TIP Recommended Packages

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This page is an unofficial effort to provide hints to all Gentoo users interested in their perfect desktop installation. There exists discussion thread on Gentoo Forums for support and other ideas.

A newbies guide version of this is available here


Contents

[edit] Background

All this started on May 7th 2005, after posting a proposal on the Gentoo Forums.
I just wanted to:

hear other's opinions on what applications / packages one should emerge and how to configure them to have The Best, Gentoo Driven, Professional Desktop Installation (TM) and Professional Server Installation (TM).


[edit] Portage Related

eix (app-portage/eix)

Significant search-speedup (see: TIP_Speed_up_searches_in_portage).

psyco (dev-python/psyco)

General python (and therefore Portage)-speedup (see: TIP_Speed_up_portage_with_Psyco. WARNING: it sometimes breaks things ... Just to let you know it).

Ufed (app-portage/ufed)

Easy to use USE flag editor with description for each use flag.

flagedit (app-portage/flagedit)

Even more advanced CLI USE flag editor.

autounmask (app-portage/autounmask)

Unmasks packages and their dependencies. Great for installing unstable GNOME, KDE, etc.

[edit] GUIs

Porthole (app-portage/porthole)

Gives you access to many portage functionalities; USE flags, Sockets and much more. GTK based.

Kuroo (app-portage/kuroo)

Gives you a much better and friendly interface, and usage stats (formerly known as guitoo). Qt based and KDE dependant.

[edit] File managers

Rox-Filer (rox-base/rox)

A filemanager that can display Thumbnails of images and videos (emerge rox).

Krusader (kde-misc/krusader)

An advanced twin panel file manager for KDE, similar to Midnight or Total Commander.

emelFM2 (app-misc/emelfm2)

A GTK+2 file manager with a simple and efficient interface, divided into three "panes" (two display the directory filelists and the third displays the output of commands executed within the program). A built-in command-line, toolbar buttons or assigned keys (entirely configurable by user) can be used to initiate commands. A flexible filetyping mechanism provides user-determined actions for desired filetypes.

Gentoo (app-misc/gentoo)

Gentoo is a free file manager for Linux and other Unix-like systems. Gentoo is written in ANSI C using the GTK+ toolkit, and the two-pane concept. What makes gentoo stand out are its graphical configurability and its file typing and styling system. Using the latter, gentoo identifies the type of your files and then uses the style you've defined for the type to determine how to display it in listings.
The name, which dates back to 1998, was coincidentally chosen.

[edit] Graphics editors

The GIMP (media-gfx/gimp)

The GNU Image Manipulation Program; a 2D photo and vector graphics editor. While not as usable and powerful as its main commercial alternative, Adobe Photoshop (which is, as of now, not directly, nor officially available on GNU/Linux -see Wine and CrossOver Office, the latter being a commercial product), the GIMP probably is the best free software bitmap graphics editor out there. For vector graphics, dedicated tools such as Inkscape or Sodipodi should be used, by people with intermediate to advanced needs.

Inkscape (media-gfx/inkscape)

An Open Source vector graphics editor that uses the W3C standard SVG file format. A very powerful application.

Open Clip Art Library (x11-misc/openclipart)

A public domain collection of clip art in the SVG format (usable by GIMP, Inkscape and others).

Blender (media-gfx/blender)

The best free 3D modelling program available. Import filters for 3D Studio Max and Maya are available (as far as I know, please specify).

CinePaint (media-video/cinepaint)

Motion picture editing tool used for painting and retouching of movies, handles color management and 16bit support.

ImageMagick (media-gfx/imagemagick)

Excellent image converter/viewer with basic editing features.

Wings3D (media-gfx/wings)

3D modeler with powerful user interface.

F-Spot (media-gfx/f-spot)

Excellent C# image viewer and touch up editor, cataloguing + export/publish features.

[edit] Graphics viewers

Eye of Gnome (media-gfx/eog)

The Eye of GNOME image viewer is the official image viewer for the GNOME Desktop environment. With it, you can view single image files, as well as large image collections.

