Recommended Applications?

[GadgetGuy]

Hello all,

after some trials and errors ( thank you koen for your help!) I have now a functioning OZ / Opie ( with GPE also coming soon) system.

I have used extensively Cacko and I have also tried Pdaxrom Beta 4.

Cacko was great, but I really like for now the little I have seen from OZ.

I would like to download a few new applications - but looking at the list of thousands of packages, I am somewhat overwhelmed.

Can you please recommend
- a good text editor
- a file manager
- a pdf reader
- a couple of nice games
- a couple of useful applets ( network, sound etc.)
- a couple of nice tools ( swap file manager?)
- and anyting else you would consider as "necessary" application to use my Z to the fullest?

Is there maybe a list somewhere listing the "best of" applications for OZ?

Any recommendation would be very welcome!

[GadgetGuy]

Since I got no response to my posting above, I started to experiment myself.

While doing so, I selected multiple applications in the package manager under Opie for download.

I was never able to download them at one go. The first and/or second application ( and its dependencies ) were downloaded, but then the process stopped with an error message, and I had to restart. ( Sometimes not even the first application worked - I immediately got the error even before downloading anything )

Is this normal: are you normally able to download multiple applications in one go? Is maybe the feed server overloaded? Are there other feed servers I could specify?

Thank you for your comments...

[koen]

Since I got no response to my posting above, I started to experiment myself.

While doing so, I selected multiple applications in the package manager under Opie for download.

I was never able to download them at one go. The first and/or second application ( and its dependencies ) were downloaded, but then the process stopped with an error message, and I had to restart. ( Sometimes not even the first application worked - I immediately got the error even before downloading anything )

Is this normal: are you normally able to download multiple applications in one go? Is maybe the feed server overloaded? Are there other feed servers I could specify?

Thank you for your comments...
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I never use GUI package managers, not even on my ubuntu workstation.

[GadgetGuy]

I never use GUI package managers, not even on my ubuntu workstation.
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Thank you Koen - I will try the console then.

As a side note: I never had any problems under Cacko with the GUI package manager (downloading dozens of applications at a time), or the network applet or anything similar. All just worked, without any extra effort. 100% plug and play. Will this level of 100% plug and play exist one day with OZ?

Of course, doing it via the console is more flexible, and gives more feedback. But I would prefer the option of doing either console or GUI, if possible.

[lardman]

It will exist, but someone needs to fix the GUI package manager to find the memory leak. This is not very exciting work, so no-one's really been that bothered thus far, though it is something that needs to be sorted out.


Si

[koen]

I never use GUI package managers, not even on my ubuntu workstation.
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Thank you Koen - I will try the console then.

As a side note: I never had any problems under Cacko with the GUI package manager (downloading dozens of applications at a time), or the network applet or anything similar. All just worked, without any extra effort. 100% plug and play. Will this level of 100% plug and play exist one day with OZ?
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I'm affraid not, since every developer uses the cmdline

[CoreDump]

I never use GUI package managers, not even on my ubuntu workstation.
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Thank you Koen - I will try the console then.

As a side note: I never had any problems under Cacko with the GUI package manager (downloading dozens of applications at a time), or the network applet or anything similar. All just worked, without any extra effort. 100% plug and play. Will this level of 100% plug and play exist one day with OZ?
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I'm affraid not, since every developer uses the cmdline
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Hehe, and the No.1 reason every dev uses the cmdline is because the GUI thingies are unusable.

I'm seeing a pattern here  

[Greg2]

I never use GUI package managers, not even on my ubuntu workstation.
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Thank you Koen - I will try the console then.

As a side note: I never had any problems under Cacko with the GUI package manager (downloading dozens of applications at a time), or the network applet or anything similar. All just worked, without any extra effort. 100% plug and play. Will this level of 100% plug and play exist one day with OZ?
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I'm affraid not, since every developer uses the cmdline
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Hehe, and the No.1 reason every dev uses the cmdline is because the GUI thingies are unusable.

I'm seeing a pattern here  
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Hehe... but I read here somewhere about a metric ton of gui wizzards to wipe something.