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Posted: 6/10/2009 9:11:26 AM | What are some of the most essential apps/utilities you think is needed for unix/linux environment? Why?
Here are a few of mine:
Unix/Linux Flavor
Server - Solaris or Ubuntu
Desktop - Kubuntu
Browser
Firefox or Google's Chrome
Office Software
OpenOffice
Backup Software
Unison
Web Development
Bluefish
IDE
ActiveState Komodo...Actually, I dig the entire ActiveState suite of products
Imaging Software
GIMP
Instant Messaging
Pidgin
eMail
Thunderbird
Multimedia
Audacity (this rocks, seriously!!!)
Brasero
K3B
DeVeDe
MPlayer
P2P
Vuze
aMule
FileZilla (FTP)
Other
WINE
LAMP (Apache, MySQL, PHP)
Perl (Scripting)
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Posted: 6/11/2009 8:28:18 AM | Unix/Linux Flavor
Server - Debian(apt beats yum), RHEL, CentOS(same as RHEL but free), Solaris 10, OpenSolaris (When its ready for a REAL release, they got Ian Murdock we can only hope for aptSolaris and some better creative support)
Desktop - Gnome, KDE, JavaDesktop(lmao),
Browser
Firefox and Opera
Office Software
OpenOffice
Web Development
VIM, gedit
IDE
Eclipse, Geany, Anjuta
Imaging Software
GIMP
ImageMagick
Instant Messaging
GAIM i mean Pidgin
eMail
Thunderbird
Multimedia
K3B
Exaile(gdk)
Amarok(qt)
P2P
Torrent
Other
LAMP (Apache, MySQL, PHP)
SAMP (solaris, apache, mysql, perl/php)
Perl (Scripting)
Python
BASH (I'm a tab addict)
SSH
filezilla
samba
And most importantly
NIBBLES | |
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| UNIX/Linux Utilities / Apps
Posted: 6/11/2009 2:28:17 PM |
***Fedora 11 is now available & Wow...Very Nice!***
Server/Desktop/Live:
Server - CentOS & VMWare w/IDS&IPS&Other Appliances
Desktop - Fedora, openSUSE, Debian, Ubuntu Remix
Live- BackTrack, NST, DSL, Puppy, GParted & occasionally FreeBSD/OpenSolaris
Browser:
Firefox w/NoScript
elinks (text)
Office:
OpenOffice, Scribus
Backup:
.tar.gz
Image:
GIMP, FSpot
IM:
Pidgin, GYachE, aMSN
EMail:
Evolution
Multimedia:
VLC ,Miro,Songbird, Last.FM
Other:
Perl,vi & nano
Snort, Nessus, NMap, Wireshark, ... | |
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Posted: 6/11/2009 6:09:03 PM | You definitely need elinks or lynx as one of your browsers, very helpful when you somehow manage to break X
I haven't played with Mplayer much outside of Geexbox, but VLC does a very good job of handling anything I throw at it, plus transcoding and streaming.
aMSN is pretty cool, what with it's ability to end voice clips
and yeah, being FOSS, there's a billion others that I'm probably missing out on | |
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Posted: 6/11/2009 8:03:35 PM | ...of those not mentionned:
Command Line:
alpine (e-mail)
ircii (irc)
screen (multi-tasking!)
Downloading
ktorrent (has www server w/ authentication, lets you monitor torrents from wherever.) | |
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Posted: 6/11/2009 11:07:32 PM |
Command Line:
alpine (e-mail)
ircii (irc)
screen (multi-tasking!)
OMG, people still use IRC?!!! I didn't know that. That's like the punchcard of chatting. How secure is that, anyways? | |
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Posted: 6/12/2009 2:34:13 AM |
OMG, people still use IRC?!!! I didn't know that. That's like the punchcard of chatting. How secure is that, anyways?
it's not. But it's used a lot as an adjunct to a lot of technical mailing lists, for both support and development discussion for many open source projects. | |
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Posted: 6/12/2009 5:30:11 PM | PC Linux OS
Inkscape
The GIMP
Xara Xtreme
Bluefish
Screem
Kompozer
Amarok
Fire Fox (Chrome if they ever release it for Linux)
Compz Fusion
Kopete | |
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Posted: 6/12/2009 7:24:12 PM |
OMG, people still use IRC?!!! I didn't know that. That's like the punchcard of chatting. How secure is that, anyways?
Yes people still use it. It's painless group instant chatting, and nothing has come to replace it over the years.