Gthumb (media-gfx/gthumb)

A fullfeatured program to manage your pictures; can also import files from digital cameras.

GQview (media-gfx/gqview)

cool image viewing application.

Feh (media-gfx/feh)

Highspeed and lightweight image viewer which is basically used through commandline.

KPovmodeler (kde-base/kpovmodeler)

good POV-Ray Modeler comparable with Moray

GLiv (media-gfx/gliv)

Image viewer that uses OpenGL. Has a GUI and thumbnail browser. Due to the fact it uses OpenGL, various operations such as rotation, panning, and zooming, will be very light on the system cpu with most of the image processing being done by the video card.

Gwenview (media-gfk/gwenview)

Very great and feature rich Image viewer for KDE (!). The GUI is in the style of ACDS**...

Ristretto (xfce-extra/ristretto)

Ristretto is a fast and lightweight picture-viewer for the Xfce desktop environment.

[edit] Networking

Netcat (net-analyzer/netcat)

The Swiss TCP/IP UDP/IP Army knife

tcpdump (net-analyzer/tcpdump)

Packet sniffer, good tool for finding network problems

Wireshark (net-analyzer/wireshark)

Graphical packet sniffer with many dissectors (Formerly ethereal).

nmap (net-analyzer/nmap)

The best network scanner ever

mtr (net-analyzer/mtr)

My Traceroute - combines traceroute and ping

scapy (net-analyzer/scapy)

A Python interactive packet manipulation program for mastering the network

[edit] Network card autoconfiguration and management

[edit] Auto-switching and unplugging of network devices

  • Use ifplugd to switch between wireless and wired networks automatically
  • You can also use netplug, as it's newer, simpler way of auto-managing network interfaces (Not to be confused with the discontinued netplugd).

[edit] Wireless network selection

NetworkManager (net-misc/NetworkManager)

Network configuration and management in an easy way. Desktop env independent.

wlassistant (net-wireless/wlassistant)

Qt application.

Knemo (net-misc/knemo)

Tip: You can configure knemo (emerge knemo) to display wlassistant, etc. via context menu actions

[edit] USB storage device management

gnome-volume-manager (gnome-base/gnome-volume-manager)

kio-slaves and dbus provide this functionality in KDE. See this page.

ivman (sys-apps/ivman)

Global HAL/DBUS mounting capability.

hal (sys-apps/hal)

[edit] Office

OpenOffice.org (app-office/openoffice) or (app-office/openoffice-bin)

Full office suite: word processing, spreadsheet, presentations, etc.

KOffice (app-office/koffice) or (app-office/koffice-meta)

Alternative full office suite

Abiword (app-office/abiword)

Word processor only

LyX (app-office/lyx)

Typesetting word processor

Gnumeric (app-office/gnumeric)

Spreadsheet only

Planner (app-office/planner)

Project manager

MagicPoint (app-office/magicpoint)

Standalone presentation creator. Needs review as to whether deserves to be in TIP Recommended Packages

[edit] Development

[edit] Compilers, interpreters and libs + docs

fpc (dev-lang/fpc)

pascal compiler with GTK+ bindings and probably others, well integrated into kdevelop.

[edit] IDEs for different languages / environments

Eclipse SDK (dev-util/eclipse-sdk)

Eclipse is an open source Java-based IDE from the Eclipse Project. It is extensible and has many different projects that enable development in other languages. Out of the box, it is a very solid Java IDE.

KDevelop (dev-util/kdevelop)

KDevelop is an IDE from KDE. It is plugin-based and has support for many languages, including Ada, Bash, C/C++, Fortran, Haskell, Java, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and SQL. It also sports code-completion, code snippets, a front-end for the GCC debugger, a difference viewer, language documentation/tutorials, project templates, and syntax highlighting.

Anjuta (dev-util/anjuta)

Gnome/GTK2 based IDE, multiple languages.

