List your favourite free software for Linux

Khannie

There was a thread like this on the computers board a while ago. It was very successful. Basically, you give the name of the software, a linky where relevant, and what it does. I'm doing this for selfish reasons, because I want to know all the good stuff that's out there

If enough people respond, I'll put it all together in one big list.

My faves:
apt - automated tool for installing / upgrading packages and dependencies. Great for noobs like me.
kwrite - notepad like text editor for the windows heads out there. Comes with KDE. "gedit" is similar in gnome.
mozilla - web browser
mythtv - TV viewing / recording software ("apt-get install mythtv-suite"). You need mysql, and other stuff to use this properly. See this excellent howto aimed at Fedora Core.
synaptic - GUI frontend for apt ("apt-get install synaptic")
yahoo messenger - instant messenger

That should be enough to get the ball rolling.....

<edit>I'm looking for something similar to norton ghost for linux...if anyone knows of such a thing, please shout. Thanks.</edit>

scojones

OpenOffice
KDevelop
mplayer
firefox
gaim
apache
openssh

Enygma

Tomboy - Note taking applet with wiki style links v. handy (http://www.beatniksoftware.com)
Beagle - Search Everything (http://www.gnome.org/projects/beagle)
Synaptic (it's ok, anyone got anything better?)
Blam - RSS feed reader
Monodevelop
Eclipse
Rythmbox

pickarooney

Never got rhythmbox to work, must have another go at it, as I've yet to find a decent music player for linux.

The Gimp - image manipulation
Ogle - DVD player
Kopete - MSN/AIM/Yahoo/ICQ client

TenLeftFingers

Just went through my list of most commonly used apps, and scrapped those that were mentioned already:

KDevelop
Limewire
gxmame
BitchX
gkrellm
pingus - lemmings clone
kaffeine
xspect - Spectrum ZX emulator
skype - free calls to other skype users, and cheap calls to land lines.
kwifimanager
scribus - very professional DTP app.
KGet - excellent download manager
amarok
blender

Rambo

ghost for linux
https://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l have not tried it yet

my fav
K3b http://www.k3b.org/ cd burning software made easy
mozilla
FIrefox 1.0
KDE
apache
mysql
phpnuke http://phpnuke.org/ News Board
webmin http://www.webmin.com/ control you linux box with a web broswer
wine http://www.winehq.com/ emulate windows works great for me
yum http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/ updates works like apt-get
mplayer http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/news.html
orgle : one of the best DVD player
gimp
ssh ,scp
java runtime
bash shell
dosemu
samba
vi

My fav site for software http://www.linux.org/apps/
http://www.wwits.net/linuxapps/

Ste-

Firefox
Thunderbird
Mplayer
Xmms
X-chat
Azureus

All i can think of at the minute.

nadir

--- only listing liberally licenced open source software ---

love sources : extreme & stable vanilla hack
zsh/bash : funky console interfaces
g++ : well, not going to do much on gentoo without that
celestia : astronomy package : one of the greatest open source applications available(requires opengl). BUMP :cool:
blender : awesome 3D development kit
alsa : high quality audio drivers.
vim : console junkey (mutt etc.)
xorg : freedesktop.org X env.
fluxbox(cvs) : lightweight window manager, in c , extreme customization
torsmo(cvs) : system monitor for x , draws to root window.
xfe : windows explorer clone , yes j00 heard right windows explorer, and it rox... harder than rox.
mplayer : one stop player/encoder (mencoder)
xvid(1.+) : best codec around
ogmtools : vbr audio encoder and editing tools for audio video / dvd packaging
beep-media-player(cvs) : gtk2 rewritre of xmms, with lib-visual as a viualisation framework
mpd : console music, better than mp3blaster imo
galleon : fast powerfull web browser (fast)
wget/curl : hardcoer web downloading tools
ncftp : best ftp client around, excellent for use in shell scripts
openssh : secure socket layer for encryted transmission of files/data
gpg : encryption (using blowfish preferably)
btdownloadheadless.py : console bit-torrent python script
irssi : irc client similar to bitchx , written from scratch, no bugs.
cube : awesome fps multiplayer frag fest with a killer sound track.

and portage of course wherever that fits in amongst things.

Khannie

Rambo wrote:

ghost for linux
https://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l have not tried it yet

Nice one. Thanks!

Fair play to the rest of you, this is turning into a decent list now.

I'll put it all together in one list in another few days (once it's been viewed enough).

forgot to add myself:
xmame - emulator
kemulator - xmame frontend for kde

nadir

aye, leave it build up for a while before making that list, it's a good idea this thread, there are similar posts over on the gentoo forums, but more specific, i.e post desktop eye candy application /// post favourite games /// post favourite file sharing utilitys .etc

maybe it would be good to catagorise them some how too - the list could get very big indeed.

parasite

downloader 4 X - file downloader
tvtime - the best tv viewer
filelight - sexy looking graphical representation of du
xfce - nice desktop environment
...

rob1891

no one has mentioned:

- VLC http://www.videolan.org/ - is a nice cross platform media player
- valgrind http://valgrind.kde.org/ - does memory analysis of your code, finds bugs you haven't even encountered yet ... depending on how rigorous your testing is

Ste-

Maybe make it into a wiki entry on boards "biki" ?

nadir

rob1891 wrote:

no one has mentioned:

- VLC http://www.videolan.org/ - has played things mplayer would not play for me

like what, I still havnt found anything mplayer cant play, and i've been using it for a good 6+ years

rob1891

Well, now that I think about it, it was on a mac which isn't exactly linux and is only a port not supported a whole lot and was no where near stable! That got me to install vlc everywhere else (it goes on almost anything!) and I've not had any reason to stop using it.

tomk

Most of mine are already here, but I'll say xfce again - I've just installed 4.2RC1 and it's good.

Also openswan - excellent IPSEC implementation.

mambo50

rsync

Enygma

Muine is a fairly nice little music player. (http://muine.gooeylinux.org/)
It's early days yet for it I'd say but some of the features are really cool. It'll automatically get the album cover image from the web for one thing.

Some of the Mono stuff going on right now is really cool.
Dashboard (http://www.nat.org/dashboard/) could be a real essential if support for it grows.

ishnid

Off the top of my head, that haven't been mentioned already
grip
emacs (who said vim? Bah!)
abiword (sooo much nicer than OOo)
wxGlade
Gnome (bloatware? I don't really care TBH)
cron
webmake