Re: What programs do you make sure are installed on a new Linux install?

I'll probably soon regret this list.  Please read my signature as
disclaimer.


ack (in /opt)

  playing with B sometimes is nice and it has a back-end for 8080 and
  Z80 (CP/M) too which sometimes for me is nice to have.

bash-completion

  it's ok to be a little lazy.

bc (gavin howard version, includes dc in /opt)

  having a dc variant with long register names makes playing the dc
  puzzle even nicer.

bitlbee

  I want to read my jabber stuff in the same front-end as my IRC chats.

dc

  mostly just for fun (as puzzle).

dillo (in /opt until available as up to date package)

  writing own dillo plugins is easy and that makes dillo a nice GUI
  front-end to smallnet protocols.

doas/opendoas

  I'm still in the progress to migrate from sudo to doas.

drawterm (in /opt)

  for some top secret reasons.

ed

  knowing at least its very basic commands can save your day.

elinks

  for some of the smallnet protocols.

emacs

  I'd give every other "editor" a chance that gives me elpher, eshell,
  GNUS, org-babel and tramp (mastodon.el occasionally).  really...  ;-D

evolution

  I too often get important HTrashMailL to be happy with only using
  GNUS.  additionally splitting "official" stuff from hobby mail & news
  is not a too bad idea.

gambit (scheme, in /opt)

  trying to stay up to date with its master branch.  I feel like still
  in scheme-preschool, but that may change someday.

git

  we cannot live with it and we cannot live without it.
  <https://xkcd.com/1597/>

mawk

  I like "-We" and dislike GAWKisms.

mc

  trying to fade out using it but muscle memory is strong.

micropython (in /opt)

  to have the unix version at hand to play out some ideas without
  needing to attach a micro-controller.

netcat & ncat

  life savers for poking around in text based protocols.

nvi

  to replace nano and vim-tiny (if in a default install), as I don't
  want to get used to vim-isms.

openssh

  I'm too used to its config files, so alternative implementations would
  screw me up.

qemu

  curiosity kills the cat but keeps me alive.

pcc (portable cc, in /opt)

  for fun and curiosity.

rlwrap

  debugging luxury, try e.g. 'rlwrap nc newsserver nntp'  \o/

rsync

  openrsync doesn't really replace it yet.

screen

  I'd need way to many xterms without it and it can access serially
  connected stuff directly.  that's the only reason I prefer it over
  tmux.

sudo

  until I'm confident that I really only need (open)doas.

t(iny)cc (in /opt)

  built from its mob branch, because the distributions typically only
  include way too outdated versions.

tlsclient

  as bonsai tree in /opt, see drawterm.

tor

  looking for an alternative because I don't want to get dependent on
  Rust (because of arti).

uxn (in /opt)

  for fun and puzzling.

w3m

  w3mman is my favourite man page front-end outside of emacs.

weechat

  typically from the project's repo because they are too fast for
  e.g. debian/devuan to keep up with their updates.

wget

  ...still is more in my muscle memory than curl.

xterm

  looks like there is no alternative if I want SIXELs and occasionally
  TEK mode.

...

  something to scan, print, do the heavy WWW-stuff with all the mean
  modern stuff inside, some devtools and compilers, ...

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I do not bite, I just want to play.