Apps i use

Description:
This is an list with my most used applications when i'm on an Debian Sarge/Etch box. If you know some nice missing apps, contact my ;-)

Intro:

All these stuff i use on my Debian box. Some come of the Sarge branch and others of the Etch branch. Like on my desktop computer i use Etch (testing), most are probably for the Etch (testing) version.

This list can be are usefull for the people that not realy know which tools we have for some particular job. This article not give an introduction to any application but can refer to an article about that product.

Quick links in this document:

• Tools for kids
• Desktop environment / window managers
• Compress tools
• To burn CD ROM's DVD's (GUI)
• Office tools
  • Suite tools
  • money
  • dictionary
• Internet
  • Download manager
  • To chat (GUI)
  • To chat (cli)
  • News reader (GUI)
  • News reader (cli)
  • Email (GUI)
  • Email (cli)
  • Web browser (gui)
  • Web browser (cli)
  • P2P
• File manager (GUI)
• File manager (cli)
• Text editors (GUI)
• Text editors (cli)
• HTML or programing editors
• Multimedia
  • Screen capturing
  • Multimedia browser (GUI)
  • Multimedia players (GUI)
  • Multimedia players (cli)
  • TV
  • To create mp3 files from an CD DA
  • To listen to Internet radio
  • Copy/Shrinking DVD
  • Video tools/editing
  • Streaming server
• Graphics
  • Photo touch up
  • HTML Image gallerie generators
• Administration
  • Backup tools
  • Config
  • Patching
  • Packaging
  • Recovery
  • Hardware
  • Security
  • Monitoring
  • Other
  • Devs Tools
  • Source code search engine
  • Console
  • Other
  • Nice stuff not yet in Debian

gcompris - Educational games for small children
childsplay - Suite of educational games for young children

If you ask me, if i have resources enought, i prefer Gnome, if i have no enought resources i prefer 'fluxbox'. But sure i like to test and use some others to. A good trick is to use at least 2 weeks(full time) an environment or manager. Take also an look on http://themes.freshmeat.net/browse/56/ for some themes, take also an look on the website of that environment and look if there are already an package that provide some additional themes. And finally take also an look on http://xwinman.org/ to know what are and desktop environment and what are are window manager.

gnome - The GNOME Desktop Environment, with extra components
fluxbox - Highly configurable and low resource X11 Window manager
kde - the K Desktop Environment official modules<br />xfce4 - meta-package for xfce4 dependencies
openbox - standards compliant, fast, light-weight, extensible window manager
icewm - wonderful Win95-OS/2-Motif-like window manager
wmaker - NeXTSTEP-like window manager for X
ion3 - keyboard-friendly window manager with tiled windows (devel)
fvwm - F(?) Virtual Window Manager, version 2.5
enlightenment - The Enlightenment Window Manager

To use differents desktop environments at the same time:

Log in in GNOME and open an terminal. There you type startx kde -- :1 & You get then KDE running, to switch then between these both you do [CTRL][ALT][F7] and [CTRL][ALT][F8]. No to add windowmaker also, you do startx windowmaker -- :2 & and these is then on the F9

To see which you have installed you do it with wmlist:

Some time you no more know how you need to close an windowmanager. What you can do is start it without the &, for example startx fvwm2 -- :1. When you go out of it, you go back to F7 and do then CTRL+C in the terminal where you have start it.

Compress tools:

Most time i use 'tar'. See the tar article here for the usage. For quick unpakking almost every type of compressed file and when i'm to lazy i use 'unp'.

tar - GNU tar
bzip2 - high-quality block-sorting file compressor - utilities
gzip - The GNU compression utility
zip - Archiver for .zip files
ark - graphical archiving tool for KDE
unp - unpack (almost) everything with one command
unace-nonfree - extract, test and view .ace archives (non-free version)
unace - uncompress .ace files
rar-2.80 - Archiver for .rar files
p7zip - 7-Zip is a file archiver with high compression ratio
p7zip-full - 7-Zip is a file archiver with high compression ratio
zoo - manipulate zoo archives
upx-ucl - an efficient live-compressor for executables

