Essential software

Below I have listed some software that I always end up installing sooner or later on my machines.

General
VNC is useful if one wants to work on/view the desktop of a remote computer over a network.
slashdot is a good place to read computer/science-related news on the internet.

Linux
Entertainment:
mpg123 - A mp3 player.
mplayer - A video player.
xine - A video player.
xmms - A mp3 player.

WWW:
links - A console web-browser.
lynx - A console web-browser.
wget - Retreives documents from the net, good to mirror a site.

X:
gv - Ghostview, displays .pdf-files a nicer interface than Adobes acroread.
lyx - Write latex in a sort of WYSIWYG-editor.
twm - A fast window manager, uses very little RAM too.
xv - Image viewer.
Communication:
Alicq - A nice ICQ client.
aMSN - A nice MSN client.

.inputrc to get the 8-bit characters right.
.bashrc to make bash more usable.
.emacs that binds some nice keys in Emacs.
.twmrc to get nice keybindings in the TWM window manager.
.fvwm2rc, a rather clean config where almost everything can be done with keyboard shortcuts. It needs fvwm_pic and fvwm_ss to work properly.
.Xdefaults doesn't really do much yet.
XF86Config-4, Swedish keyboard, ps2 mouse, nvidia graphics.
/etc/apt/sources.list secure and unstable sources for Debian.
thttpd tiny/turbo/throttling http server that uses epsilon resources and is trivial to configure and install.
Nuclinux one-floppy Linux distribution, has network support and ssh-client included.

Windows
PuTTY an ssh client.
Cygwin a UNIX environment for Windows.
XFree86 port for Cygwin.
xmodmap.se The xmodmap-file that I use with Cygwin Xfree. Should work for .fi users as well.

Scripts
fixfilenames I use it to rename files that for some reason has had some characters in the name replaced with _XX-codes.
root_pictures Script that runs a slide show in the root window in X, nice to cycle through a set of different images. Really crappy code though as it leaves xv running.
find_bad_zips Script that sorts suspected bad zip-archives into a subdir.

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