqueror, Samba, etc...

I need an interface like Hypertem for Cisco stuff, but I'm just going through the web based one for the time being.

Xipher

12-16-2006, 01:42 PM

You can use screen for that btw, as long as you have read/write access to the device you can do "screen /dev/<serial device>"
If you find that isn't working for you you might also look into minicom/xminicom, it can do all the baud rate changes and such, but I never got that one to work for me, would always try and do the modem initialization procedures and crap I didn't need.

centered effect

02-03-2007, 11:33 PM

My list woudl be the normal base Ubuntu distro: Gnome/Xfce, Firefox, Evolution, gedit for coding, basic word processing, etc. Xaraxl for some vector work, trying to learning Synfig for animation, and Blender for 3D.

Of course Apache, Php and Mysql for web dev too

Trendy

02-05-2007, 04:40 PM

DE- Gnome
Composite manager- beryl
video - vlc
music - bmp
browser - firefox/swiftfox
im - gaim w/ xfire plugin
web development - screem
raster images - pixel image editor
vector - inkscape :P
3d - blender
1337 game? - Enemy Territory. . . old yes, fun yes :)

nigerian_businessman

02-06-2007, 02:34 AM

I gotta throw this out there for the Gnome users, check out Listen Media Player. It's basically the Gnome equivalent of Amarok. Not quite the same but most if not all of the great features are there.

Blackknight

02-12-2007, 08:30 AM

Here's what I run on my workstation.

Desktop Environment: XFCE or Fluxbox
Audio Player: xmms
Video Player: mplayer, vlc
IM Client: gaim
IRC Client: gaim
Browser: Galeon (bookmarklets rule), Firefox
Terminal: rxvt, xterm
Mail: Thunderbird, mutt
Text Editor: vim

I'm a server admin so both of my monitors are always covered with terminal windows. Thankfully I rarely need to work with office files, we use plain text or html for internal documentation.

Charlie_D

03-08-2007, 11:52 AM

My desktop system:

Desktop Environ: Gnome
Composite: Beryl
Audio: Audacious
Video: Mplayer
IM: gaim
Browser: Firefox
E-mail: Evolution
Terminal: gnome-terminal :)
text editor: nano
Bittorrent: Azureus
PDFs: evince
burning: k3b or gnomebaker
Other: Openoffice, GIMP, Google Earth, etc

Oh, and for games: Civilization: Call to Power :D

Other games come and go, but even if I drop it for ages, it draws me back...

Charlie

Stellar

04-30-2007, 09:27 AM

I gotta throw this out there for the Gnome users, check out Listen Media Player. It's basically the Gnome equivalent of Amarok. Not quite the same but most if not all of the great features are there.

Gave it a shot. It's decent but a little busy for my taste (much like Amarok). I still prefer Banshee (http://banshee-project.org/Main_Page) for Gnome.

odoe

04-30-2007, 09:46 AM

Would you guys say amarok is a good foobar replacement? I'd just like somethng simple that can play nice with ASIO and album art is cool too.

bashPenguin

04-30-2007, 10:09 AM

Would you guys say amarok is a good foobar replacement? I'd just like somethng simple that can play nice with ASIO and album art is cool too.

I would say it's a nice alternative in terms of the library management, playlist management, and all those other features. I think it rivals Foobar in the amount of features it has with managing your music.

For ASIO, you want to look into JACK (Jack Audio Connection Kit...yet another of those r-acronyms). However, the two best media engines to use with Amarok, Xine and Helix, do not support JACK.

Stellar

04-30-2007, 10:24 AM

I really don't think Foobar and Amarok are comparable.

Foobar strives to be minimal from the start, but highly configurable. Amarok is fully featured from the start, but not quite as configurable.

BTW Rhythmbox, Banshee, Listen, and Amarok will all display album art by default. The only Linux music player I've used that doesn't is XMMS.

Boomslang

05-30-2007, 06:31 PM

I'm looking for a very lightweight command line only web radio client, or at least something that can handle a stream. I liked using mplayer, because it would update the screen output with new track titles whenever the song changed, but it was sitting at 12M in memory. I now use "wget -O - http://streamurl:port | madplay - " but it doesn't update the titles. wget runs at less than 10k and madplay runs ~7.5k, as reported by VIRT in top. I guess I can live with this, but maybe I don't have to. :p

Ideally, it would:

1.) Handle the mp3 stream nicely
2.) Be verbose about the title of the track playing, just like mplayer was
3.) Support hotkeys for volume control
4.) Have a 20k or less VIRT memory footprint

And that's it. It seems like there could be a very lightweight webradio client out there somewhere that supports these four things, but I can't find it. Ideas?

