On 14 Jun, Scott Tyson wrote:
> MY current tools of choice for NT are MS office 97, Allaire Homesite
> 3.0/Frontpage 98 for my HTML, Adobe Photoshop for graphics, GNU Emacs
> sometimes (trying to learn it), Calypso for Email, NewsExpress for usenet,
> CDValet for Music CDs, Pirch32 fir IRC and Gamespy/Quake2 for
> entertainment. 
> 
> So here's what I would like to get for RH 5.0
> An email client that can read my email from my ISP's pop3 server that has
> similiar functionality to say Outlook Express, Eudora Pro or Calypso.  I
> don't like Nets cape messenger as an email client. 
> A news reader that will read news from My isp's news server that is similar
> to NewsExpress in features. Again I don't care much for Netscape here
> A CD player that will query CDDB databases on the internet (I use CDValet).
> A quake/quake2 utility that will find me some servers such as Gamespy.
> A specialized HTML edititng tool.

GUI programs:

StarOffice4.0 (office suite - bulky but not bad)
http://www.stardivision.com/download/index.html

asWedit (html editor -- HTML4.0 version coming out soon)
http://www.advasoft.com/

Gimp (graphics program)
http://www.gimp.org/

XEmacs
http://www.xemacs.org/

XfMail or TkRat (Email)
http://burka.netvision.net.il/xfmail/xfmail.html
http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~maf/ratatosk/

Netscape or News Peruser (News)
http://www.wwdc.com/~jbailie/

Tkirc
http://www.north.de/~atte/tkirc/

Xmcd (cd player that originated CDDB -- will run using lesstif)
http://sunsite.unc.edu/~cddb/xmcd/

Xisp (dialer)
http://users.hol.gr/~dbouras/

For Quake stuff try:
http://captured.com/threewave/linux/

To be able to get all newsreaders to read your ISP's NNTP Server add
the following lines (with your NNTP info of course) to your system (or
user) profile:

NNTPSERVER=news.whatever.org
export NNTPSERVER


Hope this helps.

fj
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