[Wylug-discuss] Favourite FOSS apps and tools?

[John Leach]

perhaps not my favourite, but some of my better finds:

KArm is a cute little KDE app to track time on projects - It's got some
clever features, such as being able to associate activity on a certain
desktop with time on a certain project.

Unison is a great tool that I use to keep a directory on my laptop and
desktop in sync.  It uses the rsync protocol to minimize bandwidth, but
handles deletion of files properly.  It's got a command line and a gtk
version.

Tuxmath is a lovely game for practising mental arithmetic (at which I
suck).

Gthumb I use for managing my photo collection.

Twinkle is a great KDE VOIP application I use - I find it a lot better
than Gnome Ekiga.

RapidSVN is a Gnome app for working with subversion repositories - handy
when you're not familiar with the command line syntax (or lazy)

Quarry, a Gnome GO gui - the nicest I've found.

John.


On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 17:05 +0100, Louisa Parry wrote:
> I don't know how many (if any) Wyluggers are on the ubuntu-uk mailing
> list but someone has started a discussion on there about favourite FOSS
> applications.  Since it's a nice change to have a really positive
> discussion about the great things FOSS software can do - and I've learnt
> about some new stuff to try out - I thought it might be fun to ask the
> same questions over here.
> 
> So then - which FOSS applications/tools do you enjoy using and why?
> what's been your best find?  what can't you live without?
> 
> Personally, I'm a big fan of Inkscape - it took a while to get my head
> around it but now I love it to bits and use it just about every day.  It
> makes designing stuff (or playing with fonts) actually enjoyable rather
> than a banging-head-against-wall level chore.  I also think Dasher is
> great.
> 
> My best finds have been those random bits of hobby-specific software
> that I didn't think would exists - GRAMPS for genealogy and the even
> more obscure KXStitch for designing cross-stitch sewing patterns (even
> though the Linux geeks/cross-stitch crossover must be tiny).  The wide
> range of FOSS stuff available amazes me.
> 
> And it's hard to beat the various puzzle/card (etc) games available -
> many, many hours lost :)
> 
> Anyone else care to share?
> 
> -Louisa :)
> 
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