I find myself using a number of OSes daily but for the OSes I use most, I have some favorite third party applications that I can’t live without. Here are my application lists for Windows, Unix/Linux, Mac OS X and BeOS; applications I always download and install after a clean OS installation. Please tell us about your favorite third party apps you use on different OSes by using the provided comment section.Note: The applications are not listed in any particular order.
Windows
Pretty standard applications I must say.
1. WinZip
2. Trillian
3. Paint Shop Pro
4. GetRight and CuteFTP or FileZilla
5. Java
6. mIRC
7. Acrobat Reader, AbiWord & OpenOffice.org
8. Nero
9. Mozilla/Firebird and Opera
10. Media Pack (WinAMP, DivX, QuickTime, VLC and Real)
Unix/Linux
On Linux, most distros already come with these following applications, but on other Unices they don’t always come as standard as they are not part of X, Gnome or KDE. If that happens, here’s what I try to get for these systems:
1. Gaim or Kopete
2. K3B
3. OpenOffice.org & AbiWord or KOffice
4. ‘Downloader for X’ and gFTP
5. RDesktop & tsclient
6. The Gimp
7. X-Chat
8. Media Pack (VLC, Ogle, MPlayer, XMMS and Xine w/ Totem)
9. Quick Lounge for gnome-panel
10. Ximian Evolution
Mac OS X
I wrote a more comprehensive Mac OS X application list the other day, but this is my really-must-have list.
1. Fire
2. Transmit, Speed Download or iGetter
3. DiscBlaze
4. Media Pack (MacAMP Lite, VLC, MPlayer, Micorosft Media Player)
5. X-Chat Aqua
6. Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection
7. CodeTek VirtualDesktop
8. USB Overdrive X
9. Photoshop Elements or GraphicConverter or MacGimp
10. Watson
BeOS
I don’t use BeOS much anymore (maybe one or two reboots per month), but here is my list. You can see screenshots and more info about these apps on BeBits or BeZip.
1. ProcessController
2. VLC
3. ArtPaint or Refraction or Becasso
4. Helios CDRecorder
5. OpenTracker
6. BeShare
7. BePDF
8. SoundPlay
9. Bezilla or Firebird
10. Vision
BeOS 5 hasn’t been updated for quite a long time and so the OS itself doesn’t come with a lot of stuff resulting in the need to download more third party applications in order to get a more complete experience. Here are some more apps that I usually need to install under BeOS.
11. NetPenguin and BeGet
12. Gobe Productive
13. ‘Terminal Here’ Tracker addon
14. GifTranslator and ImageViewer
15. GimICQ, Y!, MSN and AIM clients
Mac OS X
– Stickies
– iTem
– Terminal
– XTerm (I always runs all those terms at a time)
– AppKido
– GNUMail.app
– Vim
– Safari
– BitchX
GNU/Linux
– Terminal.app
– XTerm
– screen
– GNUMail.app
– Vim
– BitchX
– w3m
– GIMP
That’s all…
Nice, thanks for the list.
BTW, Safari and Terminal are not third party apps (even xterm comes by default now on Panther’s 3rd CD
As a developer I can’t live without these (Slackware):
– KDevelop
– MozillaFirebird
– Apache httpd
– MySQL
– Rsync
I prefer to compile apache and mysql thats why they are in the list
Java
Freenet. I have to Check out Content of Evil.
Windows
Cd Ex or Exact Audio Copy For CD ripping
Lame (mp3) lossy encoding
Monkey’s Audio lossless encoding(Might try FLAC or OptimFROG again).
TagScanner the Best and Easiest to use mp3 tag handler, better or as good as ArmyKnife for BeOS.
Kazaalite, MlDonkey, Shareaza, WinMX file trading
ASF Tools for treating stupid windows media files
Irfanview Image Viewer (it needs to know not to try to load mp3s and videos when I don’t associate them)
Adaware gets rid of spyware crap
Mozilla The better browser TM
GIMP Image manipulation with a right click TM
WinRAR for zip and rar archives
AIM and yahoo instant messengers
Winamp for music
and Nero for CD creation and copying
NotepadEx Becasue MS Notepad sucks TM
VirtualDub, flask, Vidomi, and divx(and other codecs) for video conversion.
That’s all I’ll force you to read.
Now how about favorite websites?
Windows
This is quite some while ago, so maybe some of these are obsolete now.
1. winzip/winrar
2. winamp
3. Mozilla Firebird
4. mirc/teamspeak/all seeing eye (aka “gaming tools”)
5. gaim
6. The Gimp
7. jEdit or some other windows-only text editor which was pretty neat but I discovered it too late to use it a lot and now I forgot the name)
8. TheBat (also licensed, but the fact that I’m not even sure I’d still be able to find my key reminds me of how much I loathe proprietary software)
9. Getright
I think that’s it.
Linux
Most comes with a default installation of Fedora/GNOME, with a few exceptions:
1. XQF (I don’t like it, but it’s the only choice)
2. Teamspeak (proprietary and ugly but very important)
3. The Nvidia driver installer (basically, that’s an application :p)
4. The media players that aren’t included in RedHat/Fedora for legal reasons (xmms mp3 plugin, rhythmbox with mp3 support, totem, mplayer)
5. Java and jEdit (though I’m trying to get away from this because it’s a PITA, alternatives are rare though)
6. Red Carpet (no Fedora support yet for Ximian channels, but with Open Carpet it’s a much more convenient alternative to yum)
And those are the standard apps that I’d get in any case:
5. Epiphany
6. Gaim
7. Xchat
8. Evolution
9. Gimp
11. OpenOffice
I don’t use dedicated FTP tools anymore since both Nautilus and Explorer can handle FTP servers very well.
And the only download tool I use besides the one built into Epiphany is wget.
