Handy Must Know Linux Applications

[TheVileOne]

Yo,

I recently installed Ubuntu LTS 10.04... AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111

One thing though... I recently upgraded Wine to v1.3 via:

adding it to Software ppp command. and

sudo apt-get install wine

But ever since this update ...Wine crashes after 15 mins - I am running World of Warcraft ...

Error: terminal process failure - wine

Any help will be much appreciated...

Vrede,
Vile

 

[Logicklz]

Do you run wow in opengl mode?

 

[TheVileOne]

Yeah ...it won't run at all if it is not in OpenGl.. I ghad to change the config.wtf file to make it run...

 

[bdt]

OpenShot non-linear video editor that can do some pretty heavy-duty stuff; see the features page (don't want to dump all that here, rather keep it short for thread clarity).

 

[Nod]

bti - send tweet to twitter or identi.ca

Usage:
bti [options]
options are:
--account accountname
--password password
--action action
('update', 'friends', 'public', 'replies', or 'user')
--user screenname
--group groupname
--proxy PROXYORT
--host HOST
--logfile logfile
--config configfile
--replyto ID
--shrink-urls
--page PAGENUMBER
--bash
--background
--debug
--verbose
--dry-run
--version
--help

 

[TFTC]

My most frequently used apps:

Chrome
Pidgin
Skype
Banshee
VLC
VirtualBox and,
VMware player (better USB support)
Ubuntu Tweak
Eclipse
Docky!
Wine
Handbrake
Gimp
and soon Xbmc (97% complete)

thats almost identical to my most used list but I also use calibre a lot for ebook reading

 

[Happy Camper]

Been using clementine as my music player. Really cool stuff.

It looks almost identical to Rhythmbox. Is it less resource intensive than RB?

 

[hawker]

It looks almost identical to Rhythmbox. Is it less resource intensive than RB?

I used it a few months ago and hated it :/

 

[Smiley_lauf]

Use banshee it is going to be the default player in Ubuntu 11.04

 

[Nuro]

It looks almost identical to Rhythmbox. Is it less resource intensive than RB?

I have not checked, but I was a long time Amarok 1.4 user. Rhythmbox fails to read some of my tags (or only reads some of the data). Every other player works fine.
AFAIK, the have fixed some of the tag issues in 10.10, but I like Clem.

 

[elf_lord_ZC5]

For those of us, who connect to different wireless locations,I have just found "ifscheme"

 

[warwickw]

For those of us, who connect to different wireless locations,I have just found "ifscheme"

Network Manager in Ubuntu makes sure I don't need to fiddle with my wireless configs with tools like ifscheme.

 

[warwickw]

Has anyone found anything that comes close to Visio or Omnigraphle from the Apple Mac world to do network diagrams and the like ?

 

[ponder]

Has anyone found anything that comes close to Visio or Omnigraphle from the Apple Mac world to do network diagrams and the like ?

Have a look at these,
http://live.gnome.org/Dia Think this is the most common substitute used by people
http://argouml.tigris.org/
http://staruml.sourceforge.net/en/
http://uml.sourceforge.net/
http://www.koffice.org/kivio/
http://www-epb.lbl.gov/xfig/
http://www.conceptdraw.com/index.php

 

[elf_lord_ZC5]

Network Manager in Ubuntu makes sure I don't need to fiddle with my wireless configs with tools like ifscheme.

Network manager does not work on a console ... , doesn't use standard config's either ...

 

[CR34M3]

My 2cents worth:

pdftk (PDF Tool Kit) - in conjunction with the convert utility this makes splitting, combining and extracting PDFs a dream.

 

[oldhat]

A small list on my site:

foss.za.net

...needs updating - will do soon...

 

[Tacet]

Unetbootin

For creating bootable USB disks.

 

[alleyoopster]

Graphics and Photo editing
Obviously gimp
Colour section and colour matching (systray picker) gpick
geeqie for fast (and raw) image viewing
bibble5 for photo management and bulk editing (not Opensource, but competes with Lightroom)

 

[ponder]

LOL

I need to look at this when I have time. I installed it but I cannot find it in the menu. Guess you need to work with it in the terminal? The road less traveled is not always easier.

Pitivity in Gnome.