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post #1 of 17
8/28/12 at 8:43pm
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I'm currently working on the new release candidates for my distro, and I was hoping some people would share the programs they use on a day to day basis to make there life's easier, even trivial stuff like what text editor you use. Doesn't matter what it does, just that you use it frequently, or is just helpful in general. I have been looking at the popularity-contest data from Debian and Ubuntu as well, but it takes a while to go through. tongue.gif Anyways, I figured i might as well ask. So let's hear it! biggrin.gif

My contribution is ARandR (http://christian.amsuess.com/tools/arandr/)
Makes configuring duel screens without proprietary (in my case Nvidia) drivers a breeze.

Also, popularity-contest, for those who are unaware:
http://popcon.debian.org/

(feel free to mention as many or as few as you want)
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8/28/12 at 9:09pm

Gedit

Skype

Pidgin

Aptana

transmission

thunderbird

Chrome/Chromium

tomboy

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8/28/12 at 9:15pm
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FireFox or Chrome
Mutt or Thunderbird
Pidgin
MPD w/NCMPCPP
GIMP
InkScape
Vi / Vim
and... all my web server stuff.

My main day-to-day programs. Plenty of others but not so much day-to-day ones.
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post #4 of 17
8/28/12 at 9:25pm
Tilda
Leafpad
Xarchiver
Gwget
Xchat
Guayadeque
Qasmixer (Qastools)
Xfburn
Obkey
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the six pinned to my panel-

ice weasel (Firefox)
terminal
nautilus
openoffice
boinc
icedove(thunderbird)
virtualbox


also there’s conky (launched at start) gedit (usually from the terminal for one file) and totem (launched from nautilus) and all the stuff you need available but only use once in a blue moon

will be looking forward to trying it
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8/28/12 at 10:27pm
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post #7 of 17
8/29/12 at 1:02am
I just love how well the whole Linux Standard Base framework works together.

But if I had to pick a favourite I'd say OpenSSH. Every other tool I could pick an alternative - if I was forced to. With SSH, I use it to
  • set up web proxies (ssh -D [proxy_port])
  • port forward to access local IPs inside NATs (ssh -L local_port:remote_ip:remote_port)
  • to sync file systems across multiple computers (rsync, scp),
  • securely FTP data to web servers (sftp)
  • remotely execute commands across multiple computers via a single command line (ssh servername "commands")
  • automation with passwordless logins (ssh-agent)
  • and, most obviously, log in to remote machines.

One of these days I'll get round to writing my walk-through about the power of SSH
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post #8 of 17
8/29/12 at 1:06am
Chrome

Evernote - Great for daily notes, planners, random stuff, picture archives for future inspiration, essays, programing mocks, photo notes. I use this more then Office for word processing.

Dropbox - If I had a faster upload speed I'd be working purely off of Dropbox. Love it and currently sitting on 8GB of free space. I want moar
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post #9 of 17
8/29/12 at 8:53am
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Thanks for all those who have posted so far. thumb.gif
My new installer that I'm working on will be much different then the last one. It's going to allow you to install some common apps (within the installer) like dropbox, libreoffice, etc, that a lot of people want/use, but really depend on the user. So i'm trying to find a good balance between what to install by default, and what you should add in by yourself. So basically you end up with a install that has most of what you use on a day to day basis, or at least that's the idea.

Keep 'em coming guys! smile.gif
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post #10 of 17
8/29/12 at 8:59am
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Thanks for all those who have posted so far. thumb.gif
My new installer that I'm working on will be much different then the last one. It's going to allow you to install some common apps (within the installer) like dropbox, libreoffice, etc, that a lot of people want/use, but really depend on the user. So i'm trying to find a good balance between what to install by default, and what you should add in by yourself. So basically you end up with a install that has most of what you use on a day to day basis, or at least that's the idea.
Keep 'em coming guys! smile.gif

Oh, I didn't read your opening post. Sorry, my OpenSSH suggestion was pretty useless laugher.gif

Make sure you include screen and tmux. Essentially terminal utilities in my opinion.
Also I swear by Irssi for IRC, but you should probably throw in Xchat as well - so you have both console and graphical clients smile.gif
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the six pinned to my panel-
ice weasel (Firefox)
terminal
nautilus
openoffice
boinc
icedove(thunderbird)
virtualbox
also there’s conky (launched at start) gedit (usually from the terminal for one file) and totem (launched from nautilus) and all the stuff you need available but only use once in a blue moon
will be looking forward to trying it

You mean LibreOffice? OpenOffice is as good as dead these days.
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