OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/18963/What_s_Your_Killer_App_ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2012, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:34:27 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Comment by Thom_Holwerda http://www.osnews.com/thread?286109 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286109 Safari. I love this browser.Edited 2007-11-23 16:20 UTC Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom_Holwerda) Comments I'll start http://www.osnews.com/thread?286110 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286110 We are all Mac at my house, and my favorite app there is really the one-two punch of Transmit and SubEthaEdit. Since I can only choose one app, I suppose I have to boil it down to one app that by itself gives me the most power, so I'm going to say Paint.net for Windows, which I use at work. This powerful tool is my favorite quick way to edit and create images without having to be a pro and without the complications of Photoshop. Did I mention it's totally free?? Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Adam S) Comments Cant live without.... http://www.osnews.com/thread?286111 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286111 Firefox Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (knightrider) Comments FireFox (RHEL5.1 Enterprise Server & Fedora 8) http://www.osnews.com/thread?286113 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286113 I really like this browser, I only run Linux in the office and at home and the latest release 2.0.0.9 in F7 & F8 however the version on my laptop running RHEL5.1 is like 1.5 something or anothers. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:24:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Arkansas_Rebel) Comments Can't do without it http://www.osnews.com/thread?286114 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286114 SSH Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (FishB8) Comments Google http://www.osnews.com/thread?286115 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286115 i think Google is app too so is my killer one Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:29:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Moya) Comments Two killer apps http://www.osnews.com/thread?286116 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286116 I can't go to sleep until my computer can run Cubase and LyX. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (rhyder) Comments Konqueror http://www.osnews.com/thread?286117 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286117 Konqueror, the only app I really need. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (TheMonoTone) Comments I need my game fix... http://www.osnews.com/thread?286118 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286118 Gorillas.bas Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Soulbender) Comments Latex http://www.osnews.com/thread?286119 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286119 Latex Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dmiranda) Comments LTSP http://www.osnews.com/thread?286120 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286120 Linux Terminal Server Project because I like my my terminals totally silent and no local maintenance. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (britbrian) Comments cowsay http://www.osnews.com/thread?286121 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286121 figlet sup dudes | cowsay -n Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Misogynist) Comments IM http://www.osnews.com/thread?286122 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286122 Adium for me. I don't need video/audio chat so I'm perfectly fine with the minimum. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (optimusg4) Comments Intellij IDEA http://www.osnews.com/thread?286123 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286123 A Java IDE without replacement. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (xhfdc) Comments iTunes http://www.osnews.com/thread?286124 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286124 iTunes Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (SK8T) Comments I'm a huge fan of.. http://www.osnews.com/thread?286125 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286125 Screen, always the first app I load up and just so useful. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (antenna) Comments RE: cowsay http://www.osnews.com/thread?286126 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286126 Just installed cowsay pretty cool! Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Arkansas_Rebel) Comments ... http://www.osnews.com/thread?286128 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286128 vim and zsh Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (behemot) Comments amaroK http://www.osnews.com/thread?286130 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286130 amaroK, because no other media player can compare! Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (whittmadden) Comments OpenSSH+OpenbSD http://www.osnews.com/thread?286131 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286131 OpenSSH, I would be stuck hooking up a null serial cable without it.. ;)

OpenBSD, I would be on bare metal without it. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (BSDfan) Comments screen http://www.osnews.com/thread?286132 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286132 screen Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Oliver) Comments p2p http://www.osnews.com/thread?286133 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286133 Utorrent >:] Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Her4clitus) Comments Kile http://www.osnews.com/thread?286134 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286134 Kile, a LaTeX editor for KDE. I've used some Windows ones, and for me, they don't compare. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (MiliTux) Comments fan of http://www.osnews.com/thread?286135 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286135 VNC or some equivalent... ;) Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Nossie) Comments What else http://www.osnews.com/thread?286136 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286136 Vim Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lopisaur) Comments RE: Konqueror http://www.osnews.com/thread?286137 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286137 +1 for you!!

I think the same. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ebasconp) Comments NVWMTM Commander http://www.osnews.com/thread?286138 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286138 Norton/Volkov/Windows/Total/Midnight Commander

The greatest thing since sliced bread ;) Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (DonQ) Comments gcc http://www.osnews.com/thread?286139 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286139 Maybe "geeky", but gcc changed the world. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ebasconp) Comments games are allowed? http://www.osnews.com/thread?286140 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286140 I will buy any platform where runs al least one episode of the Super Robot Wars Series ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Robot_Wars Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Cezy) Comments R http://www.osnews.com/thread?286141 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286141 R-project. ...and I'm still waiting for the R-OS! Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (valek) Comments Easy http://www.osnews.com/thread?286142 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286142 OpenSSH. Literally the only app that I use every single day. And if I could have two apps, it would be OpenSSH + GNU Screen. That is a killer combo. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jackson) Comments Safari http://www.osnews.com/thread?286144 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286144 Safari here too (Though I use FireFox at work). Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (zizban) Comments Microsoft OneNote http://www.osnews.com/thread?286145 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286145 I think this is the most significant new application released for MS Office users since Outlook... Home users will yawn and rightly so - it offers very little for them. But for anyone who has to manage and dissect alot of misc. data on a daily basis it is fricking bliss.

It lets you effortlessly organize and re-organized notes from meetings, personal notes, software documentation, files, picture, schematics, websites, practically anything. And it does so without getting in your way.

It doesn't do anything particularly new - but its the first app of its kind that (I think) gets its all just right. Highly recommended for anyone whose time is valuable and just wants to keep track of things (not time - that is what Outlook is for - OneNote organizes data) without alot of complication... Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (galvanash) Comments GMail http://www.osnews.com/thread?286146 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286146 I would also like to add Gmail. Say what you want about Google, and their GMail app, but it changed the entire webmail platform, and opened up everyone's eyes to the 5 mb limit that other providers such as hotmail and yahoo provided at the time, and made it unacceptable in the eyes of geeks everywhere. Gmail changed all of that. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (whittmadden) Comments 1-800 U LUV VIM http://www.osnews.com/thread?286147 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286147 Vim.. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (felipe) Comments vim http://www.osnews.com/thread?286148 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286148 i use it on unix (mainly OpenBSD), windows, macosx. Rarely i use vi. I think it's the most useful program for me.
Also, i vote for ``sudo'', ``nc'' (netcat), ``thunderbird'', ``firefox'', ``slrn'', ``psi'', ``gqview'', ``mplayer'' ;) Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (alexey) Comments vim http://www.osnews.com/thread?286149 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286149 Yeah, it'd be vim, although psql (postgres) and cowsay are closing in.... Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (robinh) Comments ktorrent http://www.osnews.com/thread?286150 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286150 Best torrent client on KDE Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OStourist) Comments ...... http://www.osnews.com/thread?286151 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286151 Have quite a few but I would give the edge to Firefox.

Hope sometime they do a mini-poll or something in short answer, why do you like computers.Edited 2007-11-23 16:58 Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (islander) Comments Opera http://www.osnews.com/thread?286152 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286152 I've been using it since 2001 (Opera 5.10) and painfully miss it whenever I have to switch to something else. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Nico57) Comments shell... http://www.osnews.com/thread?286153 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286153 GNU BASH. I refuse to use a computer without bash. (at work I have static binaries for AIX, Solaris and HP-Ux hehe) Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sergio) Comments Eclipse http://www.osnews.com/thread?286154 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286154 Eclipse does it for me... Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (timefortea) Comments tricky http://www.osnews.com/thread?286155 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286155 It's either GIMP or Emacs, for totally different reasons, i'm usually happy using nano for text editing but emacs covers so many bases i could do without a number of other apps if using it.

For image editing I know gimp so well and work with it effectively enough to produce better results than a lot or people might from competing apps, it fits my needs well and i have a sensible workflow centered around it.

All this aside, in today's permanently connected world i could just name firefox as my favourite, considering the rich AJAX and Flash apps available online this could provide for my music and video needs in many ways. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (anonybrowse) Comments I'm going to cheat ... http://www.osnews.com/thread?286156 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286156 ... and say an SSH client and modern web browser. I have my favoured clients, but I don't mind switching if something better comes out. But I will ignore a platform unless it provides me reliable SSH and HTTP connectivity, which I think is a good way to define killer applications. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (MacTO) Comments explorer.exe :-) http://www.osnews.com/thread?286157 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286157 ... it's needed. ;) Better than the alternatives. ;) Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (adioanca) Comments Opera http://www.osnews.com/thread?286158 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286158 Photoshop was close but Opera takes the cake. I just don't enjoy browsing as much when I have to use a different browser. Here's to hoping standards compliance of websites picks up a notch! Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Undomiel) Comments Amarok http://www.osnews.com/thread?286159 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286159 If I were to be sent on a deserted island and be allowed to bring only one cool app, that would be Amarok ;) ) Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (cypress) Comments Definitely... http://www.osnews.com/thread?286160 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286160 Ma favourite is:

/sbin/shutdown

Sorry. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Riba) Comments Killer app http://www.osnews.com/thread?286161 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286161 screen, putty and traceroute ;) Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (frood) Comments re: http://www.osnews.com/thread?286162 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286162 mail (apple) Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:03:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (REM2000) Comments Muckclient http://www.osnews.com/thread?286163 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286163 Although there are several I use daily, Muckclient is the one that I would be really sad without. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Almafeta) Comments Another vote for http://www.osnews.com/thread?286164 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286164 Amarok Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jtrapp) Comments Opera http://www.osnews.com/thread?286165 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286165 Using Opera hours and hours a day since 2002 ;) Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Joe User) Comments Gmail http://www.osnews.com/thread?286166 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286166 While most of the google apps are cool, I'd have to say Gmail is one I wouldn't want to live without. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Jondice) Comments RE: I'm a huge fan of.. http://www.osnews.com/thread?286167 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286167 Yeah, Screen is something else I wouldn't want to live without ;) Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Jondice) Comments VLC http://www.osnews.com/thread?286168 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286168 VLC media player Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (justin.68) Comments vim http://www.osnews.com/thread?286169 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286169 vim is the mostly used tool for me. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:12:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dizzey) Comments Editor http://www.osnews.com/thread?286170 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286170 Cubic IDE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubic_IDE Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:12:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (p-OS) Comments My Favourite http://www.osnews.com/thread?286171 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286171 If I had to choose one, I'd say Toast Titanium 8.03. Compared to other software out there, its pretty damn good.

