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charlieg
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And in the blue corner... from the Lin-ux gym... promoted by Gnome, trained by the GNU... introducing the-uh heavyweight champion of the open source software world.....
TTHHEEE GGGIIIIIIIIIIIIIMMMMMMMMMp
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bssteph
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Joined: 26 Feb 2003
Posts: 651
Location: Wisconsin
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Don't think these have been said yet...
xzip
A Z-code interpreter, so you can play Zork (and all the other Infocom classics) in your spare time.
frotz
See above, but this one is console instead of X. |
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dreamsofxion
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Joined: 29 Sep 2002
Posts: 37
Location: Memphis, TN
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| Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2003 2:07 pm Post subject: |
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I'm kind of partial to "init" and "login" personally...
...but maybe I'm just strange... |
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modal
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Joined: 02 Oct 2002
Posts: 277
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Mozilla - web and mail.
X-Chat-2
XMMS
Gnome
Gaim-cvs
Openoffice
Grip
Totem
Unreal Tournament
Vim (for everything outside of essays)
Gnome-terminal
Drivel
I use all of these, almost everytime I login. |
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therobot
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Joined: 07 Jun 2002
Posts: 256
Location: Canada
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| Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2003 3:18 am Post subject: |
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| this would be a better thread if people didn't all answer with basically the same thing. What about some killler apps that the rest of us might not know about? There's gotta be some really cool programs out there that most people dont know about. |
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Drewgrange
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Joined: 29 Mar 2003
Posts: 483
Location: Ohio, US
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I lovvee gaim
In my second run with linux (I'm on my third now, probably for good now that I finally got my printer to work on the network  ) I paid for crossover plugin specifically to use trillian because I hated all the other IM clients. The official AIM linux client started displaying in Japanese even! Just installed gaim .6 and its beautiful. I'd say I like it much more than the actual AIM client.
Other than that.. mozilla, xmms, mplayer, and k3b probably get the most usage out of me.
Oh, and PAN!
Pan is by far the best newsreader I've used for binaries groups. If anybody knows of a better one, I doubt it, but I'd love to hear about it if such a thing exists! |
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Gnufsh
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Joined: 28 Dec 2002
Posts: 400
Location: Portland, OR
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I thgink IceWM is just awesome.
I like the gentoo file manager, kinda reminds me of windows 3.1, but in a good way.
ltris is a fun game, and of course openmosix and distcc are wonderful. |
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Azaghal
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 02 May 2003
Posts: 103
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| OdinsDream wrote: | One of my favorite programs when I had Windows was something called StrokeIt. It would respond to mouse gestures, and generate keystrokes based on the gesture. If you've ever played Black and White, it works similar to that. You held the right button, drew the shape, and the action was performed.
This was absolutely great for web-browsing, cause I'd link the Back and Forward keystrokes to the left and right motions. It simplified things a great deal. Does anyone know of a similar program for Linux? |
I used strokeit as well. There is a KDE application named 'kgesture' which should do the same, but by far isn't as advanced as strokeit yet. Haven't tried it myself yet though... |
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[smeagol]
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Joined: 24 Oct 2002
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fluxbox/gnome-devel
gaim
vim
xmms
mutt
MozillaFirebird
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Kristin
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Joined: 01 Jul 2003
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KDE - wm
Mozilla - browser
Gaim - im
xchat - irc
Gimp - Photoshop-ish
Vim - text editor
Eclipse - Java
xmms - music
I'm still a newbie, any one have suggestions for more apps?
I saw gvim listed several times: what's the difference between that and vim?
winex lets you open MS files? Someone please let me know what it does.
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[smeagol]
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gvim is the gtk+ version of vim.
it's pretty cool with gtk+2, pango and everything. 
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NamShub
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Frozen Bubbles!!
Must...play...5..more....minutes..... |
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NamShub
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| Quote: | Oh, and PAN!
Pan is by far the best newsreader I've used for binaries groups. If anybody knows of a better one, I doubt it, but I'd love to hear about it if such a thing exists! |
I've tried Pan after reading your comment...
I must admit this is a quite nice newsreader (I was using KNode, which is *really* lacking in features...) but for binaries groups with Pan I could not find a way to read/download from many groups at the same time...
Is it possible?
(Right now for binaries I'm using wine xnews.exe)[/quote] |
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djinnshi
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Joined: 10 Apr 2003
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Location: zuidhorn, netherlands
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wm: the allmighty fluxbox
term: aterm
browser: konqueror
filemgr: mc (and konqueror once in a while)
editor: vim
multimedia: mplayer, xmms
irc: xchat
mail: kmail
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MHD
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Joined: 18 Jun 2003
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| Recently merged kpovmodeler and have been very impressed at the interface into povray... its almost to the stage of being a 3d cad like program... |
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-JeaN-
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Posts: 211
Location: PaRiS :D
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Giving my cent on this thread :
WM : Fluxbox ( yeah light fast simple usefull and nice looking )
Browser : Opera ( fast one, and i love the windows system of it and bookmarks )
Media : XMMS and Mplayer ( you can read almost everything with those )
Email : Sylpheed
IRC : XChat / Lostirc
Game : UT 
Linux : Gentoo |
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lisa
Retired Dev
Joined: 01 Jun 2003
Posts: 273
Location: York, UK again! Horray!
