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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
 
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.
 
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)
 
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
 
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.
 
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
 
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.
 
I'm not a Linux user much anymore but I've found threads like these over these years helpful in finding free and useful software. Much of the stuff mentioned here is multi-platform
 
Deluge - torrent client
VLC - media player
Rhythmbox - music player
GIMP - graphics editor
Opera - web browser
Pidgin - IM
Evolution - email client with calendar
VirtualBox and OpenOffice for homework.
 
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As any given time I will always have 3 FF running, 3 urxvts with ncmpcpp, alsamixer/slurm and htop. Using xmonad and gentoo.
 
I'm running Ubuntu 10.4 now and trying to get some programs installed so I can ditch my windows box for casual computing. I need a DVD ripping program and a way to burn those rips. Ideas?

Thanks!
 
cleric_retribution said:
Handbrake (CLI) is, IMO, the best DVD ripper you can get.

I don't have any suggestions for copying or burning DVD's though, as I simply rip them and view over the network via HTPC.

k3b may be able to do direct DVD cloning, etc
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Both k3b and brasero can burn DVDs both from ISO's and as data/video discs from a nice clean gui.

You'll probably need some other software to rip and transcode them to a lower bitrate (so they fit on the smaller writeable DVD's) though.
 
Distribution = Arch Linux 64-bit

- Mdadm: Multiple disk administrator
- Gnome: My favorite desktop environment
- Htop: Human readable top
- PostgreSQL: the worlds best database
- Postfix: Secure & fast MTA
- MediaWiki: Very well developed open source Wiki
 
Dist: Ubuntu 10.04 (though toying with setting up a gentoo box to replace most of the "heavy lifting" this box does)

Samba: Sharing files, but mostly for a backup location.

Vuze - for downloading

PS3 Media Server - serves up video via DLNA to anxbox360 and asus oplay

Tbird for mail

FF and Chrome for browsers

gedit for writing scripts - but may switch to eclipse once I have the environment the way I want it. (write bash scripts for work, learning perl - dabble in python and php).

I'm looking to offload the typical server type stuff to gentoo (file sharing, media server, downloading).

That way it just hums along, bare minimum - nice and efficient. That's the idea anyways. Testing will be forthcoming in a VM.
 
inxi is a neat system info script I found

sys-info.jpg



fake-edit: Oh dear, if that temp is right I'm in trouble.. time to check things :eek:

real-edit: Playing around with NX, started fluxbox and when I ended the session apparently it didn't kill it and was running at 100% on core 2 for a day or two
 
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You might take a look at Communigate (just google). It's easy to setup and has commercial support and excellent documentation as well.
 
Looking for an extremely minimal word processor. Want something lightweight, minimal looks, something where the focus is on the stuff you are typing, no tool bars, ect, anything like that available for Ubuntu 10.10?
 
been a while since anyone posted in here!

Media player - gmusicbrowser
video player- VLC
Browser - Chrome
Terminal - Gnome Terminal works fine for me
Torrent client - Deluge
Photo editor - GIMP
Mail - Evolution

Thats about it.
 
For media streaming I'm using Subsonic. Works great for audio/video.

I use phpVirtualBox to manage some VM's.
 
If you are wanting to do an automated offsite backup and not trust some service, set up a server pair and use http://www.dirvish.org/
to perform backups between them.
I support several businesses with this system.
If you have a friend or family member who either has a server or wants one, they can back up each other nightly.
 
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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Try mpg123, they can stream online radio pretty nicely.
 
pappo46 said:
TaxAct http://www.taxact.com/ has a Linux version.
You can also use Turbo Tax online with just a web browser.
I found this website with some good info on Linux Tax programs:

http://thefearlesspenguin.wordpress.com/tag/linux-tax-software/
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I've used the web version of H&R Block from Linux for the last several years. They give a warning about not officially supporting the browser, but it still allows you to continue and I've never run into any issues (using Firefox and Chromium more recently).
 
It has been over a year since the last post in this thread. Does anyone have anything new or additional to add to the list of Linux programs/apps?

I am just getting back "into" Linux. Currently have Lubuntu installed on an SFF machine. I will also be running CentOS on a desktop and most likely Raspbian and/or OpenElec on my 2 Raspberry Pi's (B+ & 2).
 
I am back on Linux as my daily driver so I might take this on in the next week or 2 when I get some free time worked loose. There seems to have been a surge in Linux interest lately and this will no doubt help.
 
I just wanted to update this thread, hopefully with help from you guys. Its been a long long time dead. Most of us have seen a large push for Linux over the last year or so and it seems to be gaining momentum. With that being said, one of the bigger obstacles as a newbie is finding the software that acts similar to what you are used to with Windows / OS X. Also knowing before you make the leap you are not giving up something you need by doing so.

All of these I am listing are for Ubuntu/Mint and their clones but will probably work just fine on Debian Stable. These are simply the programs I personally have had good experiences with and think you would too. Hopefully this list will grow as people contribute. As always YMMV.

Would someone with experience on Arch/BSD please post a similar list when they get some time?

Web Browsers:
Firefox – Pretty much the default on most distro's.
Chrome – Fully supports netflix.
Opera – It's actually better than you think. Some sites still have problems.