I only use linux, (even on my powerbook, although i used to be a beos junkie)…so here it goes
emacs (albiet standard on nearly every platform)
pgadmin3 for my postgresql work
anjuta
eclipse 2 & 3 with plugins
rythmbox
hping, fragroute, aide, hunt, opennms, etherape, and the rest of the packet crafting, analysis, vulnrability, etc…. which i use for the software i write at work.
~ chris
and obviously need some sleep. :p
It is quite comprehensive, Eugenia. I myself do not reboot into BeOS often. (quite sad situation though)
But I must comment on that there’s no MSN client on BeOS (at least usable yet)!
On FreeBSD, i also use gqview alot to view pictures It is quite usable for me. And rox the file manager is light-weight but quite good IMHO. How about DVDRip? awesome nifty tool for DVD users!
To view pdf, i think acroread is still the better choice than gnome’s default viewer. And as i’m not native english speaker (I am an asian lives in NZ) X input method is a must have for me as well.
Well.. the list goes on. I rekon I’ve installed too many packages on my desktop.
Linux :
1. Openoffice
2. Gkrellm2
3. K3b
4. AMSN, Licq and Psi
5. Gimp
6. MAME and ePSXe (just love gamin’)
7. Tribes 2
8. MPlayer
9. Opera and Mozilla
10. Grip
1. LaunchBar
2. LaunchBar
3. LaunchBar
4. LaunchBar
5. CanyBar
6. Transparent Dock
7. Konfabulator
8. Mplayer/VLC
9. Dock-it
10. iPhoto Buddy
On windows:
-Irfanview
-Kazaalite
-foobar
-emule
-Nero
-phpdev(apache+php+mysql packette)
-homesite
-Mozilla firebird
-Regcleaner
-Symatec antivirus client
Linux:
-Bluefish
-apache
-php
-mysql
-gaim
-Xfce
-Mozilla firebird
That’s about it…
Linux
1. KDE ;o) (no, seriously, it pretty much covers my needs)
2. Firebird
3. OO.org
4. gFtp
5. Opera (good to have when netiher Konqi nor Firebird can display a site)
on Windows:
Mozilla
ZoneAlarm (no bloat, just works)
iTunes
Real Alternative (Play realmedia without the toxic waste which is realplayer)
Nero Burning ROM
Terrapin FTP
WinISO (ISO management – use for slipstreaming CDs)
ReGet (Downloader, far superior to DX)
1. BBEdit/Pagespinner
2. PHP
3. Photoshop
4. Illustrator
5. Transmit
6. Toast
7. mySQL
8. Ghost Recon 😀
9. TextEdit
10. Preview (PDF Viewer)
Windows:
1. Quake3
2. Mozilla Firebird
3. WinAMP and iTunes
4. Roxio CD Creator
5. Microsoft Office (Word, Excel)
6. Mathtype 5.1
7. Basilisk II
8. Putty
9. AOL Instant Messenger
10. Ad Aware
Mac OS X
1. NewsNetWire Lite
2. Adobe Acrobat Reader
3. Microsoft Office (Word, Excel)
4. BBedit
5. Roxio Toast Titanium
6. Quinn
7. RockNES
8. iTunes, QT, iChat, X11, Terminal, Safari, Stuffit Expander (all included with OS)
9. Quake 3
10. Transmit
Linux/UNIX:
1. Mozilla Firebird
2. Gnome and not KDE
3. Abiword, Gnumeric
4. Xchat
5. Gaim
6. Bash shell (on non-linux UNIXs)
7. GCC
8. Probably some more I can’t think of right now
All of the above: JEdit
Eugenia posted a dead OS so I am going to post a dead OS of my own!
Mac OS 7 on a 68k Mac
1. Mathtype 3.7
2. Microsoft Word 5.1, Excel 5.0
3. Tons of old games, Prince of Persia, Arknoid, Monkey Island 1 &2, Fools’ Errand, etc.
4. Mac Write 3.0
5. SuperClock
6. True Type fonts and printer driver
7. Open Transport
8. Appearance Manager
9. Gram•mat•ik Mac (Really good grammar checking program)
10. AOL Instant Messenger 4
Skipp
Linux
Kopete
KMail
Konqueror
MPlayer
KAudioCreator
K3b
Emacs
KGet
OpenOffice
VMware
Windows XP Pro:
Applications:
Acrobat Reader
Internet:
Gaim
Mozilla Firebird
mIRC
WS FTP
MSN Messenger
Yahoo! Messenger
BitTorret
Xnews
Multimedia:
Winamp 2
Quicktime
RealPlayer
VLC Player
iTunes
Divx Codec
Utilites:
TweakUI by Microsoft
WinRAR
SmartPAR
Nero
CloneCD
ISOBuster
Sun Java
Adware
I don’t want to take the time to look up the BeOS one, I never had to format BeOS enough to know them all off hand…
I never really installed any 3rd party stuff in Mac OS X I just use whatever comes with it and install Microsoft Office.
Linux, I just use whatever comes with RedHat and that works for me, but of course…
Xmms-mp3 add on
Xine
Flash
Java
Thats about it.
1. Rox-Filer
2. Opera
3. XMMS
4. Gtk-Gnutella
5. Lopster
6. Abiword
7. Inkscape (inkscape.org)
8. Gaim
9. File-Roller
10. Totem
11. Xbindkeys (hocwp.free.fr/xbindkeys/)
12. Gimp
13. Gqview
Here is the problem though… Only 2 and 7 don’t come w/ mandrake.. are they third party apps? I noticed you have the same problem Eugenia.