But if I had to choose one which I used all the time - in otherwords, and application that 'makes or breaks the platform' for me, I'd go for Pages.

I use Pages a lot, it is just a super application. I tend to treat my word processor like a DTP, so it works perfectly for what I need. I can pick up a picture, plonk it anywhere on the page. Its just so easy to get things done - easy, but not easy with stupid things like clippy getting in the way. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kaiwai) Comments Four for me http://www.osnews.com/thread?286172 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286172 Eclipse, Amarok, Azureus and MPlayer Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jaypee) Comments 1a and 1b http://www.osnews.com/thread?286173 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286173 Azureus and Opera are my #1 Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (hraq) Comments Epiphany http://www.osnews.com/thread?286174 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286174 What's Your "Killer App?"

Epiphany: The web browser for the GNOME desktop. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bloodandsoil) Comments it hasn't been invented yet http://www.osnews.com/thread?286175 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286175 I'm a Linux user, and my killer app doesn't yet exist for Linux (though there are Windows equivalents). What I need, but Linux still lacks, is a good house floor plan drawing program. Qcad can be used for that purpose, but that's just a general cad program. A quick Google search turns up such programs for Windows, like these:

http://architecture.about.com/cs/cadprograms/tp/designsoftware.htm

I really wish one of these would be ported to Linux. Then I wouldn't ever need to boot Windows. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ozonehole) Comments i can't live without http://www.osnews.com/thread?286176 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286176 amarok, konsole & firefox Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lost) Comments emacs http://www.osnews.com/thread?286177 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286177 Huh ? What do you mean by "It doesn't qualify as a *single* app." ? ;) Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (moltonel) Comments Speech Recognition http://www.osnews.com/thread?286178 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286178 Or: What should not be missing in a OS since OS/2 Warp 4, and the nearly only thing missing in the OSS/FOSS world these days. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (rener) Comments Vim... http://www.osnews.com/thread?286179 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286179 Probably vim for me. I still get heebies when I have to use notepad or something on a Windows box.

Beyond that it'd probably be LaTeX. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (TheMatt) Comments Browser for me... http://www.osnews.com/thread?286180 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286180 Opera. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Yogurth) Comments just being greedy http://www.osnews.com/thread?286181 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286181 Sorry, I can't pick just the one so here are my top 5 in no particular order:

* Apache
* VLC
* K3b
* Samba
* X.orgEdited 2007-11-23 17:22 Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Laurence) Comments only rm http://www.osnews.com/thread?286182 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286182 rm is the true killer.
try "rm -rf /" under root ;) Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:24:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (duriantang) Comments Firefox and only Firefox http://www.osnews.com/thread?286183 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286183 I can't live without this browser. Best browser out there. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lxstoian) Comments Microsoft Office 2007 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286184 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286184 Ribbon FTW Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (FreakyT) Comments RE: only rm http://www.osnews.com/thread?286185 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286185
"rm is the true killer. "


Or mv file(s) /dev/null if you're oldskool ;-)Edited 2007-11-23 17:32 Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Laurence) Comments Three-in-one http://www.osnews.com/thread?286186 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286186 ssh+screen+mc

In my opinion, mc is the greatest, most flexible and most underrated program out there. Thankfully, I have managed to get it running in OSX, Linux, Windows and even my Nokia N800 (Just Linux again, I know.) Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (benmhall) Comments Web browser http://www.osnews.com/thread?286187 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286187 I don't specify any specific app by name, I just say I need access to ANY web browser everyday ;) Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (WereCatf) Comments Some brute force is needed http://www.osnews.com/thread?286188 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286188 I cant live without kill and xkill. I love the little skull ;D Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Mrpengo) Comments Can't choose http://www.osnews.com/thread?286189 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286189 There's no way i could possibly choose between Kate and LyX. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (atezun) Comments Evidence... http://www.osnews.com/thread?286190 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286190 Really good reading PDF files. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Hiev) Comments RE: Epiphany http://www.osnews.com/thread?286191 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286191 Indeed. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Hiev) Comments Keepass and its ports http://www.osnews.com/thread?286192 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286192 All my critical details like passwords and bank account numbers are safely kept in a highly-encrypted database, that I can access on Linux and Windows. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fejack) Comments Visual Studio http://www.osnews.com/thread?286193 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286193 With all its flaws, it is still the best IDE for my purposes. I regularly work with java IDEs such as eclipse and netbeans, and none of them even comes close. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (tuttle) Comments Definitely have to be... http://www.osnews.com/thread?286194 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286194 Bratz, the video game.

LOL.. No, seriously, I'd have to say PuTTY. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (helf) Comments RE: Visual Studio http://www.osnews.com/thread?286195 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286195 that's because you have never tried JBuilder. ;) Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Hiev) Comments TextMate http://www.osnews.com/thread?286196 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286196 TextMate. My developer needs are totally dependent on it, exception made for Java where I'd elect Eclipse. As for Firefox, I love it but I don't depend on it as much as on TextMate (I can use Safari or Opera, although without the nice Firefox extensions like WebDeveloper). Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (mlopes) Comments Winamp http://www.osnews.com/thread?286197 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286197 "Often Imitated, Never Duplicated"

http://www.winamp.com Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ronaldst) Comments WWW http://www.osnews.com/thread?286198 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286198 Firefox Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Nicram) Comments RE: Visual Studio http://www.osnews.com/thread?286199 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286199 Could you please elaborate on why Eclipse doesn't come close? I've worked a LOT with Eclipse and my mileage significantly varies from yours. I can actually pinpoint some things where Eclipse is actually way better (starting with the price) but the ball is on your side, so I'll wait for your points and refute them if possible. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (mlopes) Comments Network & communication apps naturally http://www.osnews.com/thread?286200 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286200 In work you may need very specialized apps but mentioning them might not be too interesting here, so I list only what I use most at home with Linux.

Communication and Internet are, of course, quite important - if not necessary - on these days of networks and messaging. There are many good alternative apps for those tasks but what I tend to prefer at home for those kind of tasks are these: Firefox, Evolution, Pidgin & Skype. I've not been a KDE fan lately, but KDE alternatives like Kopete might be worth trying too.

I couldn't do without a good enough office suite either, and that's OpenOffice for me. A good image editing app, GIMP or Krita, is important too, like having a few good media players are too.

For my currently small personal web editing tasks I often need only Bluefish and Kompozer, but I've got heavier alternatives like Eclipse with many plugins installed too should I need or want to play with them too.

The very first program that I tend to install after having got Ubuntu installed is, however, Shorewall firewall usually.

As to occasional gaming...: I've never quite understood what many people find so fascinating in big heavy time-consuming 3D simulation games? (Or maybe I've just grown too old...?) To me they seem a bit too much "Hollywood": lots of commercial hype & expensive special effects, but often rather empty and unintelligent story. Sure I may occasionally like to play something like Planet Penguin Racer a couple of times for a change, but that has usually been all I need from 3D gaming. However, I still prefer classic intellectual games like playing chess against the computer, or PokerTH for poker simulation, or GnomeGo or Panda glGo for playing Go. By the way, it's a pity that there seems to be no native open-source contract Bridge game for Linux where you could also play against the computer (so not needing 3 other online players)? Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (irbis) Comments Compiler http://www.osnews.com/thread?286201 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286201 Whatever compiler I need to use: gcc for C; fasm for assembly.

I was going to say emacs (which is the only editor I use for C), but I can easily use nano to code if need be. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (patrick_) Comments RE: I need my game fix... http://www.osnews.com/thread?286203 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286203
Gorillas.bas


L O L

Less than a week ago I mentioned this game to my girlfriend and was appalled to find out that she never heard about it.

Oh Lord, the old days of messing with the source to increase the explosion radius or the speed of the banana ;) Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (meianoite) Comments firefox i guess... http://www.osnews.com/thread?286204 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286204 I'm having trouble deciding between vim, screen and ssh.
so firefox it is ;) Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jsolares) Comments RE[2]: Visual Studio http://www.osnews.com/thread?286205 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286205 performance and the gui builder are the two things that come to mind. IMHO VS is a really good IDE, but you need additional plugins to make it truly a killer app, like JetBrains ReSharper or DevExpress CodeRush Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (google_ninja) Comments init http://www.osnews.com/thread?286206 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286206 my "killer app" is '/sbin/init'. It starts so many useful applications after starting itself ... ;) Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sledgehammer89) Comments Most used App http://www.osnews.com/thread?286207 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286207 The most obvious one: Synaptic Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Gimmeapill) Comments I guess I'll pollute the comment section too http://www.osnews.com/thread?286208 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286208 ViM, which I use in all source code editing. It beats Eclipse for certain. (Believe me, I've used both.)

The Perl interpreter is a close second. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (w-ber) Comments RE: ktorrent http://www.osnews.com/thread?286209 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286209 Does ktorrent have a built in player for multimedia formats or burner for disc images? presumably you'd want to do something with the data you port around?

Maybe Miro, with its build in bittorrent support and media playing abilities is more of a killer app in the one app you can't live without sense. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (anonybrowse) Comments Mozilla Firefox http://www.osnews.com/thread?286210 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286210 Mozilla Firefox.
Used it everyday in my life for the past five years. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:03:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lawina) Comments RE: ktorrent http://www.osnews.com/thread?286211 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286211 you must download a LOT of torrents for this to be your one killer app Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:03:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (google_ninja) Comments VS.NET http://www.osnews.com/thread?286212 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286212 It helps me pay my bills. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Harald) Comments iFolder http://www.osnews.com/thread?286213 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286213 I can use a different web browser, or mail client to get mail, most any will get the basic job done. iFolder solves so many file sync problems, I don't think I could live without it.

