[MikeTbob]

Originally Posted by g.ivannov

OK, let's change it a little... so that it meets my own needs.

Well, I am searching good apps for :

watch tv (p2p technology included)
foreign language training (english and spanish)
write music
web creation
put french subtitles to foreign films

I know I can find a lot of apps for each case. I am mostly interested in suggestions from your experience with those apps.


PS Anybody can ask according to their needs or continue the thread as done so far.

Try MythTV for Watching TV
MythTV - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For P2P I suggest GTK-Gnutella
Gtk-gnutella - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For Web Creation, have a look at NVU
Nvu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sadly I don't know much about the other items you listed and I'm too tired to look. My warm bed is calling me.

[bigtomrodney]

Check out Democracy Player for TV streaming. It can get videos from YouTube and from bittorrent afaik.

[g.ivannov]

Thank you guys for your help.

Mythtv is a very heavy program (a media center); I dont really want something like that on my old computer. Democracy (I already know it) is good but slow. Penguintv is a light alternative but is empty and I dont really know how to add video feeds there; so I finally kept Democracy (73 MB with its depedencies !).

I know gtk-gnutella. I also found apollo and mldonkey that have access to many networks. Apollo (based on gift) caused me problems. It copied all my /home/user in its shared folder. I saw this as a risk and I uninstalled it. Does anyone have a similar experience?

Mldonkey looks cool. I am trying to find the right ports now....

For web creation I was thinking of Nvu as well; I read somewhere that it supports templates. This is pretty helpful and if I could find templates on the web it would be even prettier...

Now, another question: if anybody knows Reconstructor, what's your opinion about it? Did it work well for you? For me it gave no result... Maybe because I put a lot of apps to install and to remove...

[MikeTbob]

Originally Posted by bigtomrodney

Check out Democracy Player for TV streaming. It can get videos from YouTube and from bittorrent afaik.

That's something I have been looking for, for quiet awhile now. Thanks for the heads up bigtomrodney. I'll be checking this out tonight.

[Oxygen]

Amarok, Kaffeine, Firefox, Thunderbird, mplayer plugin, Konversation, Rdesktop, kTorrent, OpenOffice, Kopete and Skype

[g.ivannov]

My games (non-3D):

xpat2, gnuchess (frontend xboard), kolf, ksudoku, ktron

...and xpenguins just for desktop fun

[jan1024188]

xmms, firefox, k3b, transmission, GNOME, KDevelop, erm.. Bash, Pidgin and OpenOffice(for school stuff)

EDIT: I forgoten: Gnome Power settings and battery life icon (in Vista battery never discharges as well, but Toshiba recommends to discharge battery once at month so I can completly discharge it using Linux (for all 100%) and keep it as new.

[ozar]

OpenOffice
Firefox
Thunderbird
Gimp
K3b
vim

Just some of the best... but not necessarily in that order.