Cool linux applications?

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1. metalamania3000 says:

   12. April 2010 at 07:24

   hmmmm, tricky one. So much is down to personal preference. I would suggest just have a look in the software manager and see whats about really. there’s a few first person shooters that seemed ok, cant remember the name of them off the top of my head but i think one was alien arena.
2. Liz says:

   12. April 2010 at 07:24

   Okay..
   Fun games:
   OpenArena (in the repos,)
   Sauerbraten (also in the repos but installs all dorky, so download it here: http://sauerbraten.org/
   Widelands : (if you like long slow zenish sim-economy games)
   Armagetron Advanced: Light Cycles anyone?
   Anything by ID software (Doom and Quake Series.. all ported to Linux)
   More: http://happypenguin.org/

   Now.. cool apps? Yikes… Zillions.
   What do you like doing? Me, I’m a music Junkie, so http://sound.condorow.net/
   Graphic arts? You already have The Gimp which is all you’ll even need, BUT maybe too much. so:
   http://www.linfo.org/software_artists.html

   I dunno. The thing to do is open up Synaptic, and search for keywords. There is probably a program for whatever the heck you want to do already in the repos, if not, simple google searches like:
   [linux astronomy software] will get you home.

   Oh!!! And most CERTAINLY want cairo-dock. Cairo dock is a simple desktop addon that gives you a mac-like dock, as well as some other features.

   sudo apt-get install cairo-dock
3. non-existant says:

   12. April 2010 at 07:24

   Compiz, Emerald, Cairo-Dock, some cool games are Extreme Tux Racer and Yo Frankie. Let’s see VLC is good for movies. VirtualBox is good virtual machine software, I’m almost always using it.

   You could always test Viper OS ( http://viperamped.com/viewpage.php?page_id=10 ) or other Linuxes out in VirtualBox =)

   Look around the Ubuntu Software Center, you’ll find some really surprising stuff. I found a program called WebHTTrack the other day, it mirrors almost any website.
4. hawklord says:

   12. April 2010 at 07:24

   cool software, thats easy

   enable your compiz-fusion fully, you will be amazed at what it can do,

   i have been using mandriva linux with full compiz for 5 years and i’m still finding things to play with,

   i have a 3D cube, wobbly windows, fire writing, rain, windscreen wipers, penguins walking around being shot at by ufo’s, transparancy when i change screens on my cube, a page switcher, an application switcher, an animated skydome + animated desktop (x 4),

   try it, its in your repo’s,

   just open your software manager, click reload, mark all updates, apply

   when its updated just search for compiz
5. jplatt39 says:

   12. April 2010 at 07:24

   Well, you are asking this just after a controversy broke out: Nexuiz is a first-person shooter based on the Quake Engine (which is GPL’d because it was written with free software on a UNIX network — like most of ID Software’s games through Return to Wolfenstein) and the guy who thought it up has now sold the name and copyrights to a company who is trying to pull it out of the GPL (good luck to them). Accordingly the Nexuiz community of developers have just forked it:

   http://www.xonotic.org/2010/03/22/welcome-to-xonotic/

   (note that one of the posts is an april fools day joke).

   Here is a list of free first person shooters:

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_first-person_shooters

   The thing to remember is that Linux was created to run Unix programs, therefore most of the programs it runs — including X-Windows — are Unix programs. Unix has a long history, in colleges and universities. Programs like Gimp and Netscape come out of Academia (and Netscape became Mozilla which begat Firefox). While there is a lot more for the consumer out there than there used to be, the truth is that great programs on Linux are like elephant guns — GCC can compile anything on any architecture. Okay maybe not anything but close to it, and definitely on any architecture. Compiz is the three dee desktop which Aero manages to be a cheap knockoff of while requiring three or four times the hardware. Not everybody who uses Linux even LIKES the latest and greatest but it is certainly there. However, like Netscape, it usually moves to Windows once it’s mature. If you really want the latest and greatest I suggest doing some research.