What are your essential programs?

Here's an alphabetically sorted list of mine.

- Abiword
For when people go "OMG DOC ONLY!" And it's a good editor on its own for formatted documents.

- Apache/1
I strongly dislike Apache 2, and I run a lot of local web development stuff, so this is fairly necessary. It's nice to manage, too.

- GAIM
It handles AIM, MSN, Jabber, and bunches more. What's not to like?

- gFTP
FTP program. Handles what I need quite well, and bookmarks seem much more extensive than that any Windows program has provided me.

- mplayer
Does everything except handle softsubbed movies well from the GUI interface. If I need subs, I can launch it from the command line to get them, and it frankly kicks xine a hundredfold. Can't forget the w32codecs for massive format support, either.

- Opera
Web browsing is helpful, and Opera's the best~

- Squid
This is a proxy, for those who do not know. I basically made it so that it only accepts local connections, and dropped the adzapper script into it. This helps greatly with ad blocking in things like Opera when I'm too lazy to outright block a site, and it's very light on resources.

- vim
Best text editor/programming tool ever. Customisable syntax highlighting, and in Linux fashion, a gargantuan .rc file you can play with.

- wxMusik
Since I hate Quod Libet and Amarok like nothing else, this is my choice. Really slick program, and it actually supports ID3v2.4/UTF-8 (unicode ID3 tags), which both the former seemed to not do.

Jam it back in, in the dark.