On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 12:02:09 -0700, BB Cao <pearlsmm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I'm staring change to linux to work on editing things, such as, documents, presentations, figures,... I used to do those things on Windows machines. Of course, all my other jobs has been done on Linux and I am very pleased of that. As a starter, I found it is difficult to find apropriate programs. Your suggestions will be highly appreciated. I'm interested in doing the following: > > 1, write Latex files, Lyx is supposed to be nice. It is available from extras.