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Hello everyone,

Now that I've got linux running happily on my system, I'd like 
to get some work done with it, ie. actually be productive. 
Could you please post a list of linux applications with the 
equivalent power and features of these Windows applications 
which are freely available on the internet (public domain) and 
do not require a heap of hacking and training to get going. 
Apps which use XWindows would be preferable. I am using the 
1.1.59 kernel with Slackware 2.0.something(!) distribution.

1. Word for Windows - font formatting, alignments, WYSIWYG, 
tables, OLE or graphics within documents.

2. Relational database (like MS Access) with comprehensive 
query features and report writer/printer.

3. Spreadsheet with graphing capabilities.

4. TWAIN driver for Mustek CG-8400 hand scanner, and 
photo-editing software.

5. HTML editor (preferably WYSIWYG, like Hotmetal).

6. Graphics / photo retouching / draw (like Coreldraw or paint 
shop pro).

In a word, I need equivalents to MS Office for medical research 
work, and the graphics/HTML editor packages for web publishing. 
I would be most happy to dump Windows for critical work such as 
my research, but I don't have the time for faffing around with 
too many man pages or recompiling (I'm a medical student, not a 
computing/IT student); I'm not all that cluey with coding, 
scripting and so on. However, until I find good public domain 
replacements, I'm forced to stick to Windows.

Please email me (preferable), but posting to this newsgroup 
will be fine. Any appropriate ftp addresses would be most 
welcome, I would be most grateful.


Thanking you all in advance,

Kelvin


P.S. Anyone know where I can buy Caffrey's Irish Ale in Sydney?

:)
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Kelvin Lau
kelvinl@magna.com.au
Sydney, NSW Australia