What are some of the coolest apps for Linux you've come across?

aglarond · 2009-02-18 20:40:58

I'm just curious, since I'm always looking for some new piece of software to play with.

I know cool is subjective, so it's just whatever you liked. Also, I don't care if it's super-experimental eat your children and render you sterile stuff, either. Everything's up for grabs.

-mS

thisperishedmin · 2009-02-18 20:45:36

I've gotta kinda stay typical and say that Compiz was always one of the coolest things I've played around with. It used to be an all love relationship...but its turned to become very much love/hate, slowly evolving into hate haha. Its wonderful but sometimes the extra bugs are just a bit too much. Though I think its improving as of late.

I forget what it was called now...but i got a real kick out of the command line web browser, complete with picture support that i used once upon a time. hopefully someone else knows what im referring to...

lastly, a recent discussion on here got me addicted to the vimperator add-on for firefox...this isnt really a "linux app" but i thought it was worth mentioning anyway. (Side question, not to thread jack...but how can you make it keep your "set guioptions+=mT" from the next close to relaunch? I cant make that stick and have to do it each session...anyone know?)

good thread idea though, looking forward to more replies

rson451 · 2009-02-18 20:46:33

Hands down, gnu screen and vim.

how can you make it keep your "set guioptions+=mT" from the next close to relaunch?

.vimperatorrc

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drewbug01 · 2009-02-18 20:52:30

It might not seem that great, but I'm a HUGE fan of Geany -- a rather full-featured editor. It's not emacs (as in, it doesn't do everything including cooking your breakfast) and its not vi (as in, you can have nice pull down menus and use the mouse easily) , but it does everything I need it to do for coding.

Its relatively light-weight and simple to use. Few dependencies aside from GTK, which is a plus.

It doesn't turn your desktop into a spinning cube, but I couldn't live without it

--drew

zenlord · 2009-02-18 20:53:32

I'm thrilled by the idea of a dlna-server (coherence is the one I'll use) and I'm working on it to get it working, but first I've got to make some other stuff working. I can't wait to just simply use the TV's remote to scroll through all of my video/audio/photo's and stream them to my TV-set. Can't wait to see the faces of my visitors

And something much more simple: the combination of rtorrent and procmail. It's not working yet (again - i've just recently built this box), but the idea is to be able to send a .torrent as an attachment in an email to my server, and make it start the download immediately. That should be easy enough for the girlfriend to explain and it gives me the opportunity to start torrents from every pc that is connected to the net.

That's what I like about linux: learning the fundamentals and making them work together to create something tailormade to fit the situation and then realizing that I've still got a long way to go

Zl.

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initbox · 2009-02-18 21:02:03

Vim, Vimperator and Ratpoison, Screen.

Damn.

tomk · 2009-02-18 21:28:21

More or less the same as this: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=35419

Closing, please continue in that thread.

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What are some of the coolest apps for Linux you've come across?

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