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Essential Linux Apps

  • 23-03-2002 12:22pm
    #1
    daveirl
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  • #2
    dahamsta
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    ... I'd use it more but every time I install a distro even the minimal install includes literally hundreds of programs I'll never use.

    You can delete a rake of them dave. It can be tricky to decide which, but an awful lot of packages in default installs are quite obviously not needed - just open your RPM client and file through it. Alternatively, do a custom install.

    a CD burning app

    Never used one on Linux, but cdrecord is the defacto standard. It will be in the distro.

    MP3 player

    I've always found xmms just fine for MP3. Again, it should be bundled.

    text editor

    Matter of personal taste really. The main two are vi and emacs. I prefer emacs, but tbh I use pico most of the time. If you want only very basic text editing, pico is fine.

    photoshop equivalent

    Is there anything that comes even close to the gimp on Linux?

    FTP client

    I use command line ftp on Linux, I don't know about graphical clients.

    Web Browser

    Again, a matter of personal choice. I like Konqueror, but I find its handling of TEXTAREA's very annoying, so I tend to use Mozilla most of the time.

    HTH,
    adam


  • #3
    Typedef
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    Personally the bloat that can come with some of the more 'user friendly' distrobutions is one of the reasons that I kind of moved away from them....

    I suppose it's all down to what you really require.
    A few decent command line editors maybe something like blackbox, WindowMaker and enlightenment.
    Mostly I don't use Gnome or Kde, both in my opinion run needlessly bloated and slow, I guess that is a matter of personal opinion.

    I do use Galeon in Slackware and Kmail in every one of my distros that I have it installed on, so I guess you could say that in a way I do use both Gnome and KDE?

    Apps.
    Xcdroast
    Xine
    Mplayer
    Galeon
    Mozilla
    Glimmer
    Vim
    Jed
    Xmms
    Gimp
    *boggle* I must use other ones..... Konqueror on occasion I suppose...........
    Actually I wonder what the fsck is all that space on my partitions actually doing for me?

    Anyhoo, I would say if you are looking for absolute control and superior 'simplistic' configurability use FreeBSD, for what you do with your system it would seem like a quasi-logical choice else join us in Slackware country .

    Yes FreeBSD for the reason that you might find a whole load of stuff in /usr/ports to your liking that are not just bloated x apps, maybe obscure development tools that you may not have even realised existed and a raft of emulators that you may not have even realised ever existed. Yeah I would say if you want to reduce the bloat factor on your distrobution then it might well be worth your while considering switching to FreeBSD.
    Typedef.


  • #4
    logic1
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    Yeah I'd agree with Typedef here use FreeBSD.

    I run FreeBSD 4.5 and it allows u to totallly customize your installed components easily and relatively quickly.

    Never installs more than you ask.

    .logic.


  • #5
    dahamsta
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭dahamsta


    Well, to be fair, so do all the Linux distros. You just choose "Custom Install"... :)

    (Not that there's anything wrong with *BSD!)

    adam


  • #6
    sisob
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    most of the impression of bloat from linux is because each library is a package - it would be like each dll being a package in windows.

    I find it easier to cut down Mandrake than any other distro because it uese urpmi.

    As for the apps themselves - I'd suggest doing a massive install - test out all the software and decide for yourself. Then reinstall with just you'r favourite progs


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  • #7
    Typedef
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    The other option is Gentoo Linux.

    I mean what could be cooler for a programmer then compiling every single last binary in your distrobution optomised from your cpu and with all of your favorite compiler switches?

    I'm in the process of doing such an install right now and as far as I remember 'as the screen is in the middle of a dload so I can't check' my compiler switches are.
    -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -malign-functions=2 -malign-jumps=2 -ffast-math -mcpu=i686 -Wmissing-prototypes -m80387... but if it was using gcc 3.0 I might well compile for the athlon architecture.... as it is I suppose I will have to do with all of my binaries being optomised for the p2.
    Sniff.

    I might even tactically relocate my Slackware trolling to Gentoo trolling.... probably not though / : D


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