-Cross platform support, Windows, Mac OS X, Linux
-Web interface to get a files when I'm not on one of my computers, https
-Keeps my files in sync to server for backup
-Lets me work on the same set of files on my desktop computer and my laptops
-Syncs over the internet, so I don't have to worry about forgetting to sync at the office before I hit the road with encryption
-All totally in the background, very rarely has a conflict and syncs often enough to not miss anything before shutting down

Not sure when the open source builds have last been updated but the 3.6 version is part of Open Enterprise Server 2 http://www.novell.com/products/openenterpriseserver/ . The open source site is http://www.ifolder.com .

Happy long weekend...

-mEdited 2007-11-23 18:07 Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (invisik) Comments Lots of goodies already mentioned http://www.osnews.com/thread?286214 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286214 For something original I'll choose: transmissioncli

Very lightweight, easy to use BT client. It's available as cli (as named above) or as gui using gtk2. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (anomie) Comments I have more than one http://www.osnews.com/thread?286215 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286215 G++, Qt4, QDevelop, and The Gimp. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (timothy.crosley) Comments Apt-get http://www.osnews.com/thread?286216 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286216 Apt-get is the source of all other applications and upgrades and the no-hassle F/OSS licenses of apt-get repositories is the one reason why non-F/OSS platforms will never have anything equivalently good (shareware and adware maybe, but there's always a catch -- usually privacy or money or lock-in). Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (g2devi) Comments putty http://www.osnews.com/thread?286217 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286217 putty ssh client. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (mrfx) Comments ghemical http://www.osnews.com/thread?286218 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286218 http://www.uku.fi/~thassine/projects/ghemical/ Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (chemical_scum) Comments Opera http://www.osnews.com/thread?286219 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286219 Another vote for Opera. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (shykid) Comments Warewulf http://www.osnews.com/thread?286220 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286220 Congrats to the Infiniscale guys who simplify you the non trivial task of deploying a diskless cluster.

One morning 10 diskless computers arrived, the afternoon they were running their first simulation.

I can not say enough "thanks" to those guys. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (SamAskani) Comments My personal Killer Apps http://www.osnews.com/thread?286222 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286222 Well, what keeps me on Windows on my primary PC is foobar2000 and Exact Audio Copy. Apart from that, there's no real killer app for me... for instance, I can use Eclipse, Firefox, Thunderbird or OO.org on all "mayor" OSes.

For Linux, I do really love apt-get... that's why Debian based distributions stay my choice ;) Edited 2007-11-23 18:25 Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (SCHWEjK) Comments Disco http://www.osnews.com/thread?286223 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286223 Disc burning for OS X. Simple and beautiful. I had bought Toast online (u get a serial). After I lost the serial they wouldn't give it to me again (I'm not kidding). I'm so glad I switched. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:24:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (daveyfromjersey) Comments google + killer app... http://www.osnews.com/thread?286224 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286224 ...found 2,030,000 useless webpages... Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (antik) Comments My Website! http://www.osnews.com/thread?286227 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286227 LOL

http://www.screenpopsoftware.com/ Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Harald) Comments RE: Cant live without.... http://www.osnews.com/thread?286228 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286228 Definately firefox.

The type to find feature is incredibly useful, and I miss it when I don't have it. Extensions are another reason that I use it, especially google sync. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Flatland_Spider) Comments Firefox http://www.osnews.com/thread?286229 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286229 If I have to chose only one app, it's Firefox. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ZBrando) Comments my killer app... http://www.osnews.com/thread?286230 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286230 the one I'm being paid to write at any given time... I may never end up using most the stuff I write, but it puts bread on the table ;) Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (borker) Comments RE: VLC http://www.osnews.com/thread?286231 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286231 VLC is so good I forget that it exists, it's one of the first things I install on freshly installed OS... any OS. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (miscz) Comments vim http://www.osnews.com/thread?286232 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286232 vim. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Shane) Comments MPlayer http://www.osnews.com/thread?286233 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286233 Great keyboard shortcuts for Forward and Backward in three differently sized steps.

And usually plays even corrupted or incomplete files. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (anda_skoa) Comments Emacs http://www.osnews.com/thread?286234 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286234 just because someone else posted vim. ;) Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (whittmadden) Comments RE: Winamp http://www.osnews.com/thread?286235 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286235 Winamp is awesome. I love the little client, and am still searching for a replacement on Linux or FreeBSD. Audacious looks like it might be close though.

They really need to allow it to be ported. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Flatland_Spider) Comments RE: Some brute force is needed http://www.osnews.com/thread?286236 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286236 Oh! You got it before me. I must say... no other app is as KILLER as x?kill!!!! Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (AlexandreAM) Comments Konqueror http://www.osnews.com/thread?286237 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286237 or the console. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bimbo) Comments Mozilla Seamonkey http://www.osnews.com/thread?286238 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286238 Mozilla Seamonkey browser. I use it for both browsing and email. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (buff) Comments RE: I'll start http://www.osnews.com/thread?286239 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286239 I can't mode you up, but Paint.net is a neat little program for quickly editing photos. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Flatland_Spider) Comments gnu screen http://www.osnews.com/thread?286240 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286240 screen is the most useful app, i can't live without it. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (drkwolf) Comments favorite app.... http://www.osnews.com/thread?286241 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286241 I'm going to have to say telnet. I can reach my cube, talk to cisco routers, and debug some TCP applicaitons.. it's quite handy to have around. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (neozeed) Comments mplayer, vlc, utorrent, firefox, gimp, 7zip, scite http://www.osnews.com/thread?286242 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286242 Also: ffdshow, media player classic, vitrualdub, irfanview, trillian and visual studio and Windows XP too btw, it has to be said.

On the gaming front, Live-For-Speed is the game I've played most hours ever.

All those apps are the ones occupying more than 95% of the time I spend with a computer... Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (avih) Comments VSO DivXtoDVD v 0.5.2b http://www.osnews.com/thread?286243 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286243 Outstanding program , a godsend !
Why?
1. Its FREE
2. Laughably easy to use
2. Converts DivX,Xvid,and others to a new video_ts
folder ready to be burned to a dvd.

There are a lot more xvid and divx movie torrents available
on the internet than dvd ones and they download in
1/7 the time.Edited 2007-11-23 19:02 Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (LightRider) Comments Quicksilver http://www.osnews.com/thread?286244 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286244 Blacktree's Quicksilver. I cannot use a Mac without it, and I don't even use it's full potential.

On alternative platforms, Windows Key + R is my other save, but it's not as robust.Edited 2007-11-23 19:00 Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (vogelar) Comments eM Client http://www.osnews.com/thread?286245 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286245 eM Client ... not only I use it for e-mail and to keep my school schedule, but it also makes me earn some little cash ;) Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (navaraf) Comments Decisions, Decisions... http://www.osnews.com/thread?286246 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286246 * Firefox
* Netbeans (5.5 was sweet, 6RC2 rocks) Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (AxiomShell) Comments Quantum Cosmology http://www.osnews.com/thread?286247 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286247 I rather like this quote from the theoretical physicist Jim Hartle, in a talk he gave on quantum cosmology:

Cosmology is the Killer App for Everett Quantum Mechanics

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~everett/slides/hartle.pdf

http://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/misc/everett/Hartle%20-%20Co...

May be not the sort of kind of "Killer App" you were thinking of, but interesting eh?Edited 2007-11-23 19:01 Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (chemical_scum) Comments Bittorrent client http://www.osnews.com/thread?286248 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286248 I'd have to say rTorrent, with the amount I download a day I couldn't do without it.Edited 2007-11-23 19:02 Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bulio) Comments Quicksilver http://www.osnews.com/thread?286249 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286249 Quicksilver (www.blacktree.com) Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (l3mr) Comments ZMD ? http://www.osnews.com/thread?286250 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286250 install opensuse 10.2 and try to install some software and ZMD awakes...
it'll murder your machine's performance ;) so that's a real killerapp.

no seriously, my vote goes to amarok, the best music experience around. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (rkoot) Comments re http://www.osnews.com/thread?286251 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286251 Oh, yum all that info:-) Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (netpython) Comments Several http://www.osnews.com/thread?286252 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286252 * Opera on Windows - It's text-to-speech capabilities are the best I've heard. It's not uncommon for me to copy/paste a bunch of articles into a text file, a perl script converts that to HTML, then have Opera voice 'read' it at night while I sleep and convert that to an mp3 file for listening at work the next day. I don't read very much stuff at my computer anymore ;)

* Directory Opus - Best file manager I've seen.

* Adobe Audition

* Winorganizer - 'Outliner' app + PIM all rolled into one.

* 1by1 - Small media player that specializes in audiobooks.

* PowerDVD - I'd be interested to know if there's another video player out there than lets you fast forward/rewind a video at 2x without changing the pitch of the audio. That's pretty cool ;)

* Maxthon - Use it at work where IE is required. Some features are better implemented than Firefox or Opera.

* And about a half dozen little utils I have written for myself. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (WorknMan) Comments VMware! http://www.osnews.com/thread?286253 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286253 VMware Server. Good enough and free. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (tecepeipe) Comments I second for TextMate http://www.osnews.com/thread?286254 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286254 Textmate is the one app I spend most time in front of, just a bit ahead of ITerm.... (sorry for the two apps) Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Jonix) Comments IM http://www.osnews.com/thread?286255 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286255 Most of my friends us IM, it is IM that keep us in touch everyday. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (rockmen1) Comments The best player!! http://www.osnews.com/thread?286256 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286256 Amarok! Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (CapEnt) Comments Impossible choice http://www.osnews.com/thread?286257 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286257 There's only two apps I use every day; Firefox and xterm.

