Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Lobster · Posted: Sat 19 Nov 2005, 07:43 Post subject: What is your Must Have software?

m m m . . .

Well I suppose everything here would be a start
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open-source_software_packages

What is your piece of must have for Linux software? I think mine is voice recognition . . .
I believe that being able to say "speak Puppy, speak" and Puppy to reply "woof woof" would convert my family quicker than anything I know . . .

Flash · Posted: Sat 19 Nov 2005, 08:11 Post subject:

I couldn't find it in the Wikipedia article, but the application I must-have in Puppy at the moment is VOIP. My brother keeps bugging me to try it so last Sunday we downloaded Gizmo (latest VOIP app for Windows) to try it. He apparently got it to work at his end, but it wouldn't work for me. So it occurred to me that if there was a VOIP application that will run in Puppy my brother and I could try it without risking damage to our delicate Windows. Laughing

I've downloaded the Skype pupget into my multisession 1.0.6 DVD, but haven't rebooted yet.

Lobster · Posted: Sat 19 Nov 2005, 08:25 Post subject:

I have had Skype working in Puppy - Menno phoned me up (I think from Windows) I was in Puppy

I did try it with Khl but his firewall or internet connection (SIP I think it is) was not ameniable - just sounded weird. There may be an update to Skype available?

klhrevolutionist · Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 1124

I think that the last.fm player could draw people to linux. They like there launchcast but now they can have last.fm which is very similar.

Here is a dotpup/downloader, for the Last.fm player http://www.murga.org/%7Epuppy/download.php?id=1405

I think gaim is a must for most as most internet users chat.
Openoffice or abiword & scribus is a must as well.
P2P applications, giftui, bittorrent, limewire.
The ease of burning cd's, so graveman or k3b.
And the operating system has to be easy, which equals puppy.

I think puppy has all an end-user would need, as far as want well you are always going to have people wanting an application that they must have.

I guess it depends on what user your referring to.
But for most that would mean end-user's. And puppy meets that.

And Lobster for skype e-bay bought them. And e-bay does'nt respect the privacy that our constitution has put in place. You could say they are going along with the president's agenda.
Which is to strip americans of all they used to have & tell them what they need. Which is total control.

So I am boycotting skype, and any other software companies that don't respect the right's of the united states or any people for that matter.

guest(Solar1) · Guest

My most wanted program is gyach enhanced, it has vioce in the chatrooms. i chat on yahoo regularly and now that i'm runnuing puppy "sizzler" i would love to see this program included in puppy!!! i hope some one can port it so the non-techanically inclined like me can install it . Idea

rarsa · Posted: Fri 09 Dec 2005, 10:56 Post subject:

I think that my must have software is already in Puppy Smile

The only thing missing was a good text editor, but with the addition of geany I'd say I'm happy.

Oh, It would be nice to have aMule as that's the main application my son uses. I started compiling it but got distracted with other things (he runs it on Fedora so it wasn't urgent for me to finish)

GuestToo · Puppy Master Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 4078

Xmule runs in Puppy ... screenshot

aahhaaa · Posted: Sat 10 Dec 2005, 10:43 Post subject:

a spell checker for the phorem? Very Happy

bugman · Joined: 20 Dec 2005 Posts: 2131 Location: buffalo commons

Audacity, other audio editors. Sweep? Ecasound? Not sure what's out there...

Some kind of simple database program. Access is easy right out-of-the-box, but the Linux stuff I've seen makes my head feel all funny. I'll throw my stuff into Gnumeric if I have to, but...

My favorite app on Puppy (at the moment) is the Countdown timer, as I work in the basement while my beans cook upstairs. No more burnt beans for this puppy!

Lobster · Posted: Wed 21 Dec 2005, 22:50 Post subject:

ezeze5000 · Joined: 10 May 2005 Posts: 345 Location: Missouri U.S.A

Having Bittorrent working in Mozilla for downloads would be great.

Also having Gxine linked to Mozilla for listening to radio on the net (like
Opera does).

Note: Every time I do a hard drive install of Puppy I learn something new.

Motto: Do more with less!

peppyy · Joined: 27 Jun 2005 Posts: 429 Location: VT USA

At the moment the single most wanted software fo me is a graphics app aimed at digital photos. I have g-thumb on libranet which works well but I really want an app like Irfanview for win.

I don't directly download most of my photos to my PupTop, I instead open crop resize and save. It can be a real chore with mtpaint although it does a great job with all the extras. What I want is something to browse my camera card with an autofit for the photos.(Fullscreen or smaller) Something I can quickly crop, paste as new, resize, save-as without having to go back to root to get to another drive. then just move to the next one and do the same without having to open each one seperately.

Other than that I am a pretty happy pup!

Nathan F · Posted: Wed 11 Jan 2006, 01:27 Post subject:

peppy-

I'd suggest XnView. With it you can do most if not all of the things you mentioned. I'm also looking into a program called flphoto that looks really promising. It uses FLTK instead of GTK (FLTK is under 2 MB uncompressed so that's no big deal) and has many of the sam features but it's open source while XnVIew is shareware.

My biggest must have is Cinepaint, which is currently one of only two image editors for Linux that can manipulate my large format film scans at the full 16 bits per channel. The other one is Krita and I don't really want or need KDE just for one app.

Nathan

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 4623 Location: GB

Still waiting for a Kradio module to run my D-Link USB radio and a Greetings Card Maker for ANY Linux distro (probably too big to incorporate in Puppy?).

lilsirecho · Guest

My need is a linux driver for printer HP820CSE deskjet which haswindows only support.