User:Fostermarkd/Applications

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Contents 1 Introduction 2 Operating systems 3 Desktop/GUI Applications 3.1 Internet (Web/E-mail) 3.2 Graphics/CAD/DTP 3.3 Multimedia 3.4 Security 3.5 Office/Utility/Editors 3.6 Virtualization/Emulation 3.7 Games 4 Desktop/Non-GUI/Server Applications 5 FreeBSD-specific Applications

Introduction

This page lists some most of the computer operating systems and applications that I use, require or otherwise recommend.

Some other goodies can be found here: http://lifehacker.com/5098944/free-software-were-most-thankful-for

Operating systems

• For servers I run Ubuntu & FreeBSD. I also used to run CentOS & Debian Linux.
• For my desktop/laptops I run Ubuntu

Desktop/GUI Applications

Internet (Web/E-mail)

• Mozilla Firefox
  • Foxmarks Extension* (keeps bookmarks synchronized)
  • NoScript - block unpermissioned javascript to prevent XSS attacks
  • AdBlock Plus - blocks ads, duh!
  • SSL Blacklist
  • Firebug] - web development tools
  • YSlow - analyzes web pages and tells you why they're slow
  • Flash Player 9,(2)
  • Java plugin (aptitude install sun-java6-plugin)
  • Netcraft Toolbar
• Mozilla Thunderbird*
  • Enigmail* for gpg/pgp encryption support

Graphics/CAD/DTP

• Inkscape - vector illustration
• QCad - CAD program
• Dia - diagrams
• Scribus - page layout ala Pagemaker.

sudo aptitude install inkscape qcad dia scribus

Multimedia

• Amarok* - digital music manager
  • Make sure to grab libxine-extracodecs & libxine1-ffmpeg for mp3 support (ref).
• sound-juicer & ripperX* - to rip music CDs
• xvidcap* - capture desktop sessions for screencasting
• audacity for digital audio manipulation
• ffmpeg & winff
• hydrogen - drum kit
• ardour - digital multitrack recorder
• tivodecode - converts recorded .tivo programs to mpeg (not in Ubuntu, but in FreeBSD ports tree)
• winff - see http://www.biggmatt.com/category/winff/ and http://code.google.com/p/winff/

sudo aptitude install amarok xvidcap audacity ffmpeg hydrogen ardour 

Security

• xca* - awesome SSL/TLS certificate manager (see my ppa)
• KeePassX - password safe
• Seahorse - a GNOME application for managing SSH and GPG keys
• Ethereal now called Wireshark

sudo aptitude install keepassx wireshark

Office/Utility/Editors

• xxdiff - graphical diff
• mrxvt - a lightweight terminal emulator for X Window System
  • usual mrxvt incantation: mrxvt -g 84x28 -sr -ss sgi -sl 6000 -ht
• xclip
• OpenOffice.org - spreadsheets, drawings, presentations and documents.
• Vim*/vi - the old standby text editor which I use 98% of the time.
• Nedit - another mature and capable text editor
• Jedit* - a nice editor for coding
• Bluefish* editor for webpages
• grdesktop as a Terminal Server client

sudo aptitude install xxdiff mrxvt xclip vim nedit jedit bluefish grdesktop

Virtualization/Emulation

• Qemu and qemulator
• Wine - software emulation of windows.

Games

Mostly for the kids *wink*

• pingus
• supertux
• tuxkart
• planetpenguinracer
• tuxpaint

sudo aptitude install pingus supertux tuxkart planetpenguinracer tuxpaint

Desktop/Non-GUI/Server Applications

• Networking toolset...
  • Openssh
  • Nmap
  • tcpdump
  • lft - layer four traceroute, show whether a specific IP/port/protocol can be opened or why
  • traceroute - traces the route taken by packets over a TCP/IP network
  • mtr - traceroute on steroids
  • vpnc* - VPN client compatible with cisco3000 VPN Concentrator
  • rsync*
  • Unison
  • nc (netcat)
  • ntop
  • cricket &/or mrtg
  • cacti
• apache
• arpwatch
• tcsh*
• Openssl - particularly the s_client, x509, req and rsa bits.
• cvs* + cvsspam for detailed commit notifications
• Keychain* - ssh-key manager
• Java*
• Samba
• dnstop*
• Scavenge*
• apg* - generates several random passwords
• Bacula* - what I use as a network backup agent
• Firefly media server* (aka mt-daapd) for sharing music files on the home network
• build-essential - enables building (compiling) of 3rd-party apps under [Ubuntu]
• fuse-utils (for sshfs)
• monit

FreeBSD-specific Applications

Ports/packages (relative to /usr/ports)

• audio/mt-daapd (M)
• dns/dnstop (M)
• dns/scavenge (M)
• mail/exim
• multimedia/tivodecode
• net/iscsi-target (M)
• net/lft
• ports-mgmt/portaudit
• ports-mgmt/portlint
• ports-mgmt/portmaster
• ports-mgmt/pkg_cutleaves
• security/chkrootkit
• security/nmap
• security/sudo
• security/xca (M)
• sysutils/fastest_cvsup
• sysutils/lsof
• sysutils/screen

Notes Apps marked with a * might not come stock, must be installed or possibly even compiled by hand.

All-in-one install command (experimental)

 pkg_add -r mt-daapd dnstop exim scavenge sudo portaudit portlint portmaster pkg_cutleaves \
 iscsi-target lft nmap chkrootkit lsof screen tivodecode

Ports with (M) I maintain (or will soon).