Bluefish (app-editors/bluefish)

A GTK HTML editor for the experienced web designer or programmer.

Glade (dev-util/glade)

IDE for Gnome apps development. Supports, Java, C/C++/C#, Perl, Python, Ruby, GTK/GTK2.

Eric (dev-util/eric)

A QT-based Python IDE, also supporting Ruby.

Quanta Plus Web Development Environment (kde-base/quanta)

Full software/web development suite for KDE.

NVU (app-editors/nvu)

Dreamweaver-like HTML development.

Netbeans (dev-util/netbeans)

Sun's IDE. Very usefull for java-related programs (java, jsp, beans,...).

FreeRIDE (dev-util/freeride)

IDE for Ruby.

REALBASIC (bugzilla)

Crossplatform RAD IDE for a VB like objectoriented basic dialect.

SciTE (app-editors/scite)

SciTEA highly customizable programming editor.

[edit] Automounting for CDs and DVDs

magicdev (app-misc/magicdev)

autofs (net-fs/autofs)

kio-slaves and dbus provide this functionality in KDE. See this page.

[edit] Graphical environments

A graphical environment becomes very much a personal choice if you've transcended the KDE/GNOME juggernaut, and it would be unfair to claim any WM as best-of-breed. To make your own mind up, see the web sites for them and compare feature lists (OK eye candy!), then emerge them. Edit /etc/rc.conf and set XSESSION to choose a default (there are plenty of notes there on what to do).

If you have more than one WM installed and you use KDM or GDM (installed along with KDE/Gnome or as separate packages) you can select which window manager you use every time you log in. If you login to a virtual terminal, you can choose your window manager with ~/.xinitrc.

In addition, several window managers (all but KDE/Gnome, essentially) allow you to change your window manager on the fly when configured properly.

[edit] Desktop Environments

KDE (kde-base/kde)

A highly integrated and very popular DE. It includes the most built-in funtionality of any desktop, which may or may not be a good thing.

Gnome (gnome-base/gnome)

The other very popular DE. The standard corporate Linux desktop.

Xfce (xfce-base/xfce)

A light GTK DE that is similar to gnome, yet faster and lighter. It is also very pretty. You'd use it instead of gnome or kde if you want fast and don't care for the more robust features of gnome.

[edit] Window Managers

Fluxbox (x11-wm/fluxbox)

A favorite WM among the gentoo crowd. It is very similar to blackbox, yet better in most ways. It comes with a slit to see packages and some panel support, but that's it.

Openbox (x11-wm/openbox)

A WM that does not include anything other than basic window management. For the purists.

Ratpoison (x11-wm/ratpoison) and Ion (x11-wm/ion)

WMs designed for maximum usability without making use of the mouse. No window decoration. For the real purists.

Enlightenment (x11-wm/enlightenment)

There's an old e-16 and a new e-17 which is a very fast and good-looking WM. A good installation-HOWTO can be found here (in the Gentoo-section).

IceWM (x11-wm/)

WindowMaker (x11-wm/windowmaker)

WindowMaker strives to replicate the look and feel of the NEXTSTEP[tm] user interface. It is compatible with GNOME and KDE. Very configurable and very good for productivity. Highly recommend trying for at least a week.

FVWM (x11-wm/fvwm)

WMII (x11-wm/wmii)

Window Manager Improved Improved- One of the most versatile wms ever created. It has the best parts of ratpoison, wmi, evilwm and ion. Currently masked but the source can be manually downloaded and built in seconds. Main deps are xlib, libixp, dmenu and xmessage

DWM (x11-wm/dwm)

[edit] Customizing Localization

See: TIP Speak Your Language for localization instructions.

[edit] Inputting Characters

To input characters non directly available through the keyboard, you must use an input method. Currently, the best document discussing this on the Gentoo Wiki is at HOWTO_Enabling_Japanese, but the input method part of it is equally useful to enable Chinese and Korean input.

