what's your favourite FLOSS?

[Tshepang Lekhonkhobe]

Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to
add missing categories:

audio editor:
*


audio player:
*

cd-ripper:
*

desktop OR window manager:
*

DBMS:
*

development:
*

disc burner:
*

e-mail client:
*

file manager:
*

finance:
*

ftp client:
*

image editor:
*

image viewer:
*

instant messenger:
*

mathematics:
*

misc utilities:
*

news:
*

p2p:
*

package manager:
*

pdf-reader:
*

spreadsheet:
*

tag editor:
*

terminal emulator:
*

text editor:
*

video player:
*

web browser:
*

word-processor:
*

anything unreleased and anticipated:
*

anything deserving great honours (EG. GCC):
*

games:
*

non-free:
*

[David Fox]

Oops sorry I wanted to post to the list.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Fox <***@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 6, 2007 7:21 AM
Subject: Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to

Is it just me, or am I alone suffering deja vu? I'm sure this message
has been posted before on d-u.

I saw another few threads in inbox today that I really thought I had
seen before.

[Andrew Sackville-West]

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to

Oh, this is too easy:
...

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

/usr/bin/x-window-manager
/usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator
/usr/bin/editor

...
/usr/bin/x-www-browser

etc.

A

[Kelly Clowers]

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to

Is it already that time of year?
This is always fun, thanks for doing it, Tshepang.
Audacity
Amarok
Sound-Juicer
wmii, fluxbox
Postgresql

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

k3b
none (gmail)
vifm, Konqueror
KMyMoney
Konqueror
Krita
gthumb, fbi
psi
wcalc
ssh, screen, sudo, scim, wget, lsof, ip (iproute2), git, svn, mr
Pan (assuming news = NNTP)
transmission
aptitude
evince
KSpread
Amarok
urxvt
vim
gxine
SeaMonkey
KWord
KDE4, Amarok2, KOffice2, Firefox3, GVFS/GIO
Xorg, Linux Kernel, GCC, D-Bus, HAL, PulseAudio, ConsoleKit, PolicyKit,
PackageKit, Network-Manager, bash, vim, Debian, git, ikiwiki
Frozen Bubble
Starcraft, Civ3

Feed reader (RSS/Atom):
Newsfox (SeaMonkey/Firefox extension)

Download Manager:
wget

web server:
apache

web framework:
ikiwiki

other servers:
sshd, PowerDNS, MIT Kerberos, OpenLDAP


Cheers,
Kelly Clowers

[Andrei Popescu]

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to
*
* moc
* jack (the ripper not the audio server)
* XFCE
*
*
* k3b
* mutt
* mc
*
*
*
*
* pidgin
*
* screen
*
* ktorrent
* aptitude
*
* gnumeric
*
* mlterm
* vim
* mplayer/vlc
*
* abiword/lyx
*
* Debian, wine
* fortune
* opera, acroread

irc client:
* pidgin

Regards,
Andrei

[Vikki Roemer]

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to

xmms or moc
cdparanoia
fluxbox
mutt
gentoo
filerunner
the Gimp
gaim
bc
ssh, screen, boa, iptables, logcheck, nagios, snort, bash, apache
slrn
gtk-gnutella
aptitude, apt-get
acroread
rxvt
vim
xine
firefox/iceweasel, links
open office writer
gcc, linux kernel, debian, apt/dpkg, emacs, vi, apache, bash, tcsh
angband, lbreakout2, petris

[Andrew Sackville-West]

Oh, apparently we're taking this seriously... ;)

On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 01:24:55PM -0500, Vikki Roemer wrote:

I'm piggybacking your reply, thanks for doing most of the typing Vikki
:-P

Post by Vikki Roemer

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to

mpd
xmonad

Post by Vikki Roemer
mutt

mv/cp/rm
sftp

Post by Vikki Roemer
the Gimp

aptitude
pdftotext
urxvt
emacs (comes with a free operating system)
mplayer
iceweasel, w3m

Post by Vikki Roemer
open office writer

debian

irc client:
irssi

status bar:
dzen2

killer app:
screen -x

killer app enabler:
ssh

A

[Tshepang Lekhonkhobe]

On Nov 6, 2007 8:53 PM, Andrew Sackville-West

Post by Andrew Sackville-West
emacs (comes with a free operating system)

Me don't understand.

Post by Andrew Sackville-West
screen -x
ssh

Interesting categories, but would it not be appropriate to put these
two in "anything deserving great honours".

[charlie derr]

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Nov 6, 2007 8:53 PM, Andrew Sackville-West

Post by Andrew Sackville-West
emacs (comes with a free operating system)

Me don't understand.

The long-standing joke is that emacs is a great editor, but a mediocre operating system. Most often pitted against its arch-rival
vi in religious wars, emacs is (in that context) somewhat "bloated" according to its detractors. The fact that one can do email,
webbrowsing, and work in a command-line environment simultaneously (all of that and much more without ever leaving emacs) is what
has given rise to this mythos.

Personally I feel that any editor that can't do M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead is woefully incomplete, but that's just me (and I hate
getting stuck on a system where all that's available is vi), and this probably isn't the place or time to re-ignite that never
ending religious war...

be well,
~c

[Tshepang Lekhonkhobe]

Post by charlie derr

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Nov 6, 2007 8:53 PM, Andrew Sackville-West

Post by Andrew Sackville-West
emacs (comes with a free operating system)

Me don't understand.

The long-standing joke is that emacs is a great editor, but a mediocre operating system. Most often pitted against its arch-rival
vi in religious wars, emacs is (in that context) somewhat "bloated" according to its detractors. The fact that one can do email,
webbrowsing, and work in a command-line environment simultaneously (all of that and much more without ever leaving emacs) is what
has given rise to this mythos.

That makes me want to try out the mighty and legendary Emacs, the
poster child of the GNU project.

[Andrew Sackville-West]

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Nov 6, 2007 8:53 PM, Andrew Sackville-West

Post by Andrew Sackville-West
emacs (comes with a free operating system)

Me don't understand.

charlie already answered this better than I could.

