[Definitive] Linux "Killer" Apps (2006)


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Hehe... I'm trying to add only quality software... which reminds me, where's vi? :p Just joking of course. Yeah like pixels said, those types of things are pretty standard, you don't see me listing cat, grep etc.

Agreed. Thanks for all your efforts, Mitch!

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Monkey Messenger

Monkey Messenger is an open source (MIT licensed) MSN client written using the MONO framework, gtk+ and the MSNPSharp library.

http://monkeymessenger.sourceforge.net/

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just thought i'd add that, I tried it yesterday and it's working to be a pretty nice msn client. supports nudges, personal messages, display pictures, etc.

Fluttr

Clutter based Flickr photo viewer.

http://njpatel.blogspot.com/2007/06/flickr...ter-fluttr.html

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Looks cool... would be even cooler if you could also browse your photo collection locally though.

I'll be giving it a try on my laptop as soon as I manage to understand the "building a deb from sources" process :blush:

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I like feh! It is used in my wallpaper resizer, and I also call it in my screenshot app to immediately display what you selected. It is light and fast. It is also handy to feh a directory of images and flip through them.

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You should probably add the best text editor in the world: vim.
Hehe... I'm trying to add only quality software... which reminds me, where's vi? :p Just joking of course. Yeah like pixels said, those types of things are pretty standard, you don't see me listing cat, grep etc.
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maybe add irssi to the list under chat clients? this in combination with screen and ssh get's me through my work day.

I second this motion. another app close to it but a little easier to understand is Weechat Another text based IRC client.

Misc.

Avant-Windows-Navigator.

Avant Window Navgator (Awn) is a dock-like bar which sits at the bottom of the screen (in all its composited-goodness) tracking open windows.

http://code.google.com/p/avant-window-navigator/

Gnome-Launch-Box

Launch Box is generally an application launcher. It's very influenced by Quicksilver for Mac OSX. Remember that this is only a first release so don't get your hopes up too much. Launch Box is written for the GNOME 2.10 platform and depends on GTK+ 2.6, evolution-data-server 1.2 and gnome-menus. These are currently hard dependencies but the plan is to split out the backends into different optional backends.

http://developer.imendio.com/projects/gnome-launch-box

Don't forget about Gnome-Do... IMHO I think Gnome-Do is better than Launch-box

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I quite like GDmap, it uses treemapping to represent files on your harddisk as a series of relatively-sized squares:

http://gdmap.sourceforge.net/

especially useful for finding large files hidden in temp folders!

(and there's a windows port called Sequoiaview http://w3.win.tue.nl/nl/onderzoek/onderzoe...on/sequoiaview/ )

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