[edit] Other Packages and Notes

  • grip and gstreamer don't support Chinese song titles well. But there is a trick to re-code GB2312/BIG5/.... format CDDB information into UTF-8 by using: 
iconv -f GB2312 -t UTF-8 foo > foobar

(See: Unicode HOWTO for more on this). This is especially useful when combined with a console based ripper: media-sound/abcde.

[edit] Multimedia

[edit] Audio

Amarok (media-sound/amarok)

KDE-based feature-rich music player (Amarok Homepage).

Audacious (media-sound/audacious)

BMP fork, music player (Audacious Homepage).

BMPx (media-sound/bmpx)

Beep Media Player (BMPx Homepage).

Rhythmbox (media-sound/rhythmbox)

GTK2 Media player app

mpg321 (media-sound/mpg321)

Simple command line mp3 player

cplay (media-sound/cplay)

A curses based front end to many popular console media players, written in Python

moc (media-sound/moc)

Music On Console - ncurses interface for playing audio files

mpd (media-sound/mpd)

Music player which runs as a daemon. Various clients available - eg: mpc and ncmpc

Xfmedia (xfce-extra/xfmedia)

A lightweight media player, based on the xine engine.

Quod Libet (media-sound/quodlibet)

Lightweight GTK2 music player and organizer, with many plugins available.

exaile (media-sound/exaile)

GTK-based music player. Is posotioned as Amarok for GTK based DE. Music collection manager and plugins available.

timidity++ (media-sound/timidity++)

Midi and Karaoke midi player. Converts midi to wav too.

audacity (media-sound/audacity)

Audacity Plays and records wav, mp3, ogg-vorbis files.

[edit] Video

KPlayer (media-video/kplayer)

KDE multimedia player and library. Uses MPlayer as the media playing backend. Very stable and has excellent user interface.

Codeine (media-video/codeine)

Very simple and userfriendly Qt-based multimedia player using Xine as a backend, but also very configurable like all KDE apps.

Kaffeine (media-video/kaffeine)

(KDE-based feature-rich video player using Xine as a backend).

Xine (media-video/xine-ui)

Video/DivX/Avi/Mpeg playback - You may want to choose a player providing a frontend to Xine (e.g. Kaffeine in KDE, Totem-xine in Gnome).

MPlayer (media-video/mplayer)

Video/DivX/Avi/Mpeg playback - You may want to choose a player providing a frontend to mplayer (e.g. KPlayer in KDE, gmplayer in Gnome).

vlc (media-video/vlc)

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...). Built-in video decoding saves you from installing extra codecs.

[edit] Media codecs

[edit] Audio Codecs

a52dec (media-libs/a52dec)

needed for DVD sound playback

libogg (media-libs/libogg)

ogg files

win32codecs (media-libs/win32codecs)

MS encoded files; only usable with 32bit players (amd64 can use mplayer-bin. there is now an AMD64 version. Warning: It is illegal to install these codecs in the United States (of course no one is going to be installing these there...).

faad2 (media-libs/faad2)

read/convert M4A

flac (media-libs/flac)

lossless audio compression codec

[edit] Video Codecs

libdvdcss (media-libs/libdvdcss) and libdvdread (media-libs/libdvdread)

Needed for DVD playback

libvorbis (media-libs/libvorbis)

ogm files

xvid (media-libs/xvid)

divx and avi

[edit] DVD Movies

KPlayer (media-video/kplayer)

automatically detects dvd devices and disks, lists titles, can play both video and data dvds

vlc (media-video/vlc)

supports dvd menus

xine (media-video/xine-lib)

supports dvd menus

xine-ui (media-video/xine-ui)

xine X front end. Very rich in features. Best front end

gxine (media-video/gxine)

xine front end for Gnome

totem (media-video/totem)

supports dvd menus when compiled with xine USE flag

ogle (media-video/ogle)

dedicated dvd player with menu support, somewhat buggy

MPlayer (media-video/mplayer)

plays dvd's without menu support

gstreamer (media-libs/gstreamer)

support in the works.

