Software for Ubuntu 10.04 Laptop?

Question

I just got a new work laptop loaded with Ububtu 10.04. Are there any FREE programs you guys reccomend?

Thank you in advance,
Guy who likes Azumanga Daioh

Answer 1

Audacious - an excellent WinAmp equivalent.

Totem, Kaffeine, VLC - media players

Miro - internet tv

Ubuntu Tweak - excellent app, definitely check this one out!

Shutter - screenshot tool

Firestarter - firewall front-end

clamav + clamtk - virus scanner and the graphical front-end for it

Celestia, KStars, Stellarium - planetarium software

Freeciv, Quadrapassel, Sauerbraten - some games

Abiword, OpenOffice - office and writing stuff

Xfburn - burning cd's and dvd's

hardinfo - system profiler and benchmarking app



Install ubuntu-restricted-extras, GStreamer stuff and the Medibuntu repository for multimedia codecs (Medibuntu and other extra repositories can be installed through Ubuntu Tweak)



Browse through Ubuntu Software Center and/or Synaptic package manager and find more.

Answer 2

Azureus the bittorrent client. As an artist I like Inkscape. I also like scribus. Synfig the animation program is HORRIBLE. Try ktoon or download pencil install qt4 and compile it from sources. For word processing I use abiword and for spreadsheets gnumeric. There is a lot to recommend in KDE. The guy who created it just got the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. I mean hey, Google Chrome and Safari (which isn't available for Linux) both use the Webkit browser engine which was forked from KDE's konqueror web browser. Oh. And if you don't know about Compiiz Fusion yet, Aero is a very poor imitation of it which uses an incredible amount of resources compared to compiiz. And compiiz was out before Micro$oft even thought of Aero. I don't even LIKE Compiiz but it's better than Aero.

Answer 3

Click on applications and scroll down to software center and click on that. You can start there.