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Minimum set of Hebrew applications needed to get people to migrate to Linux?



I have some friends who use Windows 95 for games, Internet access
(WWW, ICQ and E-mail) and word processing (including FAX transmission
and reception).
Of course, they once in a while run into trouble with Windows 95 and
ask me (or some other "exprt") to help them out.
I got fed up with those requests for help.  So the idea is to move them
over to Linux (except for games; when Windows 95 is used ONLY for
games and it crashes, then you may just reinstall it and it'll be OK).

Now, the question is what is the bare minimum set of applications
which will allow Linux to be "killer application" for home Hebrew users.
I thought about:
1. A decent bilingual word processor.
2. Bilingual WWW browser.
3. ICQ client, whose Hebrew support is as good as that of version 98a
on Windows 95.
4. E-mail program which can send and receive messages in the format
used by Microsoft (to ease migration pains) E-mail software.
5. FAX software, which is preconfigured to run out of the box.
6. PPP configuration software, which knows about your (Israeli) ISP
and can even build a POPmail script to automatically fetch your
E-mail from hotmail/juno/geocities/walla.

It would be a good idea to build a distribution of packages containing
the above software and let all the above be installed&configured at
one step over a standard Linux distribution (separate versions will,
of course, be needed for Debian, RedHat and Slackware).
                                                                            --- Omer
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