Linux best apps

[Shippou]

Hello...
The reason I posted this thread is for people to know some of the best apps out there, not only for Ubuntu but for other distros as well.

I know the word "best" is subjective, but then I just want to hear your thoughts. This thread may also be a help for those who are just searching for apps to play with.

Okay. I'll start.

Personally, I like Amarok as my Music player. I think it is better than Windows Media Player 11.

When you are geeky enough, you can download wmbinclock, a binary clock that can impress yourself and your friends (I tried it, and it's really cool.).

Just post here your hidden jewels. :)

[AnLGP]

finch, naim, cmus, mc, screen, jwm/*box/any WM (I know they're not an app).

uh.

alsaplayer, leafpad, gimp, filezilla, electric sheep (awesome screen saver) ...

[Shaoline]

The thing I do the most with my computer is surf.. so I think I have to say Swiftweasel here, a lighter version of Firefox.

For MSN activities I use "Emesene" .. light, customizable and fast MSN-client.

I listen to music via the above mentioned Amarok player.

I use Swiftdove as my mailclient, as I'm used to Mozilla from earlier. (Like Swiftweasel, this is a lighter version of Mozillas Thunderbird)

I use Gnomebaker for my cd/dvd recording needs.. it does what I need it to do, so I'm satisfied.

And for the movie watching, there is VLC. It does it's job.

[cardinals_fan]

Browser: Opera
Media Player: RealPlayer
Terminal: Xfce4-terminal (runner up: urxvt)
File manager: Thunar
Image Editor: GIMP for heavy stuff, Picasa for light editing
Image Viewer: Ristretto
Image Organizer: Kphotoalbum (an AWESOME app)
System Stats: Conky

[Dixon Bainbridge]

VLC
VirtualBox
Ufraw
GIMP

[Pogeymanz]

Text Editor: Emacs! *ducks*

Claws Mail is an awesome, fully function, yet lightweight mail client.

+1 for Conky. It replaces every gnome system info app all by itself.

I have mine telling me the date, time, CPU activity, CPU temp, RAM usage, SWAP usage, disk space for each partition, the top 4 CPU-consuming processes, the top 4 memory-consuming processes, my IP address, wireless strength, network name, up-speed and down-speed.

And it only takes up a column on the right side of my screen and it's always on the desktop, so it doesn't even "take up space." Conky RULES!

Pidgin is a very useful IM client.

Nethack is a very addictive game- surely the most important Linux app.

[cardinals_fan]

Text Editor: Emacs! *ducks*

Insolent scum! You will learn the way of the Vim or die!

[RiceMonster]

Text editor: Vim (SciTE comes next)
MSN client: emesene
Window Manager: Openbox
Browser: Firefox + Vimperator
Guitar Tabs: TuxGuitar
P2P: Nicotine+
Video: Mplayer
File Manager: Thunar
Music: Still can't find anything better than Amarok. Exaile and cmus are also great.

[Barrucadu]

Emacs, GIMP, mpd, ncmpc, Sonata, Opera, Emesene, Gajim, FileZilla, Battle for Wesnoth, OpenOffice, VLC, et cetera.

[will1911a1]

I love Conky.
Exaile, thunar, urxvt, and Gimp are a few of my other favorites.

[mthei]

Text Editor: Emacs! *ducks*

Don't worry. I'm with you on this one.


Preferred apps

Not Linux specific:
Web Browser: Opera, which Firefox coming in second.
Image Editor: Gimp.
Office Suite: OpenOffice (although I'm using AbiWord for now).
Video player: VLC
Game: ZSNES, FCE Ultra (NES Emulator, although the Dribble repo for Fedora has, much like Livna and some XMMS plugins, deprecated the package, so I've been using FakeNES).

Linux Specific:
Music Player: Simple: Audacious/XMMS as well as MPD. Library-based: Amarok or Exaile.
CD/DVD Writer: Brasero.
File Manager: Thunar with Nautilus coming in second.

