This is a list of packages I prefer to have installed on every computer I can access.
nvi OR vim OR vile
GNU Emacs
Ruby 1.8
rake
ri
irb
Perl 5
mutt
slrn OR gnus OR nn
ssh OR Putty
GNU screen
mc
GNU coreutils
GNU findutils
irssi OR X-Chat 0.13
rsync
curl
wget
TeTeX OR TeXlive
rawdog OR NetNewsWire
centerim OR Adium
Firefox
git
darcs
svn
cvs
imagemagick
ispell
bittorrent OR ctorrent OR Transmission
unrar
aterm OR rxvt-unicode OR iTerm OR Terminal.app 2.0
nmap
mtr
zsh 4.3
GNU make
GNU tar
htop
ltrace OR dtrace
strace OR ktrace OR dtrace
w3m OR lynx