User Feedback :: Your Favorite MyDSL Extensions



Not exactly what I did, but it had several really ugly failures at the make step.
Well, here's some of my daily extension loads  (not that I really think anyone gives a hoot on this forum what anybody does):

The choices are obvious when you consider I tend to be using dsl as a desktop system lately as opposed to console jockeying (reflecting my work).  So rather than boot Fedora or something huge ....

scite.uci - always loaded.  Beaver is absolutely *unusable*  for coding anything bigger than a few lines and I prefer a gui editor.

gtk2 extension - sometimes loaded to enable gtk2-dependent extensions.

gqview.uci and/or xnview.uci  - managing and viewing camera pics

mplayer-1.0pre8.uci - handy for flv from YouTube etc etc

openoffice uci - when need to write a doc, pdf or xls file, or view a ppt,  though I do wish this had better fonts available and was more recent.  

compile.uci - usually use this for compiling these days (thanks Juanito).

xine.uci looks very promising indeed and have started using that also. Watched a dvd on it last night (thanks Jason).

gnupg extension - for verifying gpg signatures on downloaded sources.

prozilla.dsl - always loaded - for downloading from the commandline,   can't be beat.

java uci - often loaded.

gnuutils.dsl/unc - only when I have to load it.

man.uci - altered one, which I keep forgetting to post.

imagemagick uci - sometimes.  I use the mogrify and convert tools.

tkdvd.dsl/unc - occassionally

Various other extensions occassionally also eg frostwire (which seems to have stopped doing the 100% cpu thing all of the time for some reason), opera uci(2), newer firefox uci,  python uci, others I'll remember later.

Bittorrent doesn't work on my connection or I'd be running azureus or one of the other bt clients.

In the base system I quite often use xmms for listening to mp3s etc.
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scite.uci - always loaded.  Beaver is absolutely *unusable*  for coding anything bigger than a few lines and I prefer a gui editor.

Try gvim...

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(not that I think that anybody gives a hoot what anybody does)  


to the contrary....I just started using screen.uci  ..nice!!
EDIT  even better than nice....
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to the contrary....I just started using screen.uci  ..nice!!
EDIT  even better than nice....

I can't imagine life without screen, rsync, and sshfs. I don't like the "window manager" category for screen because that doesn't cover what it's capable of doing. Yes, you can run several apps in one terminal and that's very handy. Yes, those apps can continue running on the same computer regardless of X crashes because screen runs independently of X.

I think screen is the ultimate nomad app -- perfect for something like DSL when you're mobile (USB, CD, laptop). If you have a 64MB USB stick and run sshd on a home or work or other trusted computer, all you need is DSL and screen. You don't need anything else.

I can start all kinds of stuff running in screen on my primary computer. Then I go mobile.  With "screen -r -d" I get exactly what's on the other computer without any down time. So I'm shelled back in and can pick up where I left off or resume/finish whatever was started. I don't need all the apps locally because they're already running on my primary computer in a more trusted environment. I can start other apps and use my laptop (or USB stick or CD) as a dumb terminal of sorts and resume things wherever and whenever I need to.
I don't have an  account that's suitable for remote work a la Lucky13 (behind someone else's NAT, not reachable).  However that is likely to change soon, so In look forward to exploring the benefits of that combo.
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