[screaminj3sus]

Banshee 1.0

[TheIdiotThatIsMe]

DeVeDe (Burning movies)
Spicebird (Email)
REALBasic (Dont Judge!)
LyX (Latext Text Editing)

[RiceMonster]

3 Emacs fans? Such a sad day that anyone would choose that over Vim :(.

[Yannick Le Saint kyncani]

Battle for wesnoth (package wesnoth-all) has to be one of the greatest gpl game ever.

Miro is also one of my favorite, to get regular video shows.

A little old-school, but konqueror is still one of the most full-featured file / web browser.

[cardinals_fan]

3 Emacs fans? Such a sad day that anyone would choose that over Vim :(.
They crawl out of the woodwork and scavenge off crumbs left by Vim users :)

[wrtpeeps]

For all the great software, I feel linux lacks a really good image editing program.

Gimp really doesn't cut it.

[Le-Froid]

Not everything on list is linux only, but meh:

Text editor: GNU nano (good once you figure out how to enable syntax hightlighting); geany
Web browser: Firefox
Image editor: Gimp
Office thing: OpenOffice.org
Music: Amarok; Banshee
File mgr: Nautilus

[mick316]

K3B, Thunderbird,Totem Xine, Avidemux, Tovid, - love them all.

[Blahblah54]

Just started using linux, but I've got to say that amarok, brasero, gimp, and vlc have impressed me so far.

[Shippou]

Updated List:

Browser: Firefox
Music Player: Amarok
Burning software: k3b (I wish a windows version exists.. I just find Nero "intimidating.")
Text Editor: Kate (a real help for programmers)
Office Suite: MSOffice 2007 (joke!); Anything but OpenOffice
Emulator: Wine
Virtual Machine: VirtualBox or VMWare
Video/CD/DVD player: Kaffeine or Totem
CHM Viewer: Kchmviewer
Sticky Notes: KNotes
Binary clock: wmbinclock (finding others)

Favorite application (and mostly used): konsole (I find it cool typing commands in it! :) Superior than MS console!)

Extra:
Favorite command: sudo apt-get install <package>

[-grubby]

Browser: Firefox, Opera
Music: VLC, Amarok, Banshee
Text editor: Kate
File Manager: Thunar
Terminal Emulator: xterm

[cardinals_fan]

Terminal Emulator: xterm
No need to be a masochist... :)

[ryaxnb]

Office: Gnumeric, AbiWord, Inkscape
Graphics: Krita, mtPaint,
Sound: Amarok, Songbird, LSongs
Video: Totem (Gstreamer), gstreamer (the framework)
Terminal, Terminal Apps: bash, Tilda, centerim, links-hacked, ELinks
Editors: Kate
Emulators: VirtualBox
File Management: Xfe, Nautilus
Science: Qalculate
Network: Pidgin, Thunderbird,
Web: Firefox, Links-hacked -g
File Transfer: Vuze
Games/Emulators: Stella, XTron, PSX, FloboPuyo, AisleRot, lbreakout2, PyChess, KSnakeRace, Ace Of Penguins
Wanted: Good bejeweled clone.
Edit: In order?
1. Firefox
2. Nautilus
3. VirtualBox
3. Tilda
4. Vuze
5. AbiWord
6. FloboPuyo
7. Stella
8. Xtron
9. Totem
10.Qalculate.

[ryaxnb]

less popular? In no order
*. Gnome-do
* Epiphany
* Hardware-Monitor
* JWM
* LXDE
* FloboPuyo
* Stella
* clive
* Xfe
* mtPaint
* lBreakout2

[j0s3l0]

3 Emacs fans? Such a sad day that anyone would choose that over Vim :(.

I've been a Vim user since 1996 (more or less), I have modal interfaces, hjkl navigation and vim-like shortcuts in every program that supports them (Long Live Vimperator!), but still I use emacs (in viper mode, of course).

