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htop is an improved version of top, a complex process viewer which allows to visualize processes in real time, see memory and CPU consumption, send signals to processes, renice processes, and sort them by various options.
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Process viewer: htop
htop is an improved version of top, a complex process viewer which allows to visualize processes in real time, see memory and CPU consumption, send signals to processes, renice processes, and sort them by various options. It makes use of colors and you can also scroll horizontally and vertically to see the full names of the running processes.
htop
Image viewer: cacaview
This is an ASCII image viewer for the terminal with support for all the popular image formats like JPG, PNG, GIF or BMP.
Homepage
cacaview
sudo apt-get install caca-utils
Web browser: lynx
Lynx is a well-known browser for the terminal.
Homepage
lynx
Other alternatives: w3m, links, elinks
sudo apt-get install cmus
Video player: aaxine
Based on Xine, aaxine is an ASCII video player with many capabilities. An alternative to this is also mplayer, when running something like mplayer -vo caca video.avi.
Homepage
aaxine
sudo apt-get install xine-console
Text editor: nano
Nano is more user-friendly rather as feature-rich and powerful as Vim or Emacs, but it has support for syntax highlighting and it can be configured via the ~/.nanorc configuration file. Nano comes installed by default on most systems.
Homepage
nano
Other alternatives: vim, emacs –no-window
Music player: cmus
CMus is a powerful player using ncurses with Vi-style keyboard shortcuts, seven different view modes, support for music library. It has shortcuts for virtually anything, tab-completion support, support for themes. CMus is a real gem for the audiophile that wants to use a terminal-based application for listening to music.
Homepage
cmus
Other alternatives: mp3blaster, moc, herrie, ogg123, mpg123, sox (play), nmpcpp
BitTorrent client: ctorrent
ctorrent is a command-line client for the BitTorrent protocol.
ctorrent
Other alternatives: rtorrent
IM chat application: finch
Finch is included in the Pidgin package, using libpurple and ncurses, with support for a big number of protocols, including Yahoo!, AIM, IRC, or WLM. You can press Alt+A to open the preferences menu, Alt+R and Alt+M to resize and move windows, Alt+Q to quit, TAB and Space to navigate within windows.
Homepage
finch
IRC client: irssi
Irssi is probably the most popular IRC client nowadays, with lots of features, great flexibility, support for multi-networks, Perl scripting and whatnot. It’s complete and a very handy tool at all times.
Homepage
irssi
sudo apt-get install irssi
File manager: mc
Midnight Commander, or mc for short, is a powerful twin-panel file manager that runs in your terminal, using the ncurses library.
Homepage
mc
Other alternatives: vifm, lfm
Mixer: alsamixer
This is the sound mixer from the ALSA package.
Homepage
alsamixer
Network monitor: iptraf
iptraf is a powerful network monitor which allows you to select which interface to observe, show statistics, ingoing and outgoing traffic, open connections.
Homepage
iptraf
Other alternatives: netstat
sudo apt-get install iptraf
Email client: mutt
Mutt is a powerful email client with support for the POP and IMAP protocols, colors, PGP, configurable key bindings.
Homepage
Video Encoder: mencoder
Part of MPlayer, mencoder converts between various video files like AVI, Ogg, VOB or MPG.
Homepage
Other alternatives: ffmpeg
IDE (integrated development environment): emacs –no-window
Emacs is a very powerful tool which can also run in text-mode by invoking it with the –no-window argument. Emacs is a development environment, as well as an email reader or file manager, and can be extended with scripts. As an text editor, Emacs comes with support for many languages, including C or Bash, syntax highlighting, check-spelling, indentation and much, much more. Emacs makes use of powerful commands and keyboard shortcuts designed to be faster when navigating through a text file.
Homepage
emacs
Alternatives: vim
USB ISO Creator: dd
dd is a tool that creates files using a specified filesystem, and it can also be used to create bootable USB devices from distribution ISO images, if used like sudo dd if=/path/to/image.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4096k.
Music Transcoder: oggenc
oggenc allows to encode WAV files to Ogg Vorbis format, specifying bitrate or quality.
Other alternatives: flac, lame, abcde
ISO Creator: genisoimage
genisoimage allows you to create ISO filesystems from files and directories.
Homepage
genisoimage
Image Manipulation: convert
convert allows to crop, resize, and convert various image formats. convert is part of the ImageMagick package.
Homepage
File Archiver: tar
tar is a file archiver which can work in conjunction with gzip and bzip2 to create compressed files.
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