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   From: Alias    
   Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: Recommended Apps for a Newbie   
   Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 13:49:17 +0100   
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   Phil Grimshaw wrote:   
   > Hello All   
   >    
   > Thanks for your help with my previous post, network shares now all dine    
   > and dandy.   
   >    
   > I now have Ubuntu up and going and am dead pleased with it; I tend to    
   > use KDE more than gnome (so I guess that's Kubuntu?) - I boot up one or    
   > the other as the mood takes me.   
   >    
   > Anyway - all this software!! There's loads of it and like a kid in a    
   > sweet shop I don't know which way to turn :). For now, I have settled on    
   > FireFox for web, Thunderbird for email and newgroups and GAIM for IM but    
   > there's so much choice.   
   >    
   > I am principally a surfer and multimedia user with occasional need for    
   > word-processing and the like. I would also like to be able to    
   > synchronise contacts, diary and multimedia between the laptop and my    
   > Nokia N80 phone and generally "manage" the phone, either by USB or    
   > Blueooth but so far no luck.   
   >    
   > Now the contentious question - what are your favourite / recommended    
   > applications; I would like to settle on a core of applications so that I    
   >  can clear up that k-menu and remove the temptation to meddle instead of    
   > work!   
   >    
   > My next project might be to rebuild the Windows Media Centre under the    
   > telly; but I'll more than likely bother you with that another time :)   
   >    
   > Thanks for reading   
      
   I like ABIWord for word processing.   
      
   Alias   
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