Linux: (using Fedora Core 1)
1. Evolution
2. Gaim
3. OpenOffice.org
4. Mozilla
5. wget
6. xmms
7. Mplayer
8. Gnome + all it’s standard apps
9. Knoppix (so i cheated, this isn’t an app)
10. All standard tools (ls, cp, mv, mount, etc) and the bash shell
Windows:
1. 7-Zip (www.7-zip.org)
2. Nero Burning ROM (www.nero.com)
3. Grisoft AVG Anti-Virus FREE (www.grisoft.com)
4. IrfanView (www.irfanview.com)
5. K-Lite Codec Pack (url skips around)
6. Mozilla (www.mozilla.org)
7. OpenOffice.org (www.openoffice.org)
8. PDFCreator (pdfcreator.sourceforge.net)
9. Winamp (www.winamp.com)
10. Yahoo! Messenger (messenger.yahoo.com)
11. UnxUtils (unxutils.sourceforge.net)
…is that as soon as you make them you think of more app you can’t like without.. I’m shocked I forgot screen, nano and checkinstall.
“8. Gnome + all it’s standard apps
9. Knoppix (so i cheated, this isn’t an app)
10. All standard tools (ls, cp, mv, mount, etc) and the bash shell”
Now these three are definitaly not third party apps 😛
Windows:
1.Emacs
2.Mozilla
3.foobar2000 (fantastic mp3 player)
4.Psi (jabber client)
5.IrfanView
6.EAC (CD ripping)
7.Soulseek;-)
8.Nero
Linux:
1.Emacs
2.Mozilla
3.Mplayer
4.Psi
5.Gnome
6.Mutt
7.K3b
…are as follows:
* 4OS2/4DOS (the main reason I can LIVE on the command line)
* Mozilla and Mozilla/Firebird
* Links (*not* lynx) — what I’m using now to write this!
* Pine
* Yarn
* FTE
* Embellish
* FileJet
* ZIP/UNZIP from Info-ZIP
* FM/2
* Z! and PM123
* Leech/CDRecord/LAME/BladeEnc
* CD2MP3 PM
* Chris Wohlgemuth’s Audio/Data CD Creator Objects
* NFTP
* StarOffice 5.1a
* Ami Pro/2 3.0b
* Quicken 8 for DOS/Quicken 98 for Windows
* ADRp 1.80
* Information Palace/PC File
* UPSMon
* Partition Magic/Drive Image
* Hummingbird Exceed’s Virtual Desktop
>8. Gnome + all it’s standard apps
>9. Knoppix (so i cheated, this isn’t an app)
>10. All standard tools (ls, cp, mv, mount, etc) and the bash
> shell
>
> Now these three are definitaly not third party apps 😛
Hehe. Well, with #8 & #10, they’re not part of the kernel. So I guess you can still consider them third party apps =D. With #9, Knoppix, I consider it third party since I use it as a tool for data recovery, migration, configuration, troubleshooting, etc. But that’s just me =D
you forgot the part about being applications
I’m glad that Abiword got a mention, but you missed out some other important ones:
Gnumeric, probably the best spreadsheet application in the world.
GnuCash, probably one on of the most comprehensive financial applications in the world (and I’m really looking forward to the imminent Gtk2 updates).
There are many others for Linux… some more obvious, some fairly subtle:
Screen, Rhythmbox, Vim, gThumb, Straw, and more.
On a final note, with the availability of Gimp for Windows, I wouldn’t have included Paint Shop Pro.
check 7-zip.
I posted for such a list some time ago. Thanks. I use OpenVMS and Linux at work and Linux at home and no Windows anywhere.
– jEdit – couldn’t live without it. It is even better than TPU on OpenVMS. Still, I miss TPU’s learn mode.
– Konqueror – I do not understand the bashing it sometimes is getting. I find it remarkable.
– ddd – again a bullseye. I know it is based on gdb. I beats the OpenVMS debugger by far.
– KMail – It’s ok for what I need.
– K3b – But I have not gotten it to work on kernel 2.6. I think because scsi-ide is broken and K3b cannot burn using cd-ide yet.
– TextMaker – I haven’t worked much with it yet. But it is lighter than Oo Writer and appears to suffice for the MS Word writing that I need.
– Digikam – Another one that looks very promising and but that I have not spent any time on yet.
Windows
1. Partition Magic 2. Norton Utilities 3. AVG antivirus 4. ZoneAlarm
5. AdAware 6. Spybot S&D 7. RegCleaner 8. Mailwasher
9. Xteq-xsetup, TweakUI 10. MozillaFirebird, JAVA 11. Winamp,Mplayer,Quicktime 12. Nero
13. StayLive 14. IfranView 15. Instant Artist 16. MealMaster
17. Map n’ Go 18. Shutdown 19. Flashget 20. TXclock
21. Desktop Architech 22. Rain, MB probe 23. Power Archiever 24. Outlook Express
25. MS Office 26. Backer 27.AIDA, SANDRA 28.Ghost, G-disk, Ultimate boot disk
Linux
1. Click ‘n Run 2. K3B 3.KDF, cfdisk, parted, QTparted 4.Xine, MPlayer 5.MozillaFirebird
6. apt-get, Synaptic 7.Wine 8. OpenOffice 9. VIM
Favorite Distros
1. LindowsOS 2. ARK 3. ALT 4. MEPIS 5. Knoppix 6. PCLinuxOS 7. Xandros
8. Libranet 9. Lycoris 10. Mandrake
Since I use fluxbox and only lightweight apps, my list list might look a bit different:
– aterm
– Vim
– Sylpheed
– dillo
– MozillaFirebird
– irssi
– Mplayer
– XMMS
– gtksee
– siag
Windows
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Adobe Photoshop
Dreamweaver MX
Fireworks MX
Flash MX
Winzip
MS Word
Super Notetab
Mozilla Firebird
Outlook Express
Quake3
Nero
GTKradiant
Adobe Acrobat
The list could go on for a long time if I include smaller apps. (when you do web and multimedia stuff, you need a lot of apps)
Linux
=====
Mozilla
Apache
PHP
MySql
Sendmail
SSHD
Perl
named
vi
I’m still meddling with Linux on the Desktop – I’ve always got another dev box at home that I switch over to (with my nifty keyboard/monitor switcher) but I’ll admit that there’s no apps on the Linux Desktop I need. (currently running SuSe 9.0)
Server side, however, my business absolutely depends upon Linux to function for the hosting of websites, email etc.
