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Jan 9th, 2008 by Jack Lhasa

So, the year has ended, and I’ve learned a lot in my migration to ubuntu. Here’s My Must have’s and where to find ‘em.

1, ubuntu 7.10(Gutsy Gibben) – Release of the year no doubt. Smooth and easy clean install. They’ve probably doubly general user appeal with this release.
2. Flock – Flocking is the best thing since Google’s “I’m feeling lucky” button. If you use a lot of web 2.0 sites, this cuts browsing time in half, easy.
3. Tomboy Notes – I would get nothing done. as a writer,without Tomboy. Also great for GTD.
4. Pidgin – The messenger of choice again after a clean install. It’s everything you need for IMs and IRC.
5. Thunderbird Mail – Evolution was the browser of choice last time, but Thunderbird is too entrancing.
6. Dwarf Fortress – Best crazy addict roguelike, world-sim. Runs easy in wine.
7. Exaile Music Player – Wins mostly because it works more consistently than it’s alternatives, Amarok, and Listen.
8. Limewire/ktorrent - TIe – for best downloading utilities..
9. OpenOffice – for the real writing.
10. GRAMPS – gotta love this genealogy thing I’m doing for the parents.
11. Sound Juicer – for makin’ the .ogg’s.
12. k3b – for burning anything.

Did I miss anything? Tell me in the comments, if I missed your favorite app! Oh, I already see one i left out. GIMP, for all things photo editing.

Loki.
I Listen.
Sometimes I See.
01.09.08.
.ubuntu.

Give some love to Vee, for helping me with the research on this article!

Up there somewhere with the sun shining down on me.

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Manish

Yeah! You missed out Amarok for playing songs and Audacious if you are familiar with Winamp like interface.

jacklhasa

Amarok is left out on purpose due to having an almost permanent lag of 1 to 2 min in the playlist. I loved amarok, until it started crashing on me. And, well, Exaile is very non-intrusive, its gnome friendly.

Manish

And what about Abiword? I prefer it more than OO...
Very lightweight... :)

jacklhasa

AbiWord is an excellent word processor, and I definitely agree to the light weight. The problem is that all my light weight writing goes into Tomboy. AbiWord is definitely worth check out if you are new to the scene.

IDontHaveABlog

A lot of the lag in Amarok is due to database issues. Try Amarok again, but use SQLite, or even better, MySQL for your database needs. The program becomes snappy once again! Make sure you cleared out your old config files, and Google anywhere on how to set up a MySQL db for Amarok.

I had the same issues you did, and I'm glad someone told me about the fix, because Amarok really is the best Multimedia/Library player out there!

Maybe you can write about this in your next posting... :)

jacklhasa

With amarok, no matter what SQL setup I use, it slows down my computer and locks up all the time. There's no doubt it's the better software, it just doesn't work as smoothly.