Re: FN-FORUM: linux desktop

date posted 17th January 2005 21:15

Tony Crockford wrote:
> Thinking about moving to linux again.
> so, what's your favorite and why?

I run Fedora Core 3 w/Gnome on my laptop (Toshiba with 512Mb RAM, 18Gb
HD) and it runs very nicely indeed. Although I have a desktop running
XP, I tend to use the laptop for most work these days.

These are the main apps that I'm running on it:

- Openoffice for the wp/spreadsheets
- Firefox for web browsing
- Thunderbird as an IMAP email client
- Sunbird as a calendar
- Gimp for 2D graphics
- Blender for 3D graphics
- Skype for auto conferencing
- XMMS for playing audio files
- MPlayer for playing movies
- Eclipse as an IDE (mainly for Java)
- Emacs or Editpad pro as a programmers text editor
- vncviewer/rdesktop for remote access
- pptpconfig to access PPTP vpns
- java, mysql, apache etc...

Seems very stable, reasonably quick to install and seems to work well
with wireless PCMCIA cards.

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
Richard.

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