kaffeine (media-video/kaffeine)

xine front end for KDE. very nice interface

KMPlayer (media-video/kmplayer)

MPlayer front end for KDE

[edit] Burning CDs and DVDs

brasero (app-cdr/brasero)

Gnome CD/DVD burning application.

k3b (app-cdr/k3b)

KDE based CD/DVD burning application.

graveman (app-cdr/graveman)

GTK2 CD/DVD burning application.

mkisofs (mkisofs) + cdrecord (console tools for images and burning cds. dvd+rw-tools (app-cdr/dvd+rw-tools)

Console tools for dvds; not limited to +RW media.

bashburn (app-cdr/bashburn)

Console tool for burning cds, handles lots of conversions.

cdw (app-cdr/cdw)

Curses based console cd burner, not as flexible as bashburn, but still good.

gnomebaker (app-cdr/gnomebaker)

GTK2 CD/DVD burning application.

Nero (app-cdr/nero)

Nero Burning ROM for Linux.

Xfburn (Xfburn)

Xfce CD burning application.

[edit] CD-ripping and sound encoding

Console based.
Console based, questionable interface to linux architecture
Console based.
KDE itself with either kdemultimedia or kdemultimedia-kioslaves, both with "encode" USE Flag. Ripping to FLAC, MP3 (with libmad) and OGG
Console based curses interface.
Cross-platform cd interface library, updated paranoia

[edit] Printing support, easy adding printers, both local and networked

[needs more work]

[edit] Easy sharing of files and printers

[needs more work]

[edit] Internet applications

[edit] Web Browsing

Mozilla Suite (www-client/seamonkey)

Mozilla Firefox (www-client/mozilla-firefox)

Opera (www-client/opera)

Kazehakase (www-client/kazehakase)

Big in japan.

Konqueror (kde-base/konqueror)

Rendering engine (KHTML) same as what Safari derived from

[edit] Email

KMail (kde-base/kmail)

Mozilla-Thunderbird (mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird)

pine (mail-client/pine)

mutt (mail-client/mutt)

evolution (mail-client/evolution)

Sylpheed (mail-client/sylpheed)

[edit] News Readers

Mozilla Suite (www-client/seamonkey)

Mozilla Suite.

Mozilla-Thunderbird (mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird)

News/Mail reader.

pan (net-nntp/pan)

GTK2 newsreader.

KLibido (net-nntp/klibido)

Great for binaries.

sylpheed (mail-client/sylpheed)

E-mail and newsreader

slrn (net-nntp/slrn)

Powerfull ncurses based console Client

[edit] RSS Agregators

erss (erss)

Depends on many enlightenment packages.

liferea (net-news/liferea)

GTK2-based.

akregator (kde-base/akregator)

RSS reader for KDE.

yarssr (net-news/yarssr)

[edit] FTP

krusader (Krusader)

Powerful KDE based Total Commander like file manager; also great as FTP client.

kasablanca (kasablanca)

KDE based ftp client.

kftpgrabber (kftpgrabber)

KDE based ftp client.

gFTP (gFTP)

GUI based FTP client.

ftp (ftp)

Command Line FTP client.

lftp (lftp)

Shell emulation, command completion, processing queues, batch control, SSL/TLS support and many more.

ncftp (ncftp)

yafc (yafc)

Console based.

Konqueror (kde-base/konqueror)

filezilla (filezilla)

[edit] IRC

Konversation (Konversation)

Great, easy KDE based IRC client.

KVIrc (KVIrc)

A more powerful KDE based IRC client.

Chatzilla (Chatzilla)

Included on Mozilla Suite.

bitchx (bitchx)

Graphical with USE="gtk".

ircii (ircii)

Console-based.

irssi (irssi)

Console-based. Many plugins are oriented around using screen, and through screen, this client can be used to access the same IRC session from multiple computers on your network.

xchat (xchat)

Graphical IRC Client with Perl,Python,TCL Scripting Support, comparable to mirc.

weechat (weechat)

Console-based, but has many optional graphical frontends.

