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rose

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Registered: 2005-02-09

Posts: 64

Re: Must Have Packages

[, addgroup, adduser, adjtimex, ar, as, arping, ash, awk, basename,
    bunzip2, bzcat, cal, cat, chgrp, chmod, chown, chroot,
    chvt, clear, cmp, cp, cpio, crond, crontab, cut, date, dc, dd,
    deallocvt, delgroup, deluser, devfsd, df, dirname, dmesg, dos2unix,
    dpkg, dpkg-deb, du, dumpkmap, dumpleases, echo, egrep, env, expr,
    false, fbset, fdflush, fdformat, fdisk, fgrep, find, fold, free,
    freeramdisk, fsck.minix, ftpget, ftpput, gcc, getopt, getty, grep,
    gunzip, gzip, halt, hdparm, head, hexdump, hostid, hostname, httpd,
    hush, hwclock, id, ifconfig, ifdown, ifup, inetd, init, insmod,
    install, ip, ipaddr, ipcalc, iplink, iproute, iptunnel, kill,
    killall, klogd, lash, last, ld, length, linuxrc, ln, loadfont, loadkmap,
    logger, login, logname, logread, losetup, ls, lsmod, makedevs,
    md5sum, mesg, mkdir, mkfifo, mkfs.minix, mknod, mkswap, mktemp,
    modprobe, more, mount, msh, mt, mv, nameif, nc, netstat, nslookup,
    od, openvt, passwd, patch, pidof, ping, ping6, pipe_progress,
    pivot_root, poweroff, printf, ps, pwd, rdate, readlink, realpath,
    reboot, renice, reset, rm, rmdir, rmmod, route,    run-parts, rx,
sed, seq, setkeycodes, sha1sum, sleep, sort, start-stop-daemon,
    strings, stty, su, sulogin, swapoff, swapon, sync, sysctl, syslogd,
    tail, tar, tee, telnet, telnetd, test, tftp, time, top, touch,
    traceroute, true, tty, udhcpc, udhcpd, umount, uname, uncompress,
    uniq, unix2dos, unzip, uptime, usleep, uudecode, uuencode, vconfig,
    vi, vlock, watch, wc, wget, which, who, whoami, xargs, yes, zcat

xerverius

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From: ~

Registered: 2004-11-02

Posts: 230

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Re: Must Have Packages

· Thunar
· Terminal
· SciTE
· Swiftfoxall running on Xfce 4.3

rose

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Registered: 2005-02-09

Posts: 64

Re: Must Have Packages

· Swiftfox

What's swiftfox?

Komodo

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From: Oxford, UK

Registered: 2005-11-03

Posts: 674

Re: Must Have Packages

http://www.getswiftfox.com/

Linux AMD-optimized ffox build

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rose

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Registered: 2005-02-09

Posts: 64

Re: Must Have Packages

Aaah, omg-optimized Firefox. I find it quite silly to make up a new name for an optimized build of an application.

How fast does it run for you? I doubt this compiler flags make any difference. Firefox is very bloated and we will have to wait a few years (I say 100 or more) until compilers are good enough to make a difference to Firefox <= 1.5.

Komodo

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From: Oxford, UK

Registered: 2005-11-03

Posts: 674

Re: Must Have Packages

I don't use it now, it makes so little difference... I noticed it was a bit faster starting up, but that's about it.

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xerverius

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Registered: 2004-11-02

Posts: 230

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Re: Must Have Packages

It a bit faster. nicer icon and i run the 1.8 version, dunno why, but it works.

Komodo

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From: Oxford, UK

Registered: 2005-11-03

Posts: 674

Re: Must Have Packages

You are a pirate. As in 'Arrgh'.

Ahoy there matey, heave-ho!

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jaboua

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Registered: 2005-11-05

Posts: 634

Re: Must Have Packages

- bash
- coreutils
- xorg
- gthumb
- giFT
- pacman
- gimp

syd

Member

From: Auckland, NZ

Registered: 2006-01-22

Posts: 156

Re: Must Have Packages

-PekWM (Best wm out)
-aterm + *transparent: true
-firefox/dillo
-mpd
-Pygmy (if im feeling lazy)
-fbsetbg
-xscreensaver
-magnum
-gvim

Well at lest that what ive got loaded up at the moment.

jaboua

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Registered: 2005-11-05

Posts: 634

Re: Must Have Packages

-magnum

What does magnum do (other than killing)? I couldn't find it in pacman, nor aur

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: Must Have Packages

Magnum is a text editor written by members of the Arch community: http://home.gna.org/magnum/

idjut

Member

From: Oslo

Registered: 2006-05-15

Posts: 177

Re: Must Have Packages

my preferences are non-bloated, quick and simple programs that does what i want. this is my list of favourites so far:

openbox/fluxbox and e17
vim for editing
leafpad for text files
abiword for word processing
opera for general browsing (but swiftfox with rikai-chan extension for japanese pages)
elinks for cli browsing
aterm/urxvt for terminal
xzgv for viewing images (but feh seems even better!)
graveman for cd-burning
irssi for irc
bitlbee/gaim for IM
screen
mpd / ncmpc for music listening
mplayer for video
adesklets