This is my “software list” for Windows in no particular order:
WinRAR
Mozilla Firebird
mIRC
Dev-C++
foobar2000
Miranda IM
OpenOffice
LeechFTP
Eraser
FileZilla Server
Password Safe
GSview (along with Ghostscript)
ActiveState ActivePerl
ACDSee
Paint Shop Pro
Alcohol 120%
UltraEdit
The Bat!
ZoneAlarm
BestCrypt
To continue the trend of posting your favorite apps:
xCode
Eclipse
OfficeX
OmniGraffle
OmniOutliner
MSN Messenger
irssi
NetNewsWire Lite
MT-NewsWatcher
Transmit
wget
nmap
ncftp
Launchbar
Sidetrack
MySQL
libxslt (comes with xsltproc)
SuperCal
Photoshop Elements
Divx plugins for quicktime (see hint on macosxhints to see a nice list of plugins)
Mplayerosx
Windows Media Player 9
Realplayer
Flash
My windows developer workplace:
1. FAR File Manager
2. Putty
3. UnxUtils (I hate cygwin!)
4. Mozilla Firebird
5. Various sysinternals.com tools
6. ACDSee v2.3 (the older the better)
7. Paint Shop Pro 6
8. VIM 6.2
9. Tortoise CVS
10. WinZip
I use Linux exclusively so:
MozillaFirebird
Sylpheed-Claws
Gkrellm2 (for the xmms plugin more than anything)
Xmms
GQView
Emacs (I write for a living and I find it easier to write/edit stuff on this. Never quite got to like Vim).
Openoffice.org (Use this only for formatting the final text)
GNU Privacy Guard
Aterm
Gaim
Matt’s Traceroute (I have a lousy dialup conncetion)
And Gnome, for a change every now and then from my default Window Maker desktop.
From my Windows Days:
Mozilla
Pegasus Mail (In fact this is the only Windows-only app that I miss)
PGP
Winamp
Kazaalite
MS Word
Zone Alarm
Norton Antivirus
Yahoo and MSN messengers
My little collection I could NOT live without:
Infoselect
TheBat! {plz fix the html bugs though}
WinAce
Quicken
KazaaLite
PGP
*Any* Password manager (Oubliette at the moment)
MS office I suppose (miss Gobe..)
A Web Browser of anykind (this I think WOULD kill me)
“Click ‘n Run”
This is soooooo not a third party app 😛
Windows XP:)
WinRar
WinAmp
Light Alloy (video player)
Opera
ICQLite
FlashGet
Macromedia Studio MX
Y`z Dock
Acrobat Reader
StyleXP
Unizone
SmartFTP
BeOS R5+bone
Mozilla
SVGTracker
Terminal Here addon
The Gimp
Becasso
Beshare
OS X:
Launchbar
Mozilla Firebird
Fire
Mplayer
Carbonized Emacs
Fink/Finkcommander
Transmit (Thanks for that one, I’ve been looking for a nice graphical ftp client)
Linux/FreeBSD/Whatever:
XFCE
screen
irssi
Firebird
MPlayer
XMMS
Gaim
mutt
I’m still looking for something like irfanview for OS X.
I “always” install or upgrade these periodically
Linux
——
evolution
apache-mysql-php
jpluck / plucker
k3b
gimp
websec
webmin and fav modules
man2html – for light reading 🙂
kio-apt – really cool konqueror frontend to apt-cache
konqueror – still finding new things to do with it
Konsole – for everything else
Windows – seems so long ago!?
——-
roxio
iceows – v.small light and different archiver
2xexplorer
Live CDs/tools
————–
damnsmalllinux
knoppix
Palm
—-
plucker
agendus / hotdate
bigclock
funSMS
tuneit
x-master and hacks
launcher III
Searching hundreds of GBs takes less than a second, and queries remain live, just like the real thing.
roxio?? I meant nero – see I told you it was long ago!!
Windows:
Microsoft Outlook
Winzip
Photoshop
ACDSee
Microsoft Office (Word,Excell)
ICQ,MSN (or trillian.. it was so much better earlier)
Netmeeting(for video sessions only)
Paltalk(for voice conferances)
Tiny Personal Firewall
Windows:
a) Thunderbird
b) Firebird
c) Trillian
d) Spampal
e) NutCracker
Sun:
a) GCC and gmake
1. Mozilla Firebird/Thunderbird [ http://mozilla.org ]
2. 7-Zip [ http://seven-zip.sf.net ]
3. Nero [ http://www.nero.com ]
4. Metapad [ http://liquidninja.com/metapad/ ]
5. SmartFTP [ http://www.smartftp.com ]
6. Media Player Classic [ http://gabest.org/ ]
7. DefilerPak [ http://hellninjacommando.com/defilerpak/ ]
8. eMule [ http://emule.sf.net ]
9. RomCenter [ http://romcenter.com ]
with the exeption to Nero everything else is free and most are also Open Source
Can’t belive i forngith one of the most important apps i use!!
StrokeIt [ http://www.tcbmi.com/strokeit/ ]
Since installed, it has become a second nature so don’t even think about it…
I’m surprise there aren’t many programs that are must haves for any OS. This is a bad sign for any shrink-wrap company left.
