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Applications and Software

Rubin Bennett

11/10/2008 10:15 pm

There are countless applications for use on your Linux desktop system. As we have been using Linux on the desktop systems in our office since 1999, we have become quite familiar with the applications that a small office needs to run on a day to day basis.
We've broken a few of of our favorites down by category:

Office Suites/ Applications:

  • OpenOffice.org - A full featured office suite. See more here.
  • Star Office ® - The Commercial version of the OpenOffice.org suite
  • AbiWord - A small, fast, easy to use Word processor
  • Gnumeric - A spreadsheet

E-Mail Clients

  • Evolution - A completely full featured e-mail client. Includes spell checking, digital signing and encryption (via GPG). All the fun of LookOut without the viruses!

Web Browsers

  • Mozilla-Firefox - A completely rewritten browser based on the Mozilla rendering engine. Small, lightweight, extensible, and great. http://mozilla.org
  • Mozilla - Looks great, works great, accepts Netscape plugins. A little big and sometimes slow. http://mozilla.org
  • Netscape - Both Navigator and Communicator are available for Linux systems http://netscape.com
  • Opera - The Commercially licensed Opera browser is available as well. http://opera.com
  • Konquerer - The netscape based browser that is part of the KDE desktop system http://kde.org
  • Galeon - The netscape based browser that is part of the Gnome desktop system http://gnome.org

Multimedia
Because no workstation is complete without tunes!

  • XMMS - The "X" Multimedia System
  • Real Player® - The Linux version
  • noatun - Who thought up that name?! The coolest looking media player for KDE
  • Grip - A full featured Audio Extraction tool - Rip & encode mp3's etc.

Utilities
General system type stuff

  • Gkrellm - A General system monitoring utility
  • KSnapshot - An excellent tool for generating screenshots

Network Management
Tools and utilities to monitor and analyze your systems

  • Webalizer - A tool that parses and graphs your website usage statistics
  • MRTG - A very nice, clean SNMP monitoring tool
  • Nagios - A much more fully featured Network Monitoring/ Management suite
  • OpenNMS - Another full featured Network Monitoring/ Management suite

It is worth noting that by installing a program called Wine (http://winehq.org) you can run many Windows® Applications (including the Office® suite under your Linux system!
In addition, you can run a complete Windows® virtual machine under Linux with a program called VMWare (http://www.vmware.com).