Linux - What apps do you use ?

[shady_inc]

I use...

Ratpoison as wm (Although I will be switching to stumpwm soon)

Opera - Primary Browser
Elinks - Secondary Browser
mutt - Email
irssi - IRC
#bitlbee - IM
rss2email - feeds
feh - image viewer
wordnet - dictionary (SUPER)
gnuchess - Chess
vim - Text Editor
vim + latex - Word processing.
genisoimage and wodim - CD Burning

Openoffice.org - Only when I have to print something.
sc - spreadsheeting
devtodo - todo lists
pal - calendar and event notifier

mpc/mpd/ncmpc - music
mplayer - video
aptitude - package management
wget - downloads

Konsole - Term emulator (I'd rather use urxvt, but rp doesn't tile them too well.)

Best of the lot :
zsh - One shell to rule them all.

The rest are mostly scripts that I've written myself, when I haven't found a program for what I needed.

Wow...lots of apps there of which I haven't even heard.

 

[kgas]

It is nice to see what applications are used by individuals. In my view the usage is highly a personal taste. For a normal user
an office suite (OOo) ,
a web browser (FF 3),
a mail client (TB, really good),
a photo editor (picasa),
vlc player (alternative :XBMC media player like media center in windows)
kino for video editing
will just do and are the basic ones.
Remaining all depends on the user what he/she would like to do.

 

[gary4gar]

Wrong. Konqueror is still a great file manager, thanks to its multi-tab feature which only PCManFM has outside konqueror. Its not even present in Dolphin.

Sorry, you are wrong this time
Dolphin supports multiple tabs. And it has everything i expect from a decent file manager to have. On top it a Great easy to use interface.
My cousin(die hard windows fan) asked me if this thingy has a windows version too

*www.imgx.org/pthumbs/small/11819/2008-10-13-184922_1024x768_scrot.png

 

[MetalheadGautham]

really ? I lost touch with KDE, since my 256mb ram is no longer sufficient to run KDE.

 

[gary4gar]

really ? I lost touch with KDE, since my 256mb ram is no longer sufficient to run KDE.

Upgrade dude!
RAM is dirt cheap these days

 

[khattam_]

Ubuntu Hardy Heron with:
GNOME as DE
SMplayer as Video Player
Exaile as audio Player
VLC as Backup Media Player
OpenOffice for General Document Processing (Not used much)
Eclipse as IDE
Firefox as Browser
ThunderBird as Email Client
Pidgin\Kopete as IM Client
GIMP for basic photo editing
Downloader For X as Download Manager
xCHM as CHM viewer
Gedit as text editor
K3B as Burner

 

[Faun]

Upgrade dude!
RAM is dirt cheap these days

naah he wont upgrade till WW3

 

[hellknight]

Wow.. one guy is using Mutt.. @Sykora.. how about posting a screenshot of the client!!

 

[krazzy]

Which apps are used in Linux to create/open Zip and Rar files? Also is these a multi-codec pack like K-Lite for Windows on Linux?

 

[Faun]

^^yup you get all these things

file roller for archive (i personally tar.gz files instead of rar or zip as its better)
gstreamer and W32xodecs to play almost ll media

 

[gary4gar]

Which apps are used in Linux to create/open Zip and Rar files? Also is these a multi-codec pack like K-Lite for Windows on Linux?

Use mplayer - it plays nearly all formats you throw at it.

Also, there is VLC present

 

[Sykora]

@hellknight : Here you go. View it full-size, you can't really see anything in the thumbnail.

*www.imgx.org/pthumbs/small/11894/screenshot_2008-10-18_1232_1680x1050.png

Mutt, running inside urxvt.

 

[Dark Star]

1. Smplayer
2. Amarok 2 Beta 2
3. FF 3.0.3
4. OOO 3.0.0
5. Ktorrent
6. Kget
7. KsCD, K3b, Gimp 2.6.1, Gwenbiew, Okular , Qt toolkit , and host of other Kapps.

P.s : I find KDE apps more pronounced and better than gnome

 

[NucleusKore]

Which apps are used in Linux to create/open Zip and Rar files?

Peazip

Also is these a multi-codec pack like K-Lite for Windows on Linux

Yes, like the w32 codec pack

 

[karmanya]

What should I use for a c++ and python compiler? Under Hardy Heron. The c++ compiler has to be able to handle non- ANSI code.

 

[MetalheadGautham]

What should I use for a c++ and python compiler? Under Hardy Heron. The c++ compiler has to be able to handle non- ANSI code.

Non ANSI code ? You mean your CBSE Class 11/12 TC equivalent ?
Then I suggest you install DOSbox. Its in almost any distro's repos.
Then make a copy of your school's version of TC 3.0 and extract it to a folder named DOS in your home directory.
After that, mount that directory as C under dosbox.
Now, you can access tc/bin/tc.exe and run school code.

 

[red_devil]

hey guys, i use Ubuntu 8.10 n XP on my pc...

there are tools which let me write to XP partitions when i'm on Ubuntu like NTFS-config.. but is there any tool which would let me access my Ubuntu folders and let me write some files on it ??

<ps:didn't want to create a new thread as i thought this was a question within the domain of this thread..>

 

[Rahim]

@n6300 *www.fs-driver.org/

 

[red_devil]

@rahimveron, i installed that s/w but when i access a linux partition through control panel it asks me if i want to format that partition...

what am i doing wrong ??

 

[anarchist]

i mostly use
1. tvtime
2. firefox
3. openoffice: calc, writer & impress
4. games: chess, frozen bubble & supertux