Whats the best program for...?
 

I'm new to linux, so I don't know of many linux programs. Here's what I got so far:

bittorrent client - azureus
office - openoffice
aim - gaim
photoshop - gimp

Thats about it so far. I'm looking for a music player, xmms is ok, but looking for other peoples opinion. Looking for an all around media player, a dvd player, email client, umm... thats all thats coming to mind right now. If anyone else can suggest some must have apps, please do :D Thanks guys.

I use evolution for email; xine for dvds; and firefox for internet. Ok, you didn't ask about internet, but I thought I'd throw that in there. :)

oh, yeah I use firefox too, forgot to mention that, but thanks for the suggestions I'll try them out.

edit: Any good websites for linux news, or linux related things as well?

Must haves:

DVD Ripper/Encoder: dvd::rip
Burner: K3B
CD Ripper: Grip
Video Player (grab the codec packages from MPlayer's site): Xine or MPlayer
HTML Edit: Quanta
Word Processor (if you must): Abiword
Text Edit: Gvim or just vim
Terminal: Aterm
Lightweight File Manager: Rox-filer
Security: Nmap, Nessus

I also really like the LaTeX plugin for vim.

Nintendo Emulators (sorry, I'm a fanboy):
VisualBoyAdvanced (GBA)--very cool.
Zsnes (SNES)--fantastic emulator.
Mupen64 (N64)--not perfect but it is still being developed and already does pretty well.
Tuxnes (NES)--classic, total classic.

Where the heck do I find Evolution for download? The only thing I've found is at Evolution's webpage but that's a trial version. I use Slackware 10.1.

Thanks!

If you can not get Evolution, another e-mail client is Mozilla Thunderbird.

DVD Player - Video Lan Client, mplayer, Xine, Ogle
Video Player - Video Lan Client, mplayer, Xine
Audio Player - Video Lan Client, mplayer, Xine, Xmms

There are many more at http://linuxshop.ru/linuxbegin/win-l...en/table.shtml

Great list thanks, and yeah, I'm interested about evolution too, but dunno where to get it.

Yeah actually I'm using Mozilla Thunderbird right now. But I've yet to see an email client for Linux as nice as Evolution.

I use evolution myself. It's "ximian evolution", now owned by Novel (who also owns Suse). What distribution do you use?

There should be a full version available, as it's GPLed. (I'm aware it can be charged for, but I have it under GPL)

I'm using slackware 10.1, I can't find it anywhere. Could I get a link as to where to dl it?

This link is for Slackware 10, but it might be close enough. I haven't upgraded to 10.1--are the changes that drastic?


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