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe

Post by Andrew Sackville-West
screen -x
ssh

Interesting categories, but would it not be appropriate to put these
two in "anything deserving great honours".

okay fine, put it under there, but I'm disappointed that you won't
make extra categories just for me!! ;-)

A

[Tshepang Lekhonkhobe]

On Nov 7, 2007 5:54 PM, Andrew Sackville-West

Post by Andrew Sackville-West

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Nov 6, 2007 8:53 PM, Andrew Sackville-West

Post by Andrew Sackville-West
emacs (comes with a free operating system)

Me don't understand.

charlie already answered this better than I could.

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe

Post by Andrew Sackville-West
screen -x
ssh

Interesting categories, but would it not be appropriate to put these
two in "anything deserving great honours".

okay fine, put it under there, but I'm disappointed that you won't
make extra categories just for me!! ;-)

I like the categories anyways, for they are so unique, and me hopes
some will list some of their favourites under that, and if not it will
have to go to the cateogry of the truly honourable. (side note)
Someone in the past mentioned Meld as the killer app of Linux-based
systems IE. it prompted such a user to move from something else,
perhaps Windows.

Post by Andrew Sackville-West
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[Andrew Sackville-West]

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Nov 7, 2007 5:54 PM, Andrew Sackville-West

Post by Andrew Sackville-West

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Nov 6, 2007 8:53 PM, Andrew Sackville-West

Post by Andrew Sackville-West
emacs (comes with a free operating system)

Me don't understand.

charlie already answered this better than I could.

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe

Post by Andrew Sackville-West
screen -x
ssh

Interesting categories, but would it not be appropriate to put these
two in "anything deserving great honours".

okay fine, put it under there, but I'm disappointed that you won't
make extra categories just for me!! ;-)

I was jsut kidding there...

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
I like the categories anyways, for they are so unique, and me hopes
some will list some of their favourites under that, and if not it will
have to go to the cateogry of the truly honourable. (side note)
Someone in the past mentioned Meld as the killer app of Linux-based
systems IE. it prompted such a user to move from something else,
perhaps Windows.

actually for me that was gnucash. I was staring down the barrel of yet
another Quickbooks forced upgrade while watching it make calculation
errors in my payrolls. I found gnucash while oking around in a knoppix
cd and although it wasn't a complete replacement for quickbooks, it
was enough. I've never run windows since except when I have to get
historical data from that locked up quickbooks install.

A

[Charlie]

--} Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to
--}

* Totem

--}

* KDE

--}

* Growisofs - Wodim

--}

* Kmail

--}

* Konqueror

--}

* The Gimp

--}

* Kuickshow

--}

* Lyx

--}

* Dia, VYM, K9copy, CDcat, Gkrellm, Kerry Beagle, Quanta, Unclutter, probably
others......

--}

* Akgregator

--}

* Apt-get

--}

* Xpdf

--}

* OpenOffice

--}

* Konsole

--}

* Kedit

--}

* Totem

--}

* Konqueror

--}

* Lyx

--}

[Keith O'Brien]

--} Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to
--}

* Amarok

--}

* KDE

--}

* K3B

--}

* gmail / thunderbird

--}

* Konqueror

--}

* The Gimp

--}

* pornview

--}

* kcalc / dc

--}

* screen, lynx, ssh, sftp, kdesvn, kwallet, pidgin, zsafe.

--}

* NONE

--}

* Apt-get

--}

* Kpdf

--}

* OpenOffice

--}

* Konsole

--}

* vim

--}

* Kaffeine/Mplayer

--}

* Firefox

--}

* Vim/OOo

--}

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From: Charlie [mailto:***@clearmail.com.au]
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 4:18 PM
To: debian-***@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

--} Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to
--}

* Totem

--}

* KDE

--}

* Growisofs - Wodim

--}

* Kmail

--}

* Konqueror

--}

* The Gimp

--}

* Kuickshow

--}

* Lyx

--}

* Dia, VYM, K9copy, CDcat, Gkrellm, Kerry Beagle, Quanta, Unclutter,
probably
others......

--}

* Akgregator

--}

* Apt-get

--}

* Xpdf

--}

* OpenOffice

--}

* Konsole

--}

* Kedit

--}

* Totem

--}

* Konqueror

--}

* Lyx

--}

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[Tshepang Lekhonkhobe]

Post by Keith O'Brien
* Vim/OOo

Do you regard Vim a word processor, or is there something more?

[Keith O'Brien]

-----Original Message-----
From: Tshepang Lekhonkhobe [mailto:***@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 10:23 AM
To: Keith O'Brien
Cc: debian-***@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

Post by Keith O'Brien
* Vim/OOo

Do you regard Vim a word processor, or is there something more?

It falls short of a modern Word-Processor, but it does everything I need
most of the time. According to wikipedia vi does not cut the mustered as
a word-processor.

[Tshepang Lekhonkhobe]

How does this work? Is it a mistake?

Post by Charlie
* Lyx

--}

* Dia, VYM, K9copy, CDcat, Gkrellm, Kerry Beagle, Quanta, Unclutter, probably

probably? Where does one get that?

[Charlie]

--}
--} How does this work? Is it a mistake?
--}
--} > * Lyx
--} > >--}
--} > * Dia, VYM, K9copy, CDcat, Gkrellm, Kerry Beagle, Quanta, Unclutter,
probably --}
--} probably? Where does one get that?
--}
--}

Sorry...... misinterpretation on my part...... thought it meant mathematical
formulas

[hangs head in shame] :-(

[Douglas A. Tutty]

Post by Charlie

--}
--} How does this work? Is it a mistake?
--}
--} > * Lyx
--} > >--}
--} > * Dia, VYM, K9copy, CDcat, Gkrellm, Kerry Beagle, Quanta, Unclutter,
probably --}
--} probably? Where does one get that?
--}
--}

Sorry...... misinterpretation on my part...... thought it meant mathematical
formulas
[hangs head in shame] :-(

Oh, I thought you got Probably from the Hiezenburg (spelling??)
Uncertanty Repository. :)

Doug.

[Charlie]

--} > >--}
--} > >--} How does this work? Is it a mistake?
--} > >--}
--} > >--} > * Lyx
--} > >--} > >--}
--} > >--} > * Dia, VYM, K9copy, CDcat, Gkrellm, Kerry Beagle, Quanta,
Unclutter, --} > > probably --}
--} > >--} probably? Where does one get that?
--} > >--}
--} > >--}
--} >
--} > Sorry...... misinterpretation on my part...... thought it meant
mathematical --} > formulas
--} >
--} > [hangs head in shame] :-(
--}
--} Oh, I thought you got Probably from the Hiezenburg (spelling??)
--} Uncertanty Repository. :)
--}
--} Doug.

