User:Fostermarkd/Applications

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Contents 1 Introduction 2 Operating systems 3 Desktop/GUI Applications 3.1 Internet Browser 3.2 Communication 3.3 Graphics/CAD/DTP 3.4 Multimedia 3.5 Security 3.6 Office/Utility/Editors 3.7 Virtualization/Emulation 3.8 Games 4 Desktop/Non-GUI/Server Applications 5 FreeBSD-specific Applications 6 LFNW Game Den

Introduction

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

See my cheatsheet for some shortcuts to getting these installed.

I've echoed most of this into ohloh of of Jan 15 2009.

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 Browser

• Mozilla Firefox and these extensions...
  • Xmarks* (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
• Cairo Dock (cairo-dock) see http://www.glx-dock.org/

Communication

• Mozilla Thunderbird*
  • Enigmail* for gpg/pgp encryption support
• Skype
• Pidgin for IM & IRC

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 - recent versions suck, do not bother.
  • Make sure to grab libxine-extracodecs & libxine1-ffmpeg for mp3 support (ref).
• sound-juicer & ripperX* - to rip music CDs
• HandBrake - to rip DVDs and transcode other vids
• 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

• TrueCrypt
• 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

• xxdiffdiffuse - graphical diff
• mrxvt - a lightweight terminal emulator for X Window System
  • usual mrxvt incantation: mrxvt -g 84x28 -sr -ss sgi -sl 6000 -ht
• or (as alternative to above) gnome-terminal --geometry 80x22 --window-with-profile=small
• or lxterminal
• 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 diffuse mrxvt xclip vim nedit jedit bluefish grdesktop

Virtualization/Emulation

• Qemu and qemulator
• Wine - software emulation of windows.
• VMware Server & Console
• VirtualBox

Games

Mostly for the kids *wink*

• pingus
• supertux
• supertuxkart
• planetpenguin-racer
• neverball
• neverputt
• openarena

sudo aptitude install pingus supertux supertuxkart planetpenguin-racer tuxpaint neverball openarena

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).

LFNW Game Den

Moved to LFNW Game Den