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Old 07-25-2008, 07:34 AM   #1
 
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Getting a new linux system

SD is getting a Xandros-based Palmtop pc. Does anyone know any killer Linux apps we should grab, aside from Open Office and GIMP?

Basically, it's a mini-laptop system made by ASUS called "EEE".

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Kaffeine, perl, thunderbird, and xpdf. Aside from those I don't know of any other good linux apps off the top of my head.


Perl is a programming language, very useful if you are a programmer, and seeing as how you are buying Linux I am guessing that SD has some programming knowledge.
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I forgot to mention last night, but if SD takes the time to learn gVIM she'd become really fast with editing. It can't handle formatting, but it's the fastest way I know for editing plain text files.
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