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Best Free / Open Source apps
    #8256088 - 04/08/08 04:38 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

This has been done all over the place.. always with much dispute.

So, lets compile a list of what the shroomery deems to be the best currently available free / open source software (preferably GPL'd, but hey.. as long as its free). As a desktop environment I favour gnome, so my preference lies with gtk apps.

My suggestions:

aMSN : a free msn client with many features. Probably the most compatible I've yet discovered (my only complaint is that because it uses tk, its ugly, but that can be fixed)

Deluge : A brilliant, lightweight gtk torrent client. Often cited as the new uTorrent.

XChat : The irc client.

irssi : The other irc client :grin:.

nicotine+ : A decent (pretty) pyGTK based soulseek client.

Wireshark : A network protocol analyzer, useful on unencrypted college networks :yesnod:.

Compiz-fusion : A very pretty composite window manager. When used in combination with emerald it makes for a very pretty desktop :laugh:

I've yet to find a decent gtk-based media player, I tried rhythmbox, but its just not as good as amarok.

I just found a gtk media player called exaile which apparently is attempting to mimic amarok but with gtk as opposed to qt. Compiling now :smile:

An update:

Guake: A gtk clone of Kukuake, which is a 'pop up console' like you get games (counterstrike, for instance). You press a button and a terminal appears. Very handy :grin:

TeXmaker: If you find yourself doing a lot of math.. this program is infinitely useful.. I read about it in someone else's thread.. and now its part of my arsenal :grin:

Banshee: A good gtk music manager. Has support for iPods and is probably the most functional music player out there.

GTKPod: If you have an iPod, this program allows for you to finally ditch windows all together..

I'll add more as I discover them :grin:

Anyways, what would you suggest?

Guake in action:



Then I pressed F12:



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Re: Best Free / Open Source apps [Re: Cepheus]
    #8256132 - 04/08/08 04:48 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Xchat's a shareware program with a 30 day trial:thumbdown:


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Re: Best Free / Open Source apps [Re: coleus]
    #8256162 - 04/08/08 04:58 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Only on windows. On linux its GPL'd.


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Re: Best Free / Open Source apps [Re: Cepheus]
    #8256289 - 04/08/08 05:27 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

looks like i'm getting rid of kvirc then, but i still give it props.


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Re: Best Free / Open Source apps [Re: Cepheus]
    #8256309 - 04/08/08 05:31 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

vlc is nice
gimp is cool too
open office

i'll remember more later


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Re: Best Free / Open Source apps [Re: sherm]
    #8256472 - 04/08/08 06:07 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

VLC is the best video player, with XMMS for music.


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Re: Best Free / Open Source apps [Re: HELLA_TIGHT]
    #8257034 - 04/08/08 08:07 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

I agree with the GIMP, good GFX program

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Re: Best Free / Open Source apps *DELETED* [Re: Cepheus]
    #8258919 - 04/09/08 08:17 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

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Re: Best Free / Open Source apps [Re: poke smot!]
    #8261688 - 04/09/08 08:34 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Top 100 Network Security Tools

http://sectools.org

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Re: Best Free / Open Source apps [Re: Cepheus]
    #8262388 - 04/09/08 10:51 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

dd-wrt is awesome on my linksys router

xbmc is amazing as well on my old xbox

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Re: Best Free / Open Source apps [Re: Boom]
    #8263038 - 04/10/08 02:47 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Gimp
Compiz-Fusion
Kopete or trillian (msn, yahoo, aol, +others instant messanger thing)
Blender3d
xmame
Audacity
Firefox

my favs


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    #8268785 - 04/11/08 10:24 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

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Re: Best Free / Open Source apps [Re: poke smot!]
    #8270416 - 04/11/08 05:00 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

I highly recommend these two gems to the nostalgic gamer

DOSBox http://www.dosbox.com
ScummVM http://www.scummvm.org

Rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle here I come ! Oh, and regular ones too :spazzychicken:

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Re: Best Free / Open Source apps [Re: deimya]
    #8280645 - 04/14/08 01:08 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Not too many mac users here, but here is a great list of GPL/Open Source OSX apps. http://www.opensourcemac.org/

http://freshmeat.net/ & http://sourceforge.net/ index and keep track of almost every open source app.

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Re: Best Free / Open Source apps [Re: beatyou]
    #8332517 - 04/26/08 10:21 PM (16 years, 26 days ago)

An update:

Guake: A gtk clone of Kukuake, which is a 'pop up console' like you get games (counterstrike, for instance). You press a button and a terminal appears. Very handy :grin:

TeXmaker: If you find yourself doing a lot of math.. this program is infinitely useful.. I read about it in someone else's thread.. and now its part of my arsenal :grin:

Banshee: A good gtk music manager. Has support for iPods and is probably the most functional music player out there.

GTKPod: If you have an iPod, this program allows for you to finally ditch windows all together..

I'll add more as I discover them :grin:


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:sun: "...and I know that I have to keep breathing, as tomorrow the sun will rise, who knows what the tide will bring?" :sun:

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Re: Best Free / Open Source apps [Re: Cepheus]
    #8333117 - 04/27/08 02:28 AM (16 years, 26 days ago)

AWN a GTK based dock that is like the mac os one https://launchpad.net/awn

Deskbar, its kinda like the OS X spotlight when used with tracker indexing http://raphael.slinckx.net/deskbar/

Screenlets kinda like the Os X dashboard http://www.screenlets.org/index.php/Information

Yep i was once a OS X mac fan boy until i found out how apple fucks the open source community, can you tell?

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