Linux comes with most of the applications mentioned and Microsoft is including alot of stuff starting with XP.
Anyways, my list really short.
Microsoft (windows xp pro)
1) Visual Studio 6
2) DotNet SDK
3) Java SDK
4) Eiffel Studio
5) Eclipse
6) Vim
7) Open Office
8) Mozilla
9) Acrobat reader
10) Flash
11) apache
12) Cgywin
13) VLC + WinDVD
14) Python
15) Mysql
16) PHP
17) Perl
18) Nero
17) Real one
18) Quicktime
17) Antivirus
19) Firewall
Linux (slackware)
1) Smart Eiffel
2) Eclipse
3) Flash
4) Xine, VLC + codec
WOW, everything else comes with the distro. No wonder it takes me less time to customize linux.
20) Putty ssh client
21) Ftp client
“1. WinZip
3. Paint Shop Pro
4. GetRight and CuteFTP or FileZilla
6. mIRC
8. Nero
9. […] Opera”
Though i guessed a bit, these programs are to my knowledge shareware. I take it you are one of the ~30 people who actually paid for mIRC? Shareware essentially means you’ll have to pay for it after having used it for a certain defined period.
Wether you have limited functionality akll the time, at the time after the period is over or full functionality does not differ anything to this license. Shareware is “try before you buy”, after the period you either have to stop using it or pay for it.
Result is, a lot people are actually using ie. mIRC illegally.
gnome
eclipse
xmms (rhythmbox can’t handle my collection yet)
totem
tvtime
galeon
OO.org
nicotine
bittorrent
Archiver: WinRAR or PowerArchiver
GFX: Paint Shop Pro; Irfan View or Picasa
Developer: Visual Studio .NET; DevC++; Matlab; GLUT
Internet: MyIE2 (IE’s already there, why not make proper use of it? – I gave up on Opera because of this.); Eudora; Offline Explorer; PuTTY; LeechFTP or SmartFTP; MSN Messenger (can’t be btohered with the other IMs); mIRC; Download Mage (can’t live without “download targets as”); eMule; uPnP & Fast Resume BitTorrent Client (0.8.5)
Media Authoring: Daemon Tools; Nero; ISOBuster; CDMage
Office: M$ Office (okay, it’s not 3rd party); Adobe Acrobat; GSView; Metapad
Media: ACE Mega Codec Pack (it includes nearly everything you need codecwise, with added apps to call); Media Player Classic; WinAMP; Foobar
Network: UltraVNC; Etherpeek
Misc: Ad-Aware; AntiViral Toolkit Pro; X-Win32; TweakI; themexp.dll patch; PerfectDisk; Aida32 and/or Sisoft Sandra
dselect !
apt
zsh
> Linux (slackware)
> 1) Smart Eiffel
> 2) Eclipse
> 3) Flash
> 4) Xine, VLC + codec
> WOW, everything else comes with the distro. No wonder it
> takes me less time to customize linux.
If you installed Dropline GNOME (http://www.dropline.net/gnome) you’d knock of Xine AND Flash. But anyway, eclipse is pretty easy to install and eiffel is a relatively obscure language so your point about Linux/BSD in general being complete is very true.
It’s been a long time since I used windows and I believe that if I ever do some time in the future (very unlikely) that the list is likely to be at least as long as yours. I’m a Java DB developer also and things like MySQL, Apache, EMACS and NetBeans are absolute musts for me.
Win:
SmartFTP, latest free beta
Zonealarm
Winrar, Winrar, Winrar-BABY !!!!!!!!
Firebird
Ad-Aware
Serv-U
VNC Server
SuSE:
lynx 😉
1. yahoo messnger
2. textpad, gvim
3. DAP/GetRight ,Winzip,irfan view
4. Moz./Firebird , SSH , putty
5. Cygwin
6. Quicktime,RealPlayer,Winamp
7. Ghostscript,gsview , Adobereader
8. OO.org, and some times even M$O
9. JSDK,and some c/c++ compilers..
10. chess and several dos games
netcat dammit! netcat.
I can’t count the number of times I booted up a server with a dying disk, and only dd over netcat to backup the disk saved me.
It’s not a replacement for proper backup, but it’s a damn good idea.
And don’t forget to keep it in / filesysem. who knows if your /usr or /var will be toasted?
Windows:
– Mozilla (very first application I install after the OS)
– UltraEdit
– SecureCRT
– VNC
– TaskInfo (2003 in this case)
– Norton Antivirus
– Adaware
– Development Tools (Delphi, C# Builder)
– Quicktime
– Skymap Pro
– Macromedia Fireworks
– Sonicwall VPN Client software
– MS Office
Regarding user apps, every box i have contains the magic combination of 7 — be it configured or not. Some are preinstalled, depending on the OS. Programs like “ls”, “mv” and “cat” are not added. Sorted on relevance:
* OpenSSH
* Screen
* Bash
* Links
* VIm
* Mutt
* Irssi
Though OpenSSH only would be enough as addon in most situations. I’m still trying to get OpenSSH and a kernel (any kernel) together on a floppy.
Without these programs, i live in huge pain. Java to be added soon…
Regarding X, it is much avoidable and not important. I could live with OGG123, Sidplay2 and Mikmod instead of Xmms and XSidplay. I could live with console or TWM instead of Enlightenment or XFce (there’s always remote X over SSH anyway). I could live with Xterm instead of Eterm. I could live with Links instead of Mozilla (Firebird). I could live with VIm instead of Abiword. Except for the list of 7, none of these programs are mandatory.
I don’t use Windows though i’m way not always behind my own computer. In the occasional situation it is unavoidable to use Windows i’d only need PuTTy and a One Time Password (OPIE, S/Key).