You really, really can't ask me to choose between them. On one hand I couldn't live without my daily dose of the interwebs. On the other hand the terminal is where most of the action is; screen, vim, ssh, irssi, ncmpc, rtorrent, rsync, find, grep, sed, svn, gcc, diff, patch, etc, etc. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bogomipz) Comments gcc http://www.osnews.com/thread?286258 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286258 gcc Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (razor85) Comments SSH was said already so I added a + http://www.osnews.com/thread?286259 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286259 It replaces telnet, ftp and does encrypted tunneling for any application that doesn't have it's own encrypted protocol.

The real thing that seals it for me is remote forwarding. Remotely Possible, PCAnywhere, Windows Remote Desktop, VNC; none of them compare to simply opening an ssh and forwarding the X display to my local machine.

With a liveCD, it's even turned a work issued notebook into a thin-client for use around my house when not working. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jabbotts) Comments Every day and every night: http://www.osnews.com/thread?286260 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286260 OperaMini - this app even can change your lifestyle. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Dr-ROX) Comments Amarok http://www.osnews.com/thread?286261 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286261 Amarok for sure! Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Isolationist) Comments mobile app http://www.osnews.com/thread?286262 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286262 opera mini 4 Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kaito) Comments Console http://www.osnews.com/thread?286263 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286263 CLI, but since standard with *nix... then, BASH. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (quad3datwork) Comments SSH & QS http://www.osnews.com/thread?286264 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286264 My must have app depends on platform so...

On OS X Quicksilver is an absolute must for me. Always the very first app I install.

On Linux the choice is a little more difficult but i will have to go with OpenSSH. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kokopelli) Comments Best Killer App http://www.osnews.com/thread?286265 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286265 Doom Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:29:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (andrewg) Comments Opera http://www.osnews.com/thread?286266 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286266 95% of the time I'm using a computer, Opera is the only app running. Yes, I know this is cheating, because Opera is everything: browser, email program, RSS reader, IRC client, download manager with BitTorrent, and more. All this with a ~4mb download, and fast to use thanks to mouse gestures. It follows me to every operating system, and I use every feature. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (nonesuch) Comments Kopete, Konqueror http://www.osnews.com/thread?286268 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286268 I just can't live without that two programs :S Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (luord) Comments RE[2]: Winamp http://www.osnews.com/thread?286269 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286269 How about xmms? its almost identical to winamp 2.95 (the best version) and even uses the same skins. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (judgen) Comments Audacity http://www.osnews.com/thread?286270 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286270 The sound recording program. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (h3rman) Comments XeTeX and LuaTeX....but not Latex http://www.osnews.com/thread?286272 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286272 XeTeX (and LuaTeX sometimes in the future) is my killer app...

TeXShell is my second killer app
(who needs LYX or complicated TeX editors when all you really need is TeX skillss....and...customizable buttons and colors, query and replace and syntax highlighting) Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Lakedaemon) Comments firefox, http://www.osnews.com/thread?286273 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286273 my killer app is firefox..
my os is linux ubuntu 7.10
i build ehcp, www.ehcp.net, a hosting control panel
see you Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bvidinli) Comments Hurr durr. http://www.osnews.com/thread?286274 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286274 Here I go naming a small telnet client, when I skip over something really obvious.

If an operating system can count as a single 'app,' computing wouldn't have gone much farther than it was in the 80s without Windows. Without it, we'd still have 20 or so different vendors holding monopolies over diverse, non-interoperable platforms, and Moore's law would have become irrelevant with hardware manufacturers trying simply to create a console that could sell, rather than creating better and better hardware for a standardized platform that they could be sure would have customers. So I guess that's still my 'killer app.' Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Almafeta) Comments Evolution http://www.osnews.com/thread?286275 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286275 I'd have to say Evolution, as it is the only client that I can use at the office to connect to exchange.

2.firefox
3.gnome-term+ssh Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (yanik) Comments Best Killer app? http://www.osnews.com/thread?286276 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286276 Too many, really good opensource apps.

But K3B is my most used and treasured resource when it comes to apps. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (solidsnake) Comments favorite app http://www.osnews.com/thread?286278 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286278 goaltrak.com Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (rslewine) Comments Windows :) http://www.osnews.com/thread?286279 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286279 no shit ! Can't live with it, can't live without it.. ;)

Other than that: WinRAR - not so much that I use it every-every-every day, but it is just really good and it is worth the money since you get a lifetime upgrade right, which I am exercising for ~10 years now... so much on commercial soft.

Freeware:
In a better world, Proxomitron would get more exposure, because I never access a web-page without it. It always works on Linux through wine, too. Forget your FF-extensions that never work for half a year after an FF upgrade, this works better for all browsers simutaneously - always. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Googol) Comments Linux http://www.osnews.com/thread?286280 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286280 God bless Linux, Firefox and vim.Edited 2007-11-23 20:20 Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (tcpip4000) Comments KDE's Kontact http://www.osnews.com/thread?286281 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286281 Choosing a browser is a bit dull - we all have one. My must-have app is KDE's Kontact. I get mail, news, both basic notes and basket notes, journal, contacts, calendar and rss feeds all in one place. Since Kontact has a plug-in architecture, I could probably get even more if I tried.

Kontact seems very stable and for me it's a darn site easier to use than Evolution, as well as nicer to look at. To me, this is desktop computing at its best and certainly beats anything I've so far tried on 'doze. Kontact, Amarok, Kate and Digikam are the primary reason I use KDE over Gnome.

My second choice would be KDE's Digikam, an excellent program that keeps things simple for its target audience, executes them very well and does exactly what it says on the tin.

In a year's time, if progress is good, I'm hoping I'll be able to say that KOffice 2 is my top app. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (moleskine) Comments I don't have one. http://www.osnews.com/thread?286283 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286283 Redundancy is important. You could break *all* of the applications I use regularly and I could switch in alternatives and carry on working. Worst case, I could do almost all my necessary work from a small set of very basic console apps.

I don't think it's necessarily a very good idea to have your work structured so you have a single killer app. What do you do if it breaks? Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:24:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (AdamW) Comments Nerds http://www.osnews.com/thread?286284 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286284 All software suck so much that it's impossible to raise any of them to a pedestal.Edited 2007-11-23 20:29 Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (vegai) Comments RE: NVWMTM Commander http://www.osnews.com/thread?286285 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286285 You forgot Far Manager ... the best of all. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (pandronic) Comments RE[3]: Winamp http://www.osnews.com/thread?286287 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286287 No, how about Beep Music Player or Audacious instead, XMMS is old and crusty, or you could come somewhat up to date, if you have more thant 20 digital music files to your name, and use a music manager like Listen, Exail or, well, any of these
http://www.gnomefiles.org/subcategory.php?sub_cat_id=2 Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (anonybrowse) Comments GNOME http://www.osnews.com/thread?286288 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286288 A Desktop is my primary "Tool"... and so for _me_ GNOME is my Killer App i miss under all the other systems. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kwitschibo) Comments Most useful http://www.osnews.com/thread?286289 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286289 Firefox Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Dirge) Comments StrokeIt http://www.osnews.com/thread?286290 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286290 StrokeIt, excellent lightweight implementation of mouse gestures functionality system-wide. For me it is THE way to interact with Windows (not the only way, of course, but the smartest one for many simple tasks).

Didn't see anything as smart as that one since Mentor Graphics on Sparc Classic.

Unfortunately the project is abandoned and it won't work on Windows Vista. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (linar) Comments GNU Screen + ZSH http://www.osnews.com/thread?286291 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286291 GNU Screen + ZSH. a killer setup for me. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (vermaden) Comments One more vote for... http://www.osnews.com/thread?286292 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286292 Vim. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (iovar) Comments Simple http://www.osnews.com/thread?286293 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286293 Photoshop. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Vinegar Joe) Comments Opera http://www.osnews.com/thread?286294 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286294 My beloved browser and irc/mail client is what makes my heart go boom! Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (J-Ho) Comments So many http://www.osnews.com/thread?286295 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286295 No particular order: k3b, amarok, konversation, kstars, kopete, digikam, kooka, krita, koffice, kaffeine Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Isolationist) Comments PuTTY http://www.osnews.com/thread?286296 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286296 PuTTY (for Windows). Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (CrLf) Comments Emerge http://www.osnews.com/thread?286297 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286297 emerge Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Snifflez) Comments One app... http://www.osnews.com/thread?286298 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286298 One app...

Amarok.

Best music player evar! The type of app where people see it, press the buttons for 5 min, and go 'I want it'. Then I say, 'you need linux.' ;) (Until some time in the 2.0 era anyway...) Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Shade) Comments *shell http://www.osnews.com/thread?286300 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286300 anywhere, anytime... Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (flavioruiz) Comments RE: Cant live without.... http://www.osnews.com/thread?286301 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286301 My killer app is xkill, but I would almost never need it if not for Firefox. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (butters) Comments My Picks http://www.osnews.com/thread?286302 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286302 Firefox WITH Web Developer Extension

VLC

ffmpeg Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (imstillatwork) Comments iqnotes/Opera http://www.osnews.com/thread?286303 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286303 I can't live without iqnotes on my Zaurus, but on my Desktops and laptops, I have to say Opera...been using it since version 2.0. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (JadeJitsu) Comments ezQuake http://www.osnews.com/thread?286304 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286304 ezQuake!
http://ezquake.sourceforge.net/

