What software do you use?

frank_einstien · 2006-09-04 17:17:52

Hi

I am looking for software to add to my arch install. I was used to easy availibility of s/w in windows and major distros like mandriva or debian3. Now heres my wishlist categorised:

1
System
a s/w which makes it easy to administer system.
b s/w which speeds boot process.
c s/w which speeds application.

2
Desktop
a s/w for managing a desktop
b light WMs
c widgets
d multi media
e special effects

3
Internet
a s/w which pulls content from the net into your desktop (news,comics)
b Alternative s/w in browsers, downloaders etc.
c s/w which connect to web services ( online storage, weather etc)

4
Productivity

5
Multimedia I
a PVR/media center s/w
b audio collection manager
c Image collection manager
d video colection manager

6
Multimedia II
a Image editors/ Image manipulations (anti red-eye, CD-cover maker, panoramas)
b audio editors
c video editors/extractors/stichers/transcoders

7
S/w showing off. Less said the better.

8
S/w you cant live without.

Thanks to pacman repos, I got a lot of these. But I am still looking forward to your contributions to this list.

And Please do mention your repos

Thanks

Lontronics · 2006-09-04 17:32:40

Wow, that's a long and detailed list you made

I will tell you which software I am using, not catagorised....

Blackbox, light window manager
Sylpheed, light email client
Opera, static package; fast internet browser
Gftp, ftp client
Limewire, for sharing files over the internet
Emelfm2, dual pane filemanager
Gimp, picture editor
GQview, image viewer
Xpdf, pdf viewer
GMplayer, audio/video player
Graveman, cd burner
Aumix, audio mixer
Leafpad, light text editor
Open-Office, office package
Sane/ Xsane, scanner program
Rollemup, game

That's about it
Jan

Xterm, the terminal

Echo · 2006-09-04 18:08:01

I'll respond only in part:

5.) MythTV - It's the best PVR in linux I've ever tried....Well it's the only one I've ever tried but no need to look any further. Some would say it's a bear to install and configure properly. I'd say it's worth the effort.

6. c) Transcode - Not noob friendly but it's my favorite.
Avidemux - I use it for cropping some letterboxed shows recorded with MythTV.
Tovid - I don't use it but good starting place.

Text editor - I just found Geany thanks to a couple of different recent posts here. It's exactly what I was looking for.

2.) I use Gnome for my desktop. I used to use other WM's instead but I got tired of fiddling with them. I just removed all the icons from the Gnome desktop and removed one of the panels. Then I pretend it's a lightweight desktop.

Echo

fluorite · 2006-09-04 18:11:59

1
a) vim (or any other editor with syntax highlight) + wiki pages

2
b) OpenBox (easy to configure), wmii (for advanced users)
e) conky, gDesklets

3
b) Firefox, wget (downloader), Bittorrent/Azureus <- ( but it's in java written so not very light)

5
a) mplayer, moc (music player)
b) Amarok

6
a) gimp, imagemagick

8
* any kind of terminal, especially urxvt
* jEdit - text editor with many additional plugins

tomfitzyuk · 2006-09-04 19:02:00

Maintenance
I just use vim to edit text files.

Speed Boost
None, default is fine. (Though I'm thinking of compiling a custom kernel so I don't need to use a ramdisk.

Desktop
Ion -- A lightweight, extensible, tiling window manager.

Internet
Snownews for RSS feeds.
Getmail/Mutt/msmtp for email (including mailing lists) and newsserver (well, I plan to implement this).
Irssi + Bitlbee for IRC and MSN.
Firefox for browsing.
wget for downloading files (though I usually use Firefox for downloading).
rtorrent is my torrent client, it's great.

4
Screen to manage multiple console-based apps.
Vim-latex -- A cool plugin for Vim to help when writing in LaTeX.
hnb -- A really useful hierarchical notepad which I use for a todo-list, contact list, quotes, random lists, etc. (I'm thinking of trying to implement a RSS reader in this... though that may over-complicating a simple application.
pwsafe -- Console-based application to manage most of my passwords.

Multimedia
I just organise my files well in directories (though admittadly, I prefer tagging to directories. Maybe I should start using tagutils).

Music -> mpd + ncmpc
Videos -> mplayer
PDFs -> acroread (epdfview and xpdf were both inadequate)
Image viewing -> feh

Multimedia II
I never have any need to edit images/vidoes/audio...

S/w you cant live without -- All of the above

Also, xlock, tor+privoxy (for anonymous browsing), htop and netstat for monitoring my system and cdrtools for burning CDs.

Sigi · 2006-09-06 11:29:58

1 System
a pacman, ABS, ifconfig/iwconfig - I don't need much more
b No software, but anyway: backgrounding daemons at system start using @ before them)

2
a & b xfce4
c & e conky & adesklets

3
a conky
b firefox, lynx, wget and most importently: transmission-gtk!
c I just need ssh & sftp

5
Multimedia I
b amaroK
d own shell script

6
Multimedia II
a gimp, XaraLX
b audacity
c acidrip & cat (to add multiple mpeg files/stream)

8
ArchLinux, who needs more ;-)

brazzmonkey · 2006-09-06 12:17:03

1
a : yaourt, kcontrol (from kde)
b,c : none (i've searched for such things, but arch spped is quite good actually)

2
a : kde
b : openbox
c : depends on what widgets you need (conky, superkaramba...).
d : amarok (music), kaffeine (video), (k)mplayer (video), realplayer (streaming)
e : ? XGL ?