That’s it. And it still feels somehow over-indulged.
Try ALZip 5.1 ( http://www.alzip.com/ ). It’s free and provides the same functionality.
Linux only here (atleast until zeta gets their thumb.. )
1. xchat
2. Firebird
3. emelfm and/or mc
4. Gimp
5. gftp
6. xmms
7. centericq
8. (u)xterm
9. gkrellm
10. crossover office (I run Photoshop from it).
-Vecc
The thing windows needs most is a decent download manager and better archiving capabilities.
Anyway, here are a few more..
mp3-tagging: mp3tag (win), easytag (linux)
p2p: emule (win), xmule (linux)
picture-manager: acdsee (win), included in kde/gnome
Win:
Winamp; quicktime; realplayer; divx; Palm Desktop; icq; mirc; ssh; java; winzip; winrar; nero; matlab; adobe reader
Linux & FreeBSD:
vim; xine; k3b; xmms; kdevelop; cfdisk; opera; octave; xchat; …
Is there a free product that I could use that is similar to remote desk top on xp pro. I’ve been using putty but I would like to be able to use my Linux desktop from my xp machine. Any suggestions
– WinAmp 2.x
– WinRAR
– MikTeX + TeXnicCenter
– Total Commander (was: Windows Commander)
– Ultraedit
– my old ICQ 2001
– my old mIRC 8.5
– daemon tools
– nero
– antivir
WinRAR is so much better it isn’t even funny. It extracts from every type of archive and it’s free.
Apps i cant live without:
– apt-get
– gnome
– nautilus
– totem
– mplayer
– make
– gcc
– linux kernel
– debian
The only Free (Speech and beer) X11 program for Windows i’m aware of is Cygwin in combination XFree86. It wouldn’t surprise me at all when it is slow, though i do not have benchmarks — only a ~year old experience with XFree86 + KDE2.
On the other hand, there are also non-free (proprietary and commercial) X11 implementations which are ie. shareware. Several exist, just Google around a bit. I can’t remember which ones i’ve tried i do remember i couldn’t find a free one.
Just Google for ie. X11 Microsoft Windows or XFree Windows.
You might want to take a look at TightVNC http://www.tightvnc.com/
Waston
LaunchBar
Moof Menu
Acqlite
MLMac
MS Word
(X11 apps)
XChat
The Gimp
XV
AbiWord
FreeCiv
xmms
KStars
under linux:
1. mozilla
2. openoffice
3. xchat
4. xmms
5. mldonkey
6. mplayer
7. gnome-terminal
8. quanta
9. gftp
10. ssh
I dont use windows, but when I have to, I use mozilla and xchat.
Windows/Mac
1. Firebird
2. Illustrator
3. Flash
4. Photoshop
5. Dreamweaver
6. MS Office
Windows
7. Filezilla/LeechFTP
8. Gaim
9. Nero
10. iTunes
11. MWSnap
12. Iceows
13. Metapad… using it now and almost forgot it
14. Putty
Mac
7. Snapz Pro
8. Fire
9. VLC
Linux
1. Aptitude
2. Apache/PHP/Perl/mySQL
3. SIM (service monitor)
4. Kiss My Firewall
5. ncftp
6. Plesk
7. WebGUI
8. vim
9. wget
10. qmail
PocketPC
1. uBook
2. GSPlayer
3. Pocket MVP
4. TextMaker
5. FlexWallet
6. YanCEyWare Reader
7. ADBIdea
8. PocketTV
9. Pocket Time
10. Mobile Painting
RE: dpi – minimalism till realism…
I don’t understand what the point of using a computer is for people like you who only work from the command line… Are you against innovation? Do you do things like watch movies, use digital images, view pictures online? Do you only have a 33.3k modem that prohibits you from actually enjoying your computer? I’m not trying to sound accuastory or anything, but seriously… why limit yourself so much when there’s so much more out there?
Mozilla
FileZilla
PHPTriad(Apache, MySQL and PHP)
Shorten*
WinAmp(with shn and FLAC plugins)
Flac Frontend*
Nero(with shn and FLAC plugins)
Dreamweaver MX
SoundForge(with Waves efx plugins)*
WinRAR
ACDSee
Secure Shell Client
Acrobat Reader
EAC*
CDWave*
WavMerge*
DVD Architect
Vegas*
Wavelab*
Bit Torrent
*these apps are for audio processing
sadly, none of these audio apps(with exception to shorten and flac) are available for Linux, so I spend most of time in Windows…and no, Audacity has maybe 1% of the functionality of a good audio editor
for the suggestions
Firebird – Linux and windows
VIM Linux
Edit plus2 or Texpad on windows
I’ve been using Edit Plus at work for the last 5 months. It has a column copy feature (using the mouse and alt key) that I’ve not seen in other text editors -or I’m just ignorant of them. It has other feature that are great also.
