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Hey,
I just got my eee pc yesterday and have started to add some apps via synaptics.
I'm fairly new to using linux, and thus far have only installed Gimp, Bluefish and Anjuta for university.
What other apps has everyone installed? Any you would suggest for a new computing student?
Michael
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for university i installed
jedit - for java programming
vpnc - for vpn-connection from home, or in the universities wireless lan
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I use my EEE mostly as a word processing/translation tool, with some other basic office-type duties thrown in.
To that end, I've got the whole OO.o suite with some language related add-ons, OpenProj, Heartsome Suite (a TMX/TBX/XLIF manager), Crossover Office, Scribus, as well as internet stuff suh as Thunderbird with Lightning/Provider plug-ins, XChat, gFTP, Gizmo Project, Frostwire and Azureus.
I'm sure I've got some other things, but those are the ones that come to mind right now.
R.
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Last edited by rickh (2008-01-30 10:07:58 am)
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Other than switching it over to "advanced desktop" and adding some codecs to the Smplayer video software, I've left it pretty stock. I have installed a couple of extra games (lxDOOM and Cube).
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This is quite surprising, was expecting people to have installed more
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poetofzwan wrote:
This is quite surprising, was expecting people to have installed more
Well, to be fair, you've only got 2 responses so far. I think a lot of us have installed all sorts of stuff, but later realized that we just needed the basics and have stuck with them.
R.
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rickh wrote:
I think a lot of us have installed all sorts of stuff, but later realized that we just needed the basics and have stuck with them.
That's more-or-less the case with me, I must say.
In fact, other than installing kicker and ksmserver (to enable Full Desktop mode) the only things that I have installed outside of the stock apps currently are gaming-related - namely; Snes9x, FCEU, Generator, DOSBox, pSX, robotfindskitten, and ninvaders. 
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As per my 'signature' - but I'm not a computing student, poetofzwan. Nor a hardcore gamer or Linux geek.
'In the fullness of time' I may include more, but once you're into Advanced Desktop, there's a lot of software available to you straight out of the box.
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poetofzwan wrote:
This is quite surprising, was expecting people to have installed more
It's surprising how little you have to add really. Most common tools are already included. There's even a Palm sync program which is the last thing you'd expect. I probably install ~50 things on a windows desktop. In Linux:
Advanced desktop
GParted - maybe this comes pre-installed, I forget.
GIMP
Nicotine (a slsk client)
Azureus
VLC
AirSnort
Wireshark
LMMS - probably as close as I'll get to Fruityloops in Linux.
Gkrellm - system monitoring
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advanced desktop
gimp
audacity
VLC player
zsnes
WINE (which doesn't seem to work)
azureus
XMMS
beryl
Last edited by fiddolbrfrho (2008-01-30 9:21:01 pm)
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Selection16, did you have any trouble with LMMS? My system freezes on the LMMS logo when I try to boot it up.
I installed the advanced desktop
octave
zsnes
LMMS - then stopped due to LMMS frustration
whee!
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well i dont ha elinux, i have XP pro sp2 nlited with:
office 2003 (word, excel and powerpoint)
Photoshop CS2
Corel Draw X3
VLC
Zoom player
CCCP Codecs
Utorrent
MSN Live
Scanner software (scanner/printer/copier laser machine)
winamp
ccleaner
Fox it pdf readere
stepmania
AVG
Winrar
ACDsee
and all updates of windows.
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plorry wrote:
Selection16, did you have any trouble with LMMS? My system freezes on the LMMS logo when I try to boot it up.
No it installs and runs quite well really, on the default os (advanced). I installed it in a terminal using apt-get.
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i removed all the games, scientific and educational stuff, email applications, some of the paint applications and image viewers, some media players like amarok. i now have advanced desktop, some better games, amsn, gimp, xmms, frostwire and azureus. with firefox and skype already there thats everything i need.
Last edited by garyk (2008-01-31 2:33:44 am)
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Running on the Advanced Xandros:
Opera (browser, mail, feeds etc)
J2SE SDK (Java development)
J2ME WTK (Java development)
VLC (media player)
Jabp (personal finance application)
jText (text editor)
amsn (instant messenger)
Best regards,
Malcolm
www.freepoc.org
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Just The Gimp, Thunderbird and latest Skype on mine, seems to be adequate.
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I have got the full LAMP set up
apache
mysql
php
also
transmission bitorrent
filezilla ftp
eric ide(just installed)
vlc
mysqladmin
//metrophage
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If you already had a USB GPS, don't forget gpsdrive. Instructions on the wiki. I'm quite impressed for it to be a free product. I just need to work on getting the maps downloaded....
But my #1 must-have is VLC. Nice not worrying with codecs as well as being able to stream and remote control with the web interface. Simple apt-get and it just _works_.
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I haven't installed anything-- running on the original Easy Mode since Christmas with the presinstalled software and perfectly happy with the whole setup.
Except now I'm thinking about installing AbiWord for note taking, writing for web publishing, etc.
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ufraw
gimp
gnomesword
gkrellm
cream
pdftk
wvdial
wvdial is the "added" app I use the most.
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I kept Xandros for a while, then became rather frustrated by it.
Since installing WinXP, my EEE has become much more than a simple web browser/simple Office apps editor.
I have installed:
Filemaker Pro 8.5
MYOB
POSE (Palm Emulator for my PDA)
MAME
WinRAR
Office 2003
GPS maps and software (Destinator)
Foxit Reader
HanDBase desktop viewer
and essentials for the EEE with XP:
CCleaner
MoveME
VLC
MediaPlayer Classic
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Advance Desktop
VLC (media player)
GIMP (image manipulation)
Blender (3d modelling)
g++/gcc
gawk (text procesing)
flex (lexical anayser)
yacc (compiler creater)
stellarium (virtual planetarium) - dont really like kstars
LBreakout2 (breakout) - for the lunch hour
I graduated from uni with a CS degree about 6 years ago and am now a software engineer
Last edited by martin_lovick (2008-02-01 2:45:34 am)
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Full Xp Pro install
OFFICE 2007
Photoshop 7
VLC
Spiceworks
Navision Attain (Client)
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