Mozilla
Web-browser, advanced e-mail and newsgroup client,
IRC chat client, and HTML editing made simple
-- all your Internet needs in one application.
Novell® Evolution
The most popular groupware client for Linux,
Novell® Evolution™ integrates e-mail, calendaring,
tasks and contact management in one easy-to-use application.
As part of Novell Linux Desktop, Novell Evolution
integrates smoothly with other applications and
communications tools and connects to corporate
communications architectures including Novell
GroupWise® and Microsoft Exchange.
Konqueror - Web Browser, File Manager - and more!
Firefox
Live Bookmarks is a new technology in Firefox that
lets you view RSS news and blog headlines in the
bookmarks toolbar or bookmarks menu. With one glance,
quickly see the latest headlines from your favorite
sites. Go directly to the articles that interest you
—saving you time.
A site is enabled for Live Bookmarks when you see
the icon on the bottom right corner of the browser.
Clicking on the icon and selecting an RSS feed will
bring up the Add Bookmark dialog. Select 'OK' and
you will see Live Bookmarks with the rest of your
bookmarks. Many people find it especially convenient
to save Live Bookmarks in their Bookmarks Toolbar folder.
Samba and gFTP
As the front page at samba.org says,
"Samba is an Open Source/Free Software suite
that provides seamless file and print services to
SMB/CIFS clients." Samba is freely available,
unlike other SMB/CIFS implementations, and allows
for interoperability between Linux/Unix servers
and Windows-based clients.
gFTP is a free multithreaded ftp client for *NIX
based machines running X11R6 or later.
It has the following features:
* Distributed under the terms of the GNU Public License Agreement
* Written in C and has a text interface and a GTK+ 1.2/2.x interface
* Supports the FTP, FTPS (control connection only), HTTP, HTTPS and SSH protocols
* FTP and HTTP proxy server support
* Supports FXP file transfers (transfering files between 2 remote servers via FTP)
* Supports UNIX, EPLF, Novell, MacOS, VMS, MVS and NT (DOS) style directory listings
* Bookmarks menu to allow you to quickly connect to remote sites
* Fully Internationalized. Here are the followoing
translations of gFTP that are available:
Albanian (sq), Amharic (am), Arabic (ar), Azerbaijani (az),
Bangla (bn), Belarusian (be), Bulgarian (bg), Catalan (ca),
Chinese (zh_TW,zh_CN), Croatian (hr), Czech (cs),
Danish (da), Dutch (nl), English (en_CA, en_GB, en_US),
Finnish (fi), French (fr), German (de), Greek (el),
Hebrew (he), Hungarian (hu), Irish (ga), Italian (it),
Korean (ko), Japanese (ja), Macedonian (mk), Malayalam (ml),
Malay (ms), Norwegian (no), Polish (pl), Portuguese (pt,pt_BR),
Punjabi (pa), Romanian (ro), Russian (ru), Serbian (sr,sr@Latn),
Slovak (sk), Spanish (es), Swedish (sv), Tamil (ta),
Thai (th), Turkish (tr) and Ukrainian (uk) translations available.
Opera
Surf the Internet in a safer, faster, and easier way
The most full-featured Internet power tool on the market,
Opera includes pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, integrated searches,
E-mail, RSS Newsfeeds and IRC chat.
Kopete
Kopete is an instant messenger supporting AIM, ICQ,
MSN, Yahoo, Jabber, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger,
Lotus SameTime*, and more.
Gaim
Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows.
It is compatible with AIM and ICQ (Oscar protocol), MSN Messenger, Yahoo!,
IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, GroupWise Messenger, and Zephyr networks.
Remote Desktop
"During a virtual session, only mouse commands
and keystrokes are passed from the remote computer
to the host computer.
The host computer, in turn, transmits a
graphical view of its entire Windows Desktop
to the remotely connected user.
You can remotely access just about anything
from the host computer: audio, physical ports,
printers and so forth."
KWiFi
KDE’s KWiFi-. Manager is a handy tool for monitoring
your wireless network adapters.
Skype
Skype is a proprietary peer-to-peer Internet telephony (VoIP) network,
competing against established open VoIP protocols
like
SIP, IAX, or H.323.
The system has a reputation for working across
different types of network connections (including firewalls and NAT)
because voice packets are routed by the combined
users of the free desktop software application.
Skype users can speak to other Skype users for free.
Skype also has paid services allowing users
to call traditional
telephone numbers (SkypeOut),
receive calls from traditional phones (SkypeIn),
and receive voicemail messages.
In September 2005, eBay acquired the company
for euro 2.5 billion in cash and stock,
plus an additional 1.5 billion in rewards
if goals are met by 2008
