Thanks to reader Sandy Arnott, who got in touch to suggest some good open source applications in response to our cover feature on Firefox.
"As a word processor I'd recommend Abiword rather than Open Office. It does enough for most people and is a lot less bloated than the Office suites."
Sandy also puts forward the following:
"For FTP - Filezilla
Basic web page creation - NVU
News Group Reader - Pan (better than Thunderbird)
SSH/Telnet - Putty
Network monitoring - Ethereal (Nmap for the more adventurous)
Remote Desktop - VNC
Web site development - Xampp
Content Management - Zope/Plone (and with Xampp the various Nukes, Mambo and phpBB)"
Can't say I've used all these, but thanks for the suggestions. Anyone got any other applications they think deserve a mention?
