Para todos aquellos que quieran hacer la instalacion de una distribucion Linux y se hayan decidido por instalar Debian en su version 5 «Lenny», aqui dejo un nuevo articulo de los amigos de howtoforge.

En la instalación que se realiza se montan los siguientes elementos:

Graficos:

• The GIMP – Reemplazar photoshop
• F-Spot – Gestion de fotos digitales con multitud de funcionalidad
  
• Google Picasa – organizar y editar fotos digitales
  

Internet:

• Firefox/Iceweasel
• Opera
• Flash Player 10
• FileZilla – multithreaded FTP client
• Thunderbird/Icedove – email and news client
• Evolution – combines e-mail, calendar, address book, and task list management functions
• aMule – P2P file sharing application
• Transmission BitTorrent Client – Cliente BitTorrent
• Azureus/Vuze – Cliente Java Bittorrent
• Pidgin – Mensajeria instantanea con conexion a multitud de redes
  
• Skype
• Google Earth
• Xchat IRC – Cliente IRC

Oficina:

• OpenOffice Writer – Susutituto de MS Word
• OpenOffice Calc – Sustituto de MS Excel
  
• Adobe Reader
• GnuCash – double-entry book-keeping personal finance system, similar to Quicken
• Scribus – open source desktop publishing (DTP) application

Sonido & video:

• Amarok – audio player
• Audacity – free, open source, cross platform digital audio editor
• Banshee – audio player, can encode/decode various formats and synchronize music with Apple iPods
• MPlayer – media player (video/audio), supports WMA
• Rhythmbox Music Player – audio player, similar to Apple’s iTunes, with support for iPods
• gtkPod – software similar to Apple’s iTunes, supports iPod, iPod nano, iPod shuffle, iPod photo, and iPod mini
• XMMS – audio player similar to Winamp
• dvd::rip – full featured DVD copy program
• Kino – free digital video editor
• Sound Juicer CD Extractor – CD ripping tool, supports various audio codecs
• VLC Media Player – media player (video/audio)
• Real Player
• Totem – media player (video/audio)
• Xine – media player, supports various formats; can play DVDs
• Brasero – CD/DVD burning program
• K3B – CD/DVD burning program
• Multimedia Codecs

Programación:

• KompoZer – WYSIWYG HTML editor, similar to Macromedia Dreamweaver, but not as feature-rich (yet)
• Bluefish – text editor, suitable for many programming and markup languages
• Quanta Plus – web development environment, including a WYSIWYG editor

Otros:

• VMware Server – lets you run your old Windows desktop as a virtual machine under your Linux desktop, so you don’t have to entirely abandon Windows
• TrueType fonts
• Java
• Read-/Write support for NTFS partitions

El enlace original del articulo lo podéis encontrar en http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfect-desktop-debian-lenny pero por si las moscas, aquí dejo enlaces al fichero pdf the-perfect-desktop-debian-lenny.pdf y al odt the-perfect-desktop-debian-lenny.odt.