[edit] BitTorrent

Azureus (net-p2p/azureus)

Java-based BitTorrent client with the most important BT features.

Bittornado (net-p2p/bittornado)

Text or Python download dialog.

cTorrent (net-p2p/ctorrent)

Linux console torrent client, written in C/C++. Small and effective.

KTorrent (net-p2p/Ktorrent)

KDE based BitTorrent client.

qbittorrent (net-p2p/qbittorrent)

BitTorrent client in C++ and Qt4.

rtorrent (net-p2p/rtorrent )

Fast and resource-friendly console client.

uTorrent (net-p2p/utorrent)

Win32 client emulated through Wine, almost all the features of Azureus and uses fewer resources.

deluge (net-p2p/deluge)

Lightweight and new BitTorrent

Transmission (net-p2p/transmission)

A versatile and multi-platform BitTorrent client, focusing on being lightweight, yet feature-filled.

bittorrent (net-p2p/bittorrent)

Standard bittorrent client

lince (net-p2p/lince)

gtkmm based bittorrent client - lightweight and fast

[edit] Instant messengers

Pidgin (Formerly Gaim) (pidgin)

Instant messenger for AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, ICQ, IRC, JABBER, and others..

Gajim (gajim)

Good(best) GTK+ Jabber Client.

SIM (sim)

Instant messenger for AIM, ICQ, JABBER, LiveJournal, SMS, Yahoo.

Psi (psi)

Qt Jabber client w/ support for multiple accounts.

licq (licq)

Very nice.

aMSN (aMSN)

Only MSN and so more specialised.

Mercury (mercury-bin)

MSN and Jabber client written in Java.

climm (climm)

Console-based messenger for ICQ, probably the best. Previously known as micq.

centericq (centericq)

Console-based messenger for ICQ, Y!, AIM, IRC, MSN, Gadu-Gadu and Jabber.

Kadu (Kadu)

Qt Gadu-Gadu client.

Kopete (Kopete)

KDE instant messenger.

BitlBee (net-im/bitlbee)

IRC to IM gateway. Connect to AIM, ICQ, Jabber, MSN, and Yahoo! with your IRC client.

[edit] Other

nscd (nscd), or Name Service Cache Daemon. Should give faster web since it doesn't have to do a DNS lookup for visited URLs. (from http://packages.debian.org: "You should install this package only if you use slow Services like LDAP, NIS or NIS+".

charm (charm), a simple yet powerful text-mode LiveJournal weblog client.

[edit] Games

Planeshift - Home Page

PlaneShift is a open-source fantasy 3D MMORPG (Massive Multiplaying Online RPG). but it is absolutely free and of fine quality. Overlay Zuigana maintains a version of Planeshift if care not to use the binary? Some screenshots: Planshift.it Screenshot Page

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory (games-fps/enemy-territory)

Commercial, but free game. A 1st person multiplayer shooter. Be aware that this game is not suitable for children.

Kiki (games-puzzle/kiki)

Kiki the Nano Bot - A very unusually fun puzzle game. You play a nano bot who has to reach an exit in each level by moving and combining several world items. The fun-thing about this game: By rotating the bot you can change gravity and make things fall in any direction you want them to fall to. If you like solving 3-D problems or want a 3-D game for low-end systems, you should give this game a try. Visit the homepage for screenshots.

Nexuiz (games-fps/nexuiz)

Nexuiz is a first person shooter released entirely GPL. Based on the darkplaces engine, a massively enhanced quake1-engine, it is not for low-end computers. It's a fun shooter with great graphics and has a active and helpful community. Visit nexuiz.com.

Warsow (games-fps/warsow)

Warsow is another first person shooter released entirely GPL, which aims for movement tricks and competitive gameplay. It's based on qfusion engine, a enhanced quake2 engine. Visit the homepage

Battle for Wesnoth (games-strategy/wesnoth)

A very well done fantasy turn-based strategy game.

