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jeebusroxors

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Registered: 2005-10-26

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Re: Must Have Packages

Ill go ahead and clarify (and perhaps I should have posted in the newbie area). Lets say someone has just installed Arch, now theyre sitting here thinking, wow this is one of the best distros out there. And look at this, pacman. I wonder what cool stuff is out there.

WMs, ftp clients, terms etc etc.

Good list so far though.

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shadowhand

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From: MN, USA

Registered: 2004-02-19

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Re: Must Have Packages

Why zsh and eterm? Ok, they can do more than bash and aterm, but aren´t they still full of bugs?

Because they can do more than bash and aterm. I've never had either of them crash on me.

Zsh is also wonderful because it's autocompletion is FAR superior to bash's. I like Eterm because It Just Works (tm), although I used to be an urxvt fan, though.

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Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

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Re: Must Have Packages

urxvt > (eterm || aterm)

dtw

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From: UK

Registered: 2004-08-03

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Re: Must Have Packages

urxvt > (eterm || aterm)

Can we cease with the petty flamewarage?!  I don't care who started it!

smoon

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Registered: 2005-08-22

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Re: Must Have Packages

urxvt > (eterm || aterm)

Righty right, but Eterm is quite nice as well. The only thing that really sucks about Eterm is its lack of .Xdefaults/.Xresources support. Configuring it through some mysterious themes does not feel right somehow.

Cam

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From: Brisbane, Aus

Registered: 2004-12-21

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Re: Must Have Packages

· feh (not a popular choice but great )

Says who? I use feh for all my image viewing, why load GIMP or even something like gthumb when feh is there instantly and is super cool

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dtw

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From: UK

Registered: 2004-08-03

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Re: Must Have Packages

Combined with rox you can get great right-click on dir slideshows

jerem

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From: France

Registered: 2005-01-15

Posts: 310

Re: Must Have Packages

My must-have programs are :

elinks
ssh
vsftpd
zsh
vim
firefox
acpi
xine
fortune
nedit
rox

iBertus

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From: Greenville, NC

Registered: 2004-11-04

Posts: 2,228

Re: Must Have Packages

My favorites are as follows:

+ rox
+ gaim
+ gimp
+ fluxbox-svn
+ mplayer-cvs
+ rxvt-unicode-cvs
+ firefox
+ adesklets
+ lftp
+ graveman
+ asunder
+ audacious

and many, many more that I just can't remember right now!

cactus

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Registered: 2004-05-25

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Re: Must Have Packages

vim
openssh
ruby
python
firefox
gaim
irssi

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jakob

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From: Berlin

Registered: 2005-10-27

Posts: 430

Re: Must Have Packages

pacman (lol) + qpkg
vim
mpd/c
fluxbox
opera
urxvt
lftp
irssi
gaim

phrakture

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Registered: 2003-10-29

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Re: Must Have Packages

pacman (lol) + qpkg

aurbuild is a nice one too

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Aer

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From: Paris

Registered: 2005-12-03

Posts: 45

Re: Must Have Packages

my favorites are :

+ vim
+ cat/sed/grep/awk
+ firefox
+ evolution
+ xchat
+ vlc

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iBertus

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From: Greenville, NC

Registered: 2004-11-04

Posts: 2,228

Re: Must Have Packages

I also like evolution but can't manage to make it past the fact that an entire GNOME install is required to make it run.

deficite

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From: Augusta, GA

Registered: 2005-06-02

Posts: 693

Re: Must Have Packages

openoffice-base
python
ogre-cvs
gcc

Neuro

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From: Poland

Registered: 2005-10-12

Posts: 352

Re: Must Have Packages

bash
firefox
vim
ssh
amarok
konsole
gcc
kadu/gnugadu (Gadu-Gadu network clients)
pacman
digikam

ingvildr

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From: Brighton, England

Registered: 2005-04-19

Posts: 203

Re: Must Have Packages

gcc
pacman
vim
kernel26
rc.conf (not a package but something i cant live without )

