On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Eric Lofstad wrote: > Not much response so far, and all from admin types. Does anyone use > programs that don't just administer computers? I've held off responding to this thread, mainly because I thought people would have mentioned some of my favorites. I guess not. Here are a few of mine, in no particular order. (Yes, I'm an admin type, but these are mostly general-purpose.) 1. wget - Handy command-line http/ftp client. To quote someone from the UCLA LUG, "wget is my tiny little god." 2. openssh - Nice for remote access. One of my most-used tools. 3. screen - Console-based multi-windowing system. Allows applications to continue running even after you've logged out of a system. I've been using it for 8+ years, and am still finding out about its features. One of my favorite apps to introduce people to. :) 4. irssi - IRC client. Lots of features; allows scripting in perl. 5. centericq - Multi-protocol console-based IM client. Supports icq, yahoo, aim, msn, irc, jabber, and evidently LiveJournal (new in 4.9.7, I guess). 6. nagios - Formerly known as NetSaint. Yeah, it's monitoring software, but I definitely like it. 7. ltsp - Linux Terminal Server Project. Not really an app, more of a setup, and a little more involved than the others on this list, but still quite useful. 8. FreeS/WAN - Linux IPsec implementation. It's more than an application, as it interacts with the kernel rather directly, but I'm still putting it on my list. See our very own Nate Carlson's howto for instructions on setting up VPN connections between Win2K/WinXP and Linux: http://www.natecarlson.com/linux/ipsec-x509.php Can't think of any more ATM. Enjoy. Jima Links: 1. http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/wget.html 2. http://www.openssh.org/ 3. http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/screen.html 4. http://www.irssi.org/ 5. http://konst.org.ua/centericq/ 6. http://www.nagios.org/ 7. http://www.ltsp.org/ 8. http://www.freeswan.org/ _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list