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Migrating to Linux? Use These Open Source Apps

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Matt Hartley
Jul 19, 2007

“The single biggest argument against a smooth migration to one
of the popular desktop Linux distributions is the belief that key
applications are not available on the Linux platform. However there
are a multitude of fantastic open source alternatives that are easy
to install and free to use.

“In this article, we’ll examine ten of these applications, with
the understanding that both browser and email clients will not be
in this list. The reason being is that default browser and email
clients are already installed in nearly all desktop Linux
distributions…”

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