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SamFisher47
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 Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 1:28 am Post subject: Included Applications |
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Please post here what applications you think should be included in the end-product for each task/purpose.
eg. Desktop publishing suite: Openoffice.org 2.3
Email application: Mozilla Thunderbird
It is a bit early to start deciding, but we might as well get some of the core applications down now, since there might be quite a bit of debate (such as which bittorrent client to include, for example).
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Siberian Fox
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| I will be assembling a list here. but one thing that can make or break a desktop is for media. I mean, everyone listens to music or watches something on their computer and Linux is notorious for its media problems. I really recommend that we put Amarok in there. It is by far the sleekest, most organized player out there. |
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SamFisher47
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| Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 10:04 pm Post subject: |
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Interesting about Amarok. I haven’t used it all that much, I mainly just use RhythmBox and I like it. But Amarok seems to have a large community and it looks good as well. I’ll probably install Amarok tonight and see how it compares (just for my personal taste)
Otherwise, this would be my suggestions:
Web browser: Firefox
Desktop publishing: Openoffice.org
Email: Thunderbird/Evolution (I don’t really prefer one over the other)
BitTorrent client: Azureus
Download manager: D4X
Your opinions?
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Aesrak
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| Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 6:38 am Post subject: Transmission |
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Wouldn't something like Transmission http://transmission.m0k.org/ be better and faster compared to Azureus which is based on Java?
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Siberian Fox
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| Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 8:16 am Post subject: |
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| I personally like Ktorrent. I am not sure if that relies on KDE though. |
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SamFisher47
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| Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 2:36 pm Post subject: Re: Transmission |
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| Aesrak wrote: | | Wouldn't something like Transmission http://transmission.m0k.org/ be better and faster compared to Azureus which is based on Java? |
I actually haven't looked into Transmission! Is it good? Perhaps someone could compares Azureus to Transmission? I'll do it if I get time. I only chose Azureus because out of the offerings for Gnome, it was the best I found (out of Freeloader, Azureus and generic BitTorrent clients) 
| Siberian Fox wrote: | | I personally like Ktorrent. I am not sure if that relies on KDE though. |
It might not be too good to have too many KDE programs on the Gnome release? I'm not sure, but that is just my opinion.
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Siberian Fox
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| Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 2:47 pm Post subject: |
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| True, that would defeat the purpose lol. |
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SamFisher47
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Siberian Fox
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| Great, good Idea! |
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Davmont
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i think you should include gnome applications in the gnome part... as gnome baker, totem, rhythmbox and all that things! and in kde amarok, k3b...
i personally recommend to use vlc, i think it's "neutral" and works fine...
(in my kde i use kmplayer or vlc)
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master_kernel
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Some suggestions:
Pidgin IM
Evolution/Thunderbird for email
Ekiga or Skype for VoIP |
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Sorivenul
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I've used both. It depends on what we want to offer the end user. If we want full native Java support, I don't think Azureus would be a bad choice. Transmission works just as well and seems a little more intuitive, though as far as I'm concerned.
I hate the Evolution system. Thunderbird gets my vote there.
Ekiga is great.
Openoffice.org is a no-brainer, though I still use Abiword instead of the OO.o word processor. |
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