My experience with Vim has always been excellent, and I still use it on a regular basis, so I will never say a bad word about it, but there came a time for me (after using Vim to write a gazillion lines of HTML, XML, Perl, C++, Java, SQL, PL/SQL and whatnot, putting together a really big collection of vim plugins, and writing myself thousands of lines of vimscript) when Vim finally showed its limitations, and there wasn't much left to do than to start hacking the Vim source code, or to give emacs a try. Since I'm no big fan of C, last year I decided to try first the second option. I never regretted it, and I don't think I'll ever do.

For the Vim power user, emacs is not just another editor, but a superior level of editing power. Just keep your mind open and you'll get here sooner or later (though probably later than sooner, if you have some kind of life).

Cheers,
--
José A. Romero L.
joseito (at) poczta (dot) onet (dot) pl
"We who cut mere stones must always be envisioning cathedrals."
(Quarry worker's creed)

[dracayr]

Terminal emulator: Terminator (It's awesome, try it)
Music: one mplayer command in an init script randomly plays out of my subdirectories of ~/Music

EDIT: you might at first might not notice the difference between Terminator and the other terminal emulators. The difference is: Terminator can split the Terminal window in many subwindows(it's better than tabs)

EDIT2: VIM is best :D

dracayr

[chucky chuckaluck]

i don't think i've ever used similar apps as good as k3b and gimp. krita looks like it might rival gimp, but i'm just too used to gimp to ever give krita much of a fair chance. and, i've had trouble with other burners. k3b is just great. it's worth the bloat.

[-grubby]

No need to be a masochist... :)

But I love xterm :D

[atomkarinca]

Blender: 3d modelling, animation, video editing, game engine and some other stuff :)
Ardour: digital audio workstation
Hydrogen: drum machine
Rosegarden: audio & MIDI sequencer, editor, score editor
Fluidsynth, ZynAddSubFX: synthesizers

[Yes]

Terminal emulator - urxvt
Music player - MPD + ncmpc/Sonata
Filemanager - pcmanfm

Nothing else really sticks out as outstanding, but I can't think of anything I would really consider to be bad.

[Shippou]

Blender is a really good application if you are really in 3D image generation and animation.

I earlier said that kate is my favorite text editor, but still I prefer, if a Linux version exists, Notepad++. For Windows users: this is really a good replacement for notepad++. Also, notepad++ is an open-source software. Just visit their site to DL the source code, the program, or both.

[chris4585]

Terminal emulator: Terminator (It's awesome, try it)
Music: one mplayer command in an init script randomly plays out of my subdirectories of ~/Music

EDIT: you might at first might not notice the difference between Terminator and the other terminal emulators. The difference is: Terminator can split the Terminal window in many subwindows(it's better than tabs)

EDIT2: VIM is best :D

dracayr

if you dont mind can you paste the script?


Browser: Opera
Media Player: RealPlayer
Terminal: Xfce4-terminal (runner up: urxvt)
File manager: Thunar
Image Editor: GIMP for heavy stuff, Picasa for light editing
Image Viewer: Ristretto
Image Organizer: Kphotoalbum (an AWESOME app)
System Stats: Conky

ristretto is awesome, thanks cardinals_fan

I love these types of threads, I dwell off of them :lolflag:

for my list of best linux apps..

search tool: beagle
system information: conky
disk burning: brasero and serpentine
menu: mint menu
music: quodlibet for listening to a huge collection.
music: beep-media-player for playing single files
msuci: bmpx for listening to the radio
games: gridwars
utility: xkill kills programs (installed in ubuntu by default)
terminal emulator: tilda
manager: startupmanager
torrents: deluge is good enough
instant messanger: bitlbee (ircd deamon, connect to it with your favorite irc client and have irc/im protocol all in the same program)
screenshot: ksnapshot, and scrot (scrot is command line)
sticky notes: xpad
image viewer: ristretto and gwenview

[AnonCat]

Stellarium is probably the best astronomy program out there. Not only is it full featured, but the GUI is professional, attractive, and well laid out.