As for security, I'm not sure what you'd expect. Standard IMs are sent in cleartext, so its not like they would fare better. As for user authentication, schemes are provided (nickserv), but it's not like it was ever really needed. | |
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Posted: 6/12/2009 7:41:48 PM | Ubuntu Gnome Standard
Firefox
Rhythmbox, AmaRok 2 is a no-go :(
Pidgin
VLC
Abiword for word processing, OpenOffice for everything else
Conky :)
Transmission for bit-torrenting, I used to use Deluge, but after a hairy upgrade experience I started using Transmission
Also tilda, its a drop down command shell
I have a 1 TB fileserver in the basement, uses openNas I think, not connected for a while, having prollems with the Raid Array...
Thats about all I can think of.
Oh, and I need to get a better TV card, I bought a DTV tuner, but of course its not linux compatible... even though I read it was. Boo. | |
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Posted: 6/12/2009 7:46:04 PM |
Yes people still use it. It's painless group instant chatting, and nothing has come to replace it over the years.
As for security, I'm not sure what you'd expect. Standard IMs are sent in cleartext, so its not like they would fare better. As for user authentication, schemes are provided (nickserv), but it's not like it was ever really needed.
Wow, I suppose I learn something new each day. I think I was like in kindergarten when IRC was being used heavily. Somehow, it stopped being used as much. Every firewall I've EVER used blocked IRC traffic. One of my coworkers told me that it's because too much information either is transmitted via IRC or obtained via IRC. I'm not sure why, but I know there are security implications of using IRC. Anyone know? I guess I can look it up... | |
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Posted: 6/12/2009 7:46:58 PM | | PS: Anyone know what the heck "nibbles" is? LOL, everytime I look it up, i pull up, um...questionable content. Haha. | |
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Joined: 4/23/2009
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Posted: 6/13/2009 1:05:02 AM |
Nibbles is a simple video game and variant of the similar video game Snake, .......(more)........
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibbles_computer_game
not sure what he is talking(typing) about but google says its a video game.
I have a 1 TB fileserver in the basement, uses openNas I think, not connected for a while, having prollems with the Raid Array...
Oh, and I need to get a better TV card, I bought a DTV tuner, but of course its not linux compatible... even though I read it was. Boo.
I think there are some good software/hardware troubleshooters here on PoF if you care to share more info on problems.
>Google "DTV tuner linux ubuntu " # Over-the-Air Digital TV with Linux In my quest to understand the state of digital TV (DTV) on Linux, I looked at digital TV tuner cards, antennas and accessories. I chose to set up MythTV, ... www.linuxjournal.com/article/10078 - Cached - Similar # Getting Started with a TV Tuner Card Installing and using the Hauppauge WinTV Radio card to watch television, listen to the radio and more. www.linuxjournal.com/article/8116 - Cached - Similar # Video capture card - MythTV Most cards include a tuner to capture an specific TV signal (called 'tuner cards'). .... Winfast DTV Dongle Gold ( works with af9015 driver being developed ) .... of these cards do NOT work under Linux because of a different tuner. ... www.mythtv.org/wiki/Tuner_Card - Cached - Similar # Anyone have any recommendations on a Digital TV Tuner card for ... It's almost like what you'd get if a Slingbox were merged with a digital TV tuner card. It's a small box with dual-ATSC tuners (no analog) and an 100-Mbit ... askville.amazon.com/recommendations-Digital-TV-Tuner-card-Linux-System-Fedora-Athlon-1800%2B-1GB.../AnswerViewer.do?... - Cached - Similar # USB digital TV tuner roundup USB digital TV tuner roundup. trustedreviews.com — There was a time when adding a ... -0/+11If you're looking for a USB DVB-T tuner for GNU/Linux then the ... digg.com/hardware/USB_digital_TV_tuner_roundup - Cached - Similar # Puppy Linux Discussion Forum :: View topic - Digital TV tuner ... 15 posts - 3 authors - Last post: Sep 22, 2007 EDIT: IVTV drivers for the Hauppauge "PVR" TV tuner cards, compatible with Puppy 2.17 are attached later in this thread. ... www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=16727 - Cached - Similar # windows mediacenter 3 DTV tuner installation MCE2005 8 posts - Last post: Nov 8, 2008 3 DTV tuner installation MCE2005 - Bo. 08-Nov-08 02  01 ... 2) Windows MCE 2005 3) Something called "MythTV" that runs on Linux ... www.eggheadcafe.com/software/aspnet/33438747/3-dtv-tuner-installation.aspx - Cached - Similar | |
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Posted: 6/13/2009 1:28:52 AM |
You definitely need elinks or lynx as one of your browsers, very helpful when you somehow manage to break X
yeah,..& also nice to be able to surf if you don't have gui on server.
