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The Perfect Desktop – Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)

By Falko Timme

[ Thanks to Falko
Timme for this link. ]

“1 Preliminary Note

“To fully replace a Windows desktop, I want the Ubuntu 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
FileZilla – 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
Transmission BitTorrent Client – Bittorrent client
Azureus/Vuze – Java Bittorrent client”


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