I got it even more wrong................?????????? Probably-others, not
probably as a package.........

Others like: Kommander, Scribus, Kalarm, Knotes and-others.

:-(

[Kamaraju S Kusumanchi]

Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:

It is not clear as to whether we should reply to you personally or post it
on the d-u list. So I will just post it to the list...
amarok

*

k3b

*

KDE
vim + gcc + gdb
k3b
kmail, thunderbird
krusader, konqueror
gftp
gimp, kolourpaint
display, showimg
gaim, pidgin
Can't understand what you mean by this...

maxima, texmacs, gnuplot, octave (many programs are coming to my mind)...
knode
apt-get
kpdf, acroread
oocalc
konsole
gvim
kaffeine
iceweasel + adblock extension, konqueror
oowriter
sshfs, ssh, gfortran, gcc
ksudoku


hth
raju

[Douglas A. Tutty]

VLC

*

icewm
vim + gnat (Ada), python.
k3b
mutt
mc
mc, wget, rsync
digiKam
Python
aptitude
kpdf, xpdf
xfce4-terminal
vim
VLC
lynx, konqueror, + iceweasel (in i386 chroot for flash, javascript, plus
a couple of sites that won't work on konq).
Latex in vim.
Debian policy. OpenBSD. OpenSSH.

[Tshepang Lekhonkhobe]

Post by Douglas A. Tutty
lynx, konqueror, + iceweasel (in i386 chroot for flash, javascript, plus
a couple of sites that won't work on konq).

This makes me curious why i386 chroot?

[Douglas A. Tutty]

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe

Post by Douglas A. Tutty
lynx, konqueror, + iceweasel (in i386 chroot for flash, javascript, plus
a couple of sites that won't work on konq).

This makes me curious why i386 chroot?

Because I'm running Etch amd64. There is no flashplayer for amd64 and
no wrapper (as there is in Lenny). So a browser plus flash needs to be
in a chroot. I'm on dialup and iceweasel has frequent enough security
replacment (and its a big download when that happens) that I only want
one copy to have to maintain; in the i386 chroot. My normal day-to-day
browsing is with Konqueror amd64 and requires neither flash nor
javascript.

Doug.

[Tshepang Lekhonkhobe]

Post by Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
It is not clear as to whether we should reply to you personally or post it
on the d-u list. So I will just post it to the list...

The list is better actually.

Post by Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Can't understand what you mean by this...

Anything working with mathematics, like calculators and so on, same as
you've listed below...

Post by Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
maxima, texmacs, gnuplot, octave (many programs are coming to my mind)...

Is this your selection?

[Kamaraju S Kusumanchi]

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe

Post by Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Can't understand what you mean by this...

Anything working with mathematics, like calculators and so on, same as
you've listed below...

Post by Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
maxima, texmacs, gnuplot, octave (many programs are coming to my mind)...

Is this your selection?

Yes, that is my selection.

raju

[Emre Sevinc]

Post by Keith O'Brien
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 1:15 PM
To: debian-user
Subject: what's your favourite FLOSS?
Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to

audio editor:
Audacity, Snd

audio player:
XMMS

cd-ripper:
grip


desktop OR window manager:
fluxbox

DBMS:
MySQL

development:
Emacs (+ SLIME, SBCL, CLISP, PYTHON, PERL, gcc, gdb, JAVA)

e-mail client:
gmail ;-)

file manager:
mc (Midnight Commander)

ftp client:
mc, wget

image editor:
GIMP

image viewer:
xli

instant messenger:
centericq

mathematics:
bc, dc, octave, gnuplot, maxima

news:
EMACS + GNUS (or gmail + google groups ;-)

pdf-reader:
Acrobat Reader, (gv, ocassionaly)

spreadsheet:
OpenOffice.org

text editor:
Emacs (VIM sometimes)

video player:
mplayer

web browser:
Firefox

word-processor:
OpenOffice.org

anything deserving great honours (EG. GCC):
gcc, tex, latex

[Tshepang Lekhonkhobe]

Post by Emre Sevinc
gcc, tex, latex

Should I suppose that TeX and LaTeX is about the same thing?

[Tyler Smith]

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe

Post by Emre Sevinc
gcc, tex, latex

Should I suppose that TeX and LaTeX is about the same thing?

More or less. LaTeX is a (large) set of extensions to the basic TeX
language.

Tyler

[Tyler Smith]

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to
*

amarok

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

cdparanoia

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

fluxbox

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

emacs, gcc, bash, make

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

k3b

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

mutt

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

bash/mv/cp/rm/mkdir

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

inkscape, gimp

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

image magic

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

R (with Emacs and ESS)

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

svn

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

slrn

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

aptitude

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

xpdf

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

R, Emacs

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

etags (or is there some other kind of tag?)

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

xterm

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

emacs

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

gxine

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

iceweasel, w3m

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

Emacs + LaTeX

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

Emacs, R, GRASS

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

Crossover Office, Paup

[Tshepang Lekhonkhobe]

Post by Tyler Smith

*

etags (or is there some other kind of tag?)

What's that? Me not understand.

[joseph lockhart]

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Here's a template where you can fill in your

favourites; feel free to

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

vlc

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

(don't use much)

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

KDE & fluxbox

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

bash

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

k3b

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

yahoo

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

konqueror

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

GIMP

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

Konqueror

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

gnumeric

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

ISO master

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

(don't use)

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

aptitude

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

konqueror

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

gnumeric

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

(don't use)

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

yakuake

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

kate

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

vlc

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

konqueror & lynx

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

kate, kword

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

ISO master, DOSbox, gnash, menu

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

(don't use)
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Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to
*

gnome-cd

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

grip

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

metacity

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

emacs, gcc, bash, make

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

evolution

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

nautilus

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

gimp

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

gthumb

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

maxima + texmacs as front-end

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

aptitude, apt-get

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

evince, xpdf

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*

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gnome-terminal

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emacs

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xmms

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iceweasel

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emacs + LaTeX

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emacs + LaTeX + metapost + metagraph

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emacs + LaTeX + metapost + metagraph + powerdot

[Tshepang Lekhonkhobe]

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gnome-cd

How do I find this?

