Contributed by marco on from the dept.
colorls | 6.4% (66 votes) | ||
vim | 40.6% (420 votes) | ||
gcc-4.0 | 9.3% (96 votes) | ||
bash | 17.9% (185 votes) | ||
mutt | 18.0% (186 votes) | ||
what are ports? | 7.8% (81 votes) | ||
Total votes: 1034
OpenBSD's ports and packages are not the largest collection of software around. But if someone starts going through them aimlessly, the tree seems to get rather large.
I was infact doing some aimless looking the other day, and I realized I have no idea what even a quarter of these applications do! Sure, a "make search key=blah" is a good way to find an application to do a task. But, doing things that way I'm sure I'm missing some of the more fun ports. So, I ask: What more obscure ports to you find usefull or amusing?
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By phessler (209.204.157.103) on
vim: punishment for writing bad code
gcc-4.0: how can we screw up your code today?
bash: we do everything that ksh does, only worse
mutt: worthwhile mail client
:)
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By vext01 (86.143.215.143) on
By Anonymous Coward (64.62.167.198) on
Everything else is... a fair assessment ;)
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By Brad (216.138.195.228) brad at comstyle dot com on
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By Anonymous Coward (64.62.167.198) on
Granted, the char signedness warnings are annoying, but I'm willing to take my medicine if it means better code.
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By Chas (12.217.82.49) on
What regularly bites me is the lack of a print statement.
By Jim (198.62.124.245) on
BTW, my whole family uses Mutt too. So, both of these software packages are integral to our digital life.
And now for the conspiracy theory: is someone considering importing these into OpenBSD's base install?.?. :-)
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By Anonymous Coward (67.64.89.177) on
By Anonymous Coward (217.31.185.139) on
By Marco Peereboom (67.64.89.177) marco@peereboom.us on http://www.peereboom.us
So let us know what kinds of crazy things you do.
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By Jim (68.250.26.213) on
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By Matt Van Mater (69.255.1.181) on
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By augie (80.203.101.36) on
By Anonymous Coward (84.188.255.110) on
gnupg: you know any serious replacement? :-/
python: because it has a BSD-License (compared to Perl wich is in the
Base-System)
mod_security: Yeah..
That`s the most stuff I use very offen.
Because some peoples mentioned mutt: Mutt or pine... both are crap. But it`s like with gnupg.
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By Jim (68.250.26.213) on
By marco (149.169.52.32) on
can't function without it
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By Anonymous Coward (84.57.76.31) on
By bob (84.160.41.2) on
By Anonymous Coward (67.170.176.126) on
By jared spiegel (67.139.90.84) jrrs@ice-nine.org on
- screen
- nut
- w3m
- calc
- cidr
- lftp
- nethack
- vpnc
- pftop
- squid
- samba
By Anonymous Coward (71.99.194.219) on
screen, ratpoison, unclutter, gnuls
mutt, gnupg, abook, fetchmail, maildrop
slrn, mc, bitchx, mp3blaster, feh
surfraw, urlview, links, firefox
stow, autoconf, automake, gmake
postgresql, mod_fastcgi
xpdf, teTeX*, apsfilter
rsync, unrar, unzip, bzip2
tidy, perltidy, and a whole ton of perl modules...
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By Anonymous Coward (128.151.92.148) on
By Anonymous Coward (24.217.190.176) on
graphviz
wget
nmap
nessus
nikto
validate
By vext01 (86.143.215.143) on
By Anonymous Coward (63.237.125.191) on
tried gnome recently with the 20050205? snapshot and it's just not effective yet at least on my dog-slow hardware
had openoffice running for a bit with 3.7, but decided I didn't really need it
have use for php, mysql, gqview, nedit, xpdf, nmap, and ImageMagic, cdrtools of course, jpilot once in a while, would be nice to see an updated qcad, use tightvnc[-viewer] on occasion, have used rox-filer, have used snort, trying to get nagios running, like unison alot
I'd like to thank the OpenBSD core and ports developers/maintainers for all their hard work.
I generally use OpenBSD as a guide. If I need a wireless NIC; What does OpenBSD support? If I need a VNC client/server; What's in ports? Chances are, it'll work with M$ as a last resort, and is probably the best tool for the job.
OpenBSD, the shining light in a sea of incompetance.
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By Anonymous Coward (203.113.233.98) on
By Joachim Schipper (82.134.241.64) on
Other ports which I quite like are nmap (invaluable for troubleshooting all kinds of networking troubles, such as when - last week - someone decided to utterly change the internet connection we'd been enjoying without telling us, for instance, the IP address of the new DNS server...), ratpoison ('screen for X'), screen and w3m.
On a more server-ish note, amanda-client, postfix+amavisd+clamav+dovecot and sec (for log processing) are quite neat. Though the latter is not yet fully functional, and could do with a little more documentation.
Also, it seems the Editor Wars have finally subsided, with vim being the clear winner, as it currently has 40% of the votes and nobody has even mentioned emacs yet... ;-)
Joachim
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By Anonymous Coward (67.64.89.177) on
vim rules!
By Anonymous Coward (128.151.92.148) on
mutt
screen
wget
latex
qemu
nasm
wmaker
gimp
firefox
mplayer
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By sng (67.171.149.18) on
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By Alex Holst (195.249.80.194) on
Less has been in base since at least OpenBSD 1.2.
