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My favorite Linux/GNU software

• Terminals
  • aterm - AfterStep X Windows Terminal Emulator
  • eterm - Enlightened Terminal Emulator
  • konsole - KDE Terminal
• X Window Manager & Theme
  • KDE ( favorite )
  • FluxBox
  • Superkaramba - a tool that allows you to easily create interactive eye-candy on your KDE desktop
• Document Editor/Reader:
  • vim - classic and great! ( favorite )
• Media:
  • mplayer - DivX avi, mov, asf, wmv, etc... ( favorite )
  • XMMS - mp3/ogg music player ( favorite )
  • CD Burning:
    • k3b - KDE frontend for cdrecord and others ( favorite )
  • Gimp - GNU Image Manipulation Program
  • Sodipodi - vector-based drawing program
• Office:
  • OpenOffice - open source version of StarOffice ( favorite )
  • Koffice - KDE office suite
• Development:
  • MySQL - database
  • PHP - PHP Hypertext Preprocessor
  • gcc - c/c++ compiler
  • Kdevelop - An Integrated Development Environment
  • Quanta - An web development tool
• Security:
  • lsof - command, list open files
  • top - command, resource usage
  • vmstat - command, virtual memory usage
  • w - command, current user
  • nmap - best scanning tool
  • John the Ripper - password cracker
  • tcpdump - network sniffer
  • tcpflow - reconstruct end-to-end TCP traffic
  • iptable - firewall
  • tripwire - system integrity check
  • Encryption, Data Signing
    • GnuPG
    • pgp
• Networking:
  • KMail - KDE's mail client ( favorite )
  • Liferea - Linux Feed Reader ( RSS/RDF, CDF, Atom, OCS, and OPML )
  • XChat - IRC client for UNIX operating systems
  • mutt - another console based e-mail client ( favorite )
  • Apache - web server
    • gallery - on-line photo gallery
    • Webalizer - web server log file analysis program
    • phpMyAdmin - a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web
  • Proxy Servers:
    • Squid - full-featured Web proxy cache
  • Web Browsers:
    • konqueror - KDE web browser ( favorite )
    • Opera - fast
    • Mozilla - good general support for all web sites
    • FireFox - Mozilla's lightweight web browser ( favorite )
  • FTP clients:
    • ncftp - command line ftp client
    • gftp - Gnome ftp client
  • p2p clients:
    • gtk-gnutella - gnutella client
    • giFT - gnutella/openft/kazaa client
    • Azureus - bittorrent protocol implementation using java language
  • gaim - AIM client and MSN, ICQ, YAHOO, JABBER supported thrugh plugins ( favorite )
  • SSH Client/Server:
    • OpenSSH
  • UCD-SNMP - snmp utility
• File Utility:
• Compression:
  • rar - for rar archive ( favorite )
  • zip/unzip - for .zip file
  • bzip2/bunzip2 - for .bz2 file ( favorite )
  • gzip/gunzip - for .gz file
• File Integrity Check:
  • md5sum - generate md5 hash
  • cksfv - CRC checking, linux couterpart for WinSFV
  • cabextract - extract M$ .cab file

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