finding Synergy the other day made me think of what other linux apps are out there that I don't know about.

This is a piggy back off of message_topic.aspx?topic=534963&page=1 but for Linux.

Here are my fav ones:
amarok
virtualbox
meld
k3b
picasa
gnome-do
filezilla
quickSynergy
gproftpd
gparted

10/29/2008 12:04:34 PM

because "whats your favorite software" wasn't specific enough?

firefox
xmms
mplayer
wine
openoffice
gimp
inkscape

10/29/2008 12:56:22 PM

mtr

10/29/2008 3:10:08 PM

intel compiler suite 10.1

[Edited on October 29, 2008 at 3:13 PM. Reason : 

10/29/2008 3:12:46 PM

distccd
rtorrent
screen
mpd
portage

10/29/2008 4:29:51 PM

Sox
Lame
Gtkpod
Ffmpeg
Mplayer
Xine
Arecord
Cron

10/29/2008 6:44:40 PM

Sox
Lame
Gtkpod
Ffmpeg
Mplayer
Xine
Arecord
Cron

10/29/2008 6:45:15 PM

I'm gonna have to point out that like 80% of the apps mentioned in this thread have win32 builds

Quote :

"because "whats your favorite software" wasn't specific enough?"

10/29/2008 7:05:39 PM

Amarok is shit

10/29/2008 7:27:47 PM

How about explanations about what these apps do and why you like them.

10/29/2008 7:36:03 PM

why, I'm glad you asked!

distccd - distributed C compiler -- or rather abstraction layer -- that just works in nearly all cases, and with correctly assembled supporting toolchains is even capable of distributed compilation across dissimilar architectures

rtorrent - console BitTorrent client that is the reference client implementation for libtorrent, and quite possibly the best torrent client on any platform

screen - console session manager, allows you to mux a terminal, detach and background the session, disconnect, reconnect, resume the session without interruption -- altogether an incredibly useful tool

mpd - music player daemon, allows you to construct and manage remote playlists and remote playback, supports Icecast/Shoutcast output and combined with that allows one to transcode, stream, and manipulate a remote music collection as if it were local, saves many gigglebytes on the laptop

portage - Gentoo's package database and associated toolset, not only is it useful in it's current form but I see a huge opportunity for an incremental improvement, by adding a configuration management tool and combining the two into a toolset for repeatably producing pre-configured installable images. I mention it separate of Gentoo because several other distros (not just Gentoo-derived distros) offer some level of integration with the package database, and other toolsets are available for the package database as well.

I would also like to add:

Icecast - Shoutcast-like streaming music server that also supports streaming FLAC, Vorbis and probably other formats

StreamTranscoder - companion utility for Icecast that allows realtime transcoding and restreaming, I use it to transcode a "HD" 480kbps-centered vbr ogg/vorbis stream that I only have bandwidth for on my LAN to a 128kbps cbr mp3 stream that I can push even to my cell phone, and is a lot simpler to link non-technical users to than an ogg/vobris stream

Enlightenment DR16 - awesome and freakishly lightweight window manager, my #1 choice for X sessions that I intend to access remotely

Enlightenment DR17 - an even more awesome window manager, leaning towards desktop environment. It's not quite as lightweight as DR16 and is currently in active development, must be built from SVN for best results... even so it blows literally everything else away when it comes to resource utilization to eye candy ratio, and that's with it's software rendering engine. It also has a GL-accelerated rendering engine that is slightly less stable and produces output not quite as refined as the software renderer, but shows much promise. #1 choice for local X sessions by a margin that is difficult to quantify.

Anjuta - the only IDE I've encountered that attempts to provide an interface for the mess known as autoconf/automake. even "stable" releases have been rough in my experience, but this one shows much promise as well and has become more refined over the last couple years I've used it.

MORE TO COME, I'm sure, and I will limit my posts to software that is only available or relevant on *nix platforms as I think other users of the thread should as well

10/30/2008 5:51:00 AM

tovidgui - GUI front end to the tovid utility. Helps u make your own DVD's from almost any video format.

10/30/2008 9:47:39 AM

MPD (music player daemon) + Sonata and phpmp
ktorrent
firefox
virtualbox
gparted
compiz-fusion

10/30/2008 11:47:11 AM

That one where you race that penguin in the snow.

10/30/2008 5:17:30 PM

agave - lets you generate color schemes from a single color

[Edited on November 6, 2008 at 3:22 PM. Reason : what it is]

11/6/2008 3:20:59 PM

screen, sed, awk, grep, echo, and cat

11/7/2008 12:50:16 AM

screen, sed, awk, grep, echo, and cat

+ ssh, vim

11/7/2008 2:04:26 AM

fontypython - font manager

11/7/2008 11:28:37 AM

dylan
dylan
dylan
dylan
dylan

my linux spits hot fire

11/7/2008 11:37:41 AM

^ lols


http://www.opendylan.org/about-dylan.phtml

[Edited on November 7, 2008 at 11:44 AM. Reason : ]

11/7/2008 11:44:04 AM

linux alarm clock

sleep 8h; cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp

11/8/2008 1:03:31 PM

^ beatup

11/8/2008 1:13:56 PM