Linux- Must- Have apps?

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Hi

Is there any kind of list out there for must-have linux apps?

Also does anyone know where I could find a media player that acts like the funky one that Macs have (where you can flick through album covers etc?)

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amarok is pretty funky. No idea how it compares to Mac/iTunes though. Also has a few quibbles when using Gnome over KDE. (Ubuntu uses Gnome - Kubuntu uses KDE) but nothing to die over.
 
Yep, amarok is good and there is now a Gnome equivalent called "Listen" :)

As for a "killer app" list, there isn't one yet but a re-vamp of the sticky is well needed ;)
 
Well suggestions for apps in this thread would be a good start :D

I would say:

Automatix- Very good package/ codec manager
Beryl- Enhances desktop environment with 3D GUI and OpenGL- powered effects
Conky- Easy to install and extremely customisable info panel
Swiftfox- Firefox plugin- greatly increases browser speed

Any more? :D
 
I quite like Amarok too, seems pretty good but I'm still not able to get it to put my podcasts onto my nano. Works with transferring mp3s though, I probably just need to work on it a bit more.

Not sure I would put Compiz/Beryl/aiglx and all those kinds of things down as "must haves". They certainly look nice and are good to shut up the Vista zealots but they don't add any functionality and I found I just switched the effects off after a few days.
 
Clark Nova said:
I quite like Amarok too, seems pretty good but I'm still not able to get it to put my podcasts onto my nano. Works with transferring mp3s though, I probably just need to work on it a bit more.

Not sure I would put Compiz/Beryl/aiglx and all those kinds of things down as "must haves". They certainly look nice and are good to shut up the Vista zealots but they don't add any functionality and I found I just switched the effects off after a few days.
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True- I just reel'd off the first few things I had installed. Like I said in my post they were only suggestions :)

Anything else very welcome
 
My must haves are,

vi, gdb, gcc/g++, java(c), hugs/ghc everything else im not really fussed about too much.
 
Down to preference, but my must have's include:

Amarok - full featured music player & collection manager
Audacious - nice light gui music player
Bluefish - nice gui text editor
F-Spot - for photo collection management
GAIM - IM client
GIMP - for image editing
Open Office - MS Office alternative

That's just a few. There are command line alternatives to many apps too (such as Nano & Vim for text editors :)), plus a load of opensource games (Two of my favourites are Frozen Bubble & I have no Tomatoes).

Will definately check out Listen to see how it compares to Amarok :)
 
  1. Inkscape: Is to Illustrator what the Gimp is to Photoshop.
  2. xine - not so much an application, but I think it's easily the best of the 'multimedia' engines - for Amarok, Totem-xine, gxine and so on. Better than gstreamer in my experience anyway.
  3. Last-Exit - last.fm are slacking on their Linux client, so this is an excellent lightweight substitute for listening to last.fm streams.

Thanks for the heads-up on Listen - will be trying it out too. I'd like to add some essentials (scripts) for Amarok - Transkode and Replaygain. The former for, well, transcoding (seamless transfer & transcode to your media player) and the latter for extra listening pleasure.
 
For those Gnome users that like Amarok and want something similar that fits in with the Gnome desktop style you could take a look at Exaile which is close to identical in functionality. Still being worked on though, not a complete project but nice.
 
Wow just got Amarok working under Gnome- very nice :cool:

All it needs is the iTunes-style browsing by covers thing- very nice though :)
 
Bes said:
Beryl- Enhances desktop environment with 3D GUI and OpenGL- powered effects
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Or Compiz... Not really sure of the differences visually.

A MUST have is Beagle which is what Spotlight is in MacOSX.

There are many Winamp clones out there as well.

Gaim is the best messaging client in Linux IMO.
Gnometris - The Gnome version of Tetris, its one of the best clones out there. Located in gnome-games
Rockbox - iTunes alternative (works with iPod)
Banshee - Another iTunes alternative (also works with iPod)
 
Xmms with mp3 support, anything else is just overkill, its only a music player thats out of sight 99% of the time.

Cedega, not really worth the money but saves messing around with wine.
 
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