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Introduction StarOffice 5.1 is a complete office suite with a word processor, spreadsheet, presenter, mail client, and more. StarOffice was orginally a commercial product developed by a German company, Star Division. Sun Microsystems in 1999 acquired Star Division and began shipping StarOffice free of charge for both personal and commercial  [ Read More ]

Introduction AxY FTP, formerly known as wxFTP, is a graphical FTP client for X Windows based on the GTK+ libraries. The latest stable version is 0.5.1. It has a nice user interface with side-by-side windows representing the directory contents of both the local and remote computers. AxY FTP Installation AxY  [ Read More ]

Introduction Many of you are probably familar with Adobe Acrobat Reader for viewing PDF files and also as a Netscape plugin. Linux has other PDF viewers that come with some of the distributions. The original was ghostview. KDE and Gnome now have their own versions of ghostview called Kghostview and  [ Read More ]

Introduction Macromedia has developed a version of its popular Shockwave plugin called Flash Player. Many websites embed Shockwave on their first page. This plugin is easy to install and works well with Netscape 4.0 and higher. In addition, the glibc version of Netscape must be used. It can be installed  [ Read More ]

Introduction Real Networks has developed a Linux version of RealPlayer 7. According to the post on freshmeat.net from someone at rea.com, the 7.0 version is finally considered “stable.” It will work as a Netscape plugin; however, to do so you must follow the instructions below. The key is to run  [ Read More ]

Introduction This covers how to install Netscape for the i386(Intel-based) version of Linux. The latest version is 4.75. However, according to Netscape, it requires kernel 2.2.x or higher. If you meet these qualifications, please see Netscape 4.75 Installation. Otherwise, see below for installing Netscape 4.74 that works with kernel 2.0.x).  [ Read More ]

Introduction This covers how to install Netscape 4.75 for the i386(Intel-based) version of Linux. Version 4.75 according to Netscape required kernel version 2.2.x or higher. If you are not running this kernel, see Netscape Installation/Upgrade instead. Check for Older Version of Netscape If you have an older or different version  [ Read More ]

Introduction Mozilla is an open source web browser. It is available for Linux, Windows, MacOS, and a bunch of other operating systems. The Mozilla browser is the most visible product of the Mozilla project. Bugzilla is a bug tracking system that was also created by the Mozilla project. When Netscape  [ Read More ]

Introduction LICQ acts as an interface to ICQ in Linux. It uses the qt libraries, so you have to configure, make, and make install them also before it will run. It supports skins that includes the Windows ICQ look and feel, away messages, username lookup function, and many other features.  [ Read More ]

Introduction Gnapster is a Napster client for Linux. Gnapster allows you to search for MP3 files by scanning the shared lists of all the other Napster users currently online. You can then easily download MP3 files from them. Also, Gnapster allows you to share your MP3 files with other Napster  [ Read More ]