What are your favourite Linux applications? (Page 2 of 6)

Glad to see someone else remembers this game or is at least another fan.

http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/228/H … C+The.html

Abandonia is a great site to get all those long forgotten games of yesteryear!  Lots of memories to be had on these sites.  I use DosBox to run most of them but occasionally, like HHGTTG, they use a .z file format which I use XZip to run.

The original Sid Meier's Pirates! anyone?

Rob

I haven't made my mind yet as to which of Opera or Firefox I prefer. Although Opera is supposed to be faster than Firefox, it looks to me that Firefox loads some sites faster than Opera (I don't have a specific example, and it might just be an impression). So I still use both.

Here's one for ya.  In CentOS 5.2, with opera beta 10 and FF3. 
I go to the Linksys site.  If I go to choose the time, the drop down box won't work properly in opera.  I have to use firefox.

However, once I'm at the item, if, for example, I want to download firmware, *that* won't work in firefox.  Instead, I have to copy the url and open it in opera to download.

As has been said, some sites are better with one, others with the other. As FF is so popular, many developers make sure that their site works with it.

With opera, its more standards compliant, so I've heard.  (As in, "I saw it somewhere on the Internet, it MUST be true.")  Regardless, it seems to have trouble with more sites than does FF.

I think much of it is a matter of personal taste.

Last edited by scottro (2008-12-29 22:28:41)

Its not for every browser, but look here:

http://www.firefoxfacts.com/2008/09/22/ … m-firefox/

Last edited by anonymous (2008-12-30 20:27:00)

Conky and Openbox

Simple, minimalistic, clean, easily configurable, and light. Reminds me of Linux

Geany editor
Firefox
Gwibber
Gimp and Inkscape
Irssi
Calcurse
Newsbeuter
Deluge
Conky
Claws mail

And openbox of course.

(g)vim, bash, svn, kdiff3, ssh, bzr, konqueror, ...

Without listing everything installed, I'd say:

Edited to make foom happy

Music:
moc
Runs in the background, don't need an interface to listen.  Tons of plugins.  Two that do it for me are lastfm scrobblin' and being able to control it through irssi

FTP:
ncFTP
FTP client for the terminal, what's not to like?

IRC:
irssi
Best IRC client I've ever used, tons of useful plugins

File Manager:
Thunar
Lightweight and just the right amount of features

Last.fm Radio:
Shell-fm
The same(and more) features as the official client but ran in the terminal

Text Editor:
gEdit
When nano isn't enough and bluefish is too much

Last edited by dannytatom (2009-01-12 22:43:12)

Oh, I love this kind of threads, it opens for possibilities to change to even better apps that you've never heard of before. This kind of threads also opens for spreading of good software that isn't very famous... yet.

Well, here's my list.

urxvt, as a terminal console. It's simple, config-able, and supports utf-8 (for us with different alphabetical issues.)

Irssi+bitlbee, for chatting. Irssi is a very good irc-client. I like the interface and the possibility to make it themeable. Bitlbee for using msn throught irssi. I don't need a big fat client for chatting in msn, and bitlbee is perfect in all ways, without that it doesn't support filetransfers, but I can solve that in other ways.

rtorrent, my first frequently used console-application. Since I first used deluge and other linux torrentclients it's been my only choice. rtorrent is the only one comparable with mikro/u-torrent in windows.

mpd+mpc+ncmpc, music client. It's nice to be able to shut off the interface but still have the music. If I log out mpd still plays the music. Also there's a lot of possibilities. I've mapped some keys to pause the music throught mpc, which is awesome! Also ncmpc has a clean interface.

Firefox+vimperator, I use this as web browser, which is perfect for those who doesn't want to use the mouse. Make everything with your keyboard, and still have adblock plus and other addons. I like opera too very much, been using both of them frequently, but vimperator makes firefox better.

And at last, my window manager: wmii. It makes the mouseless computing much easier, because all windows puts themselves where I want them very quickly. And it is good for using the entire monitor.

gedit - so i can edit conky..

1) Openbox
Just cause I was disappointed with everything else (either too heavy/bloated or too minimalistic/lacking features) Not to say OB is perfect, it is just a comfortable compromise.

2) FF or Opera: I go back and forth. I think of myself as an Opera fan, but sometimes I will end up using FF (like when flash has a fit in opera) and stick with it for a week or two. In general though, Opera seems more clean and polished IMHO. And they got a huge +1 with the addition of spellchecking. 

(speaking of flash: Does anyone have experience with swfdc--however you spell it--or gnash? specifically a) do they work with most sites and b) are they more stable than flashplugin? I get so feed up with flash when it randomly starts sucking 100% CPU.)

3) Geany: It it fast to load and it works well for what i need it for (I love the run button up top)

4) Skype

5) conkey: I like to know how my baby's doing

6) thunar: I tried pcmanfm and I wasn't really impressed. I don't remember why, but there were some definite can't-work-with-that-bug/without-that-feature moments for me. And Thunar is fast and does pretty much everything. Although It can have issues from time to time (takes forever loading a directory that should pop right up, and sometimes runs my CPU up too 100% when i leave several instances open a long time) but they are rare and usually easily dealt with.

7) xterm: no bells or whistles, just a plain, get-the-job-done terminal.

8) OOo Writer: I'm a student, and a capable word processor is a must have. I tried abiword, but i was unimpressed by some of it's issues (like screwing up word wrap in .doc s that people sent me, some missing features).  Unfortunately, the spell check doesn't work on OOo on my comp, and I do need to figure out what the problem is with that, but other than that, it  is great.

9) mirage/evince: they let me view the files i need to see

10) rythembox. I've never been the biggest fan (I used to love WinAmp) but i haven't found anything better, and it works for the moment. I wish the UI were nicer

11) Totem: I also use VLC when something doesn't play in Totem but I like the whole F11 fullscreen, spacebar pause thing.

12) deluge: It works. And it's addicting to watch. Or maybe I'm just obsessive. I've been meaning to try transmission but haven't bothered yet