Full Circle Issue 62 by Unknown

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Just like Gnome, Xubuntu comes with GIMP for image manipulation, and Evince for viewing of PDF files. Firefox and Thunderbird are the web browser and email client of choice for Xubuntu. Finally, it pulls from Gnome’s suite of games to offer Aisleriot Solitaire, along with FreeCell, Mahjongg, Mines, and Sudoku.

LXDE

As already mentioned above, most Linux distributions support applications regardless of the desktop environment (e.g. KDE, Gnome, LXDE, etc.) for which it was specifically written. Lubuntu is no exception, and it will happily run such behemoths as LibreOffice, OpenOffice, GIMP, or Digikam, but since the larger, more “heavyweight” applications are discussed in the context of the distributions that are deliberately designed for newer and more powerful hardware (e.g. KDE, Gnome, Unity), this section will focus on the “lightweight” applications that correlate with older or less powerful hardware that is targeted by Lubuntu.

The default word processor in Lubuntu is AbiWord. It is a lightweight and very fastapplication! It is easy to use and surprisingly capable, providing 80% of what most people will want/need in a word processor - including styles, backgrounds, embedded images, hyperlinks, tables, and collaboration tools, to name just a few. The default spreadsheet application is Gnumeric, which is a marvel of conservation and functionality. Most users would not know that they were using a super-lightweight application because so much functionality is provided in Gnumeric; so much so that it’s not even worth trying to enumerate the features. In fact, many people who are currently using the “big boys” (Calc, MS Excel) might find they prefer the simple, functional, and blazingly fast performance of Gnumeric for most if not all of their work. And yes, both AbiWord and Gnumeric can save to a wide range of file formats for data porting, including (of course) MS file formats, ODF, CSV, and LaTeX.

The default media players installed with Lubuntu are Audacious (for audio) and Gnome Player (audio/video). Don’t be fooled by the extraordinarily simple interfaces of each of these applications; they are both very powerful and very good at what they do! Audacious is a fantastic audio player capable of playing a wide range of audio file types, CDs, and URLs. It provides versatile playlists, a surprising number of audio effects, and an audio equalizer. Gnome Player is a “full” media player capable of playing pretty much everything Audacious can play, plus DVDs, VCDs, and TV (analog and digital).

The default web browser in Lubuntu is Chromium, the open-source version of Google’s Chrome web browser. (Surprise! Google Chrome is NOT open-source and tracks every move you make; Chromium doesn’t! [In case you wanted to know.]) Sylpheed is the local eMail client and Osmo is a very nifty personal organizer featuring notes, tasks, and a contacts database, all with some surprising (and useful) features.

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