Marco`

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From: Schoorl, The Netherlands

Registered: 2005-11-27

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Re: Must Have Packages

pacman
vim
aterm
screen
openbox
feh
adesklets
gaim
firefox
thunderbird
GIMP
audacious
tvtime
gtkpod

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jesus franco

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From: PA, USA

Registered: 2005-05-17

Posts: 68

Re: Must Have Packages

qpkg
cvs
subversion
Opera
Rhythmbox
gtk-engines cvs
cairo cvs
gedit
gimp cvs
inkscape cvs
gaim cvs (shadowhand's build)
openoffice2
abiword cvs
mplayer cvs (dibble's build)
bmpx-cvs (dibble's build)

gunnix

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Registered: 2005-11-11

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Re: Must Have Packages

This is what I find necessary:

-screen
-vim
-irssi (or weechat)
-elinks
-aterm (seems to be lightest terminal emulator with transparency)
-feh and xzgv
-emelfm
-abiword (for my mom and brother)
-icewm and ratpoison (sometimes I like to start ratpoison, sometimes icewm)
-graphical browsers: links2, dillo, opera, firefox (yea 4! that's because I'm not really pleased with any of them)
-music: cplay in console, xmms graphical. I tried mpd but it used to much cpu, although I like the ncurses cplay like interface of mpd. It seemed quite overkill for my needs.
-muttng
-mplayer

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klapmuetz

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From: Germany

Registered: 2005-03-19

Posts: 75

Re: Must Have Packages

Well, even though nobody cares:

- ruby (language of choice, the irb(!) and xmp-evaluation[vim} is just fantastic)
- (g)vim-devel (man I love this editor)
- screen (seriously, because of screen I switched to linux in the first place.)
- irssi (24/7 support, ha you wish.)
- mplayer (a man needs his media)
- mutt-devel (the mailclient that just sucks less)
- urxvt (nice term, thanks for this forum to pointing it out)
- zsh (I pity da fools that use bash)
- openssh (no comment)
- loop-aes (paranoia)
- gnupg (security is important, aight.)
- wget (great piece of software)
- fvwm (the mutt of windowmanager)
- firefox [with bookmark synchronizer plugin. For the first time since 0.6 I like the browser again.)
- lighttpd / webdav (well, you need a place to put stuff )

Man, I'm really bored. What is with this holiday crap anyway. :-P

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iBertus

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From: Greenville, NC

Registered: 2004-11-04

Posts: 2,228

Re: Must Have Packages

Just thought of a few more that I use on a semi-daily basis:

+ synce
+ wine
+ openoffice
+ DOOM ]|[

Mr.Elendig

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Registered: 2004-11-07

Posts: 4,097

Re: Must Have Packages

I use a lot of the abowe mentioned, but I'm compleatly hooked on one small app that hasn't been mentioned yet:
[url=http://tilda.sourceforge.net/]tilda
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(I want it in current NOW!)

Btw. welcome to the future year of 2006. Where are all the holografic terminals and brain inplats?

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Komodo

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From: Oxford, UK

Registered: 2005-11-03

Posts: 674

Re: Must Have Packages

:arrow:  figlet - for screenies, it's essential
:arrow:  vim - even if it's not your code editor, it's still v useful
:arrow:  mpd (+ ncmpc)
:arrow:  weechat
:arrow:  centericq
:arrow:  firefox
:arrow:  lftp
:arrow:  feh
:arrow:  wikidPad -> get your life in order with this personal wiki
:arrow:  urxvt + *inheritPixmap: True

...but my Numero Uno absolutely ESSENTIAL app has to be Screen - I couldn't live without it; it's every CLI fanboy's wet dream

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tomfitzyuk

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Registered: 2005-12-30

Posts: 89

Re: Must Have Packages

Vim
Screen
CenterICQ
Orpheus (command-line based MP3 playlist player, front-end for a given MP3 Player such as mpg321)
Irssi

Firefox
OpenOffice
Kopete
XMMS/amaroK