Essential Linux Software

Dreyco · 14-July-07, 03:53 PM

Can you guys help me create a list of essential Linux software out there for people? Please specify whether it is tar .gz or .rpm

Thanks!

Nerdz · 14-July-07, 06:31 PM

The Gimp (tar.gz- GIMP - Downloads You can also apt-get it )

Open Office (tar.gz download: OpenOffice.org -the download will start in a sec- Invitation for Contributing you can also apt-get it)

Firefox (tar.gz Firefox - Rediscover the Web )

Mplayer (or Xine or Totem..etc) with proper codecs. (tar.gz MPlayer - The Movie Player codecs are on the same site)

Are some I can think of off the top of my head. Sometimes I play games, but those you can get through apt-get or aptitude or other package manager.

musclecars&computers · 14-July-07, 07:05 PM

Here's a list of a lot of stuff from my menu which was all from ubuntu's application manager.

K3b (great burning tool for cd's, data, and iso's)
adobe reader (for viewing pdf files)
thunderbird (great email client, even does hotmail, aol, etc. w/ add on)
kwifimanager (wireless monitor)
kpilot (palm pilot tool)
kdiskfree and kwikdisk (disk monitor and removable disk utility)
blender (3d modeler)
gtkam (to transfer pic from digital camera)
Camaroma (for webcams)
wifi radar (wifi radar duhh)
cpu/mem monitor (for monitoring)
ipodder (for ipod duhh)
gpsdrive (gps)

Your basic plugins and your video card drivers.

Ice Czar · 15-July-07, 10:55 AM

you didnt specify a distro or more specifically the GUI \ window manager your using
I'll assume KDE

Superkaramba (KDE widget engine) tar.gz

image search

Display system information such as CPU Usage, MP3 playing, etc.
Create cool custom toolbars that work any way imaginable
Create little games or virtual pets that live on your desktop
Display information from the internet, such as weather and headlines

basically Samurize for KDE (but harder)

KDE-Look.org
themes, skins, icons ect

not to drive traffic to another forum but
Customizing your *nix Desktop subforum @ Neowin
a good start if your running say GNOME

Desktop Environments

KDE: Introduction to KDE - Neowin Forums
Gnome: http://www.gnome.org/~davyd/gnome-2-14/
XFCE: XFCE - An Introduction - Neowin Forums

Window Managers

Enlightenment: Introduction to Enlightenment DR17 - Neowin Forums
Fluxbox: Introduction to Fluxbox - Neowin Forums
PWM: Introduction to PWM - Neowin Forums
IceWM: (external link to OSNews article)

Quote:


	from last page last link Window Managers v/s Desktop Environments The X Window System (often just X) is the program that provides the capabilities for running graphical applications on Linux (for that matter, UNIX). It controls the hardware - keyboard, mouse, touchpad, monitor. This is so that the apps themselves don't need to bother about the underlying hardware. All they do is "talk" to X. X makes applications display their interfaces on screen but doesn't bother about how the apps are displayed, or the windows themselves. This is the famous "mechanism, not policy" distinction that the X Window System makes. The program that does control the displaying of windows on the screen is the Window Manager, which in essence is an X program. The window manager (WM) controls the look and feel of the windows - the decorations. It also controls how the windows act. So it manages the moving, hiding, resizing, iconifying and closing windows. It determines which window is on top, handles the overlapping, determines which window gets the input from the user. Finally, it controls the manner in which the above tasks are initiated - that is, which keyboard/mouse buttons correspond to which actions. Additionally, a WM may provide additional capability - mapping key combinations to launch arbitrary applications, or providing a task bar and menu, like IceWM, or providing a number of Virtual Desktops, and so on. These are not strictly required of a WM. Metacity, which is GNOME's default WM, does not provide a menu or taskbar and leaves that to gnome-panel. Examples of WMs are IceWM, Fluxbox, WindowMaker, FVWM, Metacity, Sawfish, AfterStep, Blackbox, OpenBox. There are literally dozens more, all with different aims (eye-candy, productivity, low resource usage...) Optionally, a window manager may be part of a larger suite of tools called a Desktop Environment. The Desktop Environment, manages the entire desktop, in addition to just the windows. A Desktop Environment may provide its own graphical toolkit (the way GNOME uses GTK+ and KDE uses QT), features such as icons on the desktop, screensavers, a file manager, a framework for inter-application communication (the way GNOME's got Bonobo and KDE's got DCOP and KParts), and so on. However, a WM must still manage the windows. GNOME uses Metacity as its default WM, but it's used WindowMaker, Enlightenment and Sawfish in the past. It's usually quite easy to change GNOME's default WM, but KDE's WM, kwm, is tightly integrated into the DE. That makes it a real pain to change, and an even greater pain to live without later.

and screw adobe reader
I use Foxit for Linux (tar.gz)

SexyPants · 15-July-07, 02:03 PM

Nobody loves Amarok?

THRiLL KiLL · 15-July-07, 02:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by _Sexy_Pants_


	Nobody loves Amarok?

that is my main mp3 / movie player

14-July-07, 03:53 PM		#1 (permalink)
Dreyco PCApex's Mac Man	Essential Linux Software Can you guys help me create a list of essential Linux software out there for people? Please specify whether it is tar .gz or .rpm Thanks!

14-July-07, 06:31 PM		#2 (permalink)
Nerdz Sir Knight of Spamalot	Re: Essential Linux Software The Gimp (tar.gz- GIMP - Downloads You can also apt-get it ) Open Office (tar.gz download: OpenOffice.org -the download will start in a sec- Invitation for Contributing you can also apt-get it) Firefox (tar.gz Firefox - Rediscover the Web ) Mplayer (or Xine or Totem..etc) with proper codecs. (tar.gz MPlayer - The Movie Player codecs are on the same site) Are some I can think of off the top of my head. Sometimes I play games, but those you can get through apt-get or aptitude or other package manager.

14-July-07, 07:05 PM		#3 (permalink)
musclecars&computers Apex Tech Demi-God	Re: Essential Linux Software Here's a list of a lot of stuff from my menu which was all from ubuntu's application manager. K3b (great burning tool for cd's, data, and iso's) adobe reader (for viewing pdf files) thunderbird (great email client, even does hotmail, aol, etc. w/ add on) kwifimanager (wireless monitor) kpilot (palm pilot tool) kdiskfree and kwikdisk (disk monitor and removable disk utility) blender (3d modeler) gtkam (to transfer pic from digital camera) Camaroma (for webcams) wifi radar (wifi radar duhh) cpu/mem monitor (for monitoring) ipodder (for ipod duhh) gpsdrive (gps) Your basic plugins and your video card drivers.

15-July-07, 02:03 PM		#5 (permalink)
SexyPants 5-Hoe-1 Jeans	Re: Essential Linux Software Nobody loves Amarok?

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