Trackballs (games-action/trackballs)

Excellent Marble Maddness clone, 3D OpenGL.

PlanetPenguin Racer (games-arcade/ppracer)

Tuxracer, but modern. An OpenGL racing game featuring Tux, the Linux mascot. The goal of the game is to slide down a snow- and ice-covered mountain as quickly as possible.

Cube (games-fps/cube)

Single and multiplayer FPS game/engine.

Unreal Tournament (games-fps/unreal-tournament)

Unreal Tournament (Very popular FPS game).

Warzone 2100 (games-strategy/warzone2100)

Warzone 2100 is a real-time strategy and real-time tactics hybrid computer game, developed by Pumpkin Studios and published by Eidos Interactive. Comparable to Earth 2150 in many significant respects. The code was released under the GPL in 2004. Great Game.

FooBillard (games-sports/foobillard)

Good 8-ball/Pool game.

SuperTux (games-arcade/supertux)

Excellent Mario Brothers clone featuring Tux.

Simutrans (games-simulation/simutrans)

Very good Transport Simulation.

Openttd (games-simulation/openttd)

Transport Tycoon Deluxe clone, It attempts to mimic the original game as closely as possible while extending it with new features. Visit the homepage for screenshots. Visit the OpenTTD Gentoo installation guide

Exult (games-engines/exult)

Ultima VII engine; a classic, excellent RPG.

Pysol (games-board/pysol)

An exciting collection of more than 200 solitaire card games.

Flightgear (games-simulation/flightgear)

Free realistic flight simulator.

Eternal Lands (games-rpg/eternal-lands)

Free MMORPG) http://www.eternal-lands.com/

[needs more work]

powermanga (games-action/powermanga)

Addicting top-down space shooter.

Crack Attack! (games-arcade/crack-attack)

A fast-paced puzzle game inspired by the classic Super NES title Tetris Attack!

[edit] Commercial Games

Neverwinter Nights (games-rpg/nwn)

Commercial RPG. You will have to purchase a copy of the game to to play. Installation Instructions

Darwinia (games-strategy/darwinia)

Closed source, commercial, real-time strategy. HOWTO Darwinia

[edit] Emulators for Games

gxmame (games-emulation/gxmame)

The multi-platform arcade game emulator.

fceultra (games-emulation/fceultra)

The best NES emulator, remember those good old days?

zsnes (games-emulation/zsnes)

Remember those good not-quite-so-old days?

scummvm (games-engines/scummvm)

An emulator for adventures like samnmax,indy4,etc..

[edit] Text Editors

gvim (app-editors/gvim)

Graphical user interface for the all-famous vi

gedit (app-editors/gedit)

Gnome's default text editor

leafpad (app-editors/leafpad)

a light weight gtk based editor, loads much faster than gedit, Xfce users try its derivative mousepad

mousepad (xfce-extra/mousepad)

Xfce4 text editor

SciTE (app-editors/scite)

all basic features, pipeing tidy indent, easy configuration of all features

Kate (kde-base/kate)

KDE Advanced Text Editor

jEdit (app-editors/jedit)

Programmer's editor written in Java

kile (app-editors/kile)

LaTeX IDE, works under KDE

emacs, joe, nano, pico, vi/vim

Console based text editors. Easiest to use of these are nano and pico while vim and emacs are more powerful once mastered.

hteditor (app-editors/hteditor)

binary/text editor. disassembles but does not work well in X

ghex (app-editors/ghex)

Gnome hexadecimal editor

nedit (app-editors/nedit)

good configurability, sweet mouse text manipulation modes, easily recordable macro language.

