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Tiny Core Extensions => TCE Talk => Topic started by: coreplayer2 on July 03, 2011, 05:18:27 PM

Title: Whats your essential extensions | post here
Post by: coreplayer2 on July 03, 2011, 05:18:27 PM: My can't live without extensions are

Internet

wifi - connection manager
Chromium - browser without the chrome overhead

my favorite browser which is not yet an official extension
QtWeb (fast full featured browser, half the weight of chrome)

Multimedia

Xine-Xvesa - plays DVD's, CD's and various other media
DeadBeaf - plays all your CD's perfectly

xfi - works with wfe to view photo's
gimp2 - photo editor (OnDemand)

system

conky plus :)
xfe - file manager
Xarchiver - handles compressed files (OnDemand)
DropBox - store stuff in the cloud (OnDemand)

SearchMonkey - Another favorite unofficial extension. Although I do like "sudo find / -iname FileName" thas app has way more features.

Office

editor - reads and writes all text based files and comes with TC

let's see what others are using :)
Title: Re: Whats your essential extensions | post here
Post by: bmarkus on July 04, 2011, 12:48:07 AM: Midnight Commander (mc)
Title: Re: Whats your essential extensions | post here
Post by: Juanito on July 04, 2011, 12:54:10 AM: beaver, compiletc, emelfm, gtkfind, opera
Title: Re: Whats your essential extensions | post here
Post by: beerstein on July 04, 2011, 03:57:20 AM: leafpad, fluff, abiword, firefox, gparted, grub-0.97,mc,
Title: Re: Whats your essential extensions | post here
Post by: curaga on July 04, 2011, 04:07:00 AM: jwm, nano, compiletc, opera, mplayer-nodeps (which got an update recently and removed that crept in ncurses dep ;))
Title: Re: Whats your essential extensions | post here
Post by: gerald_clark on July 04, 2011, 11:55:17 AM: The first thing I always load: Midnight Commander.
Title: Re: Whats your essential extensions | post here
Post by: bmarkus on July 04, 2011, 12:29:41 PM: Quote from: gerald_clark on July 04, 2011, 11:55:17 AM
The first thing I always load: Midnight Commander.

+1

I always throw away a Live CD with no mc by default. List is long...
Title: Re: Whats your essential extensions | post here
Post by: Rich on July 04, 2011, 11:34:50 PM: Midnight Commander, geany, compiletc, opera, wireshark, FoxitReader.
Title: Re: Whats your essential extensions | post here
Post by: Lee on July 05, 2011, 02:14:51 PM: System
jwm
xtrlock system is configured to come up in a locked state
openssh access remote system with secure shell
rdesktop access remote Windows systems
samba3 share files to Windows (and other) clients
ntfs-3g
emelfm2 heavy-ish but useful file manager
OSS sound
sgmixer volume control
conky
xonclock

Internet
flash10
minefield
sylpheed email
filezilla ftp client
vlc media player
inetutils
inetutils-servers

"utility" extensions
flit
flume
flpicsee
watcher
usb-utils
pci-utils
net-tools
wget
tcl_tk
mc

Not loaded often, but good to have around
gimp2
libreoffice

Editor
editor is great and I use it, but it needs the GUI
zile works in text console and is emacs-like, but under-featured
epsilon 13.09 (private extension) an eval of a commercial programmers' editor. (saving up my money for the full ver)
Title: Re: Whats your essential extensions | post here
Post by: thane on July 05, 2011, 05:32:57 PM: I'm running a simple websurfer setup with everything in RAM (onboot). Namoroka browser with flash, epdfview for pdf, mplayer + smplayer for media. A couple of non-TCL apps like BOINC as well.
Title: Re: Whats your essential extensions | post here
Post by: Jason W on July 05, 2011, 09:48:29 PM: Aside from the compiling and development stuff, my daily use apps are pretty much gtk2 except for xine-xvesa and xmms. The latest Minefield, emelfm2, leafpad, gqview2, and the like. Of course, I am perfectly happy doing my file management from a terminal, and still do exclusively for some tasks like copying directories (notice how emelfm2 will copy symlinks by linking the newly copied link to it's copied-from location rather than the original target, not good), but I like a graphical app like rox or emelfm2 in the cases where they save time and make it easier.
Title: Re: Whats your essential extensions | post here
Post by: curaga on July 06, 2011, 11:05:11 AM: I'm surprised about the use the old minefield still gets. Though maybe it hits a sweet spot for many, being half the size of minefield4 and near half of firefox. (though who am I to talk, I still use Opera 9)
Title: Re: Whats your essential extensions | post here
Post by: Jason W on July 06, 2011, 11:17:59 AM: I normally use the latest Minefield, and edited my list to specify. However, Firefox/Minefield is getting bigger and more bloated with each release, but Firefox has me hooked with their look and feel. The older releases are a lot more resource friendly, especially with RAM, so there is good reason to keep the older versions in the repo. On older machines it is probably practical to use the oldest Firefox version you can get away with for your needs.
Title: Re: Whats your essential extensions | post here
Post by: vinnie on February 09, 2012, 09:06:44 PM: This is my actual onboot.lst (all mounted in ram):
mirrors.tcz
Xorg-7.5-3d.tcz
Xprogs.tcz
alsa.tcz
wifi.tcz
e17.tcz
e-modules-extra.tcz
stjerm.tcz
bash.tcz
qps.tcz (this taskmanager rocks!)
geany.tcz
xfe.tcz
sun-jre.tcz (is strange choice, i admit, but I was too bored having to kill X for use java)
dejavu-fonts-ttf.tcz (for character compatibility)
conky.tcz
pci-hotplug-3.0.3-tinycore.tcz (for switch off wifi with keyboard)

then I have an endless list of ondemand (and not) programs
Title: Re: Whats your essential extensions | post here
Post by: thane on February 10, 2012, 01:01:59 AM: "sun-jre.tcz (is strange choice, i admit, but I was too bored having to kill X for use java)"

I visit a couple of websites that require Java and the sun-jre was the only Java that worked for me, so maybe not so strange...
Title: Re: Whats your essential extensions | post here
Post by: vinnie on February 10, 2012, 10:26:30 AM: the only problem is a package a bit large in comparison to other :P