Modern client for the best game ever ;) Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (adkk) Comments Old school http://www.osnews.com/thread?286305 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286305 HyperCard: it got me interested in programming when I was ten. Too bad there aren't any widespread languages like HyperTalk that are so easy a ten year-old, without any knowledge of mathematics besides arithmetic, could program without much difficulty. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (samad) Comments Rhythmbox Media Player http://www.osnews.com/thread?286306 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286306 Comes with Indiana by default and I can't live without it. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (chekr) Comments RE: Latex http://www.osnews.com/thread?286307 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286307 Man, I recently became proficient in LaTeX. I love it, except for the nuances with floats. I now refuse to touch Word or PowerPoint even for non-mathematical projects like biochemical lab reports. But you really need to know someone proficient in LaTeX for it not to become overwhelmingly frustrating. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:29:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (samad) Comments RE: R http://www.osnews.com/thread?286308 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286308 could you pls. elaborate on the idea of R-OS? ;) Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kamil_chatrnuch) Comments RE: Opera http://www.osnews.com/thread?286309 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286309 couldn't agree more ;)
[opera user since 2001] Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kamil_chatrnuch) Comments OpenSSH http://www.osnews.com/thread?286312 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286312 SSH in general, but the extra goodies in OpenSSH makes life behind a single keyboard and hundreds of computers tolerable. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (captrb) Comments Because no one else has said it yet http://www.osnews.com/thread?286313 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286313 'sudo' + 'kill' Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (atezun) Comments Excel. http://www.osnews.com/thread?286315 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286315 There are a lot of programs I can't live without, but they're more or less replaceable. The only one for which I couldn't find a suitable replacement is Microsoft Excel for Windows (even if I use it for 10% of its features).
I'm glad I can use the Windows version on the MacBook with vmware :-) Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (biffuz) Comments Emacs http://www.osnews.com/thread?286316 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286316 Emacs Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (twickline) Comments RE: Amarok http://www.osnews.com/thread?286319 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286319 Another one for AmarokEdited 2007-11-23 21:57 Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (AugieD) Comments most essential http://www.osnews.com/thread?286321 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286321 vim. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 22:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (elanthis) Comments RE: I'm a huge fan of.. http://www.osnews.com/thread?286325 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286325 Another vote for screen here. Although lately I've become quite fond of transmission. I think it's the perfect bittorent client. I also have to give Vim a lot of praise.Edited 2007-11-23 22:14 Fri, 23 Nov 2007 22:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (abraxas) Comments RE: NVWMTM Commander http://www.osnews.com/thread?286330 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286330 I can agree more. When I used to run Windows, Total Commander was in my startup sequence.
Now that I run Linux, Midnight Commander is just a 'mc' away. :-) Fri, 23 Nov 2007 22:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ggeldenhuys) Comments RE: KDE's Kontact http://www.osnews.com/thread?286333 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286333 Although it's not my #1 app, I have to agree that it's still damn good.
Most of the time I just use the Kmail component but even that alone is great.

What I like most about it is that it's a whole lot faster than thunderbird - something you will notice if you leave all the mails in your inbox since putting them into folders seems somehow unnatural (at least to me). Fri, 23 Nov 2007 22:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (RandomGuy) Comments My killer cross-platform... http://www.osnews.com/thread?286334 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286334 though I use it on my Fedora and PCBSD boxes mostly... is NetBeans. Amazing piece of software. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 22:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fithisux) Comments RE: Windows :) http://www.osnews.com/thread?286336 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286336 Have you tried 7-zip? I'd have to add this one to my list of killer apps too! Fri, 23 Nov 2007 22:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (whittmadden) Comments Killer App http://www.osnews.com/thread?286337 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286337 I would have to say Opera, for I use it on all my machines and it's great cross platform using it currently on a win xp box, Vector Linux, Debian etch and Debian Lenny boxes. So that would be my app of joyce use it every day. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 22:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (KC1DI) Comments LaTeX is my killer application. http://www.osnews.com/thread?286343 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286343 I use LaTeX to typeset my math papers (and EMACS/AucTeX as a front end). Seems like nothing beats LaTeX in this respect. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 22:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gehersh) Comments Puri, Master of Chess http://www.osnews.com/thread?286346 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286346 Puri has at the moment not so much functionalitty, but already now I like it more than XBoard or EBord.
So, "Puri, Master of Chess" on Syllable is my choose. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 22:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (cipri) Comments RE: I need my game fix... http://www.osnews.com/thread?286347 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286347 Yea!!!! Me too... I almost rewrote this game at one point. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 22:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (pupdawg) Comments BASH and vim http://www.osnews.com/thread?286349 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286349 Helpless without BASH and vim.
Love and use them everyday. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 22:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (imtiaz) Comments Tor & Privoxy http://www.osnews.com/thread?286355 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286355 Google tracks all your searches in order to create a profile of you. If you use Firefox, use also TrackMeNot.
http://mrl.nyu.edu/~dhowe/trackmenot/

Better yet, make Tor and Privoxy your "killer apps". Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:12:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Angryanderson) Comments MS Money http://www.osnews.com/thread?286357 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286357 I use most of what's already been mentioned - firefox, bash, vim.... under linux all day every day.

However, the one app that my life literally depends upon is MS Money. Say what you like about MS - I don't care, this is a brilliant product for hardly any amount of money really. Its the one thing that will keep a windows partition on my hard drive, probably forever!

When used correctly, MS Money has crack like addiction, it is just unbelievably useful to keep track of finances, shares, bills and household expenditure. Nothing comes close. Use it every day without fail. Oh the weirdly very satisfying sensation of reconciling your current account.

It even passes the "wife" test with flying colors - she gets traumatised if she hasn't kept her receipts and accounts up to date. Praise indeed.

Long may it be upgraded.Edited 2007-11-23 23:19 Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Zaitch) Comments Absolutely, Emacs http://www.osnews.com/thread?286358 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286358 Emacs, Emacs, Emacs! Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (cicco) Comments RE: Cant live without.... http://www.osnews.com/thread?286361 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286361 For all it's flaws (and there are many) I agree. I just can't stay away, and I've tried many many browsers.

To be more specific though, I absolutely cannot live without Firefox+ All-In-One Gestures extension. WHY CLICK ON THE BACK BUTTON?

On every computer I use, especially those at work running IE6, I always click the right mouse button and drag left really quickly to go back...And I get a context menu ;)

Sometimes we spoil ourselves... Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:24:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ThawkTH) Comments RE[2]: I'm a huge fan of.. http://www.osnews.com/thread?286365 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286365 Have you had issues with Adium and certain torrents simply doing nothing - sitting at 0?

Just curious, my roommate seems to have this problem and we can't seem to find a solution. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ThawkTH) Comments RE: VLC http://www.osnews.com/thread?286367 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286367 An example of FOSS that does it, does it right, and just gets out of your way.

Powerful, flexible, fast...It does everything.

I'm jealous of my roomie's osx build - fullscreen controls! Bah... Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:29:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ThawkTH) Comments gedit http://www.osnews.com/thread?286368 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286368 If I can only choose one I'd say gedit. I use it for writing code and editing config files. With the right set of plugins it's better than most IDEs since you get syntax highlighting, autocomplete, a class browser, and a python shell. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:29:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Amaranth) Comments RE: only rm http://www.osnews.com/thread?286369 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286369 Hahaha. For any newbs out there I suggest you NOT try this ;) Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ThawkTH) Comments RE[2]: ktorrent http://www.osnews.com/thread?286370 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286370 Well I have VLC or Mplayer
to play any format you can thorow at them. K3B
handles burning but I rarely do that.


Also Miro though good is not ported
well to some unix systems like Solaris
so for distro hoppers like me is
not quite there yet. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OStourist) Comments RE[2]: ktorrent http://www.osnews.com/thread?286371 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286371 These days I have 100 upstream and maybe
3 or 4 downstream per week...so yes..
Basically my computer is my TV and media center. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (OStourist) Comments Opera http://www.osnews.com/thread?286372 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286372 Always the first thing I install on any computer I'm using. Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kadymae) Comments RE[2]: Opera http://www.osnews.com/thread?286373 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286373 Me three!

[Opera user since '00.] Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kadymae) Comments RE: Most used App http://www.osnews.com/thread?286374 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286374 Apt ftw! Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ThawkTH) Comments Substantial List (Sorry!) http://www.osnews.com/thread?286375 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286375 I do so many things in so many DEs/Operating Systems that I simply can't pick just one.

In Windows I must have:

iTunes/Utorrent/VLC/Firefox/Pidgin. I always install Warpath as well (older space based strategy game - not overly complex, but fun. If I could have all those hours back...Runs perfectly in Wine as well)

KDE
Amarok/Ktorrent/VLC/Firefox/Kopete/Yakuake (pretty terminal that pops down whenever you hit F12). I really cannot live without APT, and I've tried... Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ThawkTH) Comments Eclipse http://www.osnews.com/thread?286377 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286377 Especially version of it called: "Rational Application Developer".

Very powerfull. ;)

And very expensive. ;) Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bariole) Comments fsefsdf http://www.osnews.com/thread?286383 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286383 foobar2000 Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (yooop) Comments Vim + a browser http://www.osnews.com/thread?286386 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286386 And by a browser, I mean a non-IE one. Safari, Opera or FF, doesn't matter to me. Sat, 24 Nov 2007 00:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (openwookie) Comments work related http://www.osnews.com/thread?286387 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286387 I have two work-related software titles that I absolutely must have access to. Without these, the computer can't pay for itself:

M-Control, the program that communicates with the data collection box.

Mudlog.exe, the program that creates and prints our drilling reports. Sat, 24 Nov 2007 00:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Bobthearch) Comments Salamander http://www.osnews.com/thread?286390 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286390 Servant Salamander (now Altap Salamander) - while I like Vista's Explorer, I cannot live without two-panel file manager. I don't like Total Commander, it's too oldschool. AS is THE file manager. Sat, 24 Nov 2007 00:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (stooovie) Comments it's a toss up http://www.osnews.com/thread?286391 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286391 MPD or EAC

But EAC can run easily in emulation, so MPD. Sat, 24 Nov 2007 00:29:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Ethyriel) Comments Outlook http://www.osnews.com/thread?286396 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286396 I can't live without my Microsoft Outlook and Exchange. Sat, 24 Nov 2007 01:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (NormalBloke) Comments A Compiler http://www.osnews.com/thread?286398 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286398 Because that's the one thing I'd want if I was on a virtual island, all alone.

