The default packages for this workstation include:
- GNOME
- OpenOffice.org
- Web Browser (which?)
- Evolution email
- IM
- "Sound and Video Applications
- Games
Add a few more with the custom option:
- X Windows (a default selection, hereafter DS)
- GNOME (DS)
- KDE
- Editors -- emacs and vim-enhanced (DS)
- Engineering and Scientific: blas, gnuplot, lapack, octave, units
- Graphical Internet -- the default is Firefox for a browser. Add gftp, pan (usenet) and thunderbird. GAIM is the IM client
- Text Internet -- add lynx. Get rid of slrn (newsreader). Wonder how elinks works as a browser? Fetchmail is included here for some reason
- Productivity: Add abiword, gnumeric, tetex-xdvi, and xpdf. OpenOffice and gnome PS and PDF viewers included in DS
- Sound and Video -- HelixPlayer (DS), I'll probably go with RealPlayer later. Add k3b and kdemultimedia
- Authoring and publishing -- Add this, in contains the entire tetex distribution
- Graphics -- includes gimp, add kdegraphics. No xpaint, I'll have to add that later
- Games -- add the KDE packages
- Development tools -- gcc, g77, perl, python, expect, etc. -- Need all these
- X Software Development -- I hope this includes all the header files we need to compile aplications
- Ditto for GNOME and KDE
- Admin Tools (DS)
- System Tools -- nmap, screen, ethereal, zsh
- Printing support -- keep only a2ps and enscript until we get a printer attached
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