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xmms

Is there a video extension or this a mistake?

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emacs + LaTeX + metapost + metagraph

interesting twist

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emacs + LaTeX + metapost + metagraph + powerdot

Even more of an interesting twist. Are the results superior than those
of OOo impress? Is the workflow faster?

Post by Robert Jerrard
Dr. Robert J. Jerrard, Professor of Mathematics,

Such credentials I can only dream of...

[Robert Jerrard]

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gnome-cd

This a part of the gnome-media package. Not a big dealt, just a simple
player.

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How do I find this?

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xmms

Is there a video extension or this a mistake?

Yes, my mistake I was thinking of audio not video. I don't do much with
video so I suppose gxine.

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Post by Robert Jerrard
emacs + LaTeX + metapost + metagraph

interesting twist

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emacs + LaTeX + metapost + metagraph + powerdot

Even more of an interesting twist. Are the results superior than those
of OOo impress? Is the workflow faster?

I like these combinations since mostly I am text processing mathematics
in latex and all the nice math can be used directly in powerdot to
create very nice math powerpoint like slides in a pdf file. A bit of a
learning curve but the results are worth it. The use of metapost and
metagraph allow plots to be put directly in the tex file for processing
through latex with and without powerdot. You can create very high
quality math and graphs with this combination.

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe

Post by Robert Jerrard
Dr. Robert J. Jerrard, Professor of Mathematics,

Such credentials I can only dream of...

It is just a lot of time and work to get them.


Bob

[Tshepang Lekhonkhobe]

Post by Robert Jerrard
evince, xpdf

How come this is? What's the limitations of each?

[Robert Jerrard]

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evince, xpdf

How come this is? What's the limitations of each?

Evince is nice in that it remembers what slide you stopped at last time
but it was a bit buggy in earlier versions, seems to work nicely now.

Xpdf was the one I used when evince was buggy.

I haven't seen any real limitations for either in my limited use of
them.

Bob

[Douglas A. Tutty]

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Post by Robert Jerrard
evince, xpdf

How come this is? What's the limitations of each?

Evince is nice in that it remembers what slide you stopped at last time
but it was a bit buggy in earlier versions, seems to work nicely now.
Xpdf was the one I used when evince was buggy.
I haven't seen any real limitations for either in my limited use of
them.

I didn't notice that gnome apps had stopped being buggy. Every time I
figure I'll try one (such as Evince) I always hit some bug.

I use Kpdf most of the time but xpdf has a smaller footprint (both
memory and disk space requirements). I have Kpdf on my main Athlon box
and xpdf on my PII. I can view a pdf directly on the PII with xpdf or I
can ssh -X into my athlon box and view it with Kpdf if I set Kpdf for
poor performance. Its stores rendered pages in the Xorg memory
footprint on the PII. If I'm really tight for memory, I'll run xpdf on
the Athlon and it will keep rendered pages on the Athlon.

Doug.

[Manu Hack]

Post by Douglas A. Tutty
I use Kpdf most of the time but xpdf has a smaller footprint (both
memory and disk space requirements). I have Kpdf on my main Athlon box
and xpdf on my PII. I can view a pdf directly on the PII with xpdf or I
can ssh -X into my athlon box and view it with Kpdf if I set Kpdf for
poor performance. Its stores rendered pages in the Xorg memory
footprint on the PII. If I'm really tight for memory, I'll run xpdf on
the Athlon and it will keep rendered pages on the Athlon.

I also found kpdf outperform xpdf for big files. But the only reason
I still keep using xpdf is that I can't set the vi key-binding (hjkl
is enough) in kpdf.

Manu

[Nate Duehr]

This set of answers will probably bore everyone to death, but I really
only use Linux for servers. Desktops are better done by others (Apple).

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to

Audacity
N/A
N/A
KDE (when I have to - would rather use the Mac for GUI stuff)
Informix oops.. not FLOSS... MySQL then. :-)
vim
cdrecord
Apple Mail... oops... Thunderbird
ls
Quicken... oops... N/A
ftp
N/A
Firefox
N/A
N/A
find
N/A
Email with MIME attachments. (LOL!)
aptitude
N/A
N/A
vim (?)
minicom
vim
N/A
Firefox/Ice-whatever
vim
don't care :-)
everyone that writes code for free and gives it away -- huge kudos and
bravo!
Real-life... oops... N/A
Mac OSX :-)

--
Nate Duehr
***@natetech.com

[David Brodbeck]

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to

Audacity
Amarok
Konqueror
KDE
MySQL, although just because I know it best.
Emacs
K3b
Thunderbird
Konqueror
GNUCash
Konqueror
GIMP
Konqueror
Kopete
dnsmasq (does a great job integrating a DNS caching server, private
local DNS, and DHCP server, along with some other features useful for
NATed networks, into one easy-to-configure daemon)
aptitude
acroread still has the best compatibility and feature set...takes a
long time to load, though.
OpenOffice.org
Geez, I dunno. Whatever comes up when I choose 'Terminal' from the
KDE menu. ;)
If you mean for talking to serial devices, I usually use 'screen'.
Emacs
Mythplayer, or if I'm not using that, mplayer
Firefox, or whatever reskinning of it happens to be handy.
OpenOffice.org, although I'm slowly moving towards Emacs + LaTeX for
anything longer than a page or so.
Amarok and Konqueror have each replaced two or three other,
individual packages for me, and they deserve kudos for integrating
new functionality in ways that make intuitive sense.
Well, the program I've been booting into Windows to run most often,
lately, is Portal. ;)

[John Masters]

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to

<big big snip>

Sorry but here's where I unsubscribe for a couple of months while the
same stuff is rehashed as it was a few months ago. Does this totally
unscientific poll have any real use? Apart that is from reigniting the
antediluvian arguments like mutt v emacs, bash v korn etc.

There is a method to gauge the popularity of FLOSS apps built into every
Debian installation. If you haven't enabled it yet, do so and eliminate
this totally superfluous 'poll'.

