Console Applications for the X-less

No X? Hate X? Laptop runs on coal? Here’s a list of console apps I’ve compiled from various articles and discussions around the net. Some of these are included with distros, some not. Some are actively in development, some not. Feel free to make additions or comments.

Audio:

• abcde (CD Ripper) http://www.hispalinux.es/~data/abcde.php
• lame (MP3 Encoder) http://lame.sourceforge.net/

Browsers:

• w3m http://w3m.sourceforge.net/
• elinks http://elinks.or.cz/
• links http://links.sourceforge.net/
• lynx http://lynx.isc.org/

Editors:

• nano http://nano-editor.org
• pico, joe, vi, vim, emacs

Email:

• Mutt http://www.mutt.org/
• Pine http://www.washington.edu/pine/

File Sharing:

• bittornado http://bittornado.com/
• bitTorrent http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/
• giFTcurs http://www.nongnu.org/giftcurs/

FTP:

• ncftp http://www.ncftp.com/
• lftp http://lftp.yar.ru/

Games:

• Angband http://www.thangorodrim.net/
• NetHack http://nethack.org/
• Seatris http://freshmeat.net/projects/seatris/
• ToME http://www.t-o-m-e.net/

Instant Messagers:

• centericq http://freshmeat.net/projects/centericq/
• Micq http://micq.org
• LICQ http://sourceforge.net/projects/licq/
• naim http://site.n.ml.org/info/naim/
• pork http://freshmeat.net/projects/pork/
• bitlbee http://www.bitlbee.org/

IRC:

• irssi http://irssi.org
• BitchX http://bitchx.org

Media Players:

• mplayer http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/
• mpd http://musicpd.org
• mpg321 http://mpg321.sourceforge.net/
• mp3blaster http://www.stack.nl/~brama/mp3blaster.html
• moosic http://www.nanoo.org/~daniel/moosic/
• orpheus http://thekonst.net/en/orpheus

RSS:

• snownews http://home.kcore.de/~kiza/software/snownews/

Utilities:

• GnuPG http://www.gnupg.org/
• grep http://www.gnu.org/software/grep/
• mc http://www.ibiblio.org/mc/
• nmap [port scanner] http://www.insecure.org/nmap/
• Pal [calendar] http://palcal.sourceforge.net/
• screen www.gnu.org/software/screen
• wget http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/wget.html