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HopePoisoned said:
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)
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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.
 
Do try opera 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.)
 
enelson125 said:
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
Window Manager: Compiz (for use with XGL)
Audio Player: Amarok
Video Player: VLC
IM Client: Kopete
Vector Graphics: Inkscape
Web Browser: Firefox (Of Course)
Mail Client: Thunderbird
BitTorrent: KTorrent
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No matter where i look i cant find XGL in .tgz ..and i cant find Compiz at all..can i have some linkage please..
 
TrueGamer said:
No matter where i look i cant find XGL in .tgz ..and i cant find Compiz at all..can i have some linkage please..
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Well for starters Wikipedia has some good info Compiz Wiki
and there's always 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
 
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
 
uhh, its not "unbuntu" it's Ubuntu, and Gaim comes with the operating system...
 
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.
 
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.
 
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
 
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 :)
 
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.
 
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.
 
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
 
nigerian_businessman said:
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.
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Gave it a shot. It's decent but a little busy for my taste (much like Amarok). I still prefer Banshee for Gnome.
 
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.
 
odoe said:
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.
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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.
 
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.
 
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?
 
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
 
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.
 
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
 
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)
 
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.
 
Synergy
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).
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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.
 
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.
 
Frobozz said:
Synergy


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.
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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.
 
Boomslang said:
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?
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mpg123 worked fine with streams for me. Try giving that a shot; i'm not sure how much memory it uses and i'm too lazy to SSH into my own box to chek for you right now :). mpg123 supports hotkeys, but i don't think volume control is provided though, other than play/pause...
 
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
 
Generally I use -

xmms2 for music
mplayer for video
xmonad for window manager
urxvt for console
transset and xcompmgr for visual effects
 
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!
 
If you have the codecs installed for mplayer to play M4A and WMA, you can re-encode them with mencoder.
 
Using alot of the previously mentioned apps but a new favorite is thotkeeper.

Simple, standards compliant, multi-platform journaling.
 
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
 
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.
 
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
 
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