[Nate Duehr]

Post by John Masters

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to

<big big snip>
Sorry but here's where I unsubscribe for a couple of months while the
same stuff is rehashed as it was a few months ago. Does this totally
unscientific poll have any real use? Apart that is from reigniting the
antediluvian arguments like mutt v emacs, bash v korn etc.

Sheesh... sort by thread, delete key. Not difficult...

Post by John Masters
There is a method to gauge the popularity of FLOSS apps built into every
Debian installation. If you haven't enabled it yet, do so and
eliminate
this totally superfluous 'poll'.

You might have mentioned that it's called "popularity-contest" and can
be found via your favorite package manager. :-)

Picture yourself standing in a big room with a hundred people all
having different conversations... imaging yelling at the top of your
lungs "I'm tired of hearing that group over there talking about that!
I'M LEAVING!"

Think anyone would, a) care?, b) not think you were insane?

That's pretty much the equivalent of what most "I'm leaving the list"
messages amount to. No one cares, we all just shake our heads and
say, "There goes a very troubled person."

--
Nate Duehr
***@natetech.com

[John Masters]

Post by Nate Duehr

Post by John Masters

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to

<big big snip>
Sorry but here's where I unsubscribe for a couple of months while the
same stuff is rehashed as it was a few months ago. Does this totally
unscientific poll have any real use? Apart that is from reigniting the
antediluvian arguments like mutt v emacs, bash v korn etc.

Sheesh... sort by thread, delete key. Not difficult...

Not the point. Why rehash stuff that has been over and over.

Post by Nate Duehr

Post by John Masters
There is a method to gauge the popularity of FLOSS apps built into every
Debian installation. If you haven't enabled it yet, do so and eliminate
this totally superfluous 'poll'.

You might have mentioned that it's called "popularity-contest" and can be
found via your favorite package manager. :-)

I thought everybody would know what it is called seeing as it is offered
as an option on install.

Post by Nate Duehr
Picture yourself standing in a big room with a hundred people all having
different conversations... imaging yelling at the top of your lungs "I'm
tired of hearing that group over there talking about that! I'M LEAVING!"
Think anyone would, a) care?, b) not think you were insane?
That's pretty much the equivalent of what most "I'm leaving the list"
messages amount to. No one cares, we all just shake our heads and say,
"There goes a very troubled person."

Do not presume to psychoanalyse me. I see the Debian Users list as an
invaluable source of information and advice, to which I attempt in my
own small way to contribute. Posts requesting opinions as to which is
the best software/hardware/distro inevitably invite flame wars which
fill my inbox with dross.

[Nate Duehr]

Post by John Masters

Post by Nate Duehr
That's pretty much the equivalent of what most "I'm leaving the list"
messages amount to. No one cares, we all just shake our heads and say,
"There goes a very troubled person."

Do not presume to psychoanalyse me. I see the Debian Users list as an
invaluable source of information and advice, to which I attempt in my
own small way to contribute. Posts requesting opinions as to which is
the best software/hardware/distro inevitably invite flame wars which
fill my inbox with dross.

I didn't psychoanalyze you -- I told you what people think of such
behavior in public. I leave psychoanalysis to the pros. :-)

As far as your comments about posts requesting opinions as to which is
the best software to use for a particular purpose -- you're absolutely
right -- they always lead to dumb arguments and the same old flamefests.

My point to you is that no matter how hard you try (or voice your
opinion that you don't like it) -- those stupid arguments will
continue to happen. Example: If you can find an example of a Unix
list where the tired old vi vs emacs thread HASN'T happened, I'd be
impressed.

What point is there in fighting it? It's just tilting after windmills
to try to stop flamefests on a non-moderated mailing list. It's far
easier to just delete the thread and move on. :-)

Standard Unix flamefests: S/N ratio of lists drops by some measurable
amount. Complaints about flamefests, S/N ratio drops by a further
amount.

(Me being dumb enough to reply to you and try to explain it... S/N
ratio of list drops even further. GRIN...)

It's a never-ending flamefest/complaint/explanation that flamfests
won't go away/new flamefest cycle. Almost as natural as the Sun
rising and setting.

I find the complaints about the flamefests to also be "dross" in my
inbox, see? And I was dumb enough to point it out... which you
replied by saying you didn't like people psychoanalyzing you? Heh.

Quite the useless thread now... sorry, I'm done. I fell into the same
trap you did... complaining about something neither one of us can
change.

--
Nate Duehr
***@natetech.com

[Tshepang Lekhonkhobe]

Post by John Masters
Do not presume to psychoanalyse me. I see the Debian Users list as an
invaluable source of information and advice, to which I attempt in my
own small way to contribute. Posts requesting opinions as to which is
the best software/hardware/distro inevitably invite flame wars which
fill my inbox with dross.

This is the third poll I've run, of course asking the same question of
"what's your favourite FLOSS", and I haven't ever seen a flame war
incited by it. In fact I have found it pretty helpful since it tends
to reveal various hidden gems. And by the way, popcon states which
software is most installed (and does not exclude essential stuff like
'tzdata' which I'm sure many users don't care/know about), and that's
a limitation. Doesn't that distinction make it worthy to run this
poll?

[John Masters]

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
This is the third poll I've run, of course asking the same question of
"what's your favourite FLOSS", and I haven't ever seen a flame war
incited by it. In fact I have found it pretty helpful since it tends
to reveal various hidden gems. And by the way, popcon states which
software is most installed (and does not exclude essential stuff like
'tzdata' which I'm sure many users don't care/know about), and that's
a limitation. Doesn't that distinction make it worthy to run this
poll?

Firstly I must apologise to any and all I offended with my post. In
mitigation I plead age, failing memory and a bad day at work. I could
have sworn that it was only about 3 months ago the last survey was
posted; just checked the logs and it was last October. Doesn't time fly
when you get older?

Also at the same time there was a bit of a flame war going on about spam
and I must have subconsciously associated the two different threads.

BTW I actually submitted to the last survey ;). Also I take your point
about the difference between popcon and the poll.

[Tshepang Lekhonkhobe]

Post by John Masters

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
This is the third poll I've run, of course asking the same question of
"what's your favourite FLOSS", and I haven't ever seen a flame war
incited by it. In fact I have found it pretty helpful since it tends
to reveal various hidden gems. And by the way, popcon states which
software is most installed (and does not exclude essential stuff like
'tzdata' which I'm sure many users don't care/know about), and that's
a limitation. Doesn't that distinction make it worthy to run this
poll?