A close second: VLC/Firefox/uTorrent Sat, 24 Nov 2007 01:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (cefarix) Comments for me http://www.osnews.com/thread?286399 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286399 foobar2000.
main reason I can't move anywhere other than windows. Sat, 24 Nov 2007 01:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (edogawaconan) Comments amarok http://www.osnews.com/thread?286400 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286400 Amarok FTW! Sat, 24 Nov 2007 01:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (botio) Comments RE: shell... http://www.osnews.com/thread?286402 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286402 I agree. I hate working on a computer without GNU BASH. Sat, 24 Nov 2007 02:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (RIchard James13) Comments Best App http://www.osnews.com/thread?286412 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286412 goaltrak.com Sat, 24 Nov 2007 03:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (scdodd) Comments dhcpcd http://www.osnews.com/thread?286416 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286416 Because without it, I'm all alone... Sat, 24 Nov 2007 05:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Gullible Jones) Comments Opera http://www.osnews.com/thread?286417 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286417 really nice web broweer Sat, 24 Nov 2007 05:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (muffenme) Comments VLC forever http://www.osnews.com/thread?286418 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286418 VLC can paly just about any media format ever invented and is multiplatform. Sat, 24 Nov 2007 05:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (unclefester) Comments Gmail http://www.osnews.com/thread?286423 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286423 Gmail.

Seriously.

It's what I've always wanted:

A great, easy to use, almost the exact features I need, available anytime, anywhere I have an internet connection mail client. Sat, 24 Nov 2007 06:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (binarycrusader) Comments fluxbox... http://www.osnews.com/thread?286426 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286426 don't leave home without it ;) Sat, 24 Nov 2007 06:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (mr_manny) Comments Illustrator http://www.osnews.com/thread?286427 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286427 I absolutely can't live without Adobe Illustrator! Sat, 24 Nov 2007 06:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Spinfusor) Comments Outlook + Exchange http://www.osnews.com/thread?286428 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286428 My life (both business and personal) would cease to exist without Outlook + Exchange. IMO Exchange is *the* killer app for Windows Server.

Aside from that, Visual Studio on Windows is the other app that allows me to feed my family. Sat, 24 Nov 2007 06:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jayson.knight) Comments Intellij IDEA http://www.osnews.com/thread?286429 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286429 the best ide in the universe. Sat, 24 Nov 2007 06:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ahmetaa) Comments Meebo http://www.osnews.com/thread?286430 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286430 it isn't something I use all the time, but is certainly something I couldn't live without. Whenever I need to contact a friend on the fly and one of us doesn't have a phone, we get on meebo for a quick and easy IM session. it's so nice since people don't have to download anything for those that aren't computer savvy. Sat, 24 Nov 2007 07:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (evilmegaman) Comments Emacs! http://www.osnews.com/thread?286431 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286431 Emacs, of course...
I have earned all my living since I graduated from school by developing programs on Emacs. With its multiple program modes and customizability with e-lisp, I cannot survive a (working) day without emacs.

Geeky of course, but so is Vim and gcc ... ;) Sat, 24 Nov 2007 07:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (pythonguy) Comments Python... http://www.osnews.com/thread?286432 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286432 Python comes a close second. I will be nowhere without this excellent, free, X-platform, open source language and interpreter.

Thank God for Linux, Emacs, Python and gcc. Sat, 24 Nov 2007 07:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (pythonguy) Comments VMware http://www.osnews.com/thread?286437 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286437 I had my first encounter with VMware in 2001.
The product has evolved tremendously.

For me as an OS enthusiast both private and professional VMware can't be substituted.

You can make single vm's, clone existing ones and asign them to a team. In addition you can make snapshots,screenshots and even record live usage.

If i have visited distrowatch and are interested in a particular distro, the only thing I have to so is download an iso and let it boot in a VMware vm. More often i make a snapshot of the particular OS so i can revert from snapshot at any given moment in time and have an updated system.

Simply amazing.

Oh btw i personally have the insight Google is irreplaceble too.

I rest my case.Edited 2007-11-24 08:43 Sat, 24 Nov 2007 08:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (netpython) Comments Pixel http://www.osnews.com/thread?286441 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286441 For me it's definitely Pixel image editor - http://www.kanzelsberger.com Sat, 24 Nov 2007 08:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Brmbolec) Comments firefox http://www.osnews.com/thread?286444 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286444 Firefox. I also like textmate but I can live without it. Sat, 24 Nov 2007 09:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Selecter) Comments Illustrator http://www.osnews.com/thread?286446 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286446 Definitly illustrator - no better app for making vector graphics, making design sooo easy! Sat, 24 Nov 2007 09:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Arno) Comments RE[2]: only rm http://www.osnews.com/thread?286447 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286447 I prefer dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda
Why just delete your files, when you can overwrite your partition table and filesystem headers too? Sat, 24 Nov 2007 09:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (rainman) Comments Photoshop http://www.osnews.com/thread?286448 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286448 I do a lot of graphics and photography, so it's my killer app! Sat, 24 Nov 2007 09:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bb_matt) Comments Only one, huh? http://www.osnews.com/thread?286453 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286453 I first thought I'd choose Opera browser but no; there are some almost good alternatives.

I have to go with Total Commander. Sat, 24 Nov 2007 10:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (faltiska) Comments Work and desktop. http://www.osnews.com/thread?286454 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286454 OpenSSH+screen+vim for my work, and Firefox+(put here any good video player like totem, vlc, mplayer, etc)+bzflag for my desktop. All under the FreeBSD hood, of course ;-) Sat, 24 Nov 2007 10:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (toomany) Comments Ballmer!!!!! http://www.osnews.com/thread?286456 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286456 GET THAT FRIGGIN FACE OUT THE FRONT PAGE! It's horrible! Sat, 24 Nov 2007 10:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Buck) Comments Miranda IM http://www.osnews.com/thread?286457 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286457 hmm... probably Miranda IM. Sat, 24 Nov 2007 10:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (JrezIN) Comments RE: amaroK http://www.osnews.com/thread?286459 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286459 +1 for amaroK, even if the newer winamps come close feature-wise, it's just nowhere near the same. Sat, 24 Nov 2007 10:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Hozz) Comments Opera http://www.osnews.com/thread?286463 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286463 I've been using Opera since version 6.0 and I can't live without it. There are some great browsers out there(Firefox for instance), but I feel discomfort when using them and just miss all the neat stuff I have in my Opera. Also it's the only browser I know of that don't crash(or seriously slow down the system) with 30-50 tabs open(I like to browse MANY sites at once. ;) )

It's also very comforting to know that when I leave the windows plattform I can still use it. (I plan on using XP for as long as I can, but I'll prob. never use Vista. It's horrible)

---------------------------

On a side note I'm getting more and more dependent on my own program that I call x|notes. It's basicly a notepad clone but it's optimized to be used for noting down stuff so(just like Opera) it remembers what files that was open so when I open it after comming back to my computer I can continue where I left off. Nothing impressive about the app but it works really well for me. ;) Sat, 24 Nov 2007 11:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (TLZ_) Comments Gnucash http://www.osnews.com/thread?286464 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286464 Definitely Gnucash.....I wouldn't be able to observe my spending habits. Sat, 24 Nov 2007 11:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (djangoxl) Comments Total Commander http://www.osnews.com/thread?286467 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286467 Total Commander. Screw all other imitators. Sat, 24 Nov 2007 12:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lucifer) Comments Okay, my real killer app http://www.osnews.com/thread?286475 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286475 ReiserFS Sat, 24 Nov 2007 12:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Misogynist) Comments /sbin/init http://www.osnews.com/thread?286482 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286482 I literally couldn't compute without it. Sat, 24 Nov 2007 14:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sorpigal) Comments RE: Cant live without.... http://www.osnews.com/thread?286483 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286483 GRUB or LILO...essential for jumping outta Windows... Sat, 24 Nov 2007 14:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (wakeupneo) Comments Oper is my killer app http://www.osnews.com/thread?286485 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286485 Opera on windows, on linux, on FreeBSD and on my mobile phone. Definetely. Sat, 24 Nov 2007 15:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (icasty) Comments mine sadly is shareware... http://www.osnews.com/thread?286487 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286487 it`s "REAPER".
http://reaper.fm
but i`m using version 0.999, that is the last freeware version, on win xp, and on pclinuxos with wine and wine-asio. Sat, 24 Nov 2007 15:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (k.g.stoyanov) Comments My killer app http://www.osnews.com/thread?286488 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286488 Is Gedit; front end editor for both LaTeX and WordPress ... Sat, 24 Nov 2007 15:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dada1958) Comments KDE, Whole. http://www.osnews.com/thread?286492 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286492 Konqueror does everything and nothing.It could do nothing itself, but it could do everything using another KStuff, so yeah, Whole KDE For Me.
I Use konqueror for
Web browsing: KHTML
FileManagement: Konqueror itself
Advanced Image Viwewing: Gwenview
Watching Small Multimedia files: KMPlayer
SVN Client: kdesvn
... Sat, 24 Nov 2007 16:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (emilsedgh) Comments RE: VS.NET http://www.osnews.com/thread?286497 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286497 I'm sure Ruby on Rails or any other open source framework will help you pay your bills much better. Sat, 24 Nov 2007 16:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (asdx24) Comments Blender http://www.osnews.com/thread?286500 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286500 Not my killer app, but definitely my girlfriend's. I have fun with it also. Sat, 24 Nov 2007 17:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Jondice) Comments RE: Can't do without it http://www.osnews.com/thread?286501 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286501 No kidding. This is one of *the* most versatile apps ever. Once you've really used it, you can't live without it. Computer crack. Sat, 24 Nov 2007 17:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (trooper9) Comments RE: Definitely have to be... http://www.osnews.com/thread?286504 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286504 PuTTY rocks. But it goes back to an earlier SSH post. Sat, 24 Nov 2007 17:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (trooper9) Comments RE[4]: Winamp http://www.osnews.com/thread?286512 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286512 XMMS is old, is crusty, and depreciated ~ however, it still works well with large file counts, which cannot be said for either Beep or Audacious ~ and it has a massive availability of plugins.
For a combination of lightweight & powerful, I'm not sure one could beat yammi + xmms + a decent collection of plugins (Anyone thinking of saying Amarok, try tossing 15 or 20,000 files into it.) Sat, 24 Nov 2007 18:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (CowMan) Comments Firefox http://www.osnews.com/thread?286513 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286513 Firefox Sat, 24 Nov 2007 18:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Nehemoth) Comments Choice versus necessity... http://www.osnews.com/thread?286515 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286515 There are a load of applications that I have to use due to work requirements. I can't really do without applications like Microsoft Office, simply because I need the compatibility they offer, not necessarily because I prefer them to the alternatives.

