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Christopher Negus

"Linux Bible, 2008 Edition: Boot up to Ubuntu, Fedora, KNOPPIX, Debian, openSUSE, and 11 Other Distributions"

With KNOPPIX, you can give a presentation created
in OpenOffice.org software anywhere that you have access to a PC. (See Chapter 21
for descriptions of OpenOffice.org productivity applications.)
 Internet tools??”Web browsers (Firefox, Konqueror, and Lynx), e-mail clients
(Thunderbird, Kmail, Thunderbird, and mutt), a chat client (XChat IRC), a newsreader
(KNode), an instant messaging client (Gaim), and many more applications for using the
Internet. (See Chapter 22 for descriptions of popular Web browsers and mail clients.)
 Multimedia software??”Applications for playing music (xmms), editing music (Audacity),
watching TV (xawtv), playing movies (Kaffeine), working with graphics (GIMP and
ImageMagick), using Webcams (gqcam), and displaying images (KView and Kuickshow).
(Chapter 20 covers music and video players.)
 Games??”A few dozen diverting board games, card games, strategy games, and puzzles
to play. Try Potato Guy to keep the young ones busy, and Kasteroids for the older kids.
(Chapter 23 talks about KDE games and other games that you can run with KNOPPIX.)
 Administrative tools??”A nice set of system and network administration tools that
enables you to do some pretty advanced setup, monitoring, and debugging of your
computer and network.


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