Firstly I must apologise to any and all I offended with my post. In
mitigation I plead age, failing memory and a bad day at work. I could
have sworn that it was only about 3 months ago the last survey was
posted; just checked the logs and it was last October. Doesn't time fly
when you get older?
Also at the same time there was a bit of a flame war going on about spam
and I must have subconsciously associated the two different threads.
BTW I actually submitted to the last survey ;). Also I take your point
about the difference between popcon and the poll.

I will check it out. Also please re-submit in anything changed. If
not, you lose :-)

[Kevin Mark]

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe

Post by John Masters
Do not presume to psychoanalyse me. I see the Debian Users list as an
invaluable source of information and advice, to which I attempt in my
own small way to contribute. Posts requesting opinions as to which is
the best software/hardware/distro inevitably invite flame wars which
fill my inbox with dross.

This is the third poll I've run, of course asking the same question of
"what's your favourite FLOSS", and I haven't ever seen a flame war
incited by it. In fact I have found it pretty helpful since it tends
to reveal various hidden gems. And by the way, popcon states which
software is most installed (and does not exclude essential stuff like
'tzdata' which I'm sure many users don't care/know about), and that's
a limitation. Doesn't that distinction make it worthy to run this
poll?

Here here! Great to get participation from users! I would suggest that
this poll and others be added to the debian-community.org site as a
feature. That way you can just point to a URL and let a wider audience
have a say.
Keep up the good work, Tshepang!
-K

[Tshepang Lekhonkhobe]

Post by Kevin Mark
Here here! Great to get participation from users! I would suggest that
this poll and others be added to the debian-community.org site as a
feature. That way you can just point to a URL and let a wider audience
have a say.

I was wondering where you were hidden. I still haven't seen your selection yet.

Anyways, do you suggest that debian-community.org has greater
visibility than the debian-user list.

[Kevin Mark]

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe

Post by Kevin Mark
Here here! Great to get participation from users! I would suggest that
this poll and others be added to the debian-community.org site as a
feature. That way you can just point to a URL and let a wider audience
have a say.

I was wondering where you were hidden. I still haven't seen your selection yet.
Anyways, do you suggest that debian-community.org has greater
visibility than the debian-user list.

Well I was looking to increase debian-community.org's visibility as its
intented for debian-user's ;-)
-K

[Kelly Clowers]

Post by John Masters

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to

<big big snip>
Sorry but here's where I unsubscribe for a couple of months while the
same stuff is rehashed as it was a few months ago. Does this totally
unscientific poll have any real use? Apart that is from reigniting the
antediluvian arguments like mutt v emacs, bash v korn etc.
There is a method to gauge the popularity of FLOSS apps built into every
Debian installation. If you haven't enabled it yet, do so and eliminate
this totally superfluous 'poll'.

I find it fun and interesting to discuss with my fellow free software users
what programs they use. With this method, it is not anonymous stats,
it is people I know somewhat. If someone has an interesting choice, I
can ask why they use that program, and sometime I learn of programs
that I didn't know about at all.

Last year, this poll produced no major vi/emacs or similar flamewars,
and there have been none so far this year.

I am generally for keeping the list mostly on topic, but I think an
annual "favorite FOSS poll" is still on topic (and fun).


Cheers,
Kelly Clowers

[Martin Marcher]

Post by John Masters
Sorry but here's where I unsubscribe for a couple of months while the
same stuff is rehashed as it was a few months ago. Does this totally
unscientific poll have any real use? Apart that is from reigniting the
antediluvian arguments like mutt v emacs, bash v korn etc.

It does have a purpose, unregularly just scrolling thru the results
may point you to something you may find usefull.

How would I use the results from $SCIENTIFIC_POLL - I don't even now
where I could get one for free....

[Jabka Atu]

Hmm ..

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mplayer

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dd

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Xfce4

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Anjuta

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cdrecord

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icedove

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konqueror

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gnucash

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gftp

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Gimp

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Kuikshow

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Gaim / Pidgin

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Hmm ..
Kalgebra + OO math

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Azureus

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apt-get

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kpdf

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impress

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Konsole

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vim

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mplayer

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lynx

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vim

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Cad work :
Brclad

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Gcc + Vim ,

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- --
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Could you at least use man ?
Jabka Atu (aka mha13/Mashrom Head) || bsh83.blogspot.com
- --

[Tshepang Lekhonkhobe]

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impress

Did you mean OOo Calc or do you want this under another category.

[Kevin Monceaux]

On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:

This looks like it might be fun. First of all, while I do know the
meaning of FLOSS I might choose to ignore that fact from time to time
below.
N/A - I haven't really gotten into audio editing.
mpg123
cdparanoia
Xfce when a GUI environment is absolutely necessary, otherwise I prefer to
stick to text consoles.
PostgreSQL
Well, I work as an IBM mainframe operator, so I'm thankful for the
development of mainframes.
cdrecord
Alpine
ls
I'd love to be rich, but it doesn't look likely that it's going to happen.
ftp
My graphics design skills are practically non-existant, but I have used
gimp a few times.
xv
yelling across the room
Well, I really liked algebra back in high school, but I hardly remember
any of it these days.
tar
I never watch the news.
amule
aptitude, although I'm closely following the development of IPS.
acroread
I try to avoid spreadsheets. I prefer databases.
Sharpies, they work wonders for nametags and such.
c3270, but I find actual terminals work better than emulators.
vim
xine
Firefox. And, if it's Firefox, get over it and call it Firefox.
LaTeX
Indiana - well, the developer preview has been released. I am, however,
anxiously awaiting the final, ready for primetime, release.
clip, Aubit4GL
canasta, cribbage, backgammon
I try to avoid those.



Kevin
http://www.RawFedDogs.net
http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org
Bruceville, TX

Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes.
Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!!

[Kevin Monceaux]

Post by Kevin Monceaux
clip, Aubit4GL

Humm, I seem to have experienced a momentary lapse of reason. I left out
Hercules. That should have been at the top of my "great honours" list.


Kevin
http://www.RawFedDogs.net
http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org
Bruceville, TX

Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes.
Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!!

