The Perfect Desktop – OpenSUSE 11.2 (GNOME)

Written By
FT
Falko Timme
Dec 11, 2009

[ Thanks to Falko
Timme
for this link. ]

“1 Preliminary Note

“To fully replace a Windows desktop, I want the OpenSUSE 11.2
desktop to have the following software installed: Graphics:

“The GIMP – free software replacement for Adobe Photoshop
F-Spot – full-featured personal photo management application for
the GNOME desktop
Google Picasa – application for organizing and editing digital
photos

Internet:
Firefox
Opera
Flash Player 10
Gnome FTP – multithreaded FTP client
Thunderbird – email and news client
Evolution – combines e-mail, calendar, address book, and task list
management functions
aMule – P2P file sharing application
Azureus/Vuze – Java Bittorrent client
Transmission BitTorrent Client
Pidgin – multi-platform instant messaging client (formerly known as
Gaim)
Skype
Google Earth”


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