New on the market: Fresh software in the repos

machinebacon · 2012-05-01 14:47:24

I thought I just open a thread in which we can introduce new software which has (just recently) hit the (wheezy/sid) repos.

Here for example is dwb, a light webkit browser (similar to conkeror, luakit, xxxterm) with vim keybinds.

apt-get install dwb

Homepage: http://portix.bitbucket.org/dwb/

Edit: In case anybody wonders - the original thread was in Off Topic, and VastOne suggested per PM to move it to this section.

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VastOne · 2012-05-01 16:58:08

Good thread Machine!

Old argument, but SliM vs LightDM is still a good one..

Gonna have to check out dwb

SpaceFM is what I have been using as a file manager for a while, it is quite fast, stable and configurable

bozhkov · 2012-05-01 17:21:41

Focuswriter is a great writer application:
http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/focuswriter
http://gottcode.org/focuswriter/

machinebacon · 2012-05-01 18:10:51

Package: termsaver

Description:

simple text-based terminal screensaver
termsaver is a very simple project that aims at bringing
the feel of a screensaver feature in text-based terminal
environment.
.
there are many screens that can be chosen and customized
with command-line options, and the application has been
developed to accept future plugins to additional screens.

Version: 0.1.1-1
Architecture: all
Maintainer: Bruno Braga <bruno.braga@gmail.com>
Installed-Size: 251
Depends: python (>=2.6.6-7~)
Section: misc
Priority: optional
Homepage: http://termsaver.info

rhowaldt · 2012-05-01 21:42:26

nice thread. quick question: how do you know about new packages entering the repos? is there a RSS feed or mailing list you follow or something?

machinebacon · 2012-05-01 22:00:03

There's a debian-owned page: http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html
I suppose most go into experimental first.

bozhkov · 2012-05-01 22:13:38

I see no need to add "What's off the market" thread, but if you haven't noticed wine is absent from the wheezy repositories. smile

machinebacon · 2012-05-01 22:16:32

Wow, that's news to me! What happened? Non-free anyone? lol

Indeed: http://lists.debian.org/debian-testing- … 00011.html

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bozhkov · 2012-05-01 22:18:11

Apparently the guy maintaining the package is not doing it any more smile

greyproc · 2012-05-01 22:32:03

bozhkov wrote:

Focuswriter is a great writer application

This made my 'must' check out list, simply based on this:
Typewriter sound effects <---

Not sure I'm ready to ditch my IBM Model M just yet, though. tongue

bozhkov · 2012-05-01 22:33:56

Well, they are not working (at least for me) - hope that doesn't ruin your enthusiasm big_smile

VastOne · 2012-05-01 22:35:59

Wine version 1.0.1-3.6 0 is in Sid
Wine Version 1.1.24-2 0 is in Experimental

TitanMech · 2012-05-01 22:46:24

VastOne wrote:

Wine version 1.0.1-3.6 0 is in Sid
Wine Version 1.1.24-2 0 is in Experimental

I thought wine 1.5.3 was the latest unstable version, so should that be in the Experimental repo?

VastOne · 2012-05-01 22:49:57

apt-cache policy wine

wine:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1.0.1-3.6
  Version table:
     1.1.24-2 0
          1 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ experimental/main amd64 Packages
     1.0.1-3.6 0
        990 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid/main amd64 Packages

I do not use it, so I cannot speak to the discrepancy... sorry mate.

TitanMech · 2012-05-01 22:53:30

I do not use it, so I cannot speak to the discrepancy... sorry mate.

No worrys, i was only curious becuse i manually compile every new unstable version from winehq.org, and when i installed it on arch they have version 1.5.3 also.

linux4life88 · 2012-05-01 22:54:56

There are two new games of note that have crept into the Wheezy repositories: Unknown Horizons and 0ad. Both show great promise and are pretty fun right now as is.

machinebacon · 2012-05-01 23:22:17

^ Great! Thanks for the info, will try Unknown Horizons later this week smile

Related edit: some other games: http://www.lgdb.org/list_games though not Debian only wink

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corenominal · 2012-05-02 07:17:06

linux4life88 wrote:

There are two new games of note that have crept into the Wheezy repositories: Unknown Horizons and 0ad. Both show great promise and are pretty fun right now as is.

Nifty, I have been wanting to give 0ad a try for ages. Yesterday, someone suggested I try openRA and I lost a good few hours. It's not in the Wheezy repo, but there is a deb on the website.

ivanovnegro · 2012-05-02 19:00:06

Dwb is just great! I think at the moment even better than all the other minimal ones like unuzbl, luash*t, pornTerm etc. It has adblocking out of the box. I even thought to open an entire thread about this little webbrowser when it hit Sid.

machinebacon · 2012-05-02 19:09:48

@IvanaNegra: what's your feelings about xxxterm? Don't say you tried that terminal emulator already big_smile

ivanovnegro · 2012-05-02 19:29:32

@Kwin hater: Nope, I know what you mean, as a Spectrer tester/user I already tried Xombrero, the new name of it and I found it the best before dwb. Text configuration is really great and not some Lua crazyness. But, no adblocker sucks and there is no adsuck in the Debian repos and I never was a fan of additional apps for adblocking. Privoxy was also not my glass of beer in the end. smile Really nothing beats Fireweasel's addon for that purpose.

I only use my keyboard these days and Xxxterm's hinting mode is not perfectly usable as is Vimperator/Pentadactyl. Luakit looks and works good but Lua is a pain in the a** if you need more tweaking, though the basic things are easy. Never tried Jumanji with my aversion towards compiling except for DWM. big_smile

In the end Icefire is still the best for me.

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ivanovnegro · 2012-05-02 19:47:57

Ah, DeaDBeeF is now available in Wheezy/Sid, no hunting anymore. Of course, it is in the Multimedia repo.

machinebacon · 2012-05-02 19:48:05

The good adblocker? All the cool kids use a heavily modified /etc/hosts file (MVPS) to keep ads where they belong: at 0.0.0.0 wink

ivanovnegro · 2012-05-02 19:53:56

^ Seems I am still not cool enough. big_smile

machinebacon · 2012-05-02 20:13:44

^
Davidoff: http://crunchbanglinux.org/pastebin/1632

Got it from http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread … hosts-file

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