CHAPTER 11 UBUNTU REPLACEMENTS FOR WINDOWS PROGRAMS (Graphic web design)
CHAPTER 11 UBUNTU REPLACEMENTS FOR WINDOWS PROGRAMS You can choose between Quick, Standard, and Thorough formats. Quick simply wipes the disk s table of contents, Standard will perform an actual disk format, and Thorough adds in a disk scan to mark up any bad data blocks. Archive Manager Archive Manager (also known as File Roller), shown in Figure 11-13, is Ubuntu s archive tool. It s the default program that opens whenever you double-click .zip files (or .tar, .gz, or .bzip2 files, which are the native archive file formats under Linux). If you want to start the program manually, click Applications . Accessories . Archive Manager. Figure 11-13. Archive Manager To extract files from an archive, select them (hold down the Ctrl key to select more than one file), and then click the Extract button on the toolbar. To create an archive, start Archive Manager and click the New button. Give the archive a name, and then drag-and-drop files onto the Archive Manager window. When you ve finished, simply close the Archive Manager window. Dictionary You can use the Dictionary tool to look up the definition of words using either a dictionary stored on the hard disk or one online, at the Cambridge Dictionary web site. The dictionary on the disk is a 1913 edition of Webster s, so its word definitions are hardly current and don t take into account any recent vocabulary, but the online dictionary is certainly up-to-date.