All though not a third party app Remote desk top kills PC anywhere
My favorite Windows apps list:
1. Miranda IM ( http://www.miranda-im.org ) Instant Messenger
2. StarDownloader ( http://www.stardownloader.com ) Download Manager
3. Kazaa Lite ( http://www.klitesite.com ) Sharing
4. Emule (http://emule.sf.net/ ) Sharing
5. Irfanview (http://www.irfanview.com ) Image Viewer
6. Analogx MaxMem/ProxyI (http://www.analogx.com ) Mem management
7. Winamp (http://www.winamp.com ) Media Player
8. Opera (http://www.opera.com ) browser
9. Mozilla Firebird (http://www.mozilla.org ) browser
10. UltimateZip (http://www.ultimatezip.com ) Zip/Ace/rar
11. Acrobat Reader 4.05 (http://www.adobe.com) PDF Reader
11. Kurumin (http://www.kurumin.com.br ) Brasil’s Live-cd Linux Distro based on Knoppix 🙂
BeOS
Handbrake
Mac OS X:
1. Xcode
2. Interface Builder
3. Terminal
4. BitchX/iRC
5. Mail.app
6. X11.app
7. iTunes
8. Cocoa Browser
9. AppKiDo
10. Safari
Windows:
WS_FTP
TextPad
Visual Slick-Edit 5
Delphi 6
Visual Studio 6
Paint Shop Pro 6
WinZip
HomeSite
OpenOffice.org
FireBird
AIM
Qt Development Libs and Tools
Linux and FreeBSD:
gFTP
NEdit
VIM
OpenOffice.org
Quanta Plus
PySOL 😉
Qt Development Libs and Tools
gAIM
Mac OS X:
BBEdit
CodeTek VirtualDesktop 2
Photoshop Elements 2
PandoCalendar 6
Qt Development Libs and Tools
OpenOffice.org Cocoa (I wish!)
Mike’s Cards
I am waiting for OpenOffice.org Cocoa to be released. Right now, I tend to use OOo from my Linux box via X. I find that the X version of OOo for OS X is not very responsive 🙁
Under linux I like to use:
1. screen
2. Mozilla Firebird
3. pan
4. gentoo (the filemanager)
5. xmms
6. gkrellm
7. OOcalc
8. gaim (I don’t actually like to use this
)
9. vim
10. prozilla
These are all third party in a way under Gentoo, although I guess Everything is third party in linux except the kernel itself.
Good lists so far.
To the Unix/Linux list I would add Pan, which I think is the best newsreader I have ever seen.
As for the Dead OS Category, under OS/2 Warp – eComStation:
PMMail/2
PMView 2000
ProNews
The Graham Utilities (no relation)
Stardock Object Desktop 2.
I certainly agree.
Opera and screen would be difficult to do without, most certainly, as would nano (though if nvi supported syntax highlighting, it would do fine [elvis and vim are way too bloated]). Since I run FreeBSD, I love having portinstall.
Other apps that see a lot of use:
1. naim (a great IM/chat client without the bloat)
2. madplay (better compatibility and controlability than mpg123)
3. ssh (vital!) and sshd
4. rxvt
5. once in a while media apps: xzgv/qiv and mplayer
6. Some sort of window manager: IceWM works fine for full-screen apps, has good keybinding support, and has less bloat than most other WMs
7. top
8. Some sort of shell (bash or tcsh)
9. cvs/cvsup
10. xlock
7-zip
EFTP
fireBird
trillian
metapad
winamp
editplus 2
Rainlendar
ZoneAlarm
GNU/Linux (Debian Sid)
1) Galeon
2) Xmms
3) Anjuta
4) Gaim
5) Vim
6) Gift
7) Totem
8) The Gimp
9) Ximian Evolution
10) Xterm
I use a lot of
+ Visual Studio .NET
+ Delphi 7
+ PyssWarze 2.0
+ Securyity Update from Microsoft
+ Google Tool Bar
+ Counterstrike (!!!EINSEINSELFELFELF11!!)
+ WinAmp
Hmm i’ll try to explain my logic and show details. No offense taken at all.
“I don’t understand what the point of using a computer is for people like you who only work from the command line…”
First of all, i don’t only use the command line. I just stated the programs i can’t live without and use most; which are all CLI programs. Though my X is also minimalistic, it is irrelevant for me to do the things i need to do. It is, for me, not required to function and i far from always use it.
My main reason to KISS is i prefer to be independant of “bloat” as much as i can thus i learn more “spartanic” ways thus i am autonomous and enlightened when the “bloat” is not available. While these “spartanic” ways also give me several advantages. I’ve experienced the dependancy on GNOME/KDE and X when i was a starter; and did not like it.
This is from my point of view a reflection to society. Where many people want to have the best of the best, some have enought with less. I never have the feeling to need the best of the best, be it soft-, hardware or money-wise.
In the case you want or have to live with “slow” computers, there’s little choice for DE’s like KDE and GNOME (besides, i don’t like them, since they’re not minimalistic enough). Though if you’d like to run, i respect such choice for one reason: you have the freedom and diversity to chose by default — which i see that as a good thing.
“Are you against innovation?”
Not at all. I wish all Free software users a happy experience of their own. In the effort, i also wish the People progression, choice and diversity. My choice should not be forced upon others, while others’ choice should not be forced on me. Though i am a strong believer in Free software, advocate it, and am inflexible regarding that.
Regarding innovation and the programs i’m using, i find SSH is a brilliant innovation. Much better than what i used before that: telnetd+ssl. I find Enlightenment a brilliant innovation too though i’m not sure if i’ll use E17 when it’s out & ready. I think GNU Screen is an innovative program as well.
(And i can do things with E16 which are not possible with KDE)
“Do you do things like watch movies, use digital images, view pictures online?”
Yes. But tell me, aren’t these just “toys”? Isn’t that visual stuff just for “fun”? W3m has image support (i’ve used it a few times on OSnews), MPlayer can be used on console (-vo aa, -vo cvidix) and pictures can be viewed using FBI. Except for AAlib, this be with framebuffer.
This, and The GIMP, and BitTorrent (ncurses frontend), and all the X programs i’ve named earlier aren’t needed. The 7 programs i named are required for me. The rest -besides ie “ls, mv, cp”-, not.
“Do you only have a 33.3k modem that prohibits you from actually enjoying your computer?”
At home, ADSL. This is (at least for me) not correlated with running lots of resource-intensive software. I’ve ran KDE and GNOME years ago on 56k6.
“I’m not trying to sound accuastory or anything, but seriously… why limit yourself so much when there’s so much more out there?”