qfour20

09-11-2007, 02:45 PM

Some of these may have already been covered, but...

mythtv - best PVR suite I've ever played with
audacity - audio editing tool
mpg123 - great for playing mp3's on another device over ssh. Scare the crap outta your spouse for fun and profit!
celestia - prove to yourself that you are very small in relation to the rest of the universe
dopewars - best game for wasting time
lynx - ssh to your home machine and read bash.org all day long (and look like you're working to the untrained eye)
nmap - find out more about your network than you may want to know
wireshark - new name for an old favorite, ethereal
tcpdump - packet collection tool. does what most people use (half of) wireshark for, but only collection with very limited analysis capabilities
openssl - perhaps one of the most useful tools ever created for dealing with encrypted connections. Very good if you need to see what certificates a service is presenting, etc.
ssldump - ever wanted to see inside of an ssl session that you have the keys for?
true - unwavering affirmation.
decss - ummmmm..... i would NEVER use this program.... <_< >_> <_<

That's all I can think of for now.

-q

spotdog14

11-26-2007, 11:23 AM

lets see, this is what i have installed:

FrostWire (since limewire is gay and didnt work)
IcePodder (formerly iPodder)
Kompozer (nice little wysiwyg web editor)
Liferea (a nice little RSS feed reader)

And that is about it besides the usual of Firefox, Evolution, Pidgin, OpenOffice, etc.

qfour20

11-27-2007, 11:49 AM

Some tools that I have recently started playing with:

xwax - serato scratch live - like program. map digital audio files to vinyl!
mixxx - powerful system for mixing audio
ardour
jackd

-q

bmartin

01-20-2008, 07:28 AM

Media: Noatun audio, VLC video
Myth TV: For the media center. This program is Billy Badass. (pay for the TV Guides!)
FileManager: Konqueror (Because I couldn't stand Dolphin)

Gigamo

01-20-2008, 09:01 AM

Swiftweasel - tweaked firefox
Swiftdove - tweaked thunderbird
MPD + ncmpc - best audio player
Openbox - great window manager
Awesome - like the name says: awesome window manager :D
Irssi - best IRC client
rTorrent - for torrents

That's the most important ones I use.

Frobozz

02-06-2008, 11:37 AM

Synergy (http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/)
Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It's intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s).

Perfect for those who dislike their KVMs, want to access multiple OS's, and want to have "mission control" on their desk. :D It was pretty easy to setup too.
The biggest surprise for me was copy/paste between machines. In my case it is linux <-> windows.

odoe

02-11-2008, 11:26 AM

rtorrent so far has been my best new linux app discovery for my headless ubuntu box. Lightweight enough to do what I need. Took some time setting it up, not so much with the config file, but I needed to do some extra stuff for https torrents and was missing some openssl stuff.

Now that it's set up though, it's been great.
Aso, Samba of course for windows shares.

BillLeeLee

02-11-2008, 11:34 AM

Synergy (http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/)

Perfect for those who dislike their KVMs, want to access multiple OS's, and want to have "mission control" on their desk. :D It was pretty easy to setup too.
The biggest surprise for me was copy/paste between machines. In my case it is linux <-> windows.

Synergy is one of the best software I have used in the past two years, really good for controlling the two main machines I have at work and using the multiple monitors.

Lately, I have been using KDE4 (Debian Experimental) and it certainly feels faster than KDE 3.5.x.

DatHak512

03-19-2008, 12:08 PM

chubby bunny

04-02-2008, 11:20 PM

Things I use on a daily basis:

mozilla-firefox
rxvt-unicode
vim
irssi
screen
gcc + gdb

With some mplayer, vlc, and cmus tossed in for entertainment :D

Robstar

04-22-2008, 12:44 PM

Current software I'm using:

lvm
mdadm
lustre (http://www.lustre.org)
iscsi enterprise target

dagnasty

06-23-2008, 11:25 PM

Generally I use -

xmms2 for music
mplayer for video
xmonad for window manager
urxvt for console
transset and xcompmgr for visual effects

thisperishedmin

07-24-2008, 11:25 PM

mplayer - video
amarok - audio
opera - web
pidgin - IM
nano / kwrite - editing
k3b - ripping/burning

anyone have some good suggestions for converting WMA / M4A / MP3 to OGG? primarily M4A and WMA though...

much appreesh!

tom61

07-25-2008, 12:58 AM

If you have the codecs installed for mplayer to play M4A and WMA, you can re-encode them with mencoder.

thisperishedmin

07-25-2008, 01:38 PM

thanks...I'll look into this sometime and see how it works!