To burn CD ROM's DVD's:

Most time or to by honest i use always 'k3b' to make my cd's/dvd's. I'm so happy with his capacity.

k3b - A sophisticated KDE CD burning application
gnomebaker - application for CD/DVD creation in the GNOME desktop
graveman<br />arson - KDE frontend for burning CDs

Office Tools:

Suite tools:

openoffice.org - OpenOffice.org Office suite version 2.0
koffice - KDE Office Suite

Money:

Tools to manage your bank accounts.

grisbi - Personal finance management program
gnucash - A personal finance tracking program

dictoinary:

gnuvd - Query the online Dutch Van Dale dictionary
dict - Dictionary Client

Internet:

Download Manager:

aria - Tool to download files from the Internet via HTTP or FTP

To chat (GUI):

If you ask me, which GUI chat i use, sure i tell you to use 'xchat'.

xchat - IRC client for X similar to AmIRC

To chat (cli):

My most used and lovely irc chat is 'irssi', realy so powerfull. Also look to that script package. Probably you also need to use these scripts. These scripts give some additional facilities. NO it are no fucking scripts for kiddies.

irssi - terminal based IRC client

News reader (GUI):

knode - KDE news reader
pan - A Newsreader based on GTK2, which looks like Forte Agent

News reader (cli)

slrn - threaded news reader (fast for slow links)

Email (GUI)

Egg, i always use evolution for my mail, i find it very very well.

evolution - groupware suite with mail client and organizer
kmail - KDE Email client

Email (cli)

mutt - text-based mailreader supporting MIME, GPG, PGP and threading

Web browser (gui):

For confortable virtual surfing, i use mozilla, but i like also the dillo for his small toolbar. So there are many more space left around it, to view the web content.

Mozilla-firefox
dillo - Small and fast web browser

Web browser (cli):

This list are in orderen position, no more to tell, or yes, use w3m!

elinks - advanced text-mode WWW browser
w3m - WWW browsable pager with excellent tables/frames support
links - Character mode WWW browser
lynx - Text-mode WWW Browser

P2P:

amule - client for the eD2k and Kad networks, like eMule

File manager (GUI):

konqueror - KDE's advanced file manager, web browser and document viewer
thunar - File Manager for Xfce
xfe - lightweight file manager for X11<br />filerunner - X-Based FTP program &amp; file manager
nautilus - file manager and graphical shell for GNOME

File manager (cli)

mc - midnight commander - a powerful file manager

Text editors (GUI):

vim-gui-common
kate - advanced text editor for KDE

Text editors (cli)

If i need the tool, i use vim (or gvim) and i always try to use this great tool. See my vim article.

vim - Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor
nano - free Pico clone with some new features

HTML or programing editors:

Most time i use 'quanta' for HTML pages, 'cssed' for css files.

quanta - web development environment for KDE
bluefish - advanced Gtk+ HTML editor
spe - Stani's Python Editor
screem - A GNOME website development environment
cssed - graphical CSS editor
cream - VIM macros that make the VIM easier to use for beginners

Multimedia:

Screen capturing:

byzanz - Small screencast creator
xvidcap - Screen video capture for X (This is a very good tool)
istanbul - Desktop session recorder producing Ogg Theora video

Multimedia browser (GUI):

imgseek - Image viewer and manager with content based query
gtksee - GTK-based clone of ACDSee (an image viewer)

Multimedia players (GUI):

xine-ui - the xine video player, user interface
mplayer - The Ultimate Movie Player For Linux
totem - A simple media player for the Gnome desktop (dummy package)
xmms - Versatile X audio player
vlc - multimedia player and streamer
kmplayer - media player for KDE

Multimedia players (clid):

opencubicplayer - UNIX port of Open Cubic Player
pytone - Music jukebox with advanced features for DJs and a text-mode user interface

TV:

When i have time for tv on my computer, sure it's 'tvtime' :-p If you need an tool to automatically record (in short, because he do many more) take an look to 'mythtv'.

tvtime - A high quality television application
xawtv - X11 TV application
aatv - A program to watch TV in a text-based console
mythtv - A personal video recorder application (client and server)
alevt - X11 Teletext/Videotext browser

