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| Newer page: | version 15 | Last edited on Tuesday, July 29, 2003 8:08:46 pm | by CraigBox | Revert |
| Older page: | version 11 | Last edited on Tuesday, July 29, 2003 2:13:35 pm | by GlynWebster | Revert |
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Another important point is that these equivalents are likely to provide you the easiest transition. Once you get into the UnixWay, you might want to do things differently; perhaps you might want to start using console applications. However, the list here are most likely to be useful to YourMum, as edited by consensus.
There are both [GNOME] and [KDE] options listed, but remember, you can run programs from one toolkit on the other DesktopEnvironment if you have the right libraries installed.
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+Please don't make general comments on this page; edit or create a page for the package in question with your comments.
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__Internet Browser__
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* __Alternatives:__ Opera, Lynx
__Mozilla__[1] is quite clearly established as the internet browser to beat. It aims for standards compliance, and has popular new features such as tabbed browsing and popup blocking. __Galeon__ is a GNOME browser that uses the Mozilla rendering engine Gecko. (Learn more at MozillaNotes).
-__Konqueror__'s rendering engine KHTML is the basis for [MacOSX]'s new Safari browser. ''Konqueror seems to start up and respond a lot faster than Mozilla on a slow machine. (Mine is 333MHz.) An annoying thing about Konqueror is that continues to download the images on the page after you've stopped it downloading the page itself.'' -- GlynWebster
+__[
Konqueror]
__'s rendering engine KHTML is the basis for [MacOSX]'s new Safari browser.
__Opera__ is a pay browser. (There is a demonstration version that shows you constant banner ads, if you can live with that.)
-__Lynx__ and __Links__ are text mode clients. ''I've been using the text browsers on a little text-mode only laptop
. Links is faster, easier to navigate, and renders multi-column text better than Lynx; I'm not sure Lynx has any advantages over it
.'' -- GlynWebster
+__Lynx__ and __Links__ are text mode clients. Links is newer, menu driven,
faster, easier to navigate, and renders multi-column text better than Lynx.
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__E-Mail Client__
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* __Alternatives:__ Mozilla Mail
[Ximian]'s [Evolution] client is very much a reimplementation of OutlookExpress's big brother MicrosoftOutlook. As well as email, it offers calendaring, task management and a [RDF] news aggregator.
-If you go for the console, there's a very powerful mail client called Mutt (see MuttNotes)
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+If you go for the console, there's a very powerful mail client called [
Mutt]
.
Mozilla Mail[1] is quite popular and has some very advanced features such as bayesian spam filtering.
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* __KDE:__ KWord
While OpenOffice.org is a 'full Office replacement', !AbiSource's !AbiWord is better integrated into GNOME. If you are a KDE user, the KOffice project provides a !FrameMaker-like desktop publisher/word processor called KWord.
-If you want to do serious reporting or document writing, look into LaTex. You'll be glad you did. ''Sorry, then glad. LaTex
is a markup language like [HTML], but complex and with a quite
unusal syntax.'' -- GlynWebster
+If you want to do serious reporting or document writing, look into LaTex. You'll be glad you did. (It
is a markup language like [HTML], but complex and with an
unusal yet powerful
syntax.)
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__Spreadsheet__
* __Windows:__ Microsoft Excel