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| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2003 3:27 am Post subject: |
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distcc ()
opera
and all the usual
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TobiWan
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Joined: 07 Jul 2003
Posts: 275
Location: Brussels, Old Europe
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| Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2003 7:37 pm Post subject: Your applications of choice? |
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Hi everybody,
I have been using Gentoo for a few weeks now and I am still in the proces of installing all the apps I need for my daily work and pleasure. Since there are so many good applications and I have so little time to try them all out, I'd like to know from you which applications do you use for these tasks. Perhaps you could give me the name of the packet to emerge if it's in the portage tree and a reason why it's better than other apps. I am using the latest KDE, but I have the Gnome libs installed.
OK. Here it goes:
playing wav, mp3, vorbis and the like. Comparable to XMMS but not limited to.
editing sounds, something like a soundstudio software with mixing capability
playing all kinds of movies, DVDs, divx, mpeg2/4, avi, VCD, SVCD etc.
editing movies and single frames, something like Main Actor
editing images, something like GIMP, other alternatives
viewing images, something like acdsee
3D modeling, something like blender with the capability to import 3D Studio meshes
2D CAD, something like qcad
Burning CDs, VCDs and SVCDs, something like Nero
P2P filesharing gui clients for gift, mldonkey
anything else you can recommend for the desktop and which is essential
Thanks in advance,
Tobias
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lightcycle
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Location: Sweden
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Editing sounds: Ardour. It's currently masked and in beta, but it's very promising, and very useful even now.
Movies: I'd recommend either xine or mplayer, both are very good
Viewing images: I use gqView, which is a quite nice gtk application
Burning CDs: I use gCombust. I don't really remember what Nero looks like, but gcombust is very nice, a sort of "Every possible option in easy reach" application.
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hook
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Joined: 23 Oct 2002
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Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia
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| Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2003 8:56 am Post subject: |
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music -> xmms, juk
movies -> xmms, mplayer
images -> kuickshow
burn cd -> k3b
movies editing -> cinelerra, kino, cinepaint (for frame-to frame)
images editing -> gimp
vector images editing (2D cad?) -> sodipodi, sketch
3d modeling -> blender (check for import/export plugins ...blender supports quite a lot of those!)
p2p -> xmule, bittorrent
mail -> kmail, pine, mail
i.m. -> kopete, (gaim is also nice)
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takezo
Tux's lil' helper
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jaska
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Joined: 06 Jun 2003
Posts: 725
Location: Finland
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| Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2003 10:03 am Post subject: |
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mplayer for movies (divx,vcd,svcd, so on)
gimp for graphics
no idea what for 3d modeling
k3b for burning vcd/svcds Nero type
vcdgear for burning vcd/svcd in commandline
editing movies, cinelerra
i use nautilus file manager to see my pictures
editing sounds, try audacity
These should cover most of your needs hopefully |
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mondauge
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Location: Schwetzingen, Germany
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movies (DivX, VCD, DVD): xine or mplayer (aaxine rocks )
mp3: noatun
shoutcast/livestream: xmms, realplayer, mplayer (the latter one can handle wma streams really well)
cd burning: k3b (the holy grail of cd rec. apps under Linux)
image viewing: kuickshow
p2p: xmule is quite nice
gaming: Enemy Territoy (really essential)
I played a while with superkaramba, but I think it's more disturbing than helpful. |
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TobiWan
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Joined: 07 Jul 2003
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Location: Brussels, Old Europe
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| Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2003 12:54 pm Post subject: Thanks for all the answers yet :-) |
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Hi folks,
thanks for all the answers so far. When I'm back on broadband I'll do some emerging
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gaming: Enemy Territoy (really essential)
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I had emerged that a week ago. It "installed" without errors, but when I started it under KDE, the screen turned black and that's it. Nothing happened. Other SDL games work fine, like America's Army for example. What can be the cause of that problem?
I have a clean installation of X, KDE and the NVidia kernel module. Alsa works fine too.
regards,
Tobias
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TobiWan
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| Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2003 1:41 pm Post subject: Re: Thanks for all the answers yet :-) |
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| TobiWan wrote: |
I had emerged that a week ago. It "installed" without errors, but when I started it under KDE, the screen turned black and that's it. Nothing happened. Other SDL games work fine, like America's Army for example. What can be the cause of that problem?
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I guess I already found the cause. It seems to be the KDE sound daemon which prevented sound initialisation of game sound. I have to wait though to test that theory since I unemerged ee and I am on smallband until next week 
regards,
Tobias
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