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This book is a work in progress. The completed chapters have links.

Provisional outline:

Audio

Browsing

Watching videos

Email

  • Thunderbird (Note to self: not installed by default)
  • Evolution
  • KMail

Photos

  • Digikam (Photo Management Tool for KDE)
  • F-Spot (http://f-spot.org/Main_Page)

Phones

Instant messanging

Text editors

Word processing

  • OpenOffice Word Processing
  • Abiword (Note to self: not installed by default)
  • KWord (Note to self: not installed by default)

Spreadsheets

  • OpenOffice Calc Spreadsheet
  • Gnumeric
  • KSpread (Note to self: not installed by default)

Diagrams and presentations

  • OpenOffice Impress
  • KPresenter (Note to self: not installed by default)
  • Dia OR something else

Graphics

  • Gimp
  • Krita (Note to self: not installed by default)
  • Inkscape (Note to self: not installed by default)

Desktop publishing

  • Scribus (Note to self: not installed by default)

Web publishing

  • Bluefish (Note to self: not installed by default)
  • Quanta Plus (Note to self: not installed by default)

Database

  • OpenOffice Database
  • Kexi (Note to self: not installed by default)