:: Linux and software ::

::Main::
OpenOffice - a light wordprocessor which supports Microsoft Word
files, as well as several other formats. It is, in my opinion, the
best wordprocessor for Linux and Windows and OSX

Firefox - a web browser famed for its speed and rendering
capabilities. In Feather, it is extended with FireFTP, an integrated
FTP client, and Sage, an RSS reader.

Thunderbird - an extremely capable and aesthetically pleasing email
and news client. It is, as the name suggests, developed by the Mozilla
Foundation along with Firefox.
or
Evolution - which is more efficient.

Ethereal - an industry-standard network analyser. It supports nearly
every protocol imaginable.

Rox-filer - a file and icon manager which is extremely easy to use and
visually pleasing.

Firefox - the best Web Browser

gaim - an instant messaging program which supports a wide variety of
protocols, including MSN, AIM, Yahoo, IRC and Jabber.

nano - a small console-based Emacs clone.

scite - edit everything in X11 mode.

xmms - A powerfull player

gFTP - Simple and light

::Other::
parted - GNU Parted is a program that allows you to create, destroy,
resize, move and copy hard disk partitions. This is useful for
creating space for new operating systems, reorganising disk usage, and
copying data to new hard disks

partimage - Partition Image is a Linux/UNIX partition imaging utility:
it saves partitions comprised of the Ext2FS (the Linux standard),
ReiserFS (a new journaled and powerful file system), NTFS (Windows NT
File System) or FAT16/32 (DOS & Windows file systems) file system
formats to an image file.

e2undel - Interactive console tool to recover the data of deleted
files on an ext2 file system under Linux. It does not require
knowledge about how ext2 file systems works and should be usable by
most people.

iftop - iftop does for network usage what top(1) does for CPU usage.
It listens to network traffic on a named interface and displays a
table of current bandwidth usage by pairs of hosts.

utelnetd - utelnetd is a tiny telnet server which is quite fast

picocom - a minimal dumb-terminal emulation program

gpart - Gpart is a tool which tries to guess the primary partition
table of a PC-type disk in case the primary partition table in sector
0 is damaged, incorrect or deleted.

socat - Socat (for SOcket CAT) establishes two bidirectional byte
streams and transfers data between them. Data channels may be files,
pipes, devices (terminal or modem, etc.), or sockets (Unix, IPv4,
IPv6, raw, UDP, TCP, SSL). It provides forking, logging and tracing,
different modes for interprocess communication and many more options.

SciTE - a GTK-based programming editor with syntax highlighting
support for many languages. Also supports folding sections, exporting
highlighted text into colored HTML and RTF.

prozilla - Multi-threaded download accelerator

mount.app - Dockapp for mounting and browsing devices, uses /etc/fstab

chntpw - This little program provides a way to view information and
change user passwords in a Windows NT/2000 userdatabase file. Old
passwords need not be known since they are overwritten.

tinycc - This is a small C compiler which creates executables much
smaller than those of other compilers

nano - GNU nano is a free replacement for Pico, the default Pine editor.

Xpdf - A pdf format viewer

hdparm - get/set hard disk parameters for Linux IDE drives. Primary
use is for enabling irq-unmasking and IDE multiplemode.

recoverdm - Another hard-disk recovery program

mtr - This combines ping and traceroute in a GTK+ graphical interface
Chipmunk Basic – A tiny Basic interpreter

lua - The interpreter for the LUA scripting language

ettercap - Multipurpose sniffer/interceptor/logger for networks – very
useful for many administration tasks

wavemon - Wavemon monitors wireless devices and produces various
statistics such as graphs of connection speed.

iptables - The firewall provided with the Linux 2.4 and 2.6 kernels
(Feather also includes a few helpful scripts to make configuration
easier)

recover - Undelete files on ext2 partitions

amap - Amap allows you to probe IP ports for running protocols,
ignoring the port number. It does this by sending probe packets to the
port and analyzing the responses

hping2 - hping2 is a network tool able to send custom ICMP/UDP/TCP
packets and to display target replies like ping does with ICMP replies

cabextract - a program to extract Microsoft Cabinet files

LinNeighborhood - This package allows users to browse SMB (e.g.
Windows Network Neighborhood) networks under X, and mount/unmount SMB
shared filesystems via a graphical interface.

nmap and nmapfe - a utility for port scanning large networks, although
it works fine for single hosts.

VNCviewer - A VNC client. VNC is a protocol which allows the control
of remote systems.

mysql - A small implementation of the SQL database.

php5 - my prefered language

SSH and SCP - secure shell and secure copy – used for file transfers
and control of remote systems securely, as all transmissions are
encrypted

fluxbox - a Blackbox-based window manager which has tabs, transparent
menus, dockapp support, an icon bar, KDE/GNOME support and scrollwheel
support. It's my favourite windowmanager, as it has the right balance
of size and usability.
or
Enlightenment - powerfull and very good window manager which is beautifull.

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