Favorite Linux Programs

[IanthePez]

I've been using linux about 3 days now, and I'm curious what other people favorite linux programs are. These can be programs used for anything at all.

Here are the ones I currently like

Using Suse 8.2 - KDE 3.1.3

Browser: Mozilla Firebird
Mail: Sylpheed
Music: XMMS
IM: Gaim
File Transfers: Kget
Playing some Windows Games: Winex
Shell: Konsole
Graphics: Gimp
FTP: Kbear (looking for a new one)
Music Ripping and Encoding: Grip

Feel free to list programs for anything you want....I just want a nice range of linux programs to look at.

 

[Spyro]

Browser: Mozilla
Music: XMMS
File Transfers: Downloader4x
Game: Nethack
Shell: XShell
Graphics: Gimp
Music Ripping and Encoding: Grip
Window Manager: KDE
Network Neighborhood: LinNeighborhood
Office: Open Office
Text Editor: VIM
Image Editing: The Gimp

 

[Haden]

Browser: Konqueror
Music: XMMS
DVD ripping and encoding: DVD::rip
Multimedia: MPlayer
Shell: rxvt
File manager: mc
File Transfers: wget
Music Ripping and Encoding: Konqueror w audio io slave
Window Manager: KDE
Office: KOffice/OpenOffice
Text Editor: Vim

 

[Flatline]

Browser: Konqueror, Firebird, Mozilla, Links (Konqueror can be very nice if you give it netscape's plugins to play with)
Music: XMMS
DVD ripping: K3B, DVDrip (not that I would do anything like that )
IM: Gaim absolutely rules
File Transfers and FTP: Kget or lFTP
Shell: Konsole or Xterm
Graphics: Gimp
Extra eye candy: Superkaramba
Viewing DVDs: Xine or mPlayer
Archiving: Ark
Web development: Quanta
Network browsing: LinNeighborhood

 

[n0cmonkey]

Most of the programs listed here aren't linux programs. And I've answered this question a bunch of times. So just take the best of the answers above this post and assume I use the good stuff

 

[PhoenixOfWater]

Browser: Mozilla Firebird
Mail: Mozilla Thunderbird
Music: XMMS
IM: Gaim
File Transfers: wget
Shell: Konsole
Graphics: Gimp
DVD player: Ogle
Divx and other multimedia: mplayer
Office: OpenOffice
Archiving: Ark
Game: UT2K3, RTCW, RTCW-ET, Quake2

 

[Bulldog13]

We should do a thread like the one they have in "Software, Applications, Programming, Games" forum. The "Cool and nifty" program thread or whatever, but for linux

 

[MGMorden]

Desktop Environment: KDE
Browser: Firebird
Mail: Kmail
Image editing: GIMP
Usenet: Pan
Productivity: OpenOffice.org
Financial: GNUCash
Text editor: EMACS
IM: GAIM
FTP: Gftp
Media player: Mplayer

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

I don't think I use any software that's specific to linux, but I guess you'd call them "linux programs."

window manager: kahakai
browser: konqueror and firebird
aim: bitlbee
irc: irssi
text editing: vim
coding: vim+screen
mp3 stealing: pyslsk
mail: mutt
gimp, duh
mplayer, duh
file transfers: wget, ncftp, ftp
x terminal (konsole isn't a shell): aterm
shell: bash
music ripping: cdparanoia
music encoding: lame
music playing: thump, if it's in a functional state , and mpg321 the rest of the time.

 

[Spyro]

Originally posted by: Bulldog13
We should do a thread like the one they have in "Software, Applications, Programming, Games" forum. The "Cool and nifty" program thread or whatever, but for linux

It won't ever reach that many posts.....

 

[IanthePez]

Originally posted by: Bulldog13
We should do a thread like the one they have in "Software, Applications, Programming, Games" forum. The "Cool and nifty" program thread or whatever, but for linux

Feel free to post any of these types of things. I am just getting started and need some cool stuff.