[a***@gmail.com]

On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 13:15:18 +0200

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to

Yeah, this kind of stuff might be fun!
Here we go...
Audacity
Audacious
Sound Juicer
Xfce
Eclipse, gcc, Lua, Scite, cmake
Gnome-Baker
Sylpheed
Thunar
Gftp
Gimp
GQView
Gaim
Liferea
Azureus
aptitude, synaptic
Evince
OpenOffice-Calc
Xfce4-terminal
Scite
htop
Mplayer
Iceweasel
OpenOffice-Writer
Nouveau (hmm, did I get the spelling right?)
gcc does indeed deserve GREAT honours.

All in all I try to use/find Gtk stuff that isn't that heavy, and dont pull in all the Gnome-dependencies... Also, I could mention that I am not very faithful to software, so this list might look very different in a week or month... :)

/Andreas

[Michael M. Moore]

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to

* quodlibet
* abcde
* GNOME or Openbox
* Nautilus
* Evolution
* mc
* gftp
* gThumb
* rgrep
* Pan
* rtorrent
* Aptitude
* Evince
* OO.org Calc
* quodlibet/ex-falso
* urxvt
* vim
* mplayer
* Epiphany
* OO.org Writer


Favorite gui app not mentioned above:
Tomboy

[arijit sarkar]

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to

Amarok
Sound-Juicer
Gnome
K3B
Evolution
Nautilus
gFtp
gThumb
ktorrent, Deluge
Aptitude (also, emerge)
KPDF
OO.org Calc
Terminal
nano (gedit, if graphical needed)
mplayer
firefox, elinks
OO.org Writer
Tomboy

[M. Baldinelli]

[set lurking_mode off]
Audacity
[g]xine, xmms, mplayer
-
Gnome
MySQL
Geany, [g]vim :-)
K3B
iceape/icedove
Nautilus
-
/usr/bin/ftp
The GIMP / Inkscape
fbi, feh, gqview
pidgin
-
Rhythmbox, streamripper
iceape/icedove, slrn
Azureus
Aptitude
-
OOo Calc
-
rxvt
[g]vim
gxine, mplayer
iceape/iceweasel, links
OOo Writer
MAME (uhm, perhaps this is non-free in Debian sense so it should go
below... - I don't remember.)
Acrobat Reader, Skype

PS: I use many of these also on $BIG_BLOATED_PROPRIETARY_OS at work :-)

[set lurking_mode on]

[Chris]

On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 22:30:43 +0100
Adacity
Amarok / Audacious
Sound Juicer
Gnome / XFCE4
MySQL
K3B
Claws-Mail
Nautilus
GnuCash
Gftp / Igloo
Gimp
Gimp
Pidgin
Liferea / Bluefish / Revelation / Seti / Xchat / Wireshark / Dia /
Scribus
Pan
Yum / Apt / Pirut
OOO
Amarok
Gnome Terminal
Nano
Mplayer
Firefox
OOO
Acrobat Reader

[Tshepang Lekhonkhobe]

Post by M. Baldinelli
MAME (uhm, perhaps this is non-free in Debian sense so it should go
below... - I don't remember.)

Interesting. Does this run on Debian, and if so, how?

[M. Baldinelli]

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Interesting. Does this run on Debian, and if so, how?

I tried it with gxmame frontend (I think now it's discontinued, because
it's in Obsolete and Locally Created Packages, or perhaps it was from
some unofficial .deb package, I don't remember). I didn't try it with
recent and heavy games, as my favorite ones are some 80's games, but it
worked quite well. Now I didn't run it for a long time and cannot load
games for now because I moved some directory here and there :-), but the
frontend starts up and apparently keeps working well.

Here's the packages I installed on my lenny machine (gxmame obsoleted
and quite old versions for the xmame-* ones, too):

***@romula:~$ dpkg -l | grep "^ii .*mame"
ii gxmame 0.35beta2-1 GTK XMame frontend
ii xmame-common 0.106-2 Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator
ii xmame-extras 20050404-1 Optional files used by xmame (cheat.dat etc)
ii xmame-sdl 0.106-2 SDL binaries for the Multiple Arcade Machine
ii xmame-tools 0.106-2 Tools for xmame and xmess
ii xmame-x 0.106-2 X binaries for the Multiple Arcade Machine E
***@romula:~$

As I imagined, they are all in non-free, except for gxmame which is in
contrib.

[Tshepang Lekhonkhobe]

Post by M. Baldinelli

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Interesting. Does this run on Debian, and if so, how?

I tried it with gxmame frontend (I think now it's discontinued, because
it's in Obsolete and Locally Created Packages, or perhaps it was from
some unofficial .deb package, I don't remember). I didn't try it with
recent and heavy games, as my favorite ones are some 80's games, but it
worked quite well. Now I didn't run it for a long time and cannot load
games for now because I moved some directory here and there :-), but the
frontend starts up and apparently keeps working well.
Here's the packages I installed on my lenny machine (gxmame obsoleted
ii gxmame 0.35beta2-1 GTK XMame frontend
ii xmame-common 0.106-2 Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator
ii xmame-extras 20050404-1 Optional files used by xmame (cheat.dat etc)
ii xmame-sdl 0.106-2 SDL binaries for the Multiple Arcade Machine
ii xmame-tools 0.106-2 Tools for xmame and xmess
ii xmame-x 0.106-2 X binaries for the Multiple Arcade Machine E
As I imagined, they are all in non-free, except for gxmame which is in
contrib.

That was helpful, I was not aware that such goodness was available in
Debian repos. Thanks...

[Martin Waller]

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to

Gnome, fvwm
MySQL
gcc/g++, Qt, R, autoconf/make
The one that comes gnome, ls
ftp
gimp
gimp
R, g++, Octave
aptitude
xpdf
xterm
vi, nedit
Iceweasel
vi

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

autoconf/automake, R , gcc/g++, Qt

[Tshepang Lekhonkhobe]

Post by Martin Waller
R, g++, Octave

g++?