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brazzmonkey

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From: between keyboard and chair

Registered: 2006-03-16

Posts: 818

Re: Must Have Packages

in no particular order,

along with the well-known :

- (kde) - DE
- mplayer - multimedia
- konqueror - web and file management
- kontact - mail, rss, adress book
- amarok - music
- amule - p2p
- openoffice - office
- k3b - cd/dvd burning
- kaffeine - video
- krusader - file management
- kpdf - pdf viewer
- cups - printing system
- kopete - chat client
- quanta+ - web editor
- tvtime - tv software
- frozen-bubble - kick-ass game to play with girlfriend
- konsole - even though i'm not much of a cli-addicted
- hibernate-script, powersave (in [unstable] ?) and kpowersave (in [community] ?) - this energy saving stuff should be in [extra]...

i thought i should mention a few good, less-known ones that deserve more advertising :
- katapult - keyboard program launcher
- komposé - exposé-like full-screen task manager
- kdm-theme - theme manager for kde
- gtk-qt-engine - applies kde themes to gtk apps
- qtcurve - versatile kde theme
- rlocate - always up-to-date version of slocate
- kio-locate - handy tool to use locate in kde
- evolution-mission emission-sources kernel (haven't tried tham on arch yet)
- realplayer - needed to play streaming ram files...
- klik - testdrive program, a la mac osx installation, unfortunately not supported by arch (used to work ok on my gentoo), but very very useful
- apache-php-mysql

apps that piss me off :
- firefox - slow web browser
- thunderbird - mail client that lacks many features
- compiz/xgl - 3d desktop stuff (works fine via kororaa livecd - very buggy when installed)
- wine - ms windows emulator that never achieved to run my windows apps
- kdetv - tv program that doesn't work properly at high resolution

stuff i need to experiment :
- esp-r - building energy simulation software

stuff i would badly need :
- a working and reasonably fast ms windows/pc emulator - would be awesome if it could use my current windows installation
- a usable docker, a la mac osx
- (a faster machine...)

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mattux

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Registered: 2004-04-22

Posts: 81

Re: Must Have Packages

busybox
kernel26
tcc
links
centericq
anything else?

patroclo7

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From: Bassano del Grappa, ITALY

Registered: 2006-01-11

Posts: 915

Re: Must Have Packages

bitlbee
irssi
links-g
mocp
amuled (just the daemon of amule)
htop
vim

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xhemi

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From: /dev/urandom

Registered: 2007-03-14

Posts: 11

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Re: Must Have Packages

My all time favorites

vim
screen
rtorrent
mutt
slrn
nmap
ettercap
wireshark
bitlbee
irssi
ion3
mpd
icecast
ncmpc
mpc
feh
ssh
fuse
unison - to sync homedirs

webapps:
phpmyadmin
roundcubeemail
jinzora

Last edited by xhemi (2007-05-28 13:14:44)

Mefju

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From: Poland

Registered: 2006-07-12

Posts: 104

Re: Must Have Packages

Zsh - probably the best shell in the world

AllFather

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Registered: 2006-10-03

Posts: 40

Re: Must Have Packages

links
sshd
screen
rtorrent

In arch i use gnome if i first log into the something graphical simply cause i feel the default arch kde installation is extreamly bloated.

Last edited by AllFather (2007-05-31 15:25:01)

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2007.08 - The last proper ARCH install cd.
RIP installer :'-(

Alphalutra1

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Registered: 2006-09-16

Posts: 59

Re: Must Have Packages

ratpoison
dwm
(g)vim
ii
openssh
zsh (or ksh)
mutt
screen
rtorrent
mplayer
mpd
LaTeX
ncmpc

And that's all really, except xorg if you want to count that...

Cheers,

Alphalutra1

Last edited by Alphalutra1 (2007-05-31 17:09:10)

KerowynM

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Registered: 2006-06-04

Posts: 78

Re: Must Have Packages

screen - The program that brought me to UNIX back in the days when I used to use VAX/VMS.  Quite possibly the best program ever written.
ratpoison
firefox
rtorrent
nano
vi(m)
lzma
mplayer
links
cedega - the windows killer!  I can't wait until wine gets decent sound support, I'd drop cedega in a heartbeat if WoW didn't sound like crap without it.
pacman and makepkg - The package management is what keeps me with arch.  No other system even comes close.

Gilneas

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2006-10-22

Posts: 320

Re: Must Have Packages

mc
ttf-ms-fonts and terminus-font
trying out mirage instead of gqview
firefox
mplayer
transmission
gtmess

kel_p

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From: De Kwakel

Registered: 2007-05-10

Posts: 65

Re: Must Have Packages

worker http://www.boomerangsworld.de/worker/

azwethinkweiz

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Registered: 2007-01-25

Posts: 101

Re: Must Have Packages

pacman
rox

yes, yes it does

No one should have to live without pacman

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