I see it as limiting myself, i prefer simple, versatile methods. What am i missing? I don’t feel like missing something. Flash? I miss that as toothpain, for example.
I’ve also noticed you putted up servers and the like. Except for OpenSSH i haven’t added that kind of stuff. I’ve rather viewed it from a desktop perspective. Servers follow the same philosophy though.
Well that’s it, i hope i gave you an interesting view.
1. Mozilla
2. Xmms
3. Grip
4. SIM(Simple Instant Messenger)
5. The GIMP
6. KMail&Mozilla Mail
7. Nautilus
8. gThumb
9. wget
10. File Roller
11. Mahjongg
Windows:
WinRAR
Mozilla (Firebird)
IrfanView
UltraEdit
OO
putty
Acrobat
rktools (Unix Like Toolset for Windows)
Linux:
Mozilla (Firebird)
OO
Gaim
Acrobat
I see it as limiting myself -> I don’t see it as limiting myself
Servers -> Server daemons
Klonk, oops.
Intel® Application Accelerator
Adobe Acrobat
Analyzer (packet)
DAP
DivFix
DivXBundle
DVDShrink
DVDSmartRipper
Ethereal
Kerio Personal Firewall
NetStumbler
PowerArchiver
SurfSecretDVD2VCD
WinAmp
WinMX & Utils
WinPcap
Xvid
ZxSniffer
That about does it. I just started using Linux (less than a week), so I’m not sure about that yet. I’ll check out y’alls picks though.
Thanks,
Fig
Great ogg/mp3 player!
http://www.quinnware.com/
Runt mode is great!
Sorry to be back so soon. I can’t believe I forgot to mention Perl. I use ActiveState under Windows, and Ilya’s port on OS/2. The BeOS port of 5.8.0 has no Sockets, sadly.
BTW someone said they always install SVG Tracker when they install BeOS. Where can I get this?
…awg
MacOSX:
Fire
iTerm
MacStumbler
LaunchBar
bitchx (haven’t looked for irssi yet on osx)
OpenBSD:
aterm
gkrellm
irssi
sylpheed
gimp
bluefish
abiword
vim
Windows
winamp (2.x series, hate 3.x)
trillian
office
winzip
kazaalite
itunes
Linux (apps that don’t come with the distro):
– K3B
– Celestia
– Crossover Office
– MS Office (it’s a third party app on Linux!)
– Photoshop
– Gimp 1.3 (development version)
– Checkinstall (I like to make my own RPMs sometimes)
– Apollon
– Bookcase (for keeping track of my DVD collection)
– Xmame
– Mplayer from plf + Kmplayer frontend
– Filelight (I wish this existed on Windows – anyone know any equivalent?)
Windows:
– ZoneAlarm (the FIRST third-party app to install if the PC is directly connected to the Internet)
– WinZip (the second third-party app to install – a lot of third party drivers and whatnot come as .zip files)
– Irfanview
– Mozilla
– Cygwin
– Winamp
– An anti-virus software
– Celestia
– Post-It notes
– Bonzi Buddy (ha! just kidding!)
firebird on all except osx (safari just rules)
…and of course Flash and RealPlayer, for both Linux and Windows.
Mozilla Firebird (usually some nighty build compiled with many optimisations)
GoogleBar (essential, for me, addon to Firebird. It has some features that you won’t find in original Google Toolbar. Don’t use the experimental version
)
Foobar2000 (very, very good audio player – that does only what audio player is meant to do – plays audio perfectly)
Miranda (with jabber plugin)
Media Player Classic (http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/, with Quicktime Alternative)
Filezilla (fast and lightweight ftp client and server (separate, both share the same name))
7-Zip (yes, right now its file menager has terrible interface…but if you’re the kind of person that rather use context menus in explorer for archiwing tasks instead, you’ll find this application usefull perhaps (not to mention being able to use 7z format))
Ghost-It! (http://home.rochester.rr.com/artcfox/GhostIt/ has the ability to create “ghost windows” – the windows that not only are transparent and always on top, but your clicks pass through them. In some situations very usefull. Not to mention spooky
)
Wackget (http://millweed.com/projects/wackget/ very light and unobtrusive download menager. Well, in realiy you can hardly call it download menager – it’s very, very simple. But I find it very usefull. Uses wget under the hood)
Slowview (graphics viewer. Don’t let the name mislead you, quite fast rather. I like it’s features, don’t like look of its menus, but overall it’s very good)
Sygate Personal Firewall
AVG Anitivirus
Soulseek
And one very good IM app usuable only here (but it’s part of the jabber…but app, though astounding for default IM service application (and I’ve seen a few…), is only available in my language)
Oh, and there’s also free (now – it’s an old version, but I consider it the best one – light, no skins) video player with simply beautifull subtitles. So it may interest you if you watch some movies with subs in separate files…
http://www.koala.pl/download/KFP19Full.rar
Don’t know what is the default language set on non Polish systems, so in case it’s Polish: right click on program window, choose item “jezyk”, second from bottom, and you will have more “normal” languages ;P
Windows:
Winamp
Strokeit
Girder
Zoom Player
Total Commander
WinRAR
The Bat
MyIE2
Nero
EMule
Putty
Buzz
Linux:
joe
mutt
qmail
swaret
bash
vnc
find
xmms
open office
Java:
POPFile
Hydrairc
Sylpheed
GAIM
Galeon
GTKPod
Grip
Aterm
GIMP
Beaver
Epic
OpenOffice
Mplayer
vlc
SoundPlay
xgalaga 🙂
BeAIM
MailDaemonReplacement
Mozilla
Firebird
BeShare
perl
python
OpenTracker
ProcessController
VideoPro
stampTV
cron
Most of the GeekGadgets
ffmpeg
Adam
BePDF
BeCasso
ArtPaint