User:Maffblaster/Recommended applications

Hey! You may or may not be interested in learning what Article description::applications I recommend in order to have a pleasant Gentoo experience, but something bought you to this page...nonetheless, I hope you find this helpful.

If you think there is either a better tool or an easier way to do the job the tool is supposed to do (see my feedback on each tool) feel free leave a comment on the talk page or message me in. I love learning about new tools and smarter workflows!

TODO: Create sets for role-specific scenarios.

World file
When everything is done the world file will look something like this:

The quick and dirty way of rebuilding the system with all these packages is to updated the @world set after copy/pasting the the above text into the system's world file:

Network troubleshooting

 * ,, , , , etc... all tools useful for network engineering and troubleshooting -

Network scanning

 * What is on your network (graphical version)? -
 * What is on your network (cmdline version)? -
 * What is your network sending (deep packet inspection)? -
 * What is your network doing? - See conntrack (below).

Network security

 * Every system should have a good firewall. -

rsync
My favorite value for sync-uri :

distfile mirror
My favorite GENTOO_MIRRORS value for :

Hardware

 * Contains utility. Use PCI devices? -
 * Contains utility. Use USB devices? -

System resource monitoring

 * htop -
 * atop -
 * iotop -
 * pipe viewer -
 * and its associated daemon,, are tools that can track active connections on the system. Use these tools to keep an eye on active connections and to log relevant activity -.

Misc

 * is a system uptime logger. It is really only necessary for OpenRC (since these kinds of times are not specifically logged by default), but it will work on systemd as well -

Collaboration

 * A tmux fork with built-in terminal sharing (useful for pair programming, remote access assistance, etc.) -

Task management

 * A command-line todo list manager. Keep this open in a buffer. -
 * The server part of the command-line todo list manager (above). -

Version control

 * Are there any other VCSs that matter? -
 * Graphically visualize where you need those changes. -
 * Command-line diff tool -

File management

 * My favorite file manger of late -
 * Don't forget the archive plugin -
 * Measure directory sizes in a way better than using simple -
 * Better with colors and visible usage graphs -

Editors

 * Python development -
 * Everything else graphical -
 * There's an EditorConfig plugin available:
 * Everything else command-line -
 * Be sure to get the syntax highlighting packages for vim -
 * Support for EditorConfig files in vim (note this plugin requires vim to be built with the  USE flag enabled in order to function correctly) -
 * Run to install after emerging.
 * Verify plugin is installed...

Embedded work

 * Control host and/or user access to a running X server -
 * Want to simply and speed up mounting virtual filesystems for all your chroots? Yes, please. -
 * Want an old archive format that initramfs still use? Grab . -
 * Save time on recompiling toolchains and the like -
 * Build stage tarballs -

Portage development

 * View messages that we're printed once upon a time -
 * , an extremely fast package search tool -
 * q applets (fastest Portage database search ever!) -
 * Sign those ebuilds! -
 * Get the overlays -

Troubleshooting

 * Design how you want it to work, or at least how you think it should work, then build it -

Ideal setup

 * btrfs: the best filesystem created (so far). Enable it kernel side too and use it for everything (except your EFI partition!) -
 * Preserve your eyeballs. For desktop environments that do not include blue light filtering -
 * Gnome 3 includes this functionality under the term "Night Light".
 * Plasma includes this functionality under the term "Night Color".

Fonts

 * Although this font was created by Microsoft, it is very nice console font. -
 * Although this font was created by Microsoft, it is very nice console font. -
 * Although this font was created by Microsoft, it is very nice console font. -

Utilities

 * zip archives -
 * unzip -
 * rar archives -
 * lrz archives -
 * Find files with extreme speed -
 * Securely mount filesystems across the net -
 * Download large files in a bandwidth sensitive way -

AWS

 * AWS CLI utility to manage AWS resources:
 * JQ: A cannot live without, turbo fast, commandline JSON parser:

Log files

 * Log file review option 1 -
 * Log file review option 2 -

Forensics

 * Viewing raw data:

Firmware reverse engineering

 * Timesaver on determining what kinds of filesystems:
 * Viewing embedded filesystems such as NFTL, JFFS2, NAND, FTL, or UBI:
 * Data carving utility: dd

Communication

 * Primary browser -
 * FireFox browser add-ons:
 * NoScript! (website)
 * Ublock Origin (website)
 * Secondary browser -
 * Ternary browser - Librewolf (overlay)
 * Command-line browser -
 * IRC client (you only need one good IRC client!) -
 * VOIP client -
 * Mail client -
 * Mail sorting -
 * Encoding tools -

Entertainment

 * The best video player ever created -
 * Download videos to watch one the best video player ever created -