Re: [ubuntu-uk] Question: where do you find apps?
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 09:50:34PM +0100, John Levin wrote: A question for you all, one that's been exercising me: where do you find out about applications? Through blog posts, news articles, twitter and identi.ca feeds most often. Recent examples for me include GNOME-Do and Gwibber. I discovered both through other peoples blog posts and installed via instructions linked from them. I use liferea as my rss reader of choice, and gwibber (now) as my twitter/identi.ca follower of choice. Do you read about them on the net or in mags, think it sounds interesting, then look it up in synaptic? I never use synaptic. As others point out apt-cache search is my friend. For stuff that's not in the repo, if I know it's hosted on launchpad I'll look at the project page there. If you have a particular need (say, cataloguing pdfs), how would you go about finding a suitable app? apt-cache search, wiki.ubuntu.com - search, google search, in that order. How would you google, where would you ask? catalog PDF Ubuntu, catalog PDF linux etc. If after searching, you have a large choice of apps, how would you choose between them? I ask myself.. Is it packaged in Ubuntu (bonus points if it is)? If not can I get a deb from somewhere which looks sane? Is it a GNOME app (I dont use KDE)? Does it integrate with some other app I use all the time? How many releases have they made, is it up to date or orphaned? If it's not packaged anywhere, why isn't it? Too new, too old? Would you test them all? Nah, I'd stop when I found one that fulfilled most of my requirements. To what sort of depth? If it's for me alone then so long as it fulfils the basic requirements then I'm happy. If it's for someone else then I'll get their requirements and go by that. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Question: where do you find apps?
I find that the Getdeb site is very useful. you can search by 'latest', 'keyword', 'catagory' etc etc. You can also set your default distro so it only lists debs for your specific setup. http://www.getdeb.net/ Rgds Ken On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 21:50 +0100, John Levin wrote: Hi all, A question for you all, one that's been exercising me: where do you find out about applications? Do you read about them on the net or in mags, think it sounds interesting, then look it up in synaptic? If you have a particular need (say, cataloguing pdfs), how would you go about finding a suitable app? How would you google, where would you ask? If after searching, you have a large choice of apps, how would you choose between them? Would you test them all? To what sort of depth? TIA John -- John Levin http://www.technolalia.org/blog/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Question: where do you find apps?
On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:50:34 +0100 John Levin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, A question for you all, one that's been exercising me: where do you find out about applications? Do you read about them on the net or in mags, think it sounds interesting, then look it up in synaptic? If you have a particular need (say, cataloguing pdfs), how would you go about finding a suitable app? How would you google, where would you ask? If after searching, you have a large choice of apps, how would you choose between them? Would you test them all? To what sort of depth? TIA John -- John Levin http://www.technolalia.org/blog/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ Apart from the usual Ubuntu software repositories, you might also want to take a look at: http://www.getdeb.net/ for some of the latest versions of apps that will work with Ubuntu. regards, Steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Question: where do you find apps?
Hi all, A question for you all, one that's been exercising me: where do you find out about applications? Do you read about them on the net or in mags, think it sounds interesting, then look it up in synaptic? If you have a particular need (say, cataloguing pdfs), how would you go about finding a suitable app? How would you google, where would you ask? If after searching, you have a large choice of apps, how would you choose between them? Would you test them all? To what sort of depth? TIA John -- John Levin http://www.technolalia.org/blog/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Question: where do you find apps?
John Levin wrote: Hi all, A question for you all, one that's been exercising me: where do you find out about applications? Do you read about them on the net or in mags, think it sounds interesting, then look it up in synaptic? If you have a particular need (say, cataloguing pdfs), how would you go about finding a suitable app? How would you google, where would you ask? If after searching, you have a large choice of apps, how would you choose between them? Would you test them all? To what sort of depth? Start with Applications - Add/Remove word or mouth sometimes magazines or on-line reviews -- People choose Microsoft Windows for their PC in the same manner that the citizens of Soviet Russia elected the General Secretary of the Communist Party during the cold war. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Question: where do you find apps?
On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 21:50 +0100, John Levin wrote: Hi all, Hi John, If you have a particular need (say, cataloguing pdfs), how would you go about finding a suitable app? How would you google, where would you ask? For this particular case I am a big fan of the debtags search interface at http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/ssearch.html Try it! Type in something, e.g. music player and you are presented with a list of packages. On the right are a list of tags. Click one in the top section to remove it from the active list, click one in the lower section to add it to the active list, or click no to exclude anything with that tag. You can narrow down a list of interesting packages quite quickly. Thanks, James -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Question: where do you find apps?
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 09:50:34PM +0100, John Levin wrote: A question for you all, one that's been exercising me: where do you find out about applications? aptitude search term I've used http://freshmeat.net quite a bit in the past, but the package repositories in Debian/Ubuntu are so comprehensive I now find everything I need using aptitude. -- Gav Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://revford.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk I think we need to: Align the booster channel signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Question: where do you find apps?
Trial and error! I've used lots of Linux distributions and apps just by installing, testing, then removing. You'll find what suits you eventually I think. :) Just take time! Also I check on forums and google reviews of software. BinaryDigit on UbuntuForums.org Lizzeh.com Support open source! John Levin wrote: Hi all, A question for you all, one that's been exercising me: where do you find out about applications? Do you read about them on the net or in mags, think it sounds interesting, then look it up in synaptic? If you have a particular need (say, cataloguing pdfs), how would you go about finding a suitable app? How would you google, where would you ask? If after searching, you have a large choice of apps, how would you choose between them? Would you test them all? To what sort of depth? TIA John -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