[Martin Waller]

Post by Martin Waller
R, g++, Octave

g++?

yes, g++

***@papilio:~$ g++ -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: i486-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v
--enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c
++,treelang --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --with-system-zlib
--libexecdir=/usr/l
ib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --enable-nls
--program-suff
ix=-4.1 --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu
--enable-libstdcxx-debug --en
able-mpfr --with-tune=i686 --enable-checking=release i486-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)
***@papilio:~$

Cheers

Martin

[Tshepang Lekhonkhobe]

Post by Martin Waller

Post by Martin Waller
R, g++, Octave

g++?

yes, g++
Using built-in specs.
Target: i486-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v
--enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c
++,treelang --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --with-system-zlib
--libexecdir=/usr/l
ib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --enable-nls
--program-suff
ix=-4.1 --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu
--enable-libstdcxx-debug --en
able-mpfr --with-tune=i686 --enable-checking=release i486-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)

I meant I saw it listed under mathematics. I already saw someone who
listed Python under mathematics, and maybe it's because she uses it as
a calculator. What about you?

[Martin Waller]

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe

Post by Martin Waller

Post by Martin Waller
R, g++, Octave

g++?

yes, g++
Using built-in specs.
Target: i486-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v
--enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c
++,treelang --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --with-system-zlib
--libexecdir=/usr/l
ib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --enable-nls
--program-suff
ix=-4.1 --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu
--enable-libstdcxx-debug --en
able-mpfr --with-tune=i686 --enable-checking=release i486-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)

I meant I saw it listed under mathematics. I already saw someone who
listed Python under mathematics, and maybe it's because she uses it as
a calculator. What about you?

Numerical analysis of various kinds - less so now since I have started
using R, but its still a good way to understand the fundamental details
of the calcs. involved in various techniques (at least to a pretty
elementary level) and how to use some of the BOOST libs and TMP etc
which can be useful in some cases.

Kind regards,

Martin

[Tshepang Lekhonkhobe]

Post by Martin Waller

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
I meant I saw it listed under mathematics. I already saw someone who
listed Python under mathematics, and maybe it's because she uses it as
a calculator. What about you?

Numerical analysis of various kinds - less so now since I have started
using R, but its still a good way to understand the fundamental details
of the calcs. involved in various techniques (at least to a pretty
elementary level) and how to use some of the BOOST libs and TMP etc
which can be useful in some cases.

Thanks much...

[Martin Waller]

Post by Martin Waller
R, g++, Octave

g++?

yes, g++

***@papilio:~$ g++ -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: i486-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v
--enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c
++,treelang --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --with-system-zlib
--libexecdir=/usr/l
ib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --enable-nls
--program-suff
ix=-4.1 --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu
--enable-libstdcxx-debug --en
able-mpfr --with-tune=i686 --enable-checking=release i486-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)
***@papilio:~$

Cheers

Martin

[William Pursell]

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to
desktop OR window manager: wmii
development: autotools/git
mathematics: dc
misc utilities: sed
p2p: bit torrent
package manager: aptitude
terminal emulator: screen
text editor: vim
video player: mplayer
web browser: w3m
word-processor: vim
anything deserving great honours (EG. GCC): git, screen, gdb, make, tclsh
shell: dash

[Celejar]

xfce
gcc, perl, bluefish, vim
sylpheed
mc
ncftp
imagemagick
feh
less, grep
liferea
aptitude
evince
xfce4-terminal
vim
gmplayer
links, iceweasel
abiword
gcc, perl, ssh
wesnoth
madwifi

I think you should, in the future, include a 'backup' category.

Celejar
--
mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email
ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator

[Tshepang Lekhonkhobe]

Post by Celejar
I think you should, in the future, include a 'backup' category.

That shouldn't have limited you since I asked that you may your own
category. Anyways, it will only be valid if there's enough voters for
such a category, and if not so it should just go under "misc
utilities".

[Celejar]

On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:25:57 +0200

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe

Post by Celejar
I think you should, in the future, include a 'backup' category.

That shouldn't have limited you since I asked that you may your own
category. Anyways, it will only be valid if there's enough voters for
such a category, and if not so it should just go under "misc
utilities".

Okay, so I'll add rsnapshot and rdiff-backup to "misc utilities".
BTW, I agree with you and the others about the value of the poll. I
like seeing what others, especially those who are much more experienced
and knowledgeable than I, use and recommend.

Celejar
--
mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email
ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator

[Tshepang Lekhonkhobe]

Post by Celejar
BTW, I agree with you and the others about the value of the poll. I
like seeing what others, especially those who are much more experienced
and knowledgeable than I, use and recommend.

Thanks much...

[Michelle Konzack]

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to
audacity
xmms
*
fvwm
postgresql
gcc
gtk+2
cdrecord
mutt
mc
gnucash
mc
gaim
xzgv
gaim
bc
${RANDOM}
i_hate_news
ssh/scp
apt-get
xpdf
php5/postgresql
*
xterm
xedit
vlc
iceape
xedit
DFSG
gcc
pth
gtk+2
xmahjongg
what_is_this_crap

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
Michelle Konzack
Systemadministrator
Tamay Dogan Network
Debian GNU/Linux Consultant

[Tshepang Lekhonkhobe]

gaim

mistake?

[Michelle Konzack]

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe

gaim

mistake?

Grmpf! gimp!


Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
Michelle Konzack

[Tshepang Lekhonkhobe]

DFSG

debian free software guidelines?

[Michelle Konzack]

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe

DFSG

debian free software guidelines?

I like it!

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
Michelle Konzack
Tamay Dogan Network
Open Hardware Developer
Debian GNU/Linux Consultant

[Tshepang Lekhonkhobe]

Post by Michelle Konzack

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe

DFSG

debian free software guidelines?

I like it!

Me not understand. DFSG exists already...

[Mihira Fernando]

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to

Audacity
Rythmbox, Juk

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

XFCE4, KDE
MySQL

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

K3b
Thunderbird 2
Thunar, Konqueror, ls

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

FileZilla
Gimp
gQviewer, Kuickshow, Fspot
Pidgin
galculator, Kcalc
Xarchiver, Ark, AVI Demux, Wifi-radar, wireshark

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

BitTornardo CLient
apt-get, Synaptic, Aptitude
xpdfeader, kpdfviewer
gnumeric,kspread

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

xfce4-terminal, konsole
nano, mousepad, kwrite
mplayer, vlc
Iceweasel 2
Abiword

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

The FOSS community.

Post by Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
*

Skype, Innotek Virtualbox,
Mihira.