On Friday, Apr 28th 2006 at 12:02 -0700, quoth BB Cao: =>Dear All, => =>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, =>2, write a daily record,(diary?) =>3, occasionaly edit a couple of webpages, =>4, organize references => =>Thanks! => =>Best, => Cao Thank God we haven't had a religious war in at least 20 minutes. -- Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have .0. happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ ..0 Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- 000 individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? steveo at syslang.net