[chucky chuckaluck]

But I love xterm :D

xterm is teh berries!

[dracule]

how can there really be a better terminal emulator? I never got this. can someone explain?

[Diabolis]

how can there really be a better terminal emulator? I never got this. can someone explain?

xterm is light and gnome-terminal heavy for a terminal, perhaps?

[terry_gardener]

music=amarok
downloads=hellanzb
burning=k3b
video=vlc
tv=tvtime

[scottuss]

Web: Epiphany (lighter than Firefox)
IM: Pidgin
Music: Banshee
Video: Banshee / VLC / Miro
VM: Virtualbox

Oh and I love the compiz-fusion tray icon VERY USEFUL!

:guitar:

[mrgnash]

Browser: Opera
Editor: G/Vim
Document creation: PDF/LaTeX
Music: Rhythmbox or Banshee
Desktop search: Beagle
Terminal emulator: Gnome Terminal
IM: Pidgin
Image viewer/organizer: GThumb
File browser: Nautilus
Notes: Tomboy
Video: Gnome-Mplayer
Mail/Calendar/Organizer: Evolution
Document Viewer: Adobe Reader 8

[RebounD11]

Evince, Banshee, VIM, AWN, Conky, CompizFusion, Wine, World Clock... and this is just of the top of my head.

[Shippou]

I recently installed Abiword. It is really a great app! I think I'll stick with it for a while.

As for emacs.. well, I somewhat find it intimidating. But I guess I'll give it a try next time.. For now, I'll stick to Kate.

[itix]

Media framework: Xine. (I am stil looking for a library based, non-kde, player for xine) -> (i.e not amarok)
Media player: Exaile (the developers told me they woud look into xine) =D
Web browser: Firefox 3, although for some strange reason, it freezes all the time on my Eee, so i use opera.
Image editor: Gimp
Instant Messeger: Emesene
P2P: Deluge
Terminal: xfce4-terminal
Utility: xkill
Time stealer: Frozen-bubble

Gotta go... More to come later

[mrgnash]

I recently installed Abiword. It is really a great app! I think I'll stick with it for a while.

As for emacs.. well, I somewhat find it intimidating. But I guess I'll give it a try next time.. For now, I'll stick to Kate.

Vim is quite a bit easier to pick up than Emacs.

[flytripper]

Wine. for Wow

[chucky chuckaluck]

how can there really be a better terminal emulator? I never got this. can someone explain?

some have tabs, fancier font, gui preference selectors, etc., while others just work.

[Shippou]

Web browser: Firefox 3, although for some strange reason, it freezes all the time on my Eee, so i use opera.


Mine too freezes when I am using Yahoo! All-new mail (they call it as such, then let them). But then it is maybe because I am using their beta 4 version.

[Shippou]

BUMP. Just need to bump this post.

Oh, do you know good alternatives for OpenOffice? I don't really like the office suit. Can you please suggest replacements for them?

Any help would be appreciated.

[Canis familiaris]

BUMP. Just need to bump this post.

Oh, do you know good alternatives for OpenOffice? I don't really like the office suit. Can you please suggest replacements for them?

Any help would be appreciated.

Lotus Symphony? But I doubt whether it'll cut it. You can try it though.
Also you have KOffice, AbiWord(GNOME Office), etc.

Also there is also Thinkfree Office which is paid and has a Linux version unless I'm much mistaken.
Also there is ElOffice, but it is paid too.

[Shippou]

This app is also good:

Sound Converter - Convert MP3, WAV, MPEG, FLV to OOG, MP3 (optional), FLAC and WAV in linux

See this link for further info: http://taufanlubis.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/sound-converter-%E2%80%93-convert-mp3-wav-mpeg-flv-to-oog-mp3-optional-flac-and-wav-in-linux/

[bmac]

Image Viewer - XnView
Personal Accounting - Grisbi
Internet Radio - Rhytmbox
Video - SMPlayer
Circuit Design - KTeclab
PDF - PDF Editor
Calculator - Qalculate
Disk Usage - Firelight

Just a few of my Favs.....

