What new topic in Linux or Open Source has you personally most excited right now?
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Fri, February 16, 2007 - 12:48 PMPlaying with ubuntu 7.04
www.rhythminmind.net/temp/Ra...shot.png
And watching ardours delopment...ardour.org/
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Tue, February 20, 2007 - 7:41 PMapps:
fluxus
www.pawfal.org/fluxus/
scheme-based livecoding open gl hotness w/ OSC support.
Pixel
www.kanzelsberger.com/pixel/
sexy commercial-ware image editing app w/ an very nice feature set and intuitive layout. unlimited shareware download with a simple and cheap paypal way of making it better. i love the gui toolkit - looks like the guy wrote it himself. claims to be open sourcing it soon.
desiredata
www.piksel.no/pwiki/DesireData
a fork and refactoring of miller puckets's pure data. very exciting. (code is under heavy development - runs, but isn't really usable for the average joe looking for an app. )
rkhunter
www.rootkit.nl/projects/r...hunter.html
rootkits, backdoors, local exploits, worms, etc. nice scanner. very extensive list of tests with resulting in a well thought-out report.
kernel:
preemption and realtime support are no longer patches! -
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Mon, February 26, 2007 - 11:04 AMuh - i was expecting more folks to get in on this thread. guess there's not much new going on... ;P -
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Mon, February 26, 2007 - 12:25 PM"uh - i was expecting more folks to get in on this thread. guess there's not much new going on... ;P"
Still thinking about this one... :)
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Mon, February 26, 2007 - 12:44 PMI never lost my excitement with Bourne shell -
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Mon, February 26, 2007 - 1:09 PMThat is a part of my problem... Most of the things that excite me the most aren't "new" at all, but my application of many of those things is new. -
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Mon, February 26, 2007 - 1:29 PMI guess I'm excited about FireFox and Thunderbird, but they're not just a Linux thing.
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Mon, February 26, 2007 - 3:04 PMok - well, there are lots of folks that don't know about the "old" cool things, so i guess that would be an interesting continuation...
anyone remember xv?
www.trilon.com/xv/manual/...itor-1.html
or twm w/ xeyes? :) -
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Mon, February 26, 2007 - 3:18 PMI still use "xv" - frequently.
It's great for a quick simple visual crop (although I find I do use the pnm tools more often).
What do you use instead?
xeyes was amusing, everyone seemed to use it at one time!
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Mon, February 26, 2007 - 3:57 PMgimp, pixel, or perl[image]magik these days, depending on the task.
it's amazing how much has changed since the twm days...
other things - pico (the pine editor deriv) was awesome, and made learning linux much easier for me. (there is still an active project in most major distros called "nano" that derives from pico - check it out)
enlightenment dr13 was what really got me going on linux - folks would come into the office and it would look like i was working on some alien artifact :)
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Mon, February 26, 2007 - 4:19 PMYes I do use "gimp", but to just view a gif, jpg, etc, is a little much of an overhead, and not the fastest to start. xv is close to instant!
I haven't tried pixel, I will look into it, thanks, although it's not on my standard Linux release, but my home machine is about 3 years out of date. I probably should upgrade the OS, but it's working really well, and it's like buying a new car when your current one runs really well, and has a bunch of mods you enjoy, that you'd have to redo in the new one. I guess that's the problem with buying a machine at the high end of what I could afford! -
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Mon, February 26, 2007 - 4:54 PMnot to sound like a fanboy, but of all the distros that i've used, ubuntu dapper is hands down one of the best. it's my primary machine distro these days. the repos have almost everything i need out of the box, and the lib/dev packages make tooling around w/ the latest and greatest pretty easy. (it's a debian deriv, so it gets a lot of that bt default i guess.) -
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Tue, February 27, 2007 - 12:31 AMFanboy would have been blathering on about Edgy or Fiesty. -
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Tue, February 27, 2007 - 4:01 AMHey! I like Edgy!
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Mon, March 12, 2007 - 3:04 PMUbuntu has SATA drive issues, and doesn't deal with all modern flat screen monitors very well...not even with a super-tweaked boot command.
The distro is solid, but like the rest of the Debian world, SATA support is just sketchy as can be.
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Tue, February 27, 2007 - 4:00 AMI remember xv. I love xv. I'm actually annoyed that xv is not installable under Ubuntu's package management (though you can hack your way around this). xv is useful, and it's pretty fast, too, even though it is over ten years old and hasn't really changed in that time.
It is shareware, though. I have a definite philosophical preference for free (as in speech) software over free (as in beer) software.
I like Perl rather a lot. While it is available on other platforms, it is basically born of UNIX and best fits the paradigms found there. Modules are under constant development, and there is always something new to try out. You can never hit a Wall (cue comedic drumroll).
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Tue, March 6, 2007 - 5:09 PMUbuntu 7.04's desktop-effects are fun.. -
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Fri, March 9, 2007 - 1:16 AMThis may peg me as a crypto-old-fart, but the biggest killer ap i'm all souped up about right now is the multi-tty branch of emacs. I just found it and it's slated to make it into emacs 23 (if they ever release 22, that is) But you can google for emacs multi-tty and get it from cvs if you care. So i can run emacs in a screen session at home, turn on gnus, eshell, etc, etc, then later when i want to, i can do `emacsclient' by ssh from work or on the road to the same running instance, even tunnel X and get a graphical emacs.
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Fri, March 9, 2007 - 7:52 PMthat is cool - decentralize!! or something :) i mostly use vi in the shell, but emacs does have the deepest and most, um, inclusive of pedigree for a programmers editor.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs
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Sun, March 11, 2007 - 3:38 AMProgrammers' editor? Yeah, sure, i guess. I'm writing a novel with it (latex). I also use it for a command shell (eshell) a newsreader, rss reader and mail client (gnus), a lisp IDE (slime), occasionally a text-mode web client (w3), transparent ftp client (tramp); i use it to time processes at work (chronometer.el). Heck, i even use it to edit text files sometimes.
I hear you can also use it to run mp3 players by playlists (emms) and as a client for various chat protocols, though i don't know much about it.
Not that i'm proselytizeing, mind you. I just like it. :-) -
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Mon, March 12, 2007 - 11:31 AMproselytize away :) ... my self, i don't see much difference between that and using vi w/ the occasional ctrl+z <cmd> & fg :) -
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Mon, March 26, 2007 - 3:38 PMsourceforge.net/projects/openinvoice excites me, but then, I made it...
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Sun, April 29, 2007 - 11:51 PMTrac is pretty cool. trac.edgewall.org
I've installed it at a few client sites as their helpdesk system. We didn't like many of the other options out there and the tight integration of ticketing and Wiki had us sold with Trac.
Lately I've been thinking of getting a Verizon broadband wireless modem and building a Linux box for my car. The vehicle project has been on my mind for years, but I might actually be able to pull it off... Linux + 120GB RAID1 + XM + EVDO + WiFi WAP + Nice amplified stereo + Jeep = Fun!
