Linux Have-To-Have Programs

[Tinuva]

My Fedora 8 desktop running xfce with avant-window-navigator and a Mac theme

Nice desktop, kinda like how it look though I am not sure how practical it would be for me.

OS: Archlinux 64bit
Desktop: KDE 4.2.1
Browser - Firefox / Konqueror (for sites not working in FF) - using 64bit flash (works great)
E-Mail - Thunderbird (actually Swiftfox which is optimized for C2D)
Music - Audacious (GTK2+ fork of XMMS, looks a lot like Winamp use winamp skins)
Video - SMPlayer (interface looks a lot more like Media Player Classic)
DVD/CD Burner - k3b
IM: Pidgin + Konversation for IRC
Console: KConsole stays the best
File browsing: Mostly dolphin (with kde) or sometimes still Midnight Commander

 

[BigAl-sa]

Pooks, if you want to run PSP, get virtualbox. I use DPP for RAW conversions from my camera and PSP X2 for editing, both in a virtualbox running XP.

My absolute favourite kgame is Ksudoku, you need to get the clean theme though. The default themes are really irritating. The clean theme used to be available on freshmeat, but I can't find it at the mo. If anyone wants it, PM me and I'll email it to you.

I don't like Amarok. For some reason it refuses to play audio CDs (kaffeine has no problem), and every time I start it, it wants to install flash. I hate flash.

 

[hawker]

Exaile
Nexuiz
Open Arena
Xchat
Canon Smash
Abiword

and then the usual, open office, firefox, pidgin etc

 

[MyWorld]

Bash

 

[koffiejunkie]

+1 for Bash - I do more and more scripting in my day-to-day work (as I get better and more confident with it).

Something else I'm finding has become an absolute must-have for me is LVM. I don't run any machine anymore (except VMs) that don't have it.

I wish, however, that "they" can get past the licensing issues so that we can get a decent ZFS implementation. That would be awesome!