Finding the Right Program

The wealth of software offered on an Ubuntu system is enormous, so that finding the right tool for the right job can be difficult at times. The following table may help you with this. It is showing programs which are installed on Xubuntu by default, some which are recommended to be added by you, and other programs available in the software archives, grouped by tasks. Please note that you may have to enable restricted repositories to install some of the listed programs.

   
   Task    Installed Program    Recommended Program    Other
   Webbrowser     Firefox        Epiphany (Gnome), Konqueror (KDE), Dillo
   Email Client     Thunderbird        Sylpheed-Claws
   File Manager     Thunar        Nautilus (Gnome), Konqueror (KDE), Xffm (old Xfce Filemanager), ROX-Filer
   Text Editor     Mousepad        Gedit (Gnome), Kate (KDE), Gvim, XEmacs, Nedit, Nano
   Word Processing     Abiword        OpenOffice, KOffice (KDE), LaTeX
   Spreadsheet Calculation     Gnumeric-gtk        OpenOffice, KOffice (KDE)
   Multimedia Playback (Audio/Video)     Xfmedia        XMMS, Beep Media Player, Xine, Mplayer, Totem (Gnome), Rhythmbox (Gnome)
   Image Manipulation     Gimp        Krita (KDE, part of KOffice)
   Picture Browsing     GQview        gThumbview (Gnome), KView (KDE)
   Chat / Instant Messanger    Gaim        XChat
   PDF Viewer    Evince-gtk        Acroread
   Calendar    Orage        

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