Thursday, April 7, 2011

My Selection of Linux Utilities that Should make a Standard Distribution-Internet

First of all let me send my condolences to the Family of Chesterfield who passed away yesterday morning.

He risked his health to go to the cricket field to report to us almost live unlike our sport arm chair pundits.

May he rise to high heaven.

This selection (Internet collection) is bit difficult and I would go by utility value.
1. Number one is Skype
2. Number two is Dropbox
3. Number three is K-torrent which I have already discussed.
4. Number four is email manager and Thunderbird / Kmail would foot the bill.
5. Internet TV- Miro Internet TV

6. Browser I have no selection here because they (browsers) are becoming groggy except perhaps Iceweasle
7. For Linux package downloads in a terminal KDE get or Gnome get


This selection has to be made keeping in mind the whether the distribution is light weight and bundled in a CD or heavy weight and DVD under 1 GiB.

If one is packing it over 1 GiB limit there should be a reason, say the distribution is like ArtistX, or XMBC or Education or Games.