Applications that don't get enough publicity

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bambam_ · Post by **bambam_** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 3:50 am

Doubleletter · Post by **Doubleletter** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 4:06 am

chesspresso, a great library for writing chess application: http://www.chesspresso.org

Darkael · Post by **Darkael** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 4:11 am

bambambambambambambambam wrote:tor

There have been at least 3 articles about Tor recently posted on Slashdot, so I think it's a little bit wrong to say that it doesn't get enough publicity...

bambam_ · Post by **bambam_** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 1:16 pm

KarnEvil wrote:
bambambambambambambambam wrote:tor
There have been at least 3 articles about Tor recently posted on Slashdot, so I think it's a little bit wrong to say that it doesn't get enough publicity...

we need 10 more

Doubleletter · Post by **Doubleletter** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 1:22 pm

liferea, a News Aggregator for RDF/RSS/CDF/Atom/Echo/etc feeds

Available in portage. It is a GNOME app, which is simple, but powerful and unobtrusive.

Darkael · Post by **Darkael** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 2:18 pm

bam * 8 wrote: we need 10 more

Actually, I think it's better if tor does not get too much publicity. If it becomes too popular, servers will begin to block Tor IPs, and mean people will want to break it or sue Tor developpers or whatever....

Aries-Belgium · Post by **Aries-Belgium** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 11:03 am

Okay, just to refresh this thread

adesklets: it's a desklet application written in Python. It's fully themeable and configureable. It's better than gdesklets, because it doesn't need those large gnome-libaries only the python libaries of course. Some desklets have additional dependencies. It's in portage.

I hope this thread will never die

96140 · Post by **96140** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 4:01 am

Aries-Belgium wrote:adesklets: it's a desklet application written in Python. It's fully themeable and configureable. It's better than gdesklets, because it doesn't need those large gnome-libaries only the python libaries of course. Some desklets have additional dependencies. It's in portage.

I actually emerged this on your recommendation, and after a lot of reading--in these forums and the adesklets forums & documentation--and experimentation, I came to the conclusion that while it's definitely speedy and responsive, it really is kinda hokey. More precisely, its starterbar is simply not up to gedesklets standards. Granted, it seemed to use far less resources, but there's too much CLI work required to get it running. At least it has far fewer dependencies (only imlib2) and isn't masked. Running a script for every desklet is a bit impractical. Not to mention the desklets have pretty limited configuration options. At least adesklets as a whole shows the value of Python over of GTK.

OneInchMen · Post by **OneInchMen** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 9:28 am

Hula mail and calendar server, based on Novell's NetMail.

"Novell has bootstrapped Hula by open sourcing the NetMail product"

Very, very easy to set up and maintain. Emerges in 8 minutes on a P3/256 MB desktop and set up in 2 minutes(!!!)

Although still under major (re)development, it has fully functional smtp/pop/imap/antispam/antivirus services, all configurable through the easy web interface...

Source code & ebuild:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-354971.html

Homepage:
http://www.hula-project.org/Hula_Server

Felly · Post by **Felly** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 9:37 am

Hula mail and calendar server, based on Novell's NetMail.

Excellent find !!! This is very interesting indeed.

Ctrl+Alt+Del · Post by **Ctrl+Alt+Del** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 1:23 pm

TuxCommander: great filemanager http://tuxcmd.sourceforge.net/, unfortunately not in portage, neither the binary nor the src version. Great App, too bad it's development is a bit slow atm.
GTK Theme Switch: http://www.muhri.net/nav.php3?node=gts, the name is pretty selfexplanatory.

Oh and finally Nexuiz: www.nexuiz.com, it's not really a desktop application but it deserves much more attention

Aries-Belgium · Post by **Aries-Belgium** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 2:49 am

In Windows I used Notepad to make some quick notes ... Leafpad is his brother on Linux.

alistair · Post by **alistair** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 12:55 pm

Explore2fs it is a windows program that allows you to read your ext2/3 partitions. Very usefully if you dual boot.

carpman · Post by **carpman** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 9:37 pm

Could not find this in portage but it looks promising if you need to create flash files.

http://f4l.sourceforge.net/

chrisduck · Post by **chrisduck** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 7:26 am

WOW finally a flash-like app for linux! I can't wait to use it!

killa84 · Post by **killa84** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 6:12 am

Hello, all - just to say this first I just set up gentoo on my laptop a few days ago, 2005.1 stage3. Running fluxbox , and a few tools - working on a firewall first then I'll go out beyond lynx for a browser.

Didn't read through all the pages I skipped after 6 I think, I'll pick up the reading later (been reading enough html as it is). I was wandering if anyone had mentioned ettercap yet. For a complete package of net-security-attack-tools, this one smokes a lan with little trouble. Plus with plugins availible additions are pretty painless.

ssokolow · Post by **ssokolow** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 10:29 am

I know it's self-promotion, but I suggest my "unball" script. It's available from http://www.ssokolow.com/MyPrograms/Gentoo

It's essentially a command-line wrapper for every archiving tool I could find and, to keep your filesystem clean, it will create a containing folder (named as the archive's name minus the extension) if the archive does not provide one. Also, since I couldn't find any cases where it broke anything, it does a case-insensitive compare of the archive extensions and, as of version 0.2.0, it also checks the file header (using /usr/bin/file) if it still doesn't recognize the file's type.

