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Christopher Negus

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


Summary
In recent times, modern GUI-based publishing tools have augmented the text-based publishing
tools that have always been available with Linux. Powerful open source publishing tools such as
OpenOffice.org are becoming competitive with commercial office suites. Traditional publishing
tools such as Groff (which implements traditional troff/nroff text processing) and LaTeX (a TeX
macro interface particularly suited for scientific and mathematical publishing) are still available
with many Linux distributions.
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Working with Words and Images 21
Web browsers and e-mail clients available with Linux have seen
incredible improvements over the past few years. Their features
rival those you can get on the most popular Windows clients.
Security issues with Outlook mail clients and Internet Explorer browsers
have many people taking a fresh look at Linux and open source software for
accessing the Internet.
This chapter describes some of the best Web, e-mail, chat, and related tools
for accessing the Internet that you can get with the Linux distributions
described in this book. If you have never worked with the Internet from
Linux, or haven??™t for a few years, you might be blown away by what??™s available
today.
Using E-Mail
Any Linux desktop system worth the name ???desktop system??? will have at least
one or two applications for sending, receiving, and managing your e-mail.


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