There are quite a few apps that I really enjoy using and really miss then they aren't available, often because I have them configured to meet my needs. EAC and Fubar2000 are two examples.

EAC is by far the best audio CD ripper I've used, essential when trying to archive a large collection to lossless files. It's supported with various 3rd party plugins and utilities to make that process quick and painless.

Foobar2000 doesn't look too impressive at first glance, but is a truly brilliant media player. There are none of the annoyances in other players (ridiculous eye-candy skins for example) and loads of useful features. For example the file tagging and conversion tools work great, making it easy to manage your collection with that one tool. The whole thing can be tweaked and expanded in countless ways, making it one of the most flexible apps I've ever used.

If I had to choose just one application I wouldn't want to live without it'd definitely be Opera. Like quite a few other people here I do a lot of web browsing, both for entertainment and research purposes. Opera is in a totally different league to any other browser I've used.

It's amazingly fast and stable even when a large number of pages are open, best of all the user interface allows that number of pages to be managed effectively. There are just so many great little touches and useful features in Opera that it's like going into the past when using an alternative. Using any other browser feels like working with one hand tied behind my back, so limited, slow and frustrating. Sat, 24 Nov 2007 18:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Dave_K) Comments RE: Comment by Thom_Holwerda http://www.osnews.com/thread?286518 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286518 Well, not a bad choice. Definitely not. +1 Sat, 24 Nov 2007 18:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dylansmrjones) Comments RE: I need my game fix... http://www.osnews.com/thread?286519 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286519 AMEN Reverend! ;)

Damn, I have to fire up dosbox now ;) Sat, 24 Nov 2007 18:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dylansmrjones) Comments Well... http://www.osnews.com/thread?286520 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286520 ...my killer app is any terminal available. Can't live without a text console. Sat, 24 Nov 2007 18:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dylansmrjones) Comments RE[2]: I need my game fix... http://www.osnews.com/thread?286522 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286522
Oh Lord, the old days of messing with the source to increase the explosion radius or the speed of the banana ;)


Haha.. you did that too? ;) ... those were the days. They don't make games like that anymore. First time I played it was in 1991 I believe - on a Compaq L20 laptop (20 MB HDD and one 1.44 MB floppy drive - and 'widescreen' CGA - and wonderful 640 KB of RAM.

Those were the days

PS: Forgot to mention the pc-speaker. That one ruled :p Sat, 24 Nov 2007 18:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dylansmrjones) Comments RE: Can't do without it http://www.osnews.com/thread?286530 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286530 Seconded, I was going to suggest PUTTY, but SSH covers it much better. Sat, 24 Nov 2007 19:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (stestagg) Comments RE: Latex http://www.osnews.com/thread?286531 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286531 When I was at School, I got into trouble for looking up Bondage websites on the School Internet. Turns out that my searching for "LaTeX plugins" tripped the content filter. Can't think why [/] Sat, 24 Nov 2007 19:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (stestagg) Comments RE[2]: NVWMTM Commander http://www.osnews.com/thread?286535 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286535 all same .. just 2 bad mucommander for osX is not in premiere league atm ;) Sat, 24 Nov 2007 20:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bl4z) Comments cat http://www.osnews.com/thread?286538 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286538 Who can live without cat ? Sat, 24 Nov 2007 21:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (goffster) Comments RE: NVWMTM Commander http://www.osnews.com/thread?286539 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286539 I just use Midnight Commander ... under Linux, OS/2, Solaris, Windows, and on my Nokia 770. Sat, 24 Nov 2007 21:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (rcsteiner) Comments RE: Opera http://www.osnews.com/thread?286542 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286542 me four! (since 2001: first tried the 3.xx version included in BeOS R5 Personal, stuck with it back in Windows et al.) Sat, 24 Nov 2007 21:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (KLU9) Comments SSH http://www.osnews.com/thread?286547 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286547 Far and away my most important app. I can't even begin to imagine the KVM I'd need without it!

(A *very* close second is scp)Edited 2007-11-24 23:16 Sat, 24 Nov 2007 23:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (evilshenaniganz) Comments Great list... http://www.osnews.com/thread?286570 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286570 On my mac my Killer apps are Logic with Komplete 5. On Linux its tvtime, because right now it doubles as my television. Firefox for both platforms and on Windows its the shutdown button. Sun, 25 Nov 2007 01:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (apoclypse) Comments Emacs http://www.osnews.com/thread?286573 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286573 I didn't read all the pages, but of the few I did, I couldn't help but think "Emacs can do that." Sun, 25 Nov 2007 01:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (phi-lyrae) Comments Firefox http://www.osnews.com/thread?286577 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286577 I use Firefox on my MacBook, the PCs at work, and whatever Linux machines I encounter.

I use the Adblock Plus, Flashblock, and del.icio.us extensions, and spend a majority of my computing time in FF. Sun, 25 Nov 2007 02:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (yakirz) Comments its got to be irfanview http://www.osnews.com/thread?286588 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286588 it can do everything that commercial image editors can do and more,its free, and it works on every version of windows. Sun, 25 Nov 2007 05:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (betaluva) Comments I can only get it down to three http://www.osnews.com/thread?286590 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286590 SSH
Subversion
TextEdit Sun, 25 Nov 2007 06:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Clinton) Comments Firefox!!!!!!!!!! http://www.osnews.com/thread?286596 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286596 Firefox Sun, 25 Nov 2007 07:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (cheungie) Comments Seems like the winners so far are Firefox and Oper http://www.osnews.com/thread?286605 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286605 Counted 16 time Opera and 15 times Firefox.
I had to ignore those that failed to mention only one app, since these were the rules.

Emacs seems to be up there too...

Funny thing, who would have thought Opera stands a chance against this not-so-perfect Opera copy that firefox tuirns out to be.

For all you firefox fans, aren't you a bit annoyed that your favourite browser is struggling to copy Opera all the time while Opera still manages to invent newer and better features all the time? Sun, 25 Nov 2007 09:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (faltiska) Comments Tough one... http://www.osnews.com/thread?286620 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286620 Tough one, this.

I guess though, Firefox... how to live without it? ;)

Next, for Linux, Amarok, Digikam, K3B
For Windows, uTorrent, iTunes, WindowBlindsEdited 2007-11-25 10:17 Sun, 25 Nov 2007 10:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Darkelve) Comments RE: Seems like the winners so far are Firefox and Opera http://www.osnews.com/thread?286623 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286623 First of all: now I regret failing to mention only one app. ;)

Anyway, I disagree that Firefox is a Opera-copy. The 2 browsers have quite different approach to a lot of things. Esp surrounding functionality, Firefox doesen't have very much integrated, but you can use extentions to get more functionality. Opera have A LOT of stuff integrated but is more limited in terms of extendebility(you have Greasemonkey compatible JS-stuff and Widgets... that's the only thing I can think of.)

However a LOT of Firefox extensions hare inspired or even copied from Opera. But I don't really see the problem about that. Opera implemented Firefox' incremental search. It's just great that good features get into different software.

For the record: I'm not mistaken a Firefox user would have to install about 100 extensions to get all the functionality of Opera. This has both good and bad sides considering both browsers depending on you needs.

Also, something interesting: Firefox have probably 3-5 times as many users as Opera, but still Opera is mentioned as many times as Firefox here. This confirms that Opera users are very very happy with their browser, probably even more than most others. (Since Firefox-users are way more than Opera, logically one would expect a lot more people mentioning it.)Edited 2007-11-25 10:52 Sun, 25 Nov 2007 10:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (TLZ_) Comments kernel http://www.osnews.com/thread?286624 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286624 The linux kernel is a very useful application. It automatically manages all my free memory, and is capable of running lots of plugins to take advantage of my hardware ;) Sun, 25 Nov 2007 11:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (antonone) Comments RE: ... http://www.osnews.com/thread?286654 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286654 /+1 vim.
I even use to develop Windows software. (Instead of VC-2K3)

- Gilboa Sun, 25 Nov 2007 13:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gilboa) Comments RE: ... http://www.osnews.com/thread?286655 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286655 P.S. I'd suggest you try vimperator extension for firefox.
It makes firefox use a vim-like interface.

- Gilboa Sun, 25 Nov 2007 13:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gilboa) Comments RE: Vim... http://www.osnews.com/thread?286657 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286657 This should solve your problem:
ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/pc/gvim71.exe

- Gilboa Sun, 25 Nov 2007 13:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gilboa) Comments RE: VMware! http://www.osnews.com/thread?286666 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286666 /+1.

Looking forward for vmware 2.0! (Already in beta)

- Gilboa Sun, 25 Nov 2007 14:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gilboa) Comments RE: /sbin/init http://www.osnews.com/thread?286667 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286667 ... just add init=/bin/bash and can manually start your Linux/BSD/etc just fine.