3
a : superkaramba widgets ?
b : konqueror, kget
c : superkaramba widgets ?

4
kpager, exposé, katapult

5
a : mythtv
b: amarok
c : digikam
d : ?

6
a : krita, digikam
b : take a look at kde-apps.org
c : transcode, cf. b for frontends

8
quanta+, kmail, konqueror, amule, ktorrent, amarok, kmplayer, tvtime, konsole, kde...

jaboua · 2006-09-06 13:00:49

3b) If you need a messenger, Mercury is quite customizable and in addition supports stuff like nudges, winks, MSN games, and webcam send/recieve

Transmission-gtk is nice for torrents, however it doesn't have a lot of features...

5c) Gthumb or gqview, depending on if you have gnome libs installed

2e) You might want to check out the windowmanagers Compiz (requires XGL) or Enlightenment DR17
XSnow makes santa and lots of snow appear on the desktop (below apps)
XPenguins (I think) makes penguins walk around on the desktop and take suicide among other things if I remember correctly

Sigi · 2006-09-06 13:45:53

croak77 wrote:

tomfitzyuk wrote:
hnb -- A really useful hierarchical notepad which I use for a todo-list, contact list, quotes, random lists, etc. (I'm thinking of trying to implement a RSS reader in this... though that may over-complicating a simple application.
.
Thanks for mentioning this. I'm gonna check it out.

Me too, it really sounds nice. I just somehow don't like the fact that it's latest regular release was 3 years ago. Well, maybe it's nearly perfect for what it does... ;-)

liem · 2006-09-06 13:50:04

System
Well I use network-profile scripts. Useful for a laptop.

Desktop
I use dwm with dmenu, xv for background and glipper as clipboard.

Internet
wget, sftp, ftp, gftp. Firefox, can't find a light webbrowser with good javascript support.

Productivity
latex, gnuplot, vim, mercurial.

Multimedia
mpd, ncmpc, vlc and mplayer

7
xlock

chrismortimore · 2006-09-06 17:09:30

1 System
a. Vim for file editing, and MC (Midnight Commandor) to make getting around the filesystem easier/lazier. "Unison" is good for keeping multiple machines (or parts of) in sync across a network. I use it to keep my home directories and my high score boards in sync on both machines.
b and c. There is a program out there called "readahead", don't know if there is an Arch package for it (I use it on my Gentoo box). Basically, on startup it caches files you give it in a list. This speeds up boot and run time. For developing/AUR, "ccache" is a godsend.

2 Desktop
I use KDE (the full group, I'm too lazy to pick out the bits I want), along with yakuake (for a nice easy access terminal) and katapult (for fast program finding). I use gkrellm2 for system monitoring.

3 Internet
I use Kontact (may as well, given I use KDE). It gives me mail, calendar, address book, notes (which can be stuck onto the desktop), RSS, that kinda thing.
Firefox and links for web browsing, aMSN for IM duties, Skype for cheap phone calls.

4 Productivity
Frozen Bubble of course
OpenOffice for report writing, spreadsheeting, finances, that kinda thing. KDevelop and Vim for software development.
Octave, Mathematica (sadly, costs money) and TeXmacs for mathsy stuff.

5 Multimedia I
b. Amarok
c. Gwenview or gimv.
d. gimv

6 Multimedia II
a. Gimp
c. avidemux2 and mencoder.

8
anacron: makes sure cron jobs are run even if the computer is off at the designated execute time
clamav: virus scanner
k3b: the best CD burning GUI out there
npm: a program I wrote that manages network profiles. A PKGBUILD is in the works, once I host the project somewhere.
smartmontools: monitors hard drive SMART data
watermelons: the best game ever (and one of my AUR packages [/shameless plug])

phrakture · 2006-09-06 17:58:52

chrismortimore wrote:

4 Productivity
Frozen Bubble of course

I lol'd at this. Thanks

onearm · 2006-09-07 11:14:51

My suggestions

frank_einstien wrote:

1
System
a I don't think you'll need anything other than Vim

2
Desktop
a Kde for me it's the best
b Openbox
c conky is the fastest, superkaramba works nicely with kde
d amarok (music), mplayer (video). I hardly use something else.
3
Internet
b wget (for downloading stuff), kget is nice too.
Irssi or Konversation for IRC chat
fetchmail+procmail+mutt for mail handling
Akregator as Rss reader
slrn as newsreader
4
Productivity
ksmoothdock is a good dock
Screen for using more pseudo-terminal inside the same.

5
Multimedia I
b again Amarok
c Don't know what you mean, but feh is useful to see and modifying many pictures at the same time
6
Multimedia II
a gimp
b audacity
c mencoder/transcode/ffmpeg/avidemux
8
vim+pacman

chrismortimore · 2006-09-07 11:19:28

phrakture wrote:

I lol'd at this. Thanks

I just say what everyone else is thinking

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