Perfect Installation of Debian Etch (Debian 4.0)
Howtoforge.com has a detailed how-to for installation of newly released Debian Etch(4.0). I have to list down some of programs the author uses to perform daily desktop tasks.
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:
- Iceweasel (Debian’s name for Firefox)
- Opera
- Flash Player 9
- gFTP – multithreaded FTP client
- Icedove (Debian’s name for Thunderbird) – email and news client
- Evolution – combines e-mail, calendar, address book, and task list management functions
- aMule – P2P file sharing application
- Azureus – Java Bittorrent client
- Gaim – multi-platform instant messaging client
- Skype
- Google Earth
- Xchat IRC – IRC client
Office:
- OpenOffice Writer – replacement for Microsoft Word
- OpenOffice Calc – replacement for Microsoft Excel
- Adobe Reader
- GnuCash – double-entry book-keeping personal finance system, similar to Quicken
- Scribus – open source desktop publishing (DTP) application
Sound & Video:
- Amarok – audio player
- Audacity – free, open source, cross platform digital audio editor
- Banshee – audio player, can encode/decode various formats and synchronize music with Apple iPods
- MPlayer – media player (video/audio), supports WMA
- Rhythmbox Music Player – audio player, similar to Apple’s iTunes, with support for iPods
- gtkPod – software similar to Apple’s iTunes, supports iPod, iPod nano, iPod shuffle, iPod photo, and iPod mini
- XMMS – audio player similar to Winamp
- dvd::rip – full featured DVD copy program
- Kino – free digital video editor
- Sound Juicer CD Extractor – CD ripping tool, supports various audio codecs
- VLC Media Player – media player (video/audio)
- Real Player
- Totem – media player (video/audio)
- Xine – media player, supports various formats; can play DVDs
- GnomeBaker – CD/DVD burning program
- K3B – CD/DVD burning program
- Multimedia-Codecs
Programming:
- Nvu- WYSIWYG HTML editor, similar to Macromedia Dreamweaver, but not as feature-rich (yet)
- Bluefish – text editor, suitable for many programming and markup languages
- Quanta Plus – web development environment, including a WYSIWYG editor
Do you still need anything more? Please continue to read the detailed how-to here.