What for you is the most underrated piece of software?

[Macfunky]

For me it would have to be the humble file manager. What for you is the most under rated piece of software?

[ac_d600]

getting things gnome

[wolfen69]

Ubuntu.

[KiwiNZ]

Notepad/text editor

[juancarlospaco]

A lot of software!, ...but i think mainly on Creative/Design areas
(FreeCAD, Blender, Gimp, Inkscape, etc)

[sanderella]

notepad/text editor

+ 1

[CharlesA]

Notepad/text editor
This.

[stinkeye]

Hot-babe
...oh sorry I thought you said underdressed....and yes it's in the repos.

[keithpeter]

Hello All

I'll add a vote to the text editor constituency, specifically Gedit.

I've added a few plug-ins (text-wrap, join-split lines and the python console) and I've added markdown as an external command, and I have enabled spell checking.

I can use Gedit as a code and html editor, and by selecting full screen mode and a larger font size, as a low distraction writing editor. I use the dark blue colour scheme.

[Rodney9]

Gimp

[Tibuda]

I'd say Windows. People always talk about virus, BSOD, and those things, but I have never had that.

[donkyhotay]

+1 for gedit, it's great for coding. With the various plugins I find it does about as much as some of the more complicated programs like eclips, but way faster.

[CharlesA]

+1 for gedit, it's great for coding. With the various plugins I find it does about as much as some of the more complicated programs like eclips, but way faster.
+1 I use gedit or vim for coding my shell scripts.

Bluefish for my web site.

[Dangertux]

vim, by far.

[yanom]

Gimp

He said underrated, not overrated

[alco75]

+1 for vim

[HermanAB]

Streamtuner. Few knows it exists. Fewer knows how nice it is to have the whole world's radio stations - well OK, all of Europe and about 5 from North America - at your finger tips.

[CharlesA]

Streamtuner. Few knows it exists. Fewer knows how nice it is to have the whole world's radio stations - well OK, all of Europe and about 5 from North America - at your finger tips.

Nice. Is that in the repos?

[gsmanners]

I vote terminal. How many people even know about it? And yet it can do anything a lot faster than your silly GUI.

[keithpeter]

Nice. Is that in the repos?

Well, its in the Debian squeeze repos so I suppose a later version will be in Ubuntu.

It keeps asking for xmms, so followed suggestion in this forum post...

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=39604

and I am now listening to some fairly jolly Armenian folk music

[CharlesA]

Well, its in the Debian squeeze repos so I suppose a later version will be in Ubuntu.

It keeps asking for xmms, so followed suggestion in this forum post...

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=39604

and I am now listening to some fairly jolly Armenian folk music
Awesome.

[KBD47]

Synaptic Package Manager. It is a workhorse, fast, reliable, and sadly got dumped in Ubuntu 11.10.
KBD47

[Rodney9]

Synaptic Package Manager. It is a workhorse, fast, reliable, and sadly got dumped in Ubuntu 11.10.
KBD47

Thankfully it is still included in Lubuntu.

[KBD47]

Thankfully it is still included in Lubuntu.

Amen to that. And a second Amen to gdebi--best ever package manager, who needs Ubuntu Software Center, that thing is the turtle and gdebi the hare :-)
KBD47

[Nixarter]

Hugin :)

[StephanG]

Basket! It's great, you can drag and drop any file of any tipe onto it, make notes, organize ideas, etc. It's just a shame that it doesn't seem to be actively developed any more. It really deserves more recognition than it's currently getting.

[stinkeye]

After just finding out what the restore missing files nautilus
menu does I would say
Deja-dup

[mcduck]

Well, its in the Debian squeeze repos so I suppose a later version will be in Ubuntu.

It keeps asking for xmms, so followed suggestion in this forum post...

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=39604

and I am now listening to some fairly jolly Armenian folk music

It's asking for XMMMS simply because that's what's set as it's music player by default.

However you don't need XMMS with Streamtuner, just go to options and set any music player you want to use there. :)

(even if you happen to like the UI of XMMS, I'd definitely recommend at least going for BMP, Audacity, BMPx or some of the other more up-to-date versions of the same player)

[keithpeter]

It's asking for XMMMS simply because that's what's set as it's music player by default.

However you don't need XMMS with Streamtuner, just go to options and set any music player you want to use there. :)

(even if you happen to like the UI of XMMS, I'd definitely recommend at least going for BMP, Audacity, BMPx or some of the other more up-to-date versions of the same player)

Thanks mcduck, the Debian forum link in my original post made me realise that the commands are configurable. Good to have it explicitly here.