One of the classic problems that newcomers to Linux face is locating and installing software to do the work they want to accomplish. With Synaptic in Ubuntu, installing the software has been made simple, but choosing which software to install can still be a challenge. The more than 20,000 packages that Ubuntu offers up can be daunting indeed. This is where sites like Gnomefiles.com can come in. Gnomefiles is a clearing house of software built on GTK, the application toolkit that underpins the Gnome desktop that Ubuntu uses.

Gnomefiles.com offers up an index of several thousand applications that are rated and reviewed by users, so you can see what other people think of them before you install. Some of the more popular applications there are commercial, or otherwise not in the Ubuntu repositories. One example of this is NeroLinux, an excellent CD burning application. It is a commercial application, but there is a demo available, and the deb files provided work seamlessly in Hardy.

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