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htop

Htop is young and beautiful sister of top on
gnu/linux. It views your processes on your system with resources they
use in a more visual way that top does. Htop provides fully
customizable pretty colored widgets like gauges that display total
system resource usage.

Mutt

A superior e-mail, newsgroup client that works on terminal with a
simple configuration and setup. If you love to work on terminal and
want to access your incoming mails rapidly on terminal then you can
easily adopt to Mutt

Finch

Finch is a terminal clone of famous IM client Pidgin and is developed
again by Pidgin developers. It has almost the same visual apperance as
Pidgin on X but this time on terminal. It uses ncurses libraries and worths to give it a try.

SnowNews

SnowNews is a simple feed reader that supports all versions of RSS
and OPML. It uses libxml2 and ncurses libraries and has many smart
features like cookie handling, auto http redirection, caching and
colored customization.

Mpd - Ncmpc

Mpd is a music player daemon which publishes your music directory to a
local port or to a shoutcast server. You can use it as a remote access
point for your own music box on public or private network. It uses a
special protocol implemeted by mpd developers. The client which i
should suggest is ncmpc which plays your music box in your terminal
enviroment with a simple nice looking interface. It has a sweet looking
digital clock too.

Midnight Commander

Famous file manager for terminal environment which gets easy your
file system operations, also you can login to ssh or ftp server to
manage your remote files.

ccze

if you get blind in long logs, try them to colourize with ccze. It
simply represents your logs in fancy colours to you. If you monitor
your syslogs, apache logs or etc… so much, try this and don’t get lost
in log hell.

BitchX

The most stable, commonly used, robust irc client in the world that
sits on terminal.

screen

Probably you already have screen in your os if you use unix or unix
like system and again probably you already know what screen is but i
want to add it to this list for whom who doesn’t meet it if any. Screen
is terminal multiplexer which means that you could have more than one
interactive shell session in the same terminal screen. ıt’s very useful
espacially when you open a remote shell session (ssh connection).

XMonad

It’s a fantastic X window manager for unix like systems which
organizes windows in useful tiling algorithms. Windows will not float
until you want and you’ll never miss a gnome - KDE like enviroment when
you adopt this. I strongly suggest if you work in terminal emulator too
much.