June 27, 2007

Can someone give me a list, or a site with a list, of programs made or compatible with Ubuntu Linux?

Media Players, Video Players, Video/Photo editing, Screensavers, custimization programs, browsers, everything thats compatible with Ubuntu. I downloaded programs for Linux, but they don't say what they are campitable with, but some sites say Ubuntu Linux. I just switched from XP to Linux…literally 10 minutes ago. So, I have no idea about anything. Though I found a Ubuntu guide thats quite large, so I don't need that.

  1. Ok. slow down, hun… Ubuntu's got lots of stuff already installed!

    Look around in the Applications list (it's in the top left hand corner), there's more hidden in your system too…
    Ubuntu has this neat thing called APT - it grabs programs and installs them for you!

    Click on Application (top left), then on Add/Remove… Look for what you want using the Search box in the upper right hand corner.

    If you don't find what you're looking for, enable the "unsupported" and "commercial" programs as well.

    If you're still not finding what you're looking for, click on Advanced (bottom left corner). The search box is semi-hidden here - click on the [Search] button and type in what you're looking for.

    No specific names unless you know they're made for Linux. There are literally thousands (15,000 on mine, but I have added sources so that might be different for you)

    Welcome to computing the way it should be! (I use Ubuntu too *grin* feel free to ask me questions.)

    Oh… and if you have a wireless … you may have some difficulties getting it to work. There are ways, of course, but they take some research (Google is your best friend… so are the ubuntu forums)

    http://www.ubuntuforums.org/

    Use the Search engine with keywords like the wireless's model number.

  2. There are a lot at places like freshmeat.net and sourceforge.net, but here are some lists and pages that may be helpful for you.

    http://lifehacker.com/software/ubuntu/ha…
    http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,120520…
    http://www.edsupport.cc/mguhlin/blog/arc…
    http://slibuntu.wordpress.com/
    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/

  3. Goto Applications, then Add/Remove Applications. Good amount of choices there. Add extra repository servers, and you'll have so much software your eyes will bug out.
    http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/ubuntu_edgy#…

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