Seven killer Linux apps

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1. Evolution - If you want a really outstanding desktop email client Evolution is what you should be taking a serious look at. Compatible with Microsoft Exchange 2007/2010 and OpenChange servers, Evolution provides email, calendaring, contacts, memos and tasks. Think of it as Outlook without the baggage.
2. Krita Desktop - Take look at Krita Desktop, a really impressive free, open source, painting tool that rivals Adobe Photoshop on features and makes a lot of graphics work flow much easier, if you do any graphics.
3. Guake - Guake, a drop-down command terminal for Gnome desktops Guake is packaged by a number of distributions, among which are Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, ArchLinux…
4. Focuswriter - Focuswriter is a word processor designed to exclude distraction. It’s highly customizable, has optional autosave, and can even produce typewriter sounds if you want to feel like you’re doing it old skool.
5. Zim - Free and open source, Zim is a lightweight multimedia "desktop personal wiki" that does a whole lot more than just handle text and images. Zim can check spelling, perform calculations and create calendars through plug-ins. Zim can also be used to create HTML for online publishing and there’s an embedded web server to publish live content. Simple, elegant and thoroughly useful.
6. Kexi - Kexi is the Linux equivalent of Microsoft Access . Available as part of the Calligra office suite, Kexi is a visual database creator and user interface. Bundled with SQLite and compatible with MySQL and PostgreSQL databases (for both import and export). It is fast and stable too. A tool for migrating from Microsoft Access is available and it provides APIs covering most of its functionality.
7. Bluefish - Check out Bluefish if you are really in need of a programming and Web content editor that’s really sophisticated but lightweight and flexible.. It loads fast, supports projects (groups of files), has auto-completion and auto-tag closing, understands many programming languages, and includes site upload and download ability..