Internet

Ubuntu installs an assortment of applications for browsing and communication across the Internet.

Evolution Mail

Evolution Mail Main Window

Evolution is a complete Personal Information Manager (PIM) application similar to Microsoft Outlook™. Evolution integrates an email, contact management and calendar interface into a single application. When started from the Internet submenu the email application component is displayed. From this perspective it is easy to change between the other components. Evolution is also available from the Office submenu. When started from the Office submenu, Evolution starts in 'Calendar mode.'

Gaim Internet Messenger

Gaim Internet Messenger Main Window

Gaim is an instant messaging client that can be used on the following instant messaging systems: AIM and ICQ (Oscar protocol), MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, GroupWise Messenger, and Zephyr.

GNOME BitTorrent

GNOME BitTorrent Main Window

GNOME BitTorrent allows you download files using the BitTorrent, a peer-to-peer based protocol where people both upload and download the same file at the same time. To download a file using BitTorrent, you can either click on a .torrent link in your web browser, double-click on a .torrent file in a directory, or open the bittorrent program on the menu and open a torrent file when it asks for you a meta file.

GnomeMeeting

GnomeMeeting Main Window

GnomeMeeting is an audio/video-conferencing application. It is based on the H.323 ITU standard and allows you to make audio and video calls to remote users with H.323 hardware or software (such as Microsoft Netmeeting). It also supports all modern videoconferencing features, such as registering to an Internet Locator Service (ILS) directory, gatekeeper support, making multi-user conference calls using an external Multipoint Control Unit (MCU), using modern Quicknet telephony cards and making PC-To-Phone calls.

Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Firefox Main Window

Firefox is a feature rich, standards compliant, secure web browser based on the Mozilla Gecko rendering engine. Themes and Extensions make it a highly customizable and extensible browser. It is probably also the safest; it has a built-in popup blocker, and does not allow ActiveX controls to run, preventing spyware and other malicious programs from being installed.

Terminal Server

Terminal Server Main Window

Terminal Server is a front end for rdesktop and vncviewer, which are programs used for connecting to other computers desktops over a network.

XChat

XChat Main Window

XChat is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client.