Package Recommendations RFC

[vlok stone]

if you're using mandrake the 1st thing on the to do
list is setup urpmi ( this resolves dependency
problems when installing rpm's . go here 

http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php

the contrib and plf ( penguin liberaton front ) are
important so you can get packages not included in the
distro legal reasons. 

I don't know what you want to use the pc for or your
proficiency level in linux , so 
here are some apps I consider must haves: 
mplayer ( video )
xine ( video dvd )
xmms
ripperX ( mp3 ripper )
eroaster ( buring program )
guarddog ( gui) or shorewall (non-gui) ( firewall ) 
streamtuner ( w/streamripper-> shoutcast internet 
radio)
anti-aliased firebird (mozilla-browser) found here ->
http://jaeger.morpheus.net/linux/crux/files 
enemy-territory return to castle wolfenstein (google)
drakconf ( helps for config w/ gui )  


--- scott <green_man at bluefrog.biz> wrote:

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At the meeting Bob made the comment, " I hate working
on a machine I didn'tinstall - I can't even use
strings." 
I also didn't have dhcp. IIRC, I didn't install
anything from the Developmentdivision because I'm not
a software developer. 
So apparently I don't even have a kernel compiler. I
just followed the choicesin a Mandrake install
walkthrough 
I found some where, so I'm probably lacking on
administrative and searchtools.
I was wondering if Bob or anyone else would care to
post a list of recommendedrpms for stand alone desktop
user's box running KDE. I do also have some Gnome apps
in, but they run inKDE. 
Then I could find the common denominators. 

-- ScottKein Mitleid F&uuml;r MicroSoft.Mozilla 0.9.4
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