Shaggy3zx

08-10-2008, 01:08 AM

Using alot of the previously mentioned apps but a new favorite is thotkeeper (http://code.google.com/p/thotkeeper/).

Simple, standards compliant, multi-platform journaling.

Cat1yst

08-20-2008, 10:56 PM

Delete me

Cat1yst

08-20-2008, 10:57 PM

F^ck VNC....
Im currently rocking the lovely NX server....so much better than VNC
And im also a huge fan of Conky as well, displays system data thats always useful to have on hand...light and looks good...cant ask for more

Boomslang

08-21-2008, 07:37 PM

Just deployed nginx ( http://nginx.net/ ) as a reverse proxy for a bunch of webservers, as well as provide a wildcard SSL cert for the domain. It's really cool. I highly recommend it.

bexamous

11-13-2008, 12:08 AM

NX/FreeNX is the awesomest thing ever created. Log into home system from work and use system like it was local. VNC a horrible horrible thing that no one should ever have to use.

But other useful stuff:

Foobar2000 thanks to wine, screw mpd and amarok-- foobar2000 works PERFECTLY with Columns UI.

mplayer / smplayer for video

vnstat for all you comcast users limited to 250GB/month now... lets you check your usage and will give projected monthly total

dunnen

12-31-2008, 03:22 AM

Laptop:
Distro: Archlinux
Window manager: fluxbox
Editor: emacs
Music: gmpc + my server or mpd
Media Player: VLC
Torrent: deluge

Server:
Distro: Debian
Window manager: None, the server is headless. The closest I get to a WM is screen. Screen is an amazing program.
Editor: emacs
Music: mpd
Torrent: rtorrent

scjudd

02-16-2009, 11:13 PM

Well, there's my Archlinux desktop at home that has pretty much the basics.. openoffice, pidgin, etc.. gnome desktop environment.

I've been throwing together a couple virtual machines with a bunch of pentesting tools installed. Started with an Archlinux base in Virtualbox, and I'm currently working off a Gentoo base in VMware. That way I can always have my tools on-hand without rebooting.

spotdog14

02-17-2009, 09:35 AM

I thought I should update my apps list. My must have daily programs are:

Pidgin
Transmission
Firefox
Song Bird
Liferea

And programs that I use occasionally:
Xchat (for some reason xchat-gnome refuses to run on my system anymore)
Terminal Server Client
Frostwire
Sun xVM (actually I use this almost every day for work when I cannot get some programs working in wine)
VLC (of course best program ever!)
Picasa 3 Beta (yes you need wine, but I use it a lot)

:LJ:

02-17-2009, 10:02 AM

On top of the ones I can quickly see here, I have....

Audacity
Exaile (or Amarok, depending on my mood)
Eclipse
JEdit (fabulous editor, just wish it was quicker and lighter...gedit just doesn't behave quite right for me)
AWN

dunnen

03-19-2009, 03:11 AM

I just switched over from gmpc to ario for my mpd client. I have to say it is way better at browsing than gmpc. I highly recommend it. I have also discovered the awesome window manager and now I rarely go back to fluxbox.

thisperishedmin

05-21-2009, 09:54 AM

Recently redid my work laptop to get away from the *buntu family...

distro - Arch
Window Manager - OpenBox
Panel - Pypanel
terminal emulator - urxvt (rvxt-unicode, technically)
browser - firefox (with vimperator)
editor - usually vi in urxvt, leafpad if i'm doing more copypasta stuff than usual
PDF - xpdf
calendar - gdeskcal
thunar - automounting / GUI file browser

Assorted other stuff: mmaker to make the openbox menu, slock for locking the screen (really cool, makes your laptop seem broken if you dont know its enabled :D), gmrun for alt+f2 launcher

doctah

08-21-2009, 02:47 AM

Two applications I started playing with today for a nice little podcatcher/player service:

1. PodGet: CLI based podcatcher. From what I have read, it is a bash script that uses wget to download podcasts. There are only 2 config files - 1 for a list of your servers/podcasts and 1 for preferences of the app. Each podcast can be categorized 2 levels deep (category/podcast_name). The preferences give you options to download the last x number of podcasts and cleanup options (ie. delete after x number of days).

2. Ampache: MP3 streaming server with a web interface. It can use multiple different types of webservers - I'm using it with apache. The backend is in mysql. You can have different users setup in the system - all with their own playlists. My favorite feature is the built in flash player. Go to your site from any computer w/ a flash capable browser and you're good to go. I'm currently only using it to listen to the podcasts I download with podget, but this application seems to have a LOT of functionality. Worth checking out.