I got lots of emails from people asking me what are my favourite apps to install after I get a new Linux box up and running, so here they are:
1. Emesene - has support for MSN Plus nickname decoding, unlike Pidgin.
2. FileZilla - better than gFTP, can use it on my Mac OS X, XP and Linux box. Export/import your settings, and you’re good to go.
3. Mono and Paint.Mono - I hate the GIMP, but I don’t hate Freedom! So I take the middle road.
4. VLC - plays almost everything, be it sound or video. Screw Totem and Rhythmbox, this is all I need.
5. JDarkroom- my text editor of choice: a simple, full-screen editor. I don’t know why I’m so addicted to it. You can use Pyroom if you don’t like/have Java.
6. GTK Record My Desktop - If I’m making a screen-cast, this is my app of choice (GTK- stands for the GTK frontend, and recordmydesktop is the actual app, so there are many other versions too). It can record both video and sound and provides a high-quality OGG output.
7. Wine - Sometimes you just need it.
8. Google Earth - When you’re preparing to go to a foreign country or a place you don’t know, it’s much better to use Google Earth than a map. You see what the landscape looks like.
9. Kino & Cinelerra - Kino is a very decent app for making simple home videos and stuff. Cinelerra is of the more powerful type, as long as you’re OK with the interface you can do video-editing-magic. Believe me.
10. GNOME Bluetooth apps - I often transfer videos and images from my cellphone. The Bluetooth app packages that are part of the GNOME project are pretty fine for my needs.
May 10th, 2008 at 14:44
I think you hate the gimp. That is unless you actually hat the gimp.
May 10th, 2008 at 15:05
i’m not sure; he seems pretty sure that he hats it.
i mean, who doesn’t hat the gimp?
May 10th, 2008 at 15:08
Niggaz be @ my blog,
correctin my grammar
May 10th, 2008 at 15:21
“correcting my spelling.” There fixed that for you… Ha ha, just kidding, nice list.
May 10th, 2008 at 15:34
to replace paint.net you can test Inkscape
May 11th, 2008 at 03:37
Is Paint.Mono still in active development? Does it work?
May 11th, 2008 at 04:44
YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
JDARKRoom ‘SUSKS’ MONKEY BALLS
It is hoorid
i had to close my Eyesssssssssss
O they burn now!
JUST USE OPEN OFFICE
May 12th, 2008 at 00:28
Here are the ones I install:
tree - Great for finding directories quickly. Not always installed by default.
nedit - Good editor with syntax highlighting.
realplayer, helix, nsplugin and Adobe flash - BBC 6music is streamable worldwide and I need all of those to listen to it.
pan - Best newsreader I have found yet.
k3b - One of the best cd/dvd burner programs.
scribus - Good page layout program.
Inkscape - Very nice vector graphics.
nmap and nmapfe - Checking for open ports is a good thing.
wireshark - One of the best tools to diagnose network problems.
yumex - I use an RPM based distro (Fedora). It makes finding and installing apps easy and painless. Synaptic is pretty good for Debian based distros. You want the search feature.
Those are the immediate things that come to mind.
May 12th, 2008 at 17:30
That’s an interesting list, Alan. Thanks for sharing!
May 13th, 2008 at 10:03
You may want to consider Krita from KOffice.
I make a lot of small graphics buttons, wallpapers and the like, and GIMP is more suitable (and, indeed, intended) for photo editing than creating graphics.
As for the editor (okay, everybody has an opinion on that), consider playing with Medit (http://mooedit.sourceforge.net/). It has a nice right-side file picker and a terminal at the bottom - nice for script testing. I have a screencast (made also with RecordMyDesktop, by the way) at http://syntaktisk.dk/downloads/medit.ogv .
May 13th, 2008 at 11:11
this app aren’t my top 10 but also good choice.
May 13th, 2008 at 17:40
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May 14th, 2008 at 07:15
The sad thing is I thin GIMP is the only thing on your list that I’ve actually used. I need to get with the times hehe
May 23rd, 2008 at 07:48
You can try Medibuntu. ( http://www.medibuntu.org )
Medibuntu contain a package of software from A to Z that for Ubuntu.
June 14th, 2008 at 18:10
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August 26th, 2008 at 17:02
My apps:
Konversation ( I m addicted to irc and Pidgin just ain’t good enough for that)
K3b
Mplayer and the great frontend called Smplayer
Supertuxcart and Frozen bubble (gotta have a little fun every now and then)
Acetoneiso2,pretty much handles every iso file using a nice gui
and Deluge,my torrent client of choice.
August 27th, 2008 at 04:10
At this point I only have one suggestion:
glipper : A GTK clipboard manager.
While it still has some way to go, it beats having to hunt down every little bit of text I’ve copied before. With some more effort it might acquire the feature set of ClipX, another program made for Windows
August 28th, 2008 at 17:15
Perhaps because I don’t use it as my main desktop, but there are two essential little apps:
ssh
Vim
I can’t believe Ubuntu doesn’t have ssh installed, and then they go and put a kneecapped version of Vim in!!
January 25th, 2009 at 08:51
Thanks for sharing! but i never used Linux before