[Shippou]

gcalctool is also a great app. A seemingly simple calculator, it is really a powerful one.

Also, I tried screenlets. It is a great app! But then I cannot stop the daemon, and I have to uninstall it.

In its place (and also compiz) I enabled gnome composting. Now I'm fine. :)

[linuxguymarshall]

Amarok. Its the only reason I have the KDE libraries. Well that and KNetWalk

[regomodo]

#

[Shippou]

Hello...

Try typing this at the terminal:


calendar

Just discovered it. Sorry for the excitement.

[cardinals_fan]

Hello...

Try typing this at the terminal:


calendar

Just discovered it. Sorry for the excitement.
Don't you mean...
cal

[Shippou]

Don't you mean...
cal

No. I really mean calendar.

Here is my output:


shippou@Shippou ~/cvs/wine/temp $ calendar
Aug 22 CDC 6600 introduced, 1963
Aug 22 Death of King Richard III, 1485, Last of the Plantagenets
Aug 22 Joe Walker sets X-15 all time altitude mark (67 miles), 1963
Aug 22 St. Columbia reports seeing monster in Loch Ness, 565
Aug 22 N'oubliez pas les Fabrice !
Aug 22 Bonne fête aux Symphorien !
Aug 22 Jamais d'août la sécheresse
N'amènera la richesse.
Aug 22 Regency of the Prince Charles, 1944
Aug 22 Día del Folklore Argentino
Aug 23 Gene Kelly born, 1912
Aug 23 DEC founded, 1957
Aug 23 Sacco and Vanzetti executed, 1927
Aug 23 Liberation Days (2 days) in Romania
Aug 23* Parashat Re'eh
Aug 23* Shabbat Mevarekhim
Aug 23 Aujourd'hui, c'est la St(e) Rose.
Aug 23 N'oubliez pas les Philippe !
Aug 23 Abschluß des Hitler-Stalin-Paktes, 1939
Aug 23 El general Manuel Belgrano inicia la retirada hacia Tucumán, 1812


Try it.

[Glucklich]

Hello...

Try typing this at the terminal:


calendar

Just discovered it. Sorry for the excitement.

Wow! So cool... Happy Folklore day Argentina! And on the 23, happy Liberation day Romania! Really, really cool!

[Shippou]

Hello guys.. I have found a cool app:

Kompose

This is just like Mac's Expose.

[dualpretop]

Browser: Firefox
Music Player: Amarok
Burning software: k3b
Text Editor: Kate
Video Player: VLC
Ins.Messenger: Kopete
DC++ : Valknut

& XBMC,PeaZip...

[Shippou]

For supplementing apt-get:

deborphan and debfoster

[S0VERE1GN]

anyone know of a program that will take an avi file and convert it to MP4?

[justsomedude]

anyone know of a program that will take an avi file and convert it to MP4?

.avi and .mp4 are both container formats, the extension says nothing about the content. If you just want to transmux the contents of an avi file into an mp4 container, you can use MP4Box.

I believe MP4Box is included in the gpac package.

usage


MP4Box -add youravifile.avi video.mp4


If you want to convert your avi file to another format because you need your video to match specific requirements (for example: iPod capability) you can use Avidemux.

If you just want to play the file on your computer, there is no need for conversion at all.

[binbash]

anyone know of a program that will take an avi file and convert it to MP4?

Handbrake will do the trick

[L815]

Browser: Firefox
IM: Pidgin
Video: VLC
Audio: Banshee
Notes: Tomboy
Editor: gedit/Geany
Torrent: Transmission (I like the simplicity) otherwise Azureus(Vuze XO)

[Shippou]

Found a great app:

httrack

This is for those who want to view a site offline.

Basically, it copies the website into your hard drive.

