[geeks] Apple software: the stuff you "gotta have"

[Shannon Hendrix]

On Oct 10, 2007, at 12:54 AM, Joshua Boyd wrote:

> On Oct 9, 2007, at 6:24 PM, Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>
>
>> 	- a good backup program that can use CD and DVD media
>> 	- ditto but one that can use remote systems and/or CIFS servers, can
>> 	  be the same program if it does media and server backup both
>> 	- a program to index my documents (text files, PDFs, word processor
>> files,
>> 	  etc) and possibly also organize them into neat directory trees
>
> Aside from Basket and Amarok, what programs do you use for the other
> tasks on linux?

I never found anything good enough to do most of that on Linux, which  
is the whole reason I moved to Mac.  I had to put up with a series of  
hacks, my own code, and various applications that just never seemed  
to ever get finished.

Programs like Amarok are exceptional of course, but such software is  
rare.

I used KDE's task and schedule software quite a bit.  It was not  
polished and had serious bugs, but it worked well enough.  iCal  
pretty much replaces it completely, along with Addressbook and Mail.

For backups I just used rsync, but it works poorly on the Mac because  
it doesn't always pick up the meta information for files.

For indexing documents, I never found a UNIX tool that I liked very  
much.  They were all either broken, incomplete, or far too  
complicated.  Yep just works.  It doesn't do everything, but it is  
very fast and works well enough for me right now.  I've read about  
some better programs, but they cost money and I need to save if  
possible.

I miss Basket because it was yet another one of those rare programs  
that is really going well, and has a fair amount of polish for an  
open source application.  I think one of the suggestions here will  
replace it, but if you guys ever run KDE, you should give it a try.