Short list good app dump

[H_TeXMeX_H]

It's actually pretty easy to do ... here's a few other informative articles that helped me burn a VCD:

http://smorgasbord.net/convert_video_linux

http://georgetoft.com/linux/QAF/createvcd/index.shtml

Many useful commands (vob2avi is the one I'm targeting)
http://www.tgunkel.de/it/software/doc/cmds_linux_unix.en

[Calum]

nautilus is definitely a cd burning GUI by the way, one i was really pissed off with too till i finally found out how to deactivate it popping up the whole time i put in a blank cd!

i use xcdroast as i said, because it has all the options i need in one place, and it does its job reliably and predictably.

i really wanted to mention SIAG office by the way, it has a word processor, spreadsheet and some other stuff, is GPL and appears to be a lot less bloated than other office quites. http://siag.nu/

the only reason i didn't mention it till now is i haven't used it much so i don't know how good it is. it's a ridiculous 1.5MB download though, that has to be worth something!

[H_TeXMeX_H]

i really wanted to mention SIAG office by the way, it has a word processor, spreadsheet and some other stuff, is GPL and appears to be a lot less bloated than other office quites. http://siag.nu/

the only reason i didn't mention it till now is i haven't used it much so i don't know how good it is. it's a ridiculous 1.5MB download though, that has to be worth something!

Oh yeah, SIAG, almost forgot about that. They have it on DSL ... it actually works pretty well and it's a really small download.

[piratePenguin]

Kate, a kick-ass graphical text editor. Code folding, saved sessions, embedded terminal, split viewports, it rocks. And I'm liking the idea of having the tabs vertical rather than horizontal in a text editor. Another kick-ass KDE app..

[H_TeXMeX_H]

Most of the bundled and available ROX apps are very good:

http://rox.sourceforge.net/desktop/software

It's nice that you can easily edit and configure them (since they are python-based) and add new features by installing python modules.

Instead of minimum profit I've moved to ROX Edit ... it's capable of both syntax highlighting and spellcheck and undo and redo and view changes.

[cymon]

bash FTW.

[piratePenguin]

GAIM, the instant messenger client.

amarok, best music application I've ever used.

k3b, best cd/dvd burning application I've ever used.

Kate, a kick-ass graphical text editor. Code folding, saved sessions, embedded terminal, split viewports, it rocks. And I'm liking the idea of having the tabs vertical rather than horizontal in a text editor. Another kick-ass KDE app..

Ok, now I'm using Kopete, in GNOME, it's a fucking brill IM client, Pidgin (ex-GAIM) has nothing on it. Additionally Pidgin owns GAIM big time.

Sine now essentially 100% of the apps I consider best-ever (on any platform, and free or non-free) are KDE apps, I'm installing KDE (kubuntu-desktop) and checking it out. Probably won't be arsed to setup my panel and all again, though, and will stick with GNOME. It's great how the different DE apps work great outside their own DE. Freedesktop ftmfw.

Oh actually, the GNOME document reader evince is very, very good too.

Azureus, is an awesome BitTorrnet client, too.

edit: oh, and I simply MUST sing more praise for Amarok. I been using it to listen to some internet radio, and fucking sweet it is. Discovering so much cool music! This is what I love about so many of these KDE apps, they seem so focused on making things I'd usually never look at so simple - just sticking them in my face (yet, you can stay away if you wish), so that I use them, and fucking love them. I've also been using Amarok to manage my mother's ipod shuffle - and it's the bomb, the best. I must get on my brothers mac book pro sometime and see if iTunes can touch Amarok these days.

[Jack2000]

piratePenguin, i agree w/ you for the most part but Azureus eats memory for breakfast ... ;[

[solemnwarning]

piratePenguin, i agree w/ you for the most part but Azureus eats memory for breakfast ... ;[

I'm glad my workstation has 1GB memory, I'm probably gonna get more sometime. It swaps

[Jack2000]

yeah ?
I managed to bog down Windows XP to using 90~95 mbs of memory and that's the total "os footprint"...
;]
I bet linux is even better at "_not_ wasting memory". I think I should look more into that os for my second HDD...

[piratePenguin]

Ok, now I'm using Kopete, in GNOME, it's a fucking brill IM client, Pidgin (ex-GAIM) has nothing on it. Additionally Pidgin owns GAIM big time.

Sine now essentially 100% of the apps I consider best-ever (on any platform, and free or non-free) are KDE apps, I'm installing KDE (kubuntu-desktop) and checking it out. Probably won't be arsed to setup my panel and all again, though, and will stick with GNOME. It's great how the different DE apps work great outside their own DE. Freedesktop ftmfw.

Oh actually, the GNOME document reader evince is very, very good too.

Azureus, is an awesome BitTorrnet client, too.

edit: oh, and I simply MUST sing more praise for Amarok. I been using it to listen to some internet radio, and fucking sweet it is. Discovering so much cool music! This is what I love about so many of these KDE apps, they seem so focused on making things I'd usually never look at so simple - just sticking them in my face (yet, you can stay away if you wish), so that I use them, and fucking love them. I've also been using Amarok to manage my mother's ipod shuffle - and it's the bomb, the best. I must get on my brothers mac book pro sometime and see if iTunes can touch Amarok these days.

Azureus started hogging the memory on me (only because, I think, I'm using GNU's java), so I started using KTorrent and I think it's just MUCH better! ANOTHER fucking class KDE app. Tis shameful that I still use GNOME