See also: last week's On the Desktop page.

Note: An asterisk (*) denotes a proprietary product, (w) denotes WINE based tools.

Office Suites
Ability (*)(w)
Anywhere Desktop (*)
(formerly "Applixware")
GNOME Office
HancomOffice
KOffice
StarOffice / OpenOffice
Siag Office
WordPerfect Office 2000 (*)(w)

Java / Web Office Suites
ThinkFree Office (*)
Teamware Office (*)
Cybozu Office (*)

Desktop Publishing
AbiWord
iceSculptor (*)
Impress
Maxwell Word Processor
Mediascape Artstream (*)
Scribus

Web Browsers
Mozilla
Netscape (*)
Opera (*)
Konqueror
Galeon

Handheld Tools
KPilot
JPilot
Palm Pilot Resources
Pilot Link
SynCal

On The Desktop

I would like to say that this is not quite accurate. While Hancom/theKompany are Qt based and thus have a tie-in to KDE, in actuality Hancom Office doesn't need or require KDE. It will run just fine under GNOME. In fact it runs great on my box and I use XFce. I think that Hancom Office is closer to being good for Linux rather than a specific desktop environment.

Good point. While this suite will make a handsome edition to any KDE based distributions, its ability to work well under GNOME will make it beneficial to any Linux user.

Desktop Environments

Minutes of the GNOME Board meeting 4 September 2001. At the GNOME Board meeting this past week, discussions included an interoperability conference the day before the X Technical Conference at ALS, details on getting better fonts for GNOME, and a summary report on GNOME at LinuxWorld.

KDE 2.2.1/3.0 Release Schedules Updated/Posted. KDE 2.2.1 has been packaged as a tarball and will be officially released on September 17, 2001. A schedule for KDE 3.0 has also been announced.

Office Applications

Gobe annouces Linux office suite. A new entry in the office productivity suite market, Gobe Productive is a suite of applications including a word processor, spreadsheet, vector graphics program, and page layout tool. The package was originally built for BeOS but is being ported to Windows and Linux now, with the Linux version due to ship this fall. The suite is being written by Gobe, the team that did the original ClarisWorks tools for the Mac. Gobe's new license, known as the "Gobe Family License", allows installing the application on all user systems at home plus one at work.

Evolution 0.13 (Beta 3) released. A new beta release of Evolution, Ximian's GNOME-based personal information manager, has been announced. This beta is being released to encourage more thorough bug stomping efforts, with Ximian noting that "prizes will be awarded to those reporting the nastiest, thorniest, and the most total bugs. To report a bug, visit bugzilla.ximian.com or use the GNOME Bug Report tool, bug-buddy."

Desktop Applications

Konqueror wins Tuxie Award. KDE Dot News reports that Linux Magazine has awarded KDE's Konqueror browser the Tuxie for Best Web Browser.

NVidia launches Linux drivers (ZDNet). ZDNet reports that nVidia has released new video drivers covering their TNT, GeForce and Quadro chipset lines as well as support for Toshiba 3000-series laptops.

Note that Kernel maintainer Alan Cox isn't happy with people who use these drivers because they seem to look to Alan for free help even though he doesn't know anything about these proprietary drivers. See last week's Kernel page for details on Alan's comments on these drivers.

And in other news...

Setting up a Multitrack Audio Recording Studio (Linux Journal). Linux Journal shows how to use Linux to do multitrack sound recordings using GMurf and Broadcast 2000. "Multitrack recording, in its simplest form, is simply multiple single tracks recorded and played in synch, so that the resulting music sounds like one composition. An audio CD is a multitrack recording consisting of two tracks that are played through a machine that sends one track to the left speaker and one to the right." Unfortunately, due to DMCA lawsuit issues, Broadcast 2000 is no longer available for download, see this week's Development Page for the details.

Delivering the Linux Desktop (Consulting Times). This editorial, posted prior to the Xandros buyout of Corel's Linux division (or takeover, or whatever you might call it), provides a manifesto for companies to provide a Linux desktop , which is code named "Riptide Linux" in the article. "Riptide stands above the KDE/GNOME and other controversies, but its primary mission is to deliver optimal solutions to corporate clients and end users. The most mature solutions will be given primacy, though alternate selections will be provided wherever there are close substitutes or well-defined constituencies."

Section Editor: Michael J. Hammel

Note: An asterisk (*) denotes a proprietary product, (w) denotes WINE based tools.

Desktop Environments
GNOME
GNUstep
KDE
XFce

Window Managers (WM's)
Afterstep
Enlightenment
FVMW2
IceWM
Sawfish
WindowMaker

Minimalist Environments
Blackbox

Widget Sets
GTK+
Qt

Desktop Graphics
CorelDRAW (*)(w)
GIMP
Kontour
Photogenics (*)
Sketch

Windows on Linux
WINE
Win4Lin
VMWare

Kids S/W
Linux For Kids

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