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*; gFTP: FTP client, open-source. It is fast and efficient, but old and not very robust. | *; gFTP: FTP client, open-source. It is fast and efficient, but old and not very robust. | ||
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*; X-Chat : Open-source IRC client. Not awesome, but ok. | *; X-Chat : Open-source IRC client. Not awesome, but ok. |
Revision as of 13:11, 17 January 2007
A list of all the applications that I use, on various platforms.
Mac OS X Applications
Packaging Systems
- SoftwareUpdate
- Built-in (from Apple), will only update the OS and Apple applications. Very easy.
- Fink
- Large repository of UNIX open-source software.
- DarwinPorts
- Other package manager. The repository has a lot of server software. Easy to use.
Internet
- Free as in beer (from Apple), good client except for the Spotlight search feature taking hours (and not returning anything useful, generally).
- Thunderbird
- Good open-source email client from Mozilla.
- Firefox
- The standard open-source browser that you can trust.
- Safari
- Probably the best browser available for OS X (very fast). Based on Konqueror so should be open.
- Cyberduck
- FTP client, open-source. I don't like it that much but it seems one of the best for the Mac.
- X-Chat Aqua
- Open-source IRC client. Not awesome, but ok.
- Fire
- Open-source multi-protocol IM client.
Development
- GCC
- Included in the system from Apple.
- X-Code
- Good IDE for C++/Objective-C/Java, unfortunately only available on the Mac. It manages its own build system, but this is not portable.
Multimedia
- iTunes
- Excellent audio player.
- MPlayer
- Best video player available on the Mac, but should be compiled from source. The binaries versions are not maintained it seems. Also, the GUI sucks.
- VLC
- It will play less files than MPlayer, but the Mac port is official and better.
- Adobe Photoshop
- Best image editing program.
- Roxio Toast
- Good CD/DVD-burning software, but not free.
Office
- Adobe Acrobat Reader
- Essential to read PDF files.
- Address Book
- Nice contact book manager.
Utilities
- Built-in Unarchiver
- It will decompress .tar, .zip, and other formats. Nice integration into the Finder.
- CDFinder
- Organizes a CD/DVD collection. Good but not multiplatform nor Open-Source.
- CDCat
- Organizes a CD/DVD collection. Free as in speech, multiplatform, uses Qt3. But you must compile it yourself.
- smartmontools
- Tool to monitor the SMART status of your hard drive. If you install using the Apple installer, the daemon will be automatically launched at startup (remove the StartupItem to prevent that).
Linux Applications
Packaging Systems (on Gentoo)
- emerge
- THE only one tool that you will ever need.
Internet
- Thunderbird
- Good open-source email client from Mozilla.
- Firefox
- The standard open-source browser that you can trust. Emerge netscape-flash to get Flash support.
- gFTP
- FTP client, open-source. It is fast and efficient, but old and not very robust.
- kFTPGrabber
- KDE oriented FTP client. Supports multiple sessions, not very stable unfortunately.
- X-Chat
- Open-source IRC client. Not awesome, but ok.
- Gaim
- Open-source multi-protocol IM client. I don't like it that much, but it works - I hope version 2 will be better.
- Skype
- Closed source, free as in beer phone application.
Development
- GCC
- The whole GNU tool chain will be of course included in the system.
- Eclipse
- Excellent, complex IDE for Java and other languages as well with plugins.
- KDevelop
- Very good IDE for C/C++ development.
- Gvim
- It has a handy hex editor mode.
Office
- Adobe Acrobat Reader
- To read PDF files.
- Kpdf
- Free PDF viewer. Lighter than Acrobat Reader.
Multimedia
- K3b
- Nice GUI to burn CDs/DVDs.
- Amarok
- iTunes like audio player and collection manager.
- Audacious
- Winamp like audio player, intended as an Xmms replacement. Light and efficient.
- MPlayer
- This is the player that will play almost all your media files. On Linux the built-in GUI is OK.
- VLC
- It will play less files than MPlayer, but is still good. Allows streaming over a network.
- Xine
- Best multimedia player.
- Picasa
- Photo organizer from Google. Not good for viewing single files.
- Showimg
- Excellent image viewer.
- Comix
- Really excellent viewer for reading comics.
Utilities
- Ark
- With the Konqueror plugin, it has a nice integration into your system.
- CDCat
- Organizes a CD/DVD collection. Free as in speech, multiplatform, uses Qt3. But you must compile it yourself (not in Portage).
- smartmontools
- Tool to monitor the SMART status of your hard drive.
Games
- Wine
- This is absolutely necessary to play Blizzard games (Warcraft III), and many other Windows games as well.
- GXMame
- Frontend for the XMame Linux version.
- Gens
- Sega Genesis emulator.
- Majesty
- Native port of the great fantasy kingdom simulation game.
- Return to Castle Wolfenstein
- Native port of the FPS game.
- Pingus
- Free clone of Lemmings, excellent.