 

[civad]

window manager: XFCE/ Icewm
browser: mozilla ( I know its kinda slow, but I guess I am too used to it now )
text editing: nano
coding: been thinking of doing that for 3 years now.....
mail: RMail
file transfers: gftp
x terminal : rxvt/ uxterm
shell: bash
music playing: mpg321/ xmms

 

[xcript]

Using Gentoo (2.4.20-ck6) - Fluxbox

Browser: Mozilla Firebird
Mail: Sylpheed
Music: XMMS
IM: Gaim
Games: Frozen Bubble! / WineX
Shell: Eterm
FTP: ftp
Text Editor: vi/nano/nedit/beaver/whatever
P2P: giFT + FastTrack plugin / Bittorrent
Voice Comm: TeamSpeak
Usenet: Sylpheed / Pan (for binaries)
IRC: XChat
Video: Xine / MPlayer + mplayerplug-in (for embedded quicktime in mozilla)
Sysinfo: gkrellm
seti@home: msetimon
Samba Browser: XFSamba

And so on..

 

[IanthePez]

another I'd like to add

P2P - Xmule (very nice)

 

[NuclearFusi0n]

Browser: Mozilla Firebird
IM: Gaim
Games: Frozen Bubble
Shell: aterm -tr -sh 40 -fade 60 -trsb -fg white -si -sk -bg black
IRC: Xchat2
FTP: gFTP
Image Viewing: GQView
Window Manager/DE: Fluxbox for now, XFCE4 when the bugs are worked out
Television: tvtime

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: NuclearFusi0n

Shell: aterm -tr -sh 40 -fade 60 -trsb -fg white -si -sk -bg black

psssst

Put this in ~/.Xdefaults:

aterm.transparent: true
aterm.shading: 40
aterm.fading: 60
aterm.transpscrollbar: true
aterm.foreground: white
aterm.background: black
aterm.scrollTtyOutput: true
aterm.scrollKeypress: true

No more aterm -ab -cd 12345 -sh -trsb -blah -foo 539851 -title "eR33t" etc etc

 

[4x4expy]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
I don't think I use any software that's specific to linux, but I guess you'd call them "linux programs."

I don't understand. Software that runs under linux, runs ONLY under linux. Is this not correct?

 

[xcript]

Originally posted by: 4x4expy

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
I don't think I use any software that's specific to linux, but I guess you'd call them "linux programs."

I don't understand. Software that runs under linux, runs ONLY under linux. Is this not correct?

I suppose BBWF is referring to that fact that alot of the software can be compiled on other platforms.

Just a guess..

 

[krunk7]

Distro: Gentoo

Desktop: KDE
Mail: Evolution
IM: dMSN
Music: XMMS
Video: mplayer
Shell: bash
Browser: Mozilla Firebird
Editor: Emacs or nano (for simple stuff)
Office: Lyx (of all others this is my best Linux "find" of the year.......it's AWSOME!!)

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: xcript

Originally posted by: 4x4expy

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
I don't think I use any software that's specific to linux, but I guess you'd call them "linux programs."

I don't understand. Software that runs under linux, runs ONLY under linux. Is this not correct?

I suppose BBWF is referring to that fact that alot of the software can be compiled on other platforms.

Just a guess..

Yeah. I bet that pretty much every piece of software I use runs on BSDs, Darwin & OSX, and Solaris. I bet the majority will run on IRIX, HPUX, AIX, etc. Many (most? no idea) will run on windows under cygwin. A few will run natively in windows. Alright, I'll spell it out.

(These are the programs I mentioned in my previous post)

Kahakai runs on at least Linux and FreeBSD. Hasn't been tried on anything else AFAIK.
Konqueror (we'll just lump this under KDE) runs on at least Linux, BSDs, and Solaris. Google isn't being cooperative on this one.
Firebird - Linux, windows, OSX, OS/2, Solaris all have binary builds.
bitlbee - Linux, BSDs, OSX, IRIX, Solaris, cygwin, AmigaOS
irssi - Linux, cygwin, BSDs
vim - DOS, windows, Amiga, BSDs, Linux, Mac OS 7-10, OS/2, windows CE, Tru64 Unix, cygwin, OpenVMS, Risc OS
screen - Linux, BSDs, cygwin, IRIX, Solaris
pyslsk - uses Python and wxPython, should work on any OS that those work on. Works on Linux, OSX, and windows for sure.


Alright, I think that's enough, you get the point.