- Gilboa Sun, 25 Nov 2007 14:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gilboa) Comments Total Commander http://www.osnews.com/thread?286689 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286689 Former Windows Commander, a much better replacement for Norton Commander Sun, 25 Nov 2007 16:03:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (mars13) Comments misfit model 3d http://www.osnews.com/thread?286693 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286693 best 3d modeller Sun, 25 Nov 2007 16:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Gurkan) Comments RE: it hasn't been invented yet http://www.osnews.com/thread?286717 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286717 Have you tried using it under Wine ? or a virtual machine ? Sun, 25 Nov 2007 20:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dansy) Comments Damn... http://www.osnews.com/thread?286724 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286724 ...this is really hard! It's impossible for me to choose only one killer app, so my "can't-live-without" apps are as follows:

Firefox, with the AdBlock Plus extension is priceless;
https://www.mozilla.com/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865

Notepad 2 , the best damn text editor out there;
http://www.flos-freeware.ch/

µTorrent, nothing comes close to this wonderful program;
http://www.utorrent.com/

BOINC, for helping Humanity achieve victory against diseases, contributing to important research etc. with their PC's;
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/ Sun, 25 Nov 2007 20:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (1c3d0g) Comments my OFM http://www.osnews.com/thread?286728 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286728 Midnight Commander by Icazca (sp?) is my kill ap; if I can efficiently manage my gigabytes, then i'll not have joy.

thanks for asking. Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (idknow) Comments digiKam http://www.osnews.com/thread?286729 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286729 digiKam makes my life as an avid photographer a lot easier.

It has great photo management features and allowes me to do some corrections and enhancements. Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:12:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (duckpond007) Comments Honk! Honk! http://www.osnews.com/thread?286734 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286734 SSH, mplayer.

And vim since recently.Edited 2007-11-25 21:22 Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Weeman) Comments I'm running gentoo so... http://www.osnews.com/thread?286769 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286769 I gotta go with gcc. Mon, 26 Nov 2007 00:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (evilshenaniganz) Comments google calendar http://www.osnews.com/thread?286781 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286781 google calendar
we organize everything with the sms feature Mon, 26 Nov 2007 01:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (balihb) Comments Opera Mini http://www.osnews.com/thread?286814 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286814 Love this app, it's been part of my everyday life for a couple of years. Just got a Nokia E61, but still prefer Opera Mini over Opera Mobile, it's the best way to browse the web when on the run. Mon, 26 Nov 2007 04:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (hagiz) Comments My Top List http://www.osnews.com/thread?286828 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286828 If I had to say ONE, then it would be...

-Blackbox for Windows (bblean)
http://bb4win.sourceforge.net/bblean/

But my all-time-favorites are... (ALL FREE!!!)

-Winamp
http://www.winamp.com

-Handbrake
http://handbrake.m0k.org

-OpenOffice
http://www.openoffice.org

-SequoiaView
http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/

-DVD Flick
http://www.dvdflick.netEdited 2007-11-26 05:44 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 05:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (JacobMunoz) Comments eclipse http://www.osnews.com/thread?286831 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286831 +1 for eclipse! Mon, 26 Nov 2007 06:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (elvisd) Comments Some other apps http://www.osnews.com/thread?286837 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286837 I'd say ssh and screen, but since it has already been mentioned repeatedly, some that haven't:

weechat - best console-based IRC client I've seen so far. Split vertically so nicklist is always displayed, among other virtues. Really dig it.

qemu/kvm - I've got 8 OSes running here without a problem. So far it runs everything I've needed/wanted except Solaris. Then again, vmware locks my system up when I try to run Solaris as well.

portage - I still have few issues with portage. It still makes upgrading and installing pretty straight forward.

xmess - For running old Commodore, Apple, and Atari software. This thing emulates just about any old 8 bit computer.

bzflag - Still the only game I ever play, since I don't have a video game attention span that goes beyond 15 minutes most of the time. Fantastic game play, if not much bling.

klibido - Once I got used to the cluttered interface, I determined this was the best binary newsgroup handler/downloader I'd ever used.

Google Earth - can't get enough of this and it runs great in Linux Mon, 26 Nov 2007 06:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Quag7) Comments Qalculate http://www.osnews.com/thread?286846 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286846 I like http://qalculate.sourceforge.net/ . Unfortunately, no one ports/compiles it for Windows. Mon, 26 Nov 2007 08:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sumone) Comments RE: TextMate http://www.osnews.com/thread?286864 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286864 Definitely Textmate too. Best editor ever. Those who doubts about this, give it a try and you will be seduce too. Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (qbeek) Comments Konqueror http://www.osnews.com/thread?286865 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286865 I just love this little guy.

If it only could receive better flash and java support ;) Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (capricorn_tm) Comments RE: Latex http://www.osnews.com/thread?286884 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286884 I agree. LaTeX has its warts, but there is no serious alternative -- unlike most other applications that I use. Yes, I prefer Firefox, but I can live with other browsers. Yes, I prefer Emacs, but I can live with other editors. But I'm pretty much dependent on LaTeX for a lot of my work. Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (torbenm) Comments OPERA http://www.osnews.com/thread?286896 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286896 Best browser ever. Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kabal) Comments login http://www.osnews.com/thread?286913 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286913 _ Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (yvesdandoy) Comments gcc http://www.osnews.com/thread?286916 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286916 It's not the first app I reach for, but it -is- the one I can't live without. Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kingdl802) Comments Thunderbird http://www.osnews.com/thread?286932 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286932 I love the convenience of checking my mail from my desktop. I love the GUI and it's got builtin Newsreaders. Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (juvenile4909) Comments Tracktion 2.1 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286944 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286944 Nothing on Linux remotely like it, unfortunately. Come on Mackie, port it!!! Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (polaris20) Comments Facade http://www.osnews.com/thread?286947 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286947 Makes the calendar on my Windows Mobile phone truly usable. Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Sabu) Comments I CANT LIVE WITHOUT IT http://www.osnews.com/thread?286949 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286949 My favorite and most useful one is for sure AGENDUS windows version and palm. An absolute wonder Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (xoulis) Comments RE: Konqueror http://www.osnews.com/thread?286991 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286991 Yes. Konqueror does so much that it's not even funny. Whenever I have to use Windows or Gnome without Konqueror, I constantly find myself wishing for Konqueror with all of its great features. It's not perfect - sometimes I have to use firefox because sites are browser compliant instead of standards compliant - but it's one of the most powerful apps that I know. Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Kalessin) Comments MythTV http://www.osnews.com/thread?286998 http://www.osnews.com/thread?286998 MythTV ;) Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (7214) Comments I get paid for using it http://www.osnews.com/thread?287023 http://www.osnews.com/thread?287023 Visual Studio 2005 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (eggs) Comments Firefox http://www.osnews.com/thread?287065 http://www.osnews.com/thread?287065 Firefox. Without it world has no meaning. Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Rallavagu) Comments Firefox and Opera Mini http://www.osnews.com/thread?287080 http://www.osnews.com/thread?287080 I got two, but they are on different platforms.
On the pc its definitely Firfox. But on my mobile phone i can't live without Opera Mini. Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lukic) Comments got Opera? http://www.osnews.com/thread?287093 http://www.osnews.com/thread?287093 Opera...hands down! Tue, 27 Nov 2007 04:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (2501) Comments GAIM http://www.osnews.com/thread?287097 http://www.osnews.com/thread?287097 My other faves were already mentioned many times over. Tue, 27 Nov 2007 04:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (MaritimeSource) Comments RE: Substantial List (Sorry!) http://www.osnews.com/thread?287114 http://www.osnews.com/thread?287114 Yakuake ! Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ou_ryperd) Comments RE[2]: Substantial List (Sorry!) http://www.osnews.com/thread?287199 http://www.osnews.com/thread?287199 Definitely Yakuake! F12 anyone..? Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bsnipes) Comments one app http://www.osnews.com/thread?287207 http://www.osnews.com/thread?287207 Rhythmbox Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Mellin) Comments A little different http://www.osnews.com/thread?287241 http://www.osnews.com/thread?287241 My killer app is Painter. I can use Photoshop for rendering, but Painter is so much better. I always hear people complaining about GIMP, but if there were an open source replacement for Painter that's as good as GIMP, I'd switch. Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gtada) Comments googletalk http://www.osnews.com/thread?287275 http://www.osnews.com/thread?287275 I know, there are lots of chat programs compatible with gtalk. But i use google talk for both chat and voice chat. It sounds better than skype, and my mom set it up all by herself. I live over seas and its the main way i communicate with my relatives back in the states. So, google talk is my killer app. Wed, 28 Nov 2007 01:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (imahairyteapot) Comments Soundplay http://www.osnews.com/thread?287377 http://www.osnews.com/thread?287377 Not that I need it, but living without ah well I can adjust.... Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Nutela) Comments Photoshop http://www.osnews.com/thread?287389 http://www.osnews.com/thread?287389 Photoshop is one app I cannot part with, nothing else compares and I've been using it since the beginning. Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (iamkmaniam) Comments Debian GNU/Linux http://www.osnews.com/thread?287432 http://www.osnews.com/thread?287432 The Most avanced OS in the Earth Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (xtecuan) Comments RE: Ballmer!!!!! http://www.osnews.com/thread?287564 http://www.osnews.com/thread?287564 I can not agree more, I'm in fear of going to osnews because I will have to see that face. That is one ugly dude. One face of MS. Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jboss1995) Comments RE: Quicksilver http://www.osnews.com/thread?287573 http://www.osnews.com/thread?287573 Thanks for the info. Never heard of it before but will try it out tonight. Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bjjf) Comments RE: Excel. http://www.osnews.com/thread?287625 http://www.osnews.com/thread?287625 Thank you!!! I can't believe in nearly 200 posts this is the first one to name Excel! I program it on MacOS and Windows and use it for all sorts of things -- work and non-work. It has quirks and needs some things added/fixed, but it is reason enough to justify buying a computer. Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bjjf) Comments RE: Tor & Privoxy http://www.osnews.com/thread?287627 http://www.osnews.com/thread?287627 Thanks. Tor & Privoxy are great. I found them through EFF a year or so ago. I will try out the Firefox extension when I get home. Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bjjf) Comments RE[3]: Substantial List (Sorry!) http://www.osnews.com/thread?287719 http://www.osnews.com/thread?287719 F12 Everyone! Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ThawkTH) Comments