[UFO Chicago] "must have" packages

[Ian Bicking]

On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 00:25, Peter A. Peterson II wrote:
> editors:
> vim
> emacs21 [in the interests of fairness]
> nano

joe, maybe zile instead of emacs if you don't want emacs' size.

> shell:
> ssh
> telnet
> 
> utils:
> sudo
> screen
> perl
> less
> rsync
> logcheck
> mtr-tiny
> traceroute
> whois
> nmap
> queso

deborphan to keep your system clean, reportbug to do your part,
popularity-contest, alien, vrms.

ftp, ncftp, sftp, maybe proftpd.

zip, unzip, tcsh, bzip2, diff, file, host, info, patch, sharutils,
strace.

Maybe rar, unrar, unarj, zsh, aspell/ispell, diction, lftp, pydf.

> mail:
> exim [insert MDA here]
> procmail
> mutt
> spamassassin
> mailman

mailx, for the occasional command-line use.  Perhaps vacation or
bogofilter.

> web:
> apache
> links-ssl
> lynx-ssl [people have preferences]
> wget

php4, maybe php4-pear.  Some like curl, w3m.  libapache-mod-dav is cool,
maybe libapache-mod-ssl, libapache-mod-gzip.  Perhaps
squirrelmail+uw-imapd, mindterm.

> crypto:
> gpg
> 
> fun:
> dict
> gcal
> irc client
> nethack [critical]
> robotfindskitten [also critical]

bsdgames, bsdgames-nonfree.

> smb:
> samba, et al, if need be
> 
> kernel:
> binutils
> bin86
> gcc
> make
> autoconf

I think there's a task for development -- you should probably just
install that (since there's a ton of little things in there that might
not get picked up by gcc alone).

  Ian