On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:50:34 +0100 John Levin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all, > > A question for you all, one that's been exercising me: where do you find > out about applications? > Do you read about them on the net or in mags, think it sounds > interesting, then look it up in synaptic? > If you have a particular need (say, cataloguing pdfs), how would you go > about finding a suitable app? How would you google, where would you ask? > If after searching, you have a large choice of apps, how would you > choose between them? Would you test them all? To what sort of depth? > > TIA > > John > > -- > John Levin > http://www.technolalia.org/blog/ > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ Apart from the usual Ubuntu software repositories, you might also want to take a look at: http://www.getdeb.net/ for some of the latest versions of apps that will work with Ubuntu. regards, Steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/