[edit] Server software

[edit] File Server

samba (net-fs/samba) - Windows compatible file and printer sharing

proftpd (net-ftp/proftpd) - high configurable FTP server

pure-ftpd (net-ftp/pure-ftpd) - Secure FTP server with many features(including MySQL backend)... supports FXP

vsftpd (net-ftp/vsftpd) - Secure and extremely fast

nfs (net-fs/nfs-utils) - Legendary network files sharing utility. HOWTO_Share_Directories_via_NFS

[edit] Mail Server

cyrus-imapd (net-mail/cyrus-imapd) - very popular IMAP server

postfix (mail-mta/postfix) - very popular MTA (mail transfer agent)

[edit] Web Server

apache (net-www/apache) - most common web server with tons of addons

fnord (www-servers/fnord) - fast tiny web server with ipv6 and cgi support (patches for php are also available AFAIK).

Lighttpd (www-servers/lighttpd) - Security, speed, compliance, and flexibility (FastCGI, CGI, Auth, Output-Compression, URL-Rewriting and many more).

[edit] 64bit System Compatibility with 32 Bit Applications

  • For AMD64 systems. Even though in the new 2005.0 profile (and on) gcc/glibc are already set to be 32-bit compatible, you still need 32-bit emulation libraries. There are several such libraries in app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-*:
baselibs, compat, java, gtklibs, medialibs, qtlibs, sdl, soundlibs, xlibs.
  • What are they for:
emul-linux-x86-compat, emul-linux-x86-baselibs - for general setup
emul-linux-x86-xlibs - if you need to use 32-bit binary programs under X (like OpenOffice).
emul-linux-x86-gtklibs - for 32-bit applications that use GTK
emul-linux-x86-qtlibs - for 32-bit applications that use Qt
emul-linux-x86-medialibs
emul-linux-x86-java - 32 bit Sun's J2SE Development Kit
emul-linux-x86-soundlibs - for 32-bit applications that use sound
emul-linux-x86-sdl - for 32-bit applications that use libsdl (Simple Direct Media Layer).
  • You'll probably need only the higher-level compatibility libraries, others will be pulled in as dependencies. If you need to be just compatible, you can emerge all of the above.
  • emul-linux-x86-nvidia disappeared when nvidia-driver was converted to multilib
  • See also HOWTO AMD64

[edit] System and Drivers

[edit] Autodetection of devices (where possible)

  • udev
  • hotplug/coldplug (deprecated by newer udev versions - roughly 090).

[edit] Support for 3D graphics cards

[needs more work]

[edit] Nvidia

nvidia-drivers (nvidia-drivers)

nvidia-legacy-drivers (nvidia-legacy-drivers)(nvidia drivers for older (TNT(2)/GeForce) cards.

nvidia-settings (nvidia-settings)

Official nvidia utility to monitor (and overclock with "option 'coolbits' 'true'" set in xorg.conf) nvidia cards.

nvclock (media-video/nvclock)

Utility to overclock nvidia cards on linux.

[edit] ATI

ati-drivers (ati-drivers) 8.14.13-r2 works at kernel <=2.6.12

ati-drivers-extra (ati-drivers-extra)

Try: 

rmmod radeon drm
modprobe agpgart

and/or modprobe sis-agp or intel-agp.... 

emerge -va ati-drivers ati-drivers-extra
opengl-update ati
/opt/ati/bin/fglrxconfig

[edit] VIA Unichrome

  • dri module already in kernel <= 2.6.13-r3
  • needs compiled source of xorg-x11, can be achieved by executing 
FEATURES="noclean" emerge xorg-x11
  • the source code will stay in /var/tmp/portage/xorg-x11-<version>/work/
  • all steps are well described here - the Unichrome project

[edit] Power/Cooling

acpid (sys-power/acpid)

do things based on events

lm_sensors (sys-apps/lm_sensors)

monitor your system's sensors
set fan speeds based on sensor output, use fancontrol, etc

cpufreqd (sys-power/cpufreqd)

scale cpu frequency based on load

smartmontools (sys-apps/smartmontools)

view hard drive SMART parameters, temperature, etc

Software suspend

ksysguard, integrated with KDE, displays pretty graphs of sensor data

[edit] See also

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