what are your favorites linux programs?

[earobinson]

Firstly im sure this must be a repost and for that im sorry, i have tryed to search for a post like this and the best i got was favorite editor.

So tell me what your fave linux program is and post a little info about it to save me a google.

My fave linux programs:
xine - great movie player found at: http://xinehq.de/
gaim - good for msn, icq, aol, and anything else you can think of found at: http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
guifications - great plug in for gaim so that you can have popups when people sign of off etc found at: http://guifications.sourceforge.net/
gedit - great text editor found at :www.gnome.org/projects/gedit
firefox - best web browser found at :www.gnome.org/projects/gedit
rhythmbox - best of the worst (love the itunes layout) found at: www.rhythmbox.org/
rhythmbox applet - Rhythmbox Applet is a small, simple GNOME panel applet that lets you control Rhythmbox's playback from a panel. You'll need Rhythmbox 0.8.0 or later installed for this to do anything useful found at: http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~kuliniew/rhythmbox-applet/

Im sure there is more I just cant think of any right now

[qalimas]

gEdit - It's one hell of a text editor, kicks Notepad's ass to hell and back ;)
Dia - For flowcharts for school, sometimes even for programming PHP charts
GIMP - Come on...
Azureus - Nice bit torrent client, and comes on the add-on CD
Gaim - I even use the Windows port when forced on an XP machine
gFTP - Gotta have something of the sort
Opera - Best for browsing and email
Apache/PHP/MySQL - For localhost, much better for quick PHP development
OpenOffice - <3
Bluefish - Can't live without it... errr, can't do PHP without it :P
Rhythmbox/Totem - For most of my multimedia needs
TvTime - For teh rest of my multimedia needs (TV/Gamecube)
Synaptic - I wonder why...
And of course..... Gnome Terminal

[Mike Buksas]

Emacs!

It's the swiss army knife of editing. It's a mail and news reader, it's a psychoanalyist, it makes a fine cup of coffee!

Seriously, every time I've tried switching to more specific editing platforms (I tried a couple of python specific ones recently) I end up switching back. Everything seems bloated and unconfigurable and covered in dross when compared to emacs. (Except possibly vi)

Oh yea, Firefox rocks too, especially with Adblock and Flashblock. Emacs and Firefox probably have mouse focus 95% of the time on my machine. The rest is a terminal or synaptic.

[macgyver2]

Definitely beagle, even though it's not perfected yet...also celestia, and some others already mentioned. But really...a question like this is like asking a parent which child is their favorite!

[erikpiper]

Definitely beagle, even though it's not perfected yet...also celestia, and some others already mentioned. But really...a question like this is like asking a parent which child is their favorite!
Editors- Nano, Gedit
Web- Firefox, Galeon, Links 2, Lynx
Desktop- Gnome, Xfce, enlightenment is looking good,
Shell- Bash
Office- Abiword, and Openoffice.org. Still need to get beta working. Probably will wait for breezy.
Terminal- Gnome Term. (Can have it transperent and borderless)
Sound- XMMS
Graphics- Gimp, and want photoshop in linux.
Other- Alsa, base system, 2.6 kernel, lots of games.

That's all!

[darkmatter]

Emacs, Irssi, IDLE, wget (and the gwget frontend), gftp, Epiphany, Firefox, BMP (XMMS is to ugly), totem (the xine flavor), nano, vim...

...I'd continue, but the list reads like a Debian repository. ;-)

[weasel fierce]

Frozen Bubble is up there....

[scourge]

Firefox
Evolution
Gimp
Inkscape
Blender
Wings3D
XChat
GnomeBaker
gedit
XBoard

...and a ton of command-line programs like gcc, gdb, etc.

[benplaut]

Gimp
OO.org2
Gimp
Crossover Office
cxoffice'd Macromedia Fireworks (not native, but... i lvoe it :) )
Xchat
mousepad (Gedit is just too much, vi[m] is too little)
Skype
Gaim
wget/gwget
firefox
gnome-baker

i'm looking for something ~equal to Windows XP's image viewer... nothing seems to quite get it, however :mad:

[isTHEr3mOr3]

Gimp
i'm looking for something ~equal to Windows XP's image viewer... nothing seems to quite get it, however :mad:

I like Gwenview. It's a kde application, so you may have to install some kde stuff .
Works very fast, very easy, slideshow etc, it amazed me.