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/less/?only_with_tag=OpenBSD_1_2
By Anonymous Coward (66.11.66.41) on
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By sng (67.171.149.18) on
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By Alex Holst (195.249.80.194) on
Er, ftp(1) has supported http for years.
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By Nate (65.95.241.240) on
By chill (216.229.170.65) on
On servers: ntop, mrtg, rrdtool
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By Bob Beck (68.148.128.240) beck@openbsd.org on
making vi not vi is just a crutch for people who can't learn
emacs because their brain is addled from too much exposure
to that hot sun in texas :)
(Hi Marco :)
emacs is still about the most useful thing there, although getting
less and less so since kjell has been fixing mg
-Bob
By Benjamin Collins (148.104.5.2) ben.collins@acm.org on
vim: emacs does everything this does
gcc-4.0: since when does this even build? been marked broken from day 1...
bash: can run inside emacs
mutt: can use emacs as the editor, plus emacs can do rmail
the only thing I ever use that comes close to the usefulness of emacs is screen.
EMACS.
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By Nate (67.70.137.199) on
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By Anonymous Coward (128.171.90.200) on
Doesn't matter really, there is a SSP'd 3.3.5 in the default zaurus install ( at least thats the version in the latest snap I installed. )
By Noryungi (82.127.29.248) on
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By Richard Toohey (203.167.190.49) on
bvi
fluxbox
gd
mozilla-firefox
mysql-client
perl + modules
php5 + modules
postgresql
python
samba
tcl
tcllib-1.4
tk
zip & unzip
vim
By Anonymous Coward (70.59.248.129) on
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By Marco Peereboom (67.64.89.177) marco@peereboom.us on
By Anonymous Coward (203.113.233.98) on
nmap
kde*
firefox
bzip2
thunderbird
rdesktop
squid
xchat xmms
mplayer
For a desktop oriented solution.
The main one is firefox and kde, no nice GUI and web browser and you've got no desktop.
P.S. It's interesting how most OpenBSD users known html compared to say Windows users.
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By Anonymous Coward (203.113.233.98) on
While this is not a port i'd add that pf is the single greatest component of OpenBSD, that and all its security features like W^X, ProPolice, the code auditing, privilege separation, strl{cpy,cat}(), now if only someone capable felt like implementing a disk encryption system that accomplishes the same as http://www.pgp.com/products/wholediskencryption/index.html then the entire hard disk could be encrypted including the kernel and root filesystem (AFAIK small bits like the MBR remain unencrypted).
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By Anonymous Coward (128.171.90.200) on
It is probably habit more than anything, next time I do an install I'll try and put my finger on what it is, and then I'll try and add it to pdksh.
By Paddy Newman (80.1.224.13) on
It also comes with all the normal stuff like emacs and vi command editing and history etc. It's very good and it's sometimes described as being for shell what emacs is for editing.
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By Anonymous Pedro (139.82.36.138) on
thanks for making me want to stop using it :-)
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By Thoren (128.95.196.97) on
#!/bin/sh
cd /usr/ports || exit
cd /usr/ports/net/nmap && env FLAVOR="no_x11" make install
cd /usr/ports/www/mozilla-firefox && make install
cd /usr/ports/shells/bash && make install
cd /usr/ports/misc/screen && make install
cd /usr/ports/net/rsync && make install
cd /usr/ports/x11/fvwm2 && make install
cd /usr/ports/graphics/glut && make install
cd /usr/ports/games/cowsay && make install
cd /usr/ports/net/wget && make install
cd /usr/ports/x11/mplayer && make install
cd /usr/ports/audio/grip && make install
cd /usr/ports/net/irssi && make install
cd /usr/ports/www/dillo && make install
cd /usr/ports/net/curl && make install
cd /usr/ports/misc/figlet && make install
cd /usr/ports/x11/xlockmore && make install
cd /usr/ports/print/gv && make install
cd /usr/ports/print/ghostscript && make install
cd /usr/ports/print/ghostview && make install
cd /usr/ports/textproc/xpdf && make install
cd /usr/ports/audio/mpg321 && make install
cd /usr/ports/graphics/gimp/stable && make install
cd /usr/ports/math/gnuplot && make install
cd /usr/ports/graphics/gqview && make install
cd /usr/ports/graphics/xv && make install
cd /usr/ports/graphics/feh && make install
cd /usr/ports/x11/ogle && env FLAVOR="altivec" make install
cd /usr/ports/devel/lam && make install
cd /usr/ports/games/xpilot && make install
cd /usr/ports/audio/sox && make install
cd /usr/ports/misc/magicpoint && make install
which nmap firefox bash screen rsync fvwm2 cowsay wget mplayer \
grip irssi dillo curl figlet xlock gv gs ghostview xpdf \
mpg321 gimp gnuplot gqview xv feh ogle lam xpilot sox mgp
(i use fvwm2 instead of fvwm when im playing around with Xorg X trees, since x.org doesn't build in fvwm :)
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By Joachim Schipper (85.214.38.21) on
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By thoren (128.95.196.97) on
i should probably point out that i really only use this for laptops and desktops. i rarely wind up installing much of anything on server-ish systems, maybe screen and MAYBE rsync depending. otherwise everything in base is just fine, especially now with the revamped ksh.
By Anonymous Coward (68.100.130.21) on
bzip2 for compressing big stuff,
curl for fetching files conveniently,
nail for IMAP/SMTP because I tried mutt, and it annoyed the hell out of me,
w3m because it just kicks ass. Try it, you'll never go back to Lynx.