To listen to Internet radio:

gstreamer

To create mp3 files from an CD DA:

kaudiocreator - CD ripper and audio encoder frontend for KDE
ripperx - a GTK-based audio CD ripper/encoder

Copy/Shrinking DVD:

acidrip
k9copy (not in repo! see http://repos.knio.it/ and download the deb)
qvamps
dvdrip (DVD::Rip) (Marillat!)
xdvdshrink - copies of DVD content on single-layer writable DVDs (marillat!)
drip - GNOME application for encoding a DivX from a DVD
shrinkta - DVD backup tool

Video tools/editing:

avidemux - a small editing software for avi (especially DivX)
kino - Non-linear editor for Digital Video data
dvdstyler - a crossplatform DVD Authoring System
qdvdauthor - GUI frontend for dvdauthor and other related tools
lives - Linux Video Editing System

Streaming server:

gnump3d - A streaming server for MP3 and OGG files
mpd - Music Player Daemon

Graphics:

Photo touch up:

Never change or use somethings orther that gimp for photo touch up!

gimp - The GNU Image Manipulation Program

HTML Image gallerie generators:

imageindex - generate static HTML galleries from images
bins - Generate static HTML photo albums using XML and EXIF tags
gallery2 - web-based photo album written in PHP
igal - online image gallery generator
jigl - Generates a static html photo gallery from one or more directories of images
llgal - Command-line online gallery generator
webmagick - create gallery thumbnails for website

Administration:

Config:

rcconf - Debian Runlevel configuration tool
bum - graphical runlevel editor
modconf - Device Driver Configuration
ethtool - display or change ethernet card settings
cron-apt - automatic update of packages using apt-get
modconf - Device Driver Configuratio
configure-debian - central configuration program for packages using debcon

Backup Tools:

rsnapshot - local and remote filesystem snapshot utility

Patching:

dpatch - patch maintenance system for Debian source packages
quilt - Tool to work with series of patches
gquilt - graphical wrapper for quilt
cdbs - common build system for Debian packages

Packaging:

dpkg-buildpackage
checkinstall

Recovery:

dvdisaster dvdisaster - data loss/scratch/aging protection for CD/DVD media
testdisk - Partition scanner and disk recovery tool

Hardware:

lshw - information about hardware configuration
lshw-gtk - information about hardware configuration
usbview - USB device viewer
modconf - Device Driver Configuration

Security:

fail2ban - bans IPs that cause multiple authentication errors
denyhosts - an utility to help sys admins thwart ssh hackers

Monitoring:

root-portal - Monitors the system and displays the results on the desktop
root-tail - Displays select log files in the X root window
ethstatus - console-based ethernet statistics monitor
iptraf - Interactive Colorful IP LAN Monitor
net-tools - The NET-3 networking toolkit
vnstat - console-based network traffic monitor
iproute - Professional tools to control the networking in Linux kernels
sntop - A curses-based utility that polls hosts to determine connectivity
ntop - display network usage in top-like format
htop - interactive processes viewer
atop - Monitor for system resources and process
doscan - port scanner for discovering services on large networks
knmap - Kde interface to nmap, the Network Mapper
nmap - The Network Mapper
nmapfe - The Network Mapper Front End
nwatch - Network service detector
pnscan - Multi threaded port scanner
psad - The Port Scan Attack Detector
scapy - Packet generator/sniffer and network scanner/discovery

Other:

sshfs - filesystem client based on SSH File
quicksynergy - GUI for easy configuration of Synergy
synergy - Share mouse, keyboard and clipboard over the network

Devs tools:

Source code search engine:

gonzui - a source code search engine

Console:

xterm - X terminal emulator
aterm - Afterstep XVT - a VT102 emulator for the X window system
eterm - Enlightened Terminal Emulator

Other:

grun - GTK based Run dialog
gmrun - Featureful CLI-like GTK+ application launcher
ajaxterm - Web based terminal written in python
note - small program managing notes from commandline

cinelerra (http://heroinewarrior.com/ and http://cvs.cinelerra.org/getting_cinelerra.php for the deb file)