[claydoh]

Somewhat KDE-centric as I use Kubuntu:

Amamrok (latest version) - song lyrics, wikipedia entries for artists, waaay cool

Kate editor- I can do quick edits/saves on html/php/css files directly on the webserver

imgSeek (http://imgseek.python-hosting.com/) - a nifty image organizer that finds similar images to one you have selected, or sketched in a little whiteboard

Gwenview is a super general purpose image viewer

Frozen Bubble for me and mahjong/shisen-sho for the Mrs.

Konqueror file browser- I can simply open a music cd, and in the file manager there is an mp3 folder, so all i have to do is drag those mp3's to my music folder and they are ripped/encoded automagically :)

[earobinson]

Terminal- Gnome Term. (Can have it transperent and borderless)

how you do that?

[23meg]

how you do that?
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=38938

[earobinson]

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=38938
ya sorry just found that

[poofyhairguy]

Firefox

Xcompmgr

Enlightenment

Autopackage

Ndiswrapper

[earobinson]

Firefox

Xcompmgr

Enlightenment

Autopackage

Ndiswrapper
lol you like all the programs that run behind the scenes eh

[Brunellus]

apt
GIMP
OpenOffice
/usr/bin/bash

[xequence]

Firefox is great as always. Nvu is good, I like gnometris also. The gimp is good but I have a hard time with it, just not used to it. I used it on windows a couple years ago. Rythmbox is good.

Limewire is good but I gotta admit... The windows version is way better, not sure why but it is.

[Brunellus]

Firefox is great as always. Nvu is good, I like gnometris also. The gimp is good but I have a hard time with it, just not used to it. I used it on windows a couple years ago. Rythmbox is good.

Limewire is good but I gotta admit... The windows version is way better, not sure why but it is.
the gimp requires study. I have begun studying the gimp in earnest, and have been pleasantly surprised at how easy things are, once I grasp certain basic concepts.

I use gtk-gnutella for my p2p needs, and am well pleased by it.

[chiefofthejojos]

Firefox - of course (with my favorite extension Bookmark Synchronizer)
OpenOffice - couldn't live without it
Gaim - to help me stay connected
Tovid - a new find for me, and absolutely fantastic!
Kino / dvgrab - still learning these, but they are an absolute must.
Gnome Terminal - will have to try that borderless thing.

[poofyhairguy]

lol you like all the programs that run behind the scenes eh

I wish xcompmgr would run behind the scenes. Damn crashes reminds me its there.

[professor_chaos]

gnumeric, apt-get, wine, revelation, and unreal tourney.

ooh, and abiword, and kb3 and gimp.

ohh yeah and scite, and boa-constructor and gftp.

damn. I love everything it's hard to choose the best.

[Pionner]

gvim - simply great !
amule - great performance and easy to use
inkscape - easy and powerful
amarok & k3b - killer apps
liferea, cedega, aptitude...

I can't live without them

First post from a proud ubuntu user.

[cowlip]

Gwenview, gnomebacker, konqueror, kcontrol, kaffeine, gnome-system-monitor, gparted, opera

[pmj]

Gaim

Oh, and Leafpad. Because life is too short to wait for gedit to start. ;)

[npaladin2000]

Well, my favorite Linus applications aren't really Linux applications. They're also on Windows and I use them there too. ;)

Firefox
Thunderbird
GAIM
VLC
OpenOffice2
IDLE
GVim (Yeah, GUI VIM! EAT THAT YOU EVIL CLI Vi and EMACS FANATICS! BWA HA HA!) :D

I've actually used XEmacs on both platforms too, but wouldn't count it as a favorite (it's too bloated).

However, there's also LBreakout2, LTris, and SuperTux that count as favorites, and I haven't seen Windows ports of these.