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Category: Basic productivity

Filed under: Software and Technology by Hari
Posted on Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 16:16 IST (last updated: Thu, May 7, 2009 @ 21:17 IST)

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As part of my efforts at compiling the top 50 Linux apps, I have decided to list down some of my own recommendations in each category for debate and discussions before picking the final list. The first category is basic productivity. So here are some of my own recommendations for the top 5 applications in Linux under this category. Note that I may add or remove some applications later on, but this is my basic list in this category:

KWrite A simple, yet powerful text editor for KDE. I rate this highly because it does the job and it is not too memory intensive and yet has enough features to keep most of us happy!

OpenOffice.org A great suite of Office applications for the Linux desktop. I consider this a very adequate rival of Microsoft Office, especially considering that OO.org is free.

Kontact I haven't really used Kontact, but it does look like a very good Personal Information Manager for KDE. Quite similar to Microsoft Outlook.

Gnumeric Gnumeric is a lightweight spreadsheet application suitable for users who prefer GTK/Gnome applications.

Gnucash Gnucash is a personal finance manager (accounting program) for Linux. I don't think there are too many accounting suites for Linux so I guess this deserves a place in the category.

So what do you think of my list? If you can think of any other applications that fall under this category, please post your recommendations here. I'll definitely consider more for the final list!

Update: Suggested additions: Evolution

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6 comment(s)

  1. Hi,Definitely OpenOffice.org. Great office suite with of course now a database in 2.0. How about Evolution? Oh, and Novell is writing a version that will run on Windows too, I understand.

    Comment by Solveig Haugland (visitor) on Sun, Jan 29, 2006 @ 01:18 IST #
  2. Thanks for the suggestion, Solveig Haugland! I will definitely add Evolution to the list. Wonder how I forgot that.Maybe KWrite can be removed from the current list.

    Comment by hari (blog owner) on Sun, Jan 29, 2006 @ 07:25 IST #
  3. I was a Gnucash user and now I'm a KMyMoney2 user and I think it's a much better piece of software (still some things wrong, but better than Gnucash).

    Comment by Popsy (visitor) on Thu, Apr 20, 2006 @ 01:27 IST #
  4. Popsy, I've never used KMyMoney2 or heard of it until now. Thanks. Will give that a look.

    Comment by hari (blog owner) on Thu, Apr 20, 2006 @ 09:32 IST #
  5. What about K3b?

    Comment by jeff (visitor) on Tue, Apr 25, 2006 @ 23:25 IST #
  6. K3b will probably fall into another category.

    Comment by hari (blog owner) on Wed, Apr 26, 2006 @ 08:31 IST #

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