~Delimiter's Applications

Introduction

This page lists some most of the computer operating systems and applications that I use, require or otherwise recommend. It is quite specific to Linux (Ubuntu) but I break out FreeBSD, Windows etc in their own sections.

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

Operating systems

• For servers I run FreeBSD, Debian and Ubuntu LTS.
• For my desktop/laptops I run Xubuntu or Linux Mint.

Desktop/GUI Applications

This list is pretty old now, I should update it some time.

Internet Browser

• Mozilla Firefox

  

  and these extensions...
  • Xmarks* (keeps bookmarks synchronized)
  • NoScript - block unpermissioned javascript to prevent XSS attacks
  • AdBlock Plus - blocks ads, duh!
  • Firebug] - web development tools
  • YSlow - plugin that analyzes web pages and tells you why they're slow
  • Netcraft Toolbar

Communication

• Mozilla Thunderbird*

  

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

Graphics/CAD/DTP

• Inkscape - vector illustration
• Scribus - page layout ala Pagemaker.
• QCad - a decent CAD program
• Dia - for network diagrams (or LibreDraw)

Multimedia

• sound-juicer & ripperX - to rip music CDs
• soundconverter - nifty little tool to convert ogg to mp3 and other formats
• Audacity

  

  for digital audio manipulation
• HandBrake - to rip DVDs and transcode other vids
• xvidcap* - capture desktop sessions for screencasting (now RecordMyDesktop)
• ffmpeg - translate between different video formats
• hydrogen - electronic drum kit
• ardour - digital multi-track recorder / sequencer
• 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/

Security/Forensics

• TrueCrypt - antiquated & insecure now. Try encfs or LUKS.
• Xca

  

  - awesome SSL/TLS [certificate manager](Certificate Authority)
• KeePassX

  

  - password safe
• [Wireshark](Packet Tracing)
• Sleuthkit
• MetaSploit
• Nessus
• Nmap

Office/Utility/Editors

• xxdiff, diffuse & meld - for graphical diffs & interactive patch file generation
• 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
• LibreOffice suite - spreadsheets, drawings, presentations and documents.
• Vim*/vi - the old standby text editor which I use 99% of the time.
• Nedit - another mature and capable text editor
• Jedit* - a nice editor for coding
• Bluefish* editor for webpages
• rdesktop as a RDP client. Reminna sometimes but it's very buggy.

sudo aptitude install diffuse mrxvt xclip vim nedit jedit bluefish rdesktop

Virtualization/Emulation

• Kvm & Qemu
• VirtualBox
• Wine - software emulation of windows.
• VMware Server

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](Packet Tracing)
  • 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
• 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
• Rsnapshot - what I use as a network backup agent for all my systems
• Firefly Media Server (aka mt-daapd) for sharing music files on the home network
• fuse-utils (for sshfs)
• monit

Windows-specific Apps

• Secunia Psi
• Malwarebytes Anti-Malware
• Putty
• Network Monitor (netmon) [1]

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).

Online

• LOCKBIN - https://lockbin.com/Messaging free encrypted e-mail
• toggl - https://www.toggl.com/ - Project timer app
• Unfuddle - unfuddle.com - task tracker and file repository