EcPercy

I posted this on neowin yesterday, but it is a list of applications that I use with linux to replace windows applications. I thought that it may be useful to someone that wants to move to linux and was curious about the certain applications that can be used to build a very productive system.

Ok, well I run Mandriva LE2005 and Archlinux .7. Here are the apps I use most.

- Gaim, Kopete = Trillian, Msn, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, etc. replacement.
- Firefox, Opera 8.5 = Browser
- Thunderbird = Outlook replacement. You can actually install tbird in windows and convert your outlook .pst file into tbird and then move the tbird profile folder to linux.
- K3B = Great cd burning app. Can even be used with Gnome if you install the proper QT libraries.
- Gimp/Gimpshop = Photoshop replacement.
- Azureus = BT client
- XMMS = Winamp
- Madman = App to catalog mp3 files, ties into XMMS
- MPlayer = App that will play .wmv files. Has a plugin "mplayer-plugin" that ties into Firefox to allow playing streaming video.
- Open Office 2.0= Great office replacement. It can also make PDF files so it can replace Acrobat Pro.
- Acrobat Reader = version 7.0 is also on linux.
- NVU = Web authoring. Think Frontpage/Dreamweaver.
- XDVDShrink = DVD Shrink project
- K9Copy = KDE application to copy dvd9 (Dual Layer) to dvd5 (Single Layer)
- Totem = Video player that will play regular DVD's once the libdvdcss package is installed.
- Audacity = Digital Audio Editor.
- Real Player G2 = Linux version of real player. (You can also use helix player which is the OSS version of real player.)
- Pan = Newsgroup reader.
- Screem = Website building tool.
- Xchat = Mirc replacement.
- Gftp = FTP program.

RIV@NVX

To add some more:
VLC - excellent video player, plays nearly anything you throw at it.
Evolution - groupware suite like Outlook... in case you don't like something about Thunderbird
amaroK - excellent audio player, for me, it's bettery than anything I have ever used on any os except foobar2000
Evince & KPDF - PDF viewers and more, a lot less bloated and nearly as functional as Adobe's reader

Hopefully others will mention their favourites too, since it's quite possible that EcPercy and me have forgotten some important stuff

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vim / gvim - excellent text editor(s) (vim is CLI, gvim is GTK+)
abiword - excellent word processor (albeight with a few layout issues)
evolution - excellent mail client
irssi - console based irc client - better than any X based irc client I've used too
screen - allows to detach console and resume it later (no windows equivlant, but useful when used with irssi)

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