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Productivity

An overview of packages that fit the properties of the Eee PC. Packages should be lightweight, due to the limited capabilities of the Eee PC’s hardware; and also should be easily navigable without a mouse, due to the restrictions imposed on some by the trackpad.

Applications

PDF Viewers

  • xpdf: Lightweight and has a nice fullscreen mode with zoom.

Word Processors

  • Abiword: A perfect fit for the Eee PC, it’s lightweight and lets you edit and save some standard formats (.doc, .rtf, .pdf,...) no .odt though unless you install the plugins (~10MB).

  • Scite: Lightweight GTK-based Programming Editor, tabbed and featureful.

Web browsers

  • Iceweasel: Debian’s version of Firefox, the same in all but branding due to licensing issues. Very configurable for the small screen. There are various other incarnations of Firefox, but they non-free, such as Swiftfox.

  • Netsurf: Small, but modern webbrowser in developement. No tabs yet though.

  • Links2: Lightweight Webbrowser with text-mode, SVGA and X support. No CSS support.

  • Opera: Non-free, efficient webbrowser with full-screen mode, needs less disk space than Iceweasel/Firefox, etc. but is faster and more featureful (if you don’t count addons).

  • Vimperator: Iceweasel plugin that gives Iceweasel vim-like keybindings and removes most GUI functions.

  • lynx: Lightweight text-based web browser.

  • Chrome: by Google is just about ready.

Chatting

  • ayttm: Lightweight multi-use client. This is what the live CD demo uses.

  • irssi: Light text only IRC client. Very extensible and scriptable.

  • naim: ncurses AIM, ICQ, IRC, and Lily CMC client, that's also quite extensible.

  • aMSN: A nice MSN messenger client that works with webcam.

  • Linphone: VoIP video-phone. Like skype, but open-source. Free calls to other users, or create an account and pay for calls to house and mobile phones worldwide. Needs ?backporting from sid, but that will change - watch this space.

Mail/News Aggregators

  • mutt: Powerful, customizable e-mail client. Feature-rich, lightweight, and runs in a CLI. Quite lightweight.

  • rsstail: Very minimalist RSS aggregator. Acts pretty much like tail for RSS feeds.

  • nrss: Ncurses RSS feed aggregator. Single pane design, fast, and lighweight.

  • newsbeuter: Another CLI rss aggregator. Similar keybindings to mutt. Easy to navigate through quickly only using a keyboard.

  • canto: Flexible ncurses Atom/RSS newsreader for the console with great usability.

Map Applications

  • tangoGPS: lightweight and fast map and gps application, keyboard shortcuts, made for small screens, offline map use of openstreetmap, openaerialmap, maps-for-free.

Screen Shots

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