Hope that my description is correct.

[71CH]

anyone know of a program that will take an avi file and convert it to MP4?

avidemux

[scouser73]

Rhythmbox, Ubuntu Tweak, Thunderbird, Brasero, APTonCD, Remastersys, VLC, OpenOffice 3, Firefox, Pidgin, Azureus, Avant Windows Navigator.

[kpkeerthi]

acetoneiso

[yavez]

I use most of the software that comes installed by default, here's what I add after a fresh install:

DVD to XVID for backing up my collection -- OGMRIP

DVD Creation - DeVeDe

Usenet - Lottanzb (get it here: http://www.lottanzb.org/)

File Sync/Cloud Storage - Dropbox (get it here: http://www.getdropbox.com/)

Codecs - ubuntu-restricted-extras

Wireless - NDISGTK (Realtek 8185 still sucks in Ibex)

Archives - xArchiver, unrar-nonfree

Dock - Avant Window Navigator (AWN)



Currently running Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex Beta.

[william_nbg]

Gnome; I have tried just about every desktop manager and always come back to Gnome. OK, it's not an app, but still!

Gimp
Quanta Plus
Avidemux
Open Office
Abi word
Evolution (I don't care what you say, I like it)

[jken146]

sl
fortune
calendar
apt-get moo
aptitude moo
grep

[chucky chuckaluck]

i forgot to mention streamripper. is there anything else that does what it does?

[Saint Angeles]

swiftweasel 3 and the latest swiftdove
apt-get (and the little script i made in my sig)

*these next three are great BECAUSE they're simple*
transmission
pidgin
nautilus (i can't wait for the intrepid version)

gxine (i've noticed higher quality than vlc or totem)
ardour
hydrogen
gweled

yep.... thats about all you need

[graabein]

For music I like the Quod Libet player in album mode. It's fantastic! Fits in with how I listen to music. It's GTK and pretty fast even with huge music libraries.

[Shippou]

swiftweasel 3 and the latest swiftdove
apt-get (and the little script i made in my sig)


Saved your post in my desktop.

This is really great! Just have to tweak it though and add sudo apt-get upgrade.

Thanks for the info!

[YoungQuiz]

i learned alot of new things form you guys:)

[markp1989]

my fav apps

Web browser: Firefox
photo editor: Gimp
text editor: Medit
movie player: VLC <-- has quite a big install size (+50mb) looking for somthing smaler
music player: MPD + sonata
burner: brasero
filemanager: pcmanfm
system monitor: conky
msn client: Emesene
terminal emulater: tie between uxterm and xfce4-terminal
torrents : torrentflux for big downloads, or deluge for smaller ones
screen shot: scrot

[Shippou]

movie player: VLC <-- has quite a big install size (+50mb) looking for


totem?

Correct me if I'm wrong.

[itix]

Something which I notice hasn't been mentioned is the great App pyRenamer which is used to rename a huge amount of files according to a pattern, with substitutions and a bunch of other methods. As the name suggest, it is written in Python.
It's wonderful for anyone who like me is a bit of a hobby fascist when it comes to order amongst files and folders. My manga folders are now ordered by name: chapter - episode and in folders with 25 episodes per folder => sweet.

As for totem vs VLC; VLC is great because of it's customizability but is a bit bloated (and the sound scrathes on my eee 901). Totem is good for just watching video, but when it somes to customizabilty, IT SUCKS! The preferences department is ridiculously small.

[Shippou]

Another app (command line):

figlet

[adamovera]

VLC seems to be the most-cited favorite all-in-one player for everybody using any linux, why isn't VLC the default?

[Fuzzy_Logic]

Usenet - Lottanzb (get it here: http://www.lottanzb.org/)

Thanks for the tip, I just tested LottaNZB, and I LOVE IT! :D

Still, I'd say my favorite Linux app is Wine, which allows me to play most of my favorite games in my favorite OS. :) As for other needs, I mostly use the pre-installed programs.

