Essentials

My favorite task as a teenager: cut CDs that had all the essential software I would ever need. Titling them as Essentials, I’d be ready lest somebody needed a piece. Exactly 10 years ago. The hobby soon curled up as a small business where we would burn SparcCDs containing all essential freeware programs and sell them. End: some 4 years back.

Today, the only essential software I need is a command prompt with wget. Of course, then I would get the following:

• openSUSE 11.0
• Firefox 3.0
  • TabMixPlus  / Live HTTP Headers / Vimperator
  • FoxyProxy / User Agent Switcher / del.icou.us bookmarker
• Thunderbird 2.0
  • Lightning / Threadkey / SwitchProxy
  • QuoteCollapse / Mailbox Alert / XNote
• PIdgin
  • Conversation Colors / Guifications / History / Log Reader
  • Psychic Mode / Nicksaid / Mystatusbox
    • zypper
      • konsole
        • screen
      • kbluetooth
    • klipper
      • xrandr
    • amarok

Very soon, they’ll be in your essentials list.