Your Linux Killer Application?

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Aphex3K · Post by **Aphex3K** » Fri Apr 02, 2004 8:14 pm

What's the application that binds you to linux? And/Or whats the application you have most fun with?

Epyon · Post by **Epyon** » Fri Apr 02, 2004 8:28 pm

pornview

Um... I can't really think of one.

guy · Post by **guy** » Fri Apr 02, 2004 8:40 pm

Aphex3K wrote:What's the application that binds you to linux? And/Or whats the application you have most fun with?

once they mature enough, gdesklets/karamba will really be awesome. Switch-worthy? nah. But very very cool.

Most of the bigger 'linux' apps are really cross-platform... gimp, gaim, firefox/thunderbird, open office...

K3B is a sick little burner too..

most fun? 'mplayer -vo aa'

Spawn of Lovechild · Post by **Spawn of Lovechild** » Fri Apr 02, 2004 9:40 pm

GNOME, I can't imagine using another DE..

ggelln · Post by **ggelln** » Sat Apr 03, 2004 7:02 am

mpc/mpd

I don't know how I used my music files before I found it!
I think of it as iTunes for the cli inclined (not that I really have used iTunes
much . . . but the idea sounds similiar

)

heck most of the CLI tools I use every single day . . . its nice to use gui's but I really prefer typing

Gabriel

vificunero · Post by **vificunero** » Sat Apr 03, 2004 8:04 am

Spawn of Lovechild wrote:GNOME, I can't imagine using another DE..

I agree with you. It's getting better release by release.

Athas · Post by **Athas** » Sat Apr 03, 2004 8:06 am

Proper GNU Emacs, under NT it just plain sucks.

rfujimoto · Post by **rfujimoto** » Sat Apr 03, 2004 8:14 am

Rhythmbox. I haven't had any stability issues unlike most, so I love the program...

goom · Post by **goom** » Sat Apr 03, 2004 9:06 am

Hard to answer that question. I personally like gdesklets, gnome and xmms most. That's the stuff running nearly all day long on my machine. Don't wanna miss that.

neenee · Post by **neenee** » Sat Apr 03, 2004 9:23 am

irssi

superjaded · Post by **superjaded** » Sat Apr 03, 2004 9:31 am

If anything I'll have to go with Lovechild and GNOME. Once you get used to it, nothing else matters, atleast as far as I'm concerned.

Even with the bugs, it's very nice working with GNOME.

Most everything else is "acceptable" or "good" but not really "killer." Honestly, I wouldn't really consider GNOME killer either, but it's probably the closest to it at this point.

Although I feel oddly naked without having vi and the rest of my GNU commandline tools when I'm in Windows. Notepad is just, yech.

The killer application for me will probably be when a foobar2000 workalike comes along for Linux/X.

Dashboard seems like a VERY cool project, or atleast will be once it gets off the ground.

Aonoa · Post by **Aonoa** » Sat Apr 03, 2004 9:33 am

Linux Kernel 2.6

I'm bound to linux by linux.

charlieg · Post by **charlieg** » Sat Apr 03, 2004 10:38 am

There's just so much cool stuff that it's difficult to isolate any particular bit.

Gnome and associated apps like Rhythmbox, AbiWord, Gnumeric, Gaim, GnuCash (when it goes Gtk2), Inkscape, Evolution, gDesklets... there's just so many.

NiBe · Post by **NiBe** » Sat Apr 03, 2004 10:45 am

Several apps really, but the most frequently used are: xfce4 (complete suit), mplayer, aterm (or any terminal really, damn powerful interface once you've mastered it), Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox.

kayosiii · Post by **kayosiii** » Sat Apr 03, 2004 1:00 pm

The Gimp got me in many many years ago.
Cinelerra is definately a killer app for video editing -> network rendering - bring it on.
KDE 3.2 is the best DE I have used (I have used just about everything but OSX).
I also have high hopes for Ardour

nrl · Post by **nrl** » Sat Apr 03, 2004 1:22 pm

Rhythmbox, irssi + screen and all those nice WMs (openbox at the moment).
Oh and lets not forget emerge and how easy it makes installing/upgrading software

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Corky · Post by **Corky** » Sat Apr 03, 2004 2:54 pm

irssi + screen

nsahoo · Post by **nsahoo** » Sat Apr 03, 2004 3:47 pm

bash is and will always be a killer app for me. (mmm, although I am OK with any bourne shell variant, I have just gotten used to bash)

Just can't imagine how I'll work without a shell!

Anime_Fan · Post by **Anime_Fan** » Sat Apr 03, 2004 4:50 pm

How about mplayer?
I find it really useful.
It plays video, streams audio from the 'net and makes some funny noises when I use `-playlist list.m3u -shuffle`. And it does this all from bash.
No need to load an entire DE just to play some music, as is the case in Windows.

Hypnos · Post by **Hypnos** » Sat Apr 03, 2004 11:07 pm

Evolution -- my life, professional and private, is managed through it

kraylus · Post by **kraylus** » Sun Apr 04, 2004 2:54 am

superjaded wrote:Dashboard seems like a VERY cool project, or atleast will be once it gets off the ground.

what's that? the only thing i found on google was dashpc.com. is that what you're talking about?

ewan.paton · Post by **ewan.paton** » Sun Apr 04, 2004 3:07 am

ssh with X forwarding and network transparancy, my laptop is mor conieniant for me to control xmms with but my pc has a much better sound systemm if only that vnc shit built into kde actuly worked properly my life would be peachy.

Lews_Therin · Post by **Lews_Therin** » Sun Apr 04, 2004 3:25 am

MPlayer. It's just wonderful only needing one media player.

superjaded · Post by **superjaded** » Sun Apr 04, 2004 5:55 am

kraylus wrote:
superjaded wrote:Dashboard seems like a VERY cool project, or atleast will be once it gets off the ground.
what's that? the only thing i found on google was dashpc.com. is that what you're talking about?

This.

I don't know how much I would use it if/when it gets more mature, but definitely has potential.

Unne · Post by **Unne** » Sun Apr 04, 2004 6:57 am

A terminal that works properly. A truly customizable window manager / desktop environment. And Perl of course.

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