for broken x, there should be old .conf file with previous x config (lives here in ubuntu: /etc/X11/xorg.conf) | |
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Posted: 6/13/2009 1:43:45 AM |
PS: Anyone know what the heck "nibbles" is? LOL, everytime I look it up, i pull up, um...questionable content. Haha.
do you mean a Nibble ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibble | |
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Posted: 6/13/2009 10:01:43 PM |
Wow, I suppose I learn something new each day. I think I was like in kindergarten when IRC was being used heavily. Somehow, it stopped being used as much. Every firewall I've EVER used blocked IRC traffic. One of my coworkers told me that it's because too much information either is transmitted via IRC or obtained via IRC. I'm not sure why, but I know there are security implications of using IRC. Anyone know? I guess I can look it up...
Enterprise firewalls may block it for a few reasons. For one, chatting is in most circumstances innapropriate use of company time. For another, some older botnets coordinate over regular IRC channels. Since chatting is an innapropriate use of company time anyways, blocking it off entirely could be seen as an enhancement to security.
No home firewall product will block it by default. | |
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Posted: 6/13/2009 10:02:54 PM |
PS: Anyone know what the heck "nibbles" is? LOL, everytime I look it up, i pull up, um...questionable content. Haha.
Half a byte. | |
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Posted: 6/13/2009 10:34:10 PM |
No home firewall product will block it by default.
Yes, i have a home firewall and it does block it by default. That's why I asked. I've only worked w/ firewalls in the workplace in our development environment. When we build our development environment, it's out of the box. We configure everything ourselves. So, yea, I'm can't agree w/ ya on that part.
Also, from what I hear from earlier post, IRC isn't used only for chatting. And chatting isn't prohibited, but encouraged at my job. No one calls each other anymore, we hit each other up on IM. OR, if we can't find anyone on IM, we email. If we don't get a timely reply, we put a meeting on they're calendar or text them. Wow, work has become so inpersonal. Haha.
So, yea.... | |
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Posted: 6/13/2009 10:36:04 PM |
Half a byte.
I got a reply, apparently it's a game of some sort. I don't think he would've referred to a half a byte in the context of this thread, since it's about apps/utilities. But, I dunno, he may of been. Haha. | |
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Posted: 6/15/2009 12:45:26 AM | Gentoo
Vim
Firefox
OpenOffice
gcc
Octave
Gimp
Blender
Inkscape
Scribus
Dia
Ardour
Audacity
K3B
vlc
For entertainment:
Stellarium
TuxPaint (when the niece was younger)
Scorched3D
X-Plane (commercial)
Oh, and I need to get a better TV card, I bought a DTV tuner, but of course its not linux compatible... even though I read it was. Boo.
I haven't had any problems with my HDHomeRun from SiliconDust (silicondust.com). It's a standalone product that delivers full resolution HDTV over ethernet, so there aren't the usual hardware driver issues you tend to get with Linux. The GUI could be nicer, but all-in-all I've been very impressed with the quality and compatibility of the product. Full-screen 1080p HDTV on my widescreen LCD monitor is nice! Uses about 10% of my quad-core for decoding at 1920x1080 resolution. | |
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Posted: 6/17/2009 12:40:27 PM | I got into Linux since I wanted to play with; Geographic Resources Analysis Support System or GRASS GIS back in the mid 90's. I have used RH, SUSE, Mandrake, Slackware, Debian etc...and now I use Kubuntu.
Gotta love Tux Racer! | |
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Posted: 6/17/2009 8:53:27 PM | | half a byte is also known as a nibble. im serious... it's four bits. look it up | |
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Posted: 6/17/2009 8:59:36 PM | Linux Mint.. 
Pre-installed with ALMOST everything I use on a regular basis.. Plus many extras that to toy around with when I'm bored.. | |
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Joined: 4/23/2009
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Posted: 6/18/2009 12:21:04 AM | Bit,Nibble, Byte 
half a byte is also known as a nibble. im serious... it's four bits. look it up
I believe you, The word was 'Nibbles' and since the topic/thread is about 'UNIX/Linux Utilities / Apps' I think he was referring to a video game. | |
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