neonsox Posted July 12, 2006 Report Share Posted July 12, 2006 Hello, I'm sure there are lists, websites, and reviews of great Linux software avalable, but I'd like to get your picks on what programs are essential for the complete home personal computer. By that, I mean media software for streaming/listening to various audio formats, streaming/watching videos, editing photos, burning CD/DVD's, etc etc... I know that there are some programs that were once great but have been neglected over the years or months, so what's good TODAY? How about a catagory listing? Media Player: Chat Program: Browser: Burning Program: Graphics editing: Other great programs: I know the KDEdu or whatever it's called is pretty interesting (to me). So maybe something along those lines. [moved from Software by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted July 12, 2006 Report Share Posted July 12, 2006 Media Player: KPlayer (frontend for Mplayer) Browser: Firefox Burning Program: K3b Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jboy Posted July 12, 2006 Report Share Posted July 12, 2006 I'd suggest: Firefox 1.5.0.4 FF extensions: fasterfox, WebDeveloper, Firebug OpenOffice 2.0.3 K3B for burning DVDs/CDs sshd msfonts-1.0-2mcnl.noarch.rpm Java Runtime Flash player Mandriva documentation packages (Starter, Command Line, DrakTools, etc.) Multimedia: mplayer, Timidity, xine, RealPlayer, streamtuner, streamripper, kstreamripper, libdvdcss, kaffeine Utilities: krusader, kpdf, kdiff3, krename apache2 web server with PHP and MySQL if you want to a database I've forgotten a bunch that should be included but that's a start, anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willie Posted July 13, 2006 Report Share Posted July 13, 2006 Graphics editing: for vector: Inscape, OpenOffice draw For bitmaps: The Gimp, Krita Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gul Dukat Posted July 13, 2006 Report Share Posted July 13, 2006 Chat program: Gaim or Kopete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted July 13, 2006 Report Share Posted July 13, 2006 Media Player: vlc (videolan)Chat Program: kopete Browser: Opera Burning Program: k3b Graphics editing: ??? Other great programs: wine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artificial Intelligence Posted July 13, 2006 Report Share Posted July 13, 2006 Media Player: VLC, Mplayer Chat Program: Xchat Browser: on KDE I guess Opera/firefox on gnome Epiphany Burning Program: K3b, gnomebaker, NeroLinux Graphics editing: Gimp, pixel32, cinepaint, inkscape. Other great programs: Blender3D (combined with wing3D) for 3D building or if you can afford it Maya. P2P: Azureus, Limewire/Frostwire, Picasa for organizing pictures etc. Gaim for IM etc. etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted July 13, 2006 Report Share Posted July 13, 2006 Media Player: Xine, Mplayer Chat Program: Gaim Browser: Firefox, Epiphany Burning Program: K3b, Gnomebaker Graphics editing: Gimp, Inkscape Other tools: Fspot, gthumb, rythmbox, OpenOffice, (Abiword as lightweight solution), evolution Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted July 13, 2006 Report Share Posted July 13, 2006 Media player for video: totem or kaffeine Media player for music: amarok Browser: firefox Chat: gaim CD burning: k3b Other: Google Earth(reqires 3d acceleration), Open Office, digikam for digital cameras and photo orginization And games would probably require a whole new thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted July 13, 2006 Report Share Posted July 13, 2006 Media Player: rhythmbox, xmms for music. i tend to use whichever is most efficient for my needs. i.e. if i just want to listen to a few files i drop them into xmms. as far as video, mplayer or gnomes movie player (forget what it's called - not totem). Chat Program: gaim (for IM), xchat (for IRC) Browser: firefox Burning Program: gnomebaker. i used to use k3b even though i was in a gnome environment, but gnomebaker is greatly improved and just as good as k3b IMHO. Graphics editing: gimp for image manipulation/creation (my avatar was made in gimp) and inkscape for SVG stuff. Others: screem for web coding (css, xhtml, php). i prefer it over bluefish. i also hate WYSIWYG editors (i started writing webpages at 15, in notepad :lol:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted July 13, 2006 Report Share Posted July 13, 2006 All of them: whatever you like- the choice is wide. The only program which is indispensable is Midnight Commander- because it does almost everything, regarding filemanagement and conf editing, and it works all the time- even with the xserver dead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted July 13, 2006 Report Share Posted July 13, 2006 you know, despite the claims of MC being so great, i still don't use it to this day. i've tried it, played with it, but it just wasn't of any use to me. i can do everything i want without it :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted July 13, 2006 Report Share Posted July 13, 2006 you know, despite the claims of MC being so great, i still don't use it to this day. i've tried it, played with it, but it just wasn't of any use to me. i can do everything i want without it :P Yeah to me its in one of those "I really must leanr this someday" but everytime its potentially useful its just easier to fall back on what I know (vi) .. eMacs is the same categoty... people love it but I never persited long enough to be comfy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neonsox Posted July 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 13, 2006 My thanks to everyone who responded. I see some definate preferences amongst the group, so I'm going to give those a try first. I took a break from Linux for a bit, so it's been some time... I needed to see what was still relevant and improved. Thanks again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted July 13, 2006 Report Share Posted July 13, 2006 I realize that I am drifting off-topic. I need to say that I like mc because it can be used to extract individual files from within an RPM package. Is there other software which can do this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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