For me, the "killer app" for Linux is its ability to be a very secure proxy/gateway system. Take an older system, two different fast ethernet net cards, a linux distribution, and a firewall script for IPtables and you have a proxy gateway system that allows you to run a network off a single DSL or cable modem connection. After doing this, I became interested in Linux as a desktop. After learning how to configure should with Alsaconf, I have set up a system to burn CDs with Gnometoaster (usefull when your older hardware has a cd-burner but no roxio to go with it) and rip CDs with GRIP. Linux also has security tools like ,Nessus, NMAP and other so you can make sure that the rest of your systems are secure. You even have OpenOffice so you can do some work from you MS dominated job environment in a pinch.

John L Fjellstad <john-debian@fjellstad.org> wrote: Ron Johnson 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:
> 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)?
>
>
The *N*X working environment presented to the debian user as bash.

When all hell breaks loose, the ability to access the box from the
command-line-of-last-resort: the serial port, running init=/bin/sh.
Can't do that on anything else.

Doug.


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On 11/30/06 08:19, John L Fjellstad wrote:
> 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.

Well, sure. If FreeBSD had been easy to install in year 2000, had a
large community, and apps like Netscape (or was Mozilla released by
then?) then I maybe would have tried FreeBSD.

> 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, 2006-11-30 at 12:22 +0100, Brian Durant wrote:
> On 11/30/06, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <tshepang@gmail.com> wrote:
> [...] a "killer" app is a useful app. Something that you
> would have a hard time living without.
> [...]
> Cheers,
>
> Brian
>
>

Octave for me, no doubt!

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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)?
>
>

The kernel.

Without it, I wouldn't be here.

:-)

Nate


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Nate Duehr wrote:
> 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)?
>>
>>
>
> The kernel.
>
> Without it, I wouldn't be here.
>
> :-)
>
> Nate
Okay, I can top that: The GPL.

:-) twice.

-Matthew


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On Thursday 30 November 2006 10:18, richard@the-place.net wrote:
> 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

Blah, install pdf writer under Windows. As easy as kprinter.

There is no "killer app for linux"...if you mean a killer free software app,
then firefox or openoffice.

"Linux" is really just a convenient, nearly-crashfree environ where we have
total control. You can piece together most things on BSD or even Windows.


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Brendan wrote:
> On Thursday 30 November 2006 10:18, richard@the-place.net wrote:
>
>>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
>
>
> Blah, install pdf writer under Windows. As easy as kprinter.

You mean pdf writer from Adobe?
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloa...atform=Windows



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