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Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?



On Sunday 29 October 2006 10:21, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> On 10/27/06, Stephen Cormier <s.cormier@gmx.net> wrote:
> >  * file manager [ Konqueror, command line ]
>
> Many entries mentioned Bash as file manager, and please tell if Bash
> is the shell you are using so that I could put it here instead of
> 'command line'.

Yes bash for the shell so therefore the command line.

> >  * pdf-reader [ Kpdf or Konqueror embeded ]
>
> Konqueror is everything isn't it. I didn't know it can also view pdf's.
>

Certainly is like a Swiss Army knife it does so many things using the kio 
slaves and embedding I forget half of them sometimes.

> >  * file archiver [ Ark, tar ]
>
> I put the category of 'misc utilities' for such things not deserving a
> separate category. I'll recognize it as a separate category if there's
> enough votes for file archiving.
>
> >  * system monitoring [ Gkrellm, lm-sensors ]
>
> Many put this sort in misc utilities, but probably does deserve a
> separate category.
>
> >  * TV app [ XDTV ]
> >  * video editing/encoding/transcoding [ Avidemux, ToVid, Mencoder, FFmpeg
> > ]
>
> These are interesting additions. It's even surprising that there
> weren't entries for Mencoder. I'll put my vote in for it since I use
> nothing else to encode video, and find its tremendous amount of
> features exciting.

Yeah a real nice little app.

Stephen

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