NaturalRandom · Post by **NaturalRandom** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 10:50 am

GAIM might be multi-protocol, but when you have to use THE console

....

TMSNC!

The program is quite good, although the documentation is far from complete, IMO.

EDIT:I forgot to say that its for MSN

CrazyTerabyte · Post by **CrazyTerabyte** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 4:17 am

For console I think the best IM (multiprotocol) client is centericq. It's MSN support is broken sometimes, however. But I don't care, since I use jabber as MSN transport.

But, talking about good programs not in portage:
gnofract4d - A very good fractal program
VueScan - Closed source, but excellent scanner program. See [bug=54238]bug 54238[/bug]

There may be some others I don't remember now, but there is one program's ebuild that need some more attention: blender. Look at this bug: [bug=42410]Does yafray really need to be a dependency of blender[/bug]

Dosenbier · Post by **Dosenbier** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 8:06 pm

carpman wrote:Could not find this in portage but it looks promising if you need to create flash files.

http://f4l.sourceforge.net/

YESS !!! How cool is THAT ?!

Can't wait to have that in portage !!!

jedsen · Post by **jedsen** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 11:11 pm

hydrogen - drum machine
zynaddsubfx - sequencer

's all ya need

coriolan · Post by **coriolan** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 12:13 am

Smodels is really useful for solving discrete design problems. I could provide an ebuild if there is interest.

omp · Post by **omp** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 1:00 am

Mousepad (a fork of Leafpad -- will soon get a lot of new features like syntax highlighting and such)

Audacious (recent fork of beep-media-player, which was discontinued in favor of BMPx -- Audacious has new features and bugfixes)

Both are in portage.

Cintra · Post by **Cintra** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 7:12 am

sessionID wrote:Let me (me too) suggest Amarok for mp3/ogg playback.

I has the best playlist/file browser system I saw so far, has nice osd support, you can send the whole thing back to the tray with one click (not like noatun), etc.

Check it out: http://amarok.sourceforge.net/

... and it imports covers from Amazon!

Its been a very long time since I had Amarok on my system - it crashed too much for my liking - but I have just tried it again, and find it has improved a lot since the bad old days, though I see a number of threads about problems still. If you go for 'music managers' Amarok gets my vote too..

And if you need to copy dvds, there's a new app in portage which works beautifully - k9copy!

Almost forgot.. there's another, if you are into podcasts - CastPodder - not in portage yet, but it could be soon perhaps http://castpodder.phpbbweb.com/viewtopi ... castpodder

Mvh

vputz · Post by **vputz** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 11:37 pm

Scientific computing:

Octave: Like MatLab, very powerful, pretty intuitive. Not the greatest language as languages go (imho) but great if you need near-matlab compatibility and it really is lovely with matrices.
R: Mentioned earlier. The last word on statistics languages; very powerful indeed.
Mayavi: Need to visualize some data? Want to see isosurfaces in a 3d potential gradient with hedgehog arrows pointing out normals? Here's your app, sicko. If you just want the library, go to www.vtk.org
Frink: Not linux-specific, but if you have a java VM it's a very nice little semi-intuitive calculator. Great for back-of-the-envelope wodging.
Maxima, the big daddy of Computer Algebra Systems. Best if used from within TeXmacs, below

Document Processing:

Lyx. Why edit LaTeX by hand ALL the time, when LyX gives you graphical output, automatic formatting, automatic management of footnotes/references, and the ability to drop into raw LaTeX if you absolutely need to? Fantastic. If I had to choose one program to write papers with, this would be it.
TeXmacs. Oh, fine, edit the LaTeX by hand. At least this lets you see the results nicely. But as a shell for Maxima, above, this gives you the power of an industrial strength computer algebra system with the beauty of LaTeX-formatted math output. OH TEH WUV!
Pybliographer. Great little bibliographic database with integration to LyX as well. Wow

Games/Emulators:

Mame. Like that needed to be said.
Daphne. OK, we all know Dragon's Lair was bad. But the fact that you can now see HOW bad it was on your own computer is pretty cool

Other Stuff:

Lilypond--Think LaTeX for music notation. Sweet! I have no use for this, but it's SO COOL that someone wrote it!
Audacity: Nice tight little audio file editor. I missed CoolEdit for years until finding this.
Freevo: My favorite little DVR shell. MythTV may have more stylin' features, but Freevo is WAY more hackable, imho (being written in Python has that effect). Without this, my music-playin'-tv-recordin'-movie-watchin'-mame-playin'-tux-racin'-daphne-playin' machine wouldn't exist.

Ah, so many more. But my wife is here to pick me up; must dash.

Applications that don't get enough publicity

chesspresso

liferea

Hula mail and calendar server

app in question