5 Awesome Linux Apps
Well, a lot of time has passed since my little article about the ten apps I immediately install onto a default Linux setup. And time in open source means evolution! I’ve switched to a few apps that really make my desktop experience more enjoyable because of speed, stability and beauty.
Let’s see what we got…
I’ve always been an Amarok fanboy, then I switched to GTK+ and with it to Audacious. But it has never been the same. Banshee, which is now at version 1.0, has everything you need, and MORE. Podcasts, Internet radio, album artwork, it’s just liek Amarok, only in my opinion, better, prettier and simply the best player for GNOME out there. It has integrated iPod support too. Rhythmbox is just nothing compared to Banshee.
Opera (the new one, 9.5)
Until you’ve tried he new 9.5 version of the Opera browser, you have no idea how fast the Internet can be. The Opera team did a great job, redesigning their flagship browser from both the inside and outside. Because of Qt it may look a wee bit better for you KDE folks out there, but hey, I’m using it on GNOME and it still looks slick. Oh, and Opera is now officially one of the few popular browsers which don’t lag on Digg.
It’s a mind-mapping application. What, you don’t know why you should use a mind-map? Hm, well, that’s OK with me, if you don’t want to boost your productivity for like 50%…
An open source Limewire clone, with all the functions, minus the adware/spyware/whatever other doo-doo they put into it. I’ve been searching for a stable p2p app for Linux for quite a long time, I hated aMule and gtk-gnutella-what’s-its-face was a bit too spartan for my taste. It does BitTorrent too, so there’s no need for a special client for that (or just use Opera).
It’s really hard to describe this app! Well, yeah it is an app launcher, but at the same time it’s so much more. Please check the main site, it does a good job saying what power GNOME Do gives you. And don’t let the name deceive you, it works on KDE too (didn’t test this!).
Have fun testing these cool apps out!
Great list Greg, but please update it and put transmission bittorrent client on it.
http://www.transmissionbt.com/
lightweight, GTK+, bug-free, etc
It’s a fine client, but it is already included in teh default Ubuntu distro and other GNOME 2.22-based distributions, therefore you don’t have to install it.
Plus, it’s not very good, actually – it doesn’t have a lot of featrues you egt on the Mac with the same version of Transmission. Deluge FTW
spyware free p2p clients are nice. I’m so paranoid now I have to run all those stupid applications in a disposable windows VM so i don’t risk infecting my system with crap.:(
I will agree about Opera. I love it. I use it to browse through my favorite naughty sites! Being that my computer is a family machine the history in Firefox is checked occasionally. Opera works great! Now just to get stumbleupon to it…
Great list there. @ Jill: There’s a firefox plugin called “Stealther” when installed you can toggle it with Ctrl + Shift. And while active it wont save history, recently closed tabs, cookies or cache. Then after you visit your “naughty” sites you can turn it off
Oh and btw you can hide its menu so that only by checking the firefox plugin list you can know its there.
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