{"id":598,"date":"2010-05-13T11:39:37","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T15:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/?p=598"},"modified":"2018-10-22T12:30:45","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T16:30:45","slug":"recommended-programs-to-add-after-a-ubuntu-10-04-installation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/13\/recommended-programs-to-add-after-a-ubuntu-10-04-installation\/","title":{"rendered":"Recommended programs to add after a Ubuntu 10.04 installation"},"content":{"rendered":"<abbr class=\"unapi-id\" title=\"\"><!-- &nbsp; --><\/abbr>\n<p>For my friends and co-workers doing a fresh install of Ubuntu 10.04, these are the programs I would recommend adding:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tier 1<\/strong><br \/>\nFor me, the first group of additions I would recommend are the following:<\/p>\n<p><em>Essentials<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ubuntu restricted extras (highly recommended package that adds the fonts and media drivers you will surely want)<\/li>\n<li>Adobe Reader (Still the best way to read PDF files)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Recommended Graphics, Multimedia Applications<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Gimp: (No longer part of the base installation for Ubuntu)<\/li>\n<li>Gimp Data Extras<\/li>\n<li>VLC: VLC plays MPEG, MPEG2, MPEG4, DivX, MOV, WMV, QuickTime, mp3, Ogg\/Vorbis files, DVDs, VCDs, and multimedia streams from various network sources.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Useful Utilities<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gpass (Manage a collection of passwords in an encrypted file, protected by a master-password)<\/li>\n<li>grsync (A GTK+ front end to rsync, a backup program)<\/li>\n<li>gftp-gtk (for the gFTP program)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tier 2<\/strong><br \/>\nThese programs, which are available from the Ubuntu repositories, are probably not for everyone, but I find them useful.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Bluefish editor<\/li>\n<li>Wine (To run some Windows programs within Linux environment)<\/li>\n<li>R (My favorite statistics program)<\/li>\n<li>Cheese (Not necessarily a program you will use much, but Cheese often fixes driver problems for webcams)<\/li>\n<li>Google Chromium web browser<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These programs are available from third parties, and I find them very useful.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Skype<\/li>\n<li>Picasa: From Google<\/li>\n<li>Adobe Air: Installation will be a challenge for some but it is worth it, if just to run Tweetdeck.<\/li>\n<li>Tweetdeck:  I love this tool to monitor twitter.  It requires Adobe Air.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tier 3<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Oracle\/Sun&#8217;s Virtualbox  (I use this to run Windows XP, Microsoft Office\/2007, and some other Windows programs).  It is surprisingly easy to run Windows and Windows application within Ubuntu 10.04 using this program.<\/li>\n<li>Shotwell:  A way to view your pictures organized by dates, that you can use without changing the underlying directories for the pictures. <\/li>\n<li>Abiword: A smaller word processor than OpenOffice.Org. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For my friends and co-workers doing a fresh install of Ubuntu 10.04, these are the programs I would recommend adding: Tier 1 For me, the first group of additions I would recommend are the following: Essentials Ubuntu restricted extras (highly recommended package that adds the fonts and media drivers you will surely want) Adobe Reader [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":624,"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions\/624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}