Re: Brand new to Linux - good software sites?
- From: Nix <nix-razor-pit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 19:51:02 +0100
On 20 May 2007, Bruce Stephens stated:
leaenna_mills@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Just installed Ubuntu 7.04 so now I need to find some sites where I
can download some (preferably free) software to enable me to do a lot
of what I could do under Windows.
Generally, it's easier to get software by using synaptic or the update
manager. So try using one or the other and getting them to search for
what you want.
Quite so.
Typically, alternatives (or Linux versions) to/of:
Mailwasher
That's a spam filter, I think. So bogofilter, crm114.
CRM114 had decidedly... questionable effectiveness the last time I
tested it (although that was nearly a year ago so this is almost
useless info, sorry).
Personally I'm a strong advocate of the `use multiple methods because
none catch everything' approach, which means SpamAssassin :)
Or just use
some email program that has spam filtering built in (like Thunderbird).
Indeed.
Eraser
A "secure deletion" program. Don't know.
From the coomand-line, the coomand `shred'. If you really care aboutsecurity against people stealing your physical disks, encrypted
filesystems are a better bet.
7-Zip
Should be available in Ubuntu (might be called p7zip).
Numerous other compressors are available, predominantly bzip, gzip and
zip.
O&O Defrag
Defragmentation is mostly not so useful (with the usual GNU/Linux
filesystem types). Provided you keep partitions with a bit of free
space (5-10%, say), then normal operation will keep them reasonably
usable.
Partitions *can* still get fragmented, but you don't notice it unless it
gets really severe, which basically never happens. (Linux has very good
disk caching and memory balancing, and reasonably nippy filesystems,
unlike certain operating systems named after things that fill holes in
the wall).
Ad-Aware
AVG Anti-Virus
Window Washer
For antivirus there's clamav. Also, for home use f-prot is free.
It's not necessarily that useful. I use f-prot just for scanning
email: it lets me delete worms and things with confidence that there
won't be many false positives, and nice and quickly.
Exactly. Unless your Linux box is standing in front of some Windows
boxes and trying to keep them safe, these serve mainly to keep the crap
out of your mailboxes. No viruses in the PC sense have ever got a
foothold on Linux systems, and the distros provide the tools to keep
your system up to date so that worms and the like can't get in.
Nero
There are lots of CD and DVD burning GUIs. Personally I tend to use
the command line, but Nautilus can do it (with the right plugin), and
k3b looks nice.
Everyone who uses GUIs seems to swear by k3b, although like you I've
long since scripted all the things I burn CDs with so I never use k3b
anymore.
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