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NewsForge: A Small Business Consultant’s Must-Have Linux Apps

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 25, 2005

“As a consultant to small businesses and non-profit
organizations that are too small to have any IT staff of their own,
I need to be able to support a diverse array of desktops and
servers, platforms and file formats. I’ve been able to do it
exclusively with Linux since 1998. Here are my must-have Linux
desktop applications.

“The four applications that open automatically when my IceWM
session starts up are Jpilot for my Palm PDA, Sylpheed for email,
Firefox for the Web, and a terminal window…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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