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| Function | Application | Comment |
+-----------------+--------------------+--------------------------------+
| Editor | kwrite and vim | love text highlighting |
| Email | kmail | highly configerable |
| Browser | konqueror | runs reliably |
| CD burning | k3b | also cdrecord in scripts |
| Desktop | kde | user friendly |
| Distro. | Mandrake 10 official user friendly distro |
| File tool | midnight commander | saved my bacon when X borked |
| FTP inwards | wget | rock solid |
| FTP outwards | gftp | user friendly |
| Shell | bash | what cant it do? |
| Pager | lookat | www.wagemakers.be |
| Web authoring | quanta | contextual help reqd |
| Image viewer | qiv | slideshows a snap |
| News | pan | reliable |
| Spreadsheet | kspread | not a power user of s/sheets |
| Web scripting | PHP | DB intergration a snap |
| Database | ms access | quick and user friendly |
| Word processing | ms word | OS word prcsors getting better |
| Word processing | Kile editor 4 LaTeX| LaTeX rocks for large documents|
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This table was created by using the perl module showtable which prints arrays of data into a nicely formatted table. The output of the showtable modue was converted from text to a HTML format using the the export as HTML menu option from the kwrite text editor.
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