====== I got tagged ======

[[http://www.splitbrain.org|Splitbrain]] just [[http://www.splitbrain.org/blog/2008-05/21-meme/your_favorite_desktop_linux_software|tagged]] me and so I guess I've got to list my "favorite desktop Linux software". Here are the rules:

<blockquote>
  - blog a list with your favorite destktop Linux software (as many or few you want)
  - add links to the software project's websites
  - post these rules
  - tag three other Linux using bloggers
</blockquote>

however, I will just ignore the "desktop" part because the list would be short and boring otherwise.

==== "favorite" as in "they suck less than everything else" ====

  * [[http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird|Thunderbird]]
  * [[http://gqview.sourceforge.net|GQview]]
  * [[http://www.pidgin.im|pidgin]]

==== "favorite" as in "OK" ====

  * [[http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird|Sunbird]]
  * [[http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/|Firefox]]
  * [[http://www.eclipse.org/|Eclipse]]
  * [[http://www.xchat.org/|XChat]]
  * [[http://www.gnome.org/projects/tomboy/|tomboy]]
  * [[http://kile.sourceforge.net/|Kile]]
  * [[http://thunar.xfce.org/index.html|Thunar]]

==== "favorite" as in "I really like them" ====

  * [[http://audacious-media-player.org/index.php?title=Main_Page|audacious]] \\ A simple musicplayer that can trace back its ancestry to x11amp
  * [[http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/|unison]] \\ Synchronizes filesystems over ssh
  * [[http://www.vim.org/|gVim]] \\ Great editor once you've spend a few years rewiring your brain to it
  * [[http://smplayer.berlios.de/|SMPlayer]] \\ Great mplayer frontend
  * [[http://meld.sourceforge.net/|Meld]] \\ Gets stuff merged without wasting your time
  * [[http://bazaar-vcs.org/|bzr]] (aka Bazaar aka Bazaar-NG) \\ Gets stuff versioned without wasting your time. Especially nice when combined with meld (via the [[http://erik.bagfors.nu/bzr-plugins/extmerge/|extmerge]] plugin)
  * [[http://www.zsh.org/|ZSH]] \\ A powerful and customizable shell; once you get used to scp-remote-host-path-completion you won't be able to do without
  * [[http://www.xfce.org/|Xfce]] \\ A fast yet sufficiently customizable windowmanager
  * [[http://kpdf.kde.org/|KPDF]] \\ Well thought-out PDF-reader
  * [[http://www.virtualbox.org/|VirtualBox]] \\ Free and fast virtualisation
  * [[http://jabref.sourceforge.net/|JabRef]] \\ BibTex bibliography manager with docbook export and other nice features
  * [[http://gimp.org/|The Gimp]] \\ Great pixel-based Image Manipulation Program
  * [[http://www.inkscape.org/|Inkscape]] \\ Like gimp just without those pixelthingies 
  * [[http://www.python.org/|Python]] \\ Gets things done fast yet beautiful; can pose as a desktop app with the right input

So now that this is settled I tag:
  * [[http://bzed.de/|bzed]]
  * [[http://www.chimeric.de/|chimeric]]
  * [[http://foosel.org/|foosel]]

**UPDATE:** \\
''s/KPDF/[[http://okular.kde.org/|Okular]]/''

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