Multimedia:
Playback:
VLC – It's amazing, just install it and use it.
Banshee – I have a lot of good things to say about this program.
Editing/Encoding:
Handbrake – Transcoding video's and rips. Pretty good and supported.
Audacity – Audio recording/editing.
SoundConverter – I love this program and it's super simple.
OGMRips – Rip DVD's to AVI/MKV/etc
Burning:
K3b – create cust cd/dvds rips cds etc. Probably all you will ever need.
Furius ISO Mount – ISO mounting/burning/etc

Torrent:
qBitTorrent – My favorite torrent client by far
Transmission – Simple but meh to me. It works.
Deluge – I never liked this program but it's popular and works.

Communication:
Pidgin – Works well. I never went through the ICQ/Messenger phase of millennial puberty so I have not used this much.
Skype – Native Linux client gets it done.

Games:
PlayOnLinux – It's better than it used to be. I don't game much but does work with what I do play. Also you can load MS Office and similar programs with this.
Crossover – Works better than PlayOnLinux but costs money. If you don't want to screw with it this is not a terrible option.
Wine – I put this under games but really I use it more for misc programs and PlayOnLinux for the very few games I play that don't have native linux clients.
Steam – What can I say, the list of linux supported games on steam is growing every day and not just indy games.
GoG – Not really a client but most people don't realize GoG has a library of native linux games that rivals Steam.

MISC:
TeamViewer – Native linux client that works great. Great alternative to logmein.
VNC – Not free like Teamviewer but Linux support and works well.

Image Manipulation:
Gimp – No it's not photoshop but if your not doing pro level stuff it works great.
Darktable – Fix pictures and RAW editing. Only used a few times but was impressed.

Office:
LibreOffice – So much contention of this suite but it's pretty good for most day to day activities. I actually used it at work for over a year before anyone noticed I wasn't actually using MS Office. The only thing I will say is making databases from scratch has never worked well for me. YMMV. Other than that you will not notice much difference once you get used to it.
Evince – PDF viewer. Honestly the Chrome browser is a better pdf viewer.
Thunderbird Mail – I actually like it and it works. Def. Prefer it over kmail.
 
LOL I posted in this thread over 10 years ago.

My favorite linux program these days is probably multitail. Awesome tail replacement if you watch a lot of logs like I do.
 
Libre Office 5.0 is out if anyone is interested in trying it. Here is a copy of the post from the mint forums how to upgrade to it. It's pretty easy to do.

Why you might want to use the LibreOffice PPA
If you're using Linux Mint 17.2 you may have been pleasantly surprised with LibreOffice 4.4.3; a huge improvement over the LibreOffice version shipped with earlier Linux Mint 17.x and Ubuntu LTS versions. You may even have gotten a taste for the improvements the LibreOffice team are making with each stable release and have added the LibreOffice Fresh PPA to your system so you get new stable releases through Update Manager. Certainly looking forward to the 5.0 release you might be interested in that (https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.0).

Problem and cause
Unfortunately the way LibreOffice 4.4.3 was added to Linux Mint 17.2 means that if you add the LibreOffice Fresh PPA (or any LibreOffice PPA) it won't offer you new versions through Update Manager. This is because the Linux Mint repositories are set at a higher APT "priority" than the default used for Ubuntu repositories and PPAs. The Update Manager ignores packages of a lower APT priority. So if you are using the LibreOffice Fresh PPA you will have to configure the APT priority for it to equal this higher priority used for the Linux Mint repositories. (After adding the PPA you can see this problem by running the command "apt policy libreoffice", which shows libreoffice package from Ubuntu repositories and this PPA having a priority of 500, while libreoffice from the Linux Mint repository has a priority of 700.)

Solution
Assuming you have already added the PPA ppa:libreoffice/ppa in Software Sources, you need to create the file /etc/apt/preferences.d/libreoffice.pref. To edit the file on the terminal with nano run:
sudo nano /etc/apt/preferences.d/libreoffice.pref
To instead use a graphical editor press Alt+F2 and type the following command or run that command from the terminal (for KDE replace "gksudo gedit" with "kdesudo kate"; for MATE replace "gedit" with "pluma"):
gksudo gedit /etc/apt/preferences.d/libreoffice.pref

Put the following text in the file:
Package: *
Pin: release o=LP-PPA-libreoffice
Pin-Priority: 700
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Here's some of the software I use on a daily basis:

- Remmina for remote desktop into Windows machines, actually runs faster than the remote desktop client in Windows!

- MakeMKV for converting all my HD-DVD's to MKV's.

- SABnzbd+ newsgroup client.

- Oracle VM Virtualbox for a little virtual machine action.

- Timeshift for scheduled backups of your Linux PC, similar to Windows System Restore only better.

- Simple Scan for scanning all my invoices to .pdf's.

- Krita for the artists out there.

- LMMS (Linux Multimedia Studio) for music production, similar to Fruity Loops.

Currently running Libre Office 5.0.3.2, works well for everything I do.
 
Can anybody recommend a replacement for MSI Afterburner ? I specifically want the hardware monitor features although the overclocking would be a bonus.
 
Conky has several applets that allow you to watch freq, temp, memory use, etc.

As far as on the fly overclocking while in the OS, not so much. It's never really been a problem because that is usually done in the bios anyway.
 
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