[Shippou]

Just an update...
This is how my apps are like:

1. Browser: Firefox 3.0.3 (skinned to look like the Mac version)
2. Player: Totem and VLC (Totem for almost all files; VLC for mkv files with more than one audio output)
3. Manga reader: Comix
4. IM client: Pidgin and BORGChat (running under WINE)
5. Notes: Tomboy Notes and Sticky Notes (the latter not somewhat used)
6. Virtualization: xVM Virtualbox
7. Archive Manager: file-roller
8. CHM Files Viewer: Kchmviewer
9. Dock: SimDock (looking for other docks)
10. Terminal: gnome-terminal and xterm (the latter not often used)
11. Text Editor: Gedit
12. PDF Viewer: Evince
13. Image Viewer: Eye of Gnome
14. Image Manipulator: GIMP (used very rarely)
15. IP Scanner: Angry IP Scanner (used sometimes)
16. Offline Website Mirroring: WebHTTrack
17. IRC Client: IRC Chat (not used)
18. BitTorrent Manager: Transmission (not used; torrent downloads is forbidden here)
19. Office Suite: OpenOffice 3.0 and MS Office 2007 (the latter running under wine)
20. Disc Burning Software: Brasero
21. Emulator: WINE
22. Package Manager: apt-get and Synaptic Package Manager (there is also mintInstall since my distro is Linux Mint)
23. File Browser: Nautilus
24. Desktop Manager: GNOME

CLI apps:
25. ASCII Generator: figlet
26. Speech Software: saytime and espeak (the former is unusable at the moment)
27. Compilers: python, gcc, javac, as

[mohitchawla]

In times of trouble, Nano !

Gxine Simple, small and fully functional media player.

GParted Partition editor

gFTP

F-Spot

Seamonkey !! Favorite browser.

JWM Say what you want, but this is the best thing in the world of WMs when it comes to low spec h/w.

Abiword Is there anything faster than it ? NO !

Enlightenment Another favorite.

dd if=/xx/yy/zz.img of=/dev/sdX No need for elaborate guides on writing USB images.

Netbook-launcher I love the interface.

More as I remember.

[chucky chuckaluck]

i've already said i don't think k3b and gimp can be beat for what they do. my other favorites probably have more competition...

nano - text editor for people who have actually been outside
elinks - trying to go mouseless and elinks is great
urxvt - transparent and cheap
mc - adios, thunar
feh - does so many things
cmus - just dumped cplay for cmus. so far, seems pretty damn good
mplayer - does everything (once you figure out how to use it)
streamripper - nothing else does what it does, afaik
screen, dwm - all the wm'ing you'd ever need

[doorknob60]

Amarok, I just spent a crapload of time trying to set up Andlinux+Vista+Amarok to sync iPod on my parents' computer but it failed at the last second (saw iPod but Amarok wouldn't let me copy files or view files from the database, I could browse it fine in Konqueror and Konsole though...). I can't stand any Windows media players, although I just discovered Mediamonkey and it looks pretty good, but Amarok is FTW :-D

Some others:
Nano
Kopete and Pidgin (use both, not at same time of course though :-P)
Firefox
Frets on Fire (FoFiX) (w00t)
PCmanfm (light, fast, lots of features, GOOD RIGHT CLICK EXTRACTING AND COMPRESSING, sorry for caps, I can't stand not having that :-P)
Wine (SimCity 4, COD2, lots of other stuff)

[alwayshere]

k9copy http://k9copy.sourceforge.net/

a dvd shrinker

[Shippou]

Hello..

Just to boast of my new program. Check it out: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6158003#post6158003

[binbash]

Hello..

Just to boast of my new program. Check it out: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6158003#post6158003

There are tons of programs at official repos which does this.Why would we need java?

[Junkbox]

"Wine" is awesome cuz I dont have to boot XP to play friggin Diablo

[WaeV]

K3B, Wine, Fyre