31.10.04
16:15 The Best Free Desktop Linux (
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The article shows many beautifully things of a Linux desktop. Here my comments to mentioned applications:
- rpm/apt-get/synaptic: I use rpm because I have a rpm based system(Suse) but since apt4rpm is available for suse, I rarely use rpm, but apt and synaptic instead
- streaming audio, kaffeine, vlc, xine: I mostly use kaffeine for all kind of video (mpeg, streams..). The real cool multimedia stuff is behind the GUI and available for Suse thanks to packman
- skype, kphone, gnomemeeting: I don't do much voip even if I have an sigate account. Independent of the application, I have sound problems using voip under Linux. X-Lite runs also well for me using wine.
- kword, OpenOffice: I use OpenOffice mostly for text writing. I use kword for small text and when I have to write something quickly (the PDF import is cool)
- Freemind, scribus: I use freemind for personal stuff, only tested scribus quickly
- digikam, gqview (ACDSee for linux): don't use dikigam as I lost my camera connect cable. I put the CF card into my PC and read images from it. For image viewing, I use pixie and gwenview
- gimp, kpaint: gimp is complicated but powerfull, never tested kpaint so far
- mozilla: I use konqueror and firefox instead, mozilla only for as HTML editor
- evolution: I prefer kontact
- kopete, gaim: I only use kvirc for irc. Kopete is not very intuitive.
- wine, codevewaer: you must be very lucky if an application runs under wine. Codeveawer is much simplier and better (but I lost my license key, incredible how many things I lost)
Other applications I use very often which are not mentioned in the article:
- kate as universal text editor
- kooka for scanning
- eclipse for development
- audacity for sound editing
- JAlbum for photo album generation
- Azureus for file sharing (because most legal file sharing is with bittorrent)
posted by Jean-Marc Autexier |
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