Hi,
A killer app is an application that compels one to use a certain
system. On Debian lists, someone mentioned that meld, a GUI diff
utility, was killer. I can't think of any I have because I moved to
GNU/Linux for its said overall magnificence, instead of a particular
application, and today there's isn't one utility I admire so much I'd
consider such... maybe gnome-terminal, lsof, grep, top,
epiphany-browser, or less. I'd mention admirance for Blender, GCC,
Python but they are cross-platform. I'd mention GNOME, but it's a 100
apps. So I give up and ask you, what's your killer app(s)?


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On 11/30/06, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <tshepang@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> A killer app is an application that compels one to use a certain
> system. On Debian lists, someone mentioned that meld, a GUI diff
> utility, was killer. I can't think of any I have because I moved to
> GNU/Linux for its said overall magnificence, instead of a particular
> application, and today there's isn't one utility I admire so much I'd
> consider such... maybe gnome-terminal, lsof, grep, top,
> epiphany-browser, or less. I'd mention admirance for Blender, GCC,
> Python but they are cross-platform. I'd mention GNOME, but it's a 100
> apps. So I give up and ask you, what's your killer app(s)?

Howdy,

Well, in my opinion a "killer" app is a useful app. Something that you
would have a hard time living without. My "killer" app is the humble
and often overlooked StarDict.

Cheers,

Brian


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Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> apps. So I give up and ask you, what's your killer app(s)?

aptitude, of course, if one has to name but one.

just compare that to yast, windoze-update, whatever...

Johannes


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Tshepang Lekhonkhobe escribe:
> A killer app is an application that compels one to use a certain
> system. On Debian lists, someone mentioned that meld, a GUI diff
> utility, was killer. I can't think of any I have because I moved to
> GNU/Linux for its said overall magnificence, instead of a particular
> application, and today there's isn't one utility I admire so much I'd
> consider such... maybe gnome-terminal, lsof, grep, top,
> epiphany-browser, or less. I'd mention admirance for Blender, GCC,
> Python but they are cross-platform. I'd mention GNOME, but it's a 100
> apps. So I give up and ask you, what's your killer app(s)?

You can compile GNOME using Cygwin on Windows and also on OS X, so
it's not a happy example of "killer app" that forces you to use Linux.

IMHO the "killer app" is ALSA plus JACK. ALSA are drivers for audio
cards allowing profesional like low latency even using low grade
soundcards embedded on motherboards. JACK allows to interconnect audio
applications, where audio output of any app can be used as audio input
of any other. Audio software lovers can think of it as a system-wide
Reason.

AFAIK JACK can be used on OS X systems. ALSA is Linux specific.

Cross-OS interoperability is nowadays a trend so less and less apps
can be considered "killer" on this sense.

Cordially, Ismael
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On 11/30/06 05:14, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> Hi,
> A killer app is an application that compels one to use a certain
> system. On Debian lists, someone mentioned that meld, a GUI diff
> utility, was killer. I can't think of any I have because I moved to
> GNU/Linux for its said overall magnificence, instead of a particular
> application, and today there's isn't one utility I admire so much I'd
> consider such... maybe gnome-terminal, lsof, grep, top,
> epiphany-browser, or less. I'd mention admirance for Blender, GCC,
> Python but they are cross-platform. I'd mention GNOME, but it's a 100
> apps. So I give up and ask you, what's your killer app(s)?

No killer *app*. Security is killer, but that's hard to see.

For me, the CLI is killer.

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For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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Hello Tshepang!

> A killer app is an application that compels one to use a certain
> system. On Debian lists, someone mentioned that meld, a GUI diff
> utility, was killer. I can't think of any I have because I moved to
> GNU/Linux for its said overall magnificence, instead of a particular
> application, and today there's isn't one utility I admire so much I'd
> consider such... maybe gnome-terminal, lsof, grep, top,
> epiphany-browser, or less. I'd mention admirance for Blender, GCC,
> Python but they are cross-platform. I'd mention GNOME, but it's a 100
> apps. So I give up and ask you, what's your killer app(s)?
There are two sides of a killer application. One side is:
- the useful one: vim, xmms, muttng, suspend-to-...

- the apps which make me sad: firefox, VMWare, synaptics.

But the real killer are my kids. I do not know how they able to crash
the computer but they do it. My son destroy my x server and I have to
remove and reinstall the complete stuff.

CU

Michael

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Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:

> No killer *app*. Security is killer, but that's hard to see.
>
> For me, the CLI is killer.

I'm not sure CLI could be considered a killer for GNU/Linux systems,
since the *BSD systems have no more or less powerful CLI.

I would thinkg a killer app for a system would be unique for that
system. I can't really think of an app that would be unique to GNU/Linux
(that wouldn't also work on other unix systems). Maybe something like
FUSE?

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On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 01:14:34PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:

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> So I give up and ask you, what's your killer app(s)?

First thought: mutt. (which would be even better if I hadn't broken
exim4, so I'm reading d-u on mutt and replying via squirrelmail!)

On second thoughts, ghostscript and friends. My wife called me this
morning from London to ask how to make a pdf from her m$word at work.
Easy: take the file home and read it into any Linux app. Definitely the
fact that _any_ app in Linux can write ps or pdf is one of the killer
features. Which makes my killer app:
ps2pdf

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