AndrewX192
United States
Tutorials
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Software reviews
| Software | Score |
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| klipper "Great tool for managing your clipboard, lets you have multiple items and select between them and clear entrys." |
5 |
| filelight "One of the best ways to find out where disk space went." |
5 |
| tsclient "Just like the Windows Remote Desktop client. This little program works great." |
4 |
| konsole "Powerful terminal emulator with plenty of themes." |
5 |
| netcat-openbsd "One of the must-have packages for people experienced with networking." |
5 |
| telnet "Great tool for raw communication with network services, and telnet servers." |
4 |
| virtualbox-3.1 "Wonderful software to use for running other operating systems like Windows." |
5 |
| mplayer "Great for playing media of any kind, also has a powerful encoder built in. Also has many output drivers." |
5 |
| recordmydesktop "Great for recording screencasts." |
5 |
| netbeans "Pretty much the best IDE out there to program in, supports Java/C/PHP and other languages, also has SVN support built in." |
5 |
| gnome-bluetooth "Very helpful when using bluetooth devices. It lets you disable and enable bluetooth, setup devices, and manage files." |
4 |
| amarok "Great media player for KDE users, helps manage music collections and more." |
5 |
| gnome-system-monitor "Great monitoring and management application, shows network usage and more." |
5 |
| nvidia-settings "Use this to configure multiple monitors, see details about your graphics card, and more. Nvidia users only." |
5 |
| nano "One of the easiest command line text editors out there." |
4 |
| mousepad "Very basic text editor, not for programmers or web designers. If you want more features go for kate/kwrite or gedit." |
3 |
| kdeplasma-addons "Instal this if you want more plasmoids to work with." |
3 |
| acroread "Install it if you really *need* the extra functionality of Adobe Reader. Otherwise stay away from this program." |
2 |
| kmix "Nice sound mixer, allows you to mute sound by middle clicking on the tray icon." |
4 |
| kbounce "It's just like the Jezzball game for windows back in the 1990s." |
5 |
| tleds "Neat program, useful on servers if you want a network activity light without looking at the NIC." |
4 |
| powertop "Helpful for showing what you can do to save power, but don't mess with it if you dont know what your doing." |
4 |
| lshw-gtk "Not the best interface and usability, but shows a lot of information. try "sudo lshw-gtk" if it complains about not being able to gather information as a normal user." |
3 |
| hplip "If you have a HP printer, you will love this program, it shows the ink levels on your printer, if you have a all in one device, you can scan and fax too." |
5 |
| ark "Does what it says, makes managing archive files a snap." |
4 |
| synaptic "Great package manager, very useful when managing software." |
5 |
| ftp "If you want to make a script to upload or download on FTP, or just want to manage your FTP server with the command line, look no further." |
4 |
| denyhosts "One of the best tools to lock out hackers who try to crack usernames and passwords on your linux server. If your running openssh-server be sure to install this." |
5 |
| apcupsd "Works great with APC backup power UPS devices, also has networking built in. The interface isn't the greatest however." |
4 |
| network-manager "Powerful backend for managing networks on linux, does great with laptops, see wicd as a alternative if this doesn't meet your needs." |
4 |
| okular "Great for viewing documents in KDE4, replaces the old kpdf program from KDE3." |
4 |
| kate "Great text editor for KDE, has every feature you would ever want." |
5 |
| kwrite "Good text editor for KDE4, if you want more features like multiple files open at a time; try kate." |
4 |
| cheese "Great program for taking pictures and videos from your webcam - also has a feature to take multiple pictures in a row." |
5 |
| kget "Powerful download client for KDE users" |
4 |
| konqueror "I never use konqueror for web browsing, but it does a great job at file management." |
4 |
| cups "CUPS is the standard for printing on Linux, and it's hardware support is great!" |
5 |
| kvirc "Great IRC client for KDE users, but has some annoying bugs that will crash it." |
4 |
| irssi "If you want to chat on IRC from the command line, this is one of the most powerful IRC clients for you." |
5 |
| firefox "Great browser, but not as fast as chrome or opera. Almost endless number of plugins avalible for it." |
4 |
| kaffeine "Great media player, but has some issues still." |
3 |
| xfce4 "Great alternative to other desktop environments, lightweight on memory usage and very stable. Included applications are not as featured as Gnome or KDE's" |
4 |
| lighttpd "Great webserver for small projects, very easy to setup and very light on memory usage" |
5 |
| apache2 "One of the most popular webserver's out there, loaded with tons of features." |
5 |
| synergy "Works great between cross platform machines, can be difficult to setup at first but its worth it." |
4 |
| wicd "Great replacement for NetworkManger, always does the job properly." |
4 |
| wireshark "One of the best tools for figuring out whats wrong with a network." |
5 |
| nautilus "Great when used with gnome, lacks some features, if you want more try dolphin or konqueror" |
4 |
| acpitool "Great tool to see your battery status and other ACPI systems with the command line." |
4 |
| vlc "Nothing can compare to this media player's power. It has anything you could possibly want." |
5 |
| youtube-dl "Works good most of the time, but YouTube updates can break this application." |
4 |
| htop "If you use the command line much at all, then be sure to get this app." |
4 |
| evolution-exchange "If you want to use exchange with evolution, look no further." |
5 |
| evolution "Great replacement for outlook, works with exchange. Some glitches with email not being displayed when it was previously viewed on another device." |
4 |
| audacity "Great program, but the interface design is not very appealing." |
4 |
| xchat "One of the best grapihcal irc client's out there." |
4 |
| googleearth "Great app, something you certianly won't want to miss." |
5 |