Translations by Arsen Kamensky

Open <application>Add/Remove Programs</application> by going to <menuchoice><guimenu>KMenu</guimenu><guimenuitem>Add/Remove Programs</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.

Kontact - Personal Information Manager

<acronym>IMAP</acronym>, <acronym>POP3</acronym> and <acronym>SMTP</acronym> support.

<acronym>SSL</acronym>, <acronym>TLS</acronym>, and DIGEST-MD5 secure logon support.

<acronym>PGP</acronym> and <acronym>GnuPG</acronym> signatures and encryption support.

<acronym>HTML</acronym> reading, spam filtering, internal character sets, search and filter functions, spell checking, and more.

<application>KMail</application> is the email component of <application>Kontact</application>, the KDE personal information manager. <application>KMail</application> by itself is similar in functionality to the Microsoft Outlook Express application whereas <application>Kontact</application> is as full featured as Microsoft Outlook. The following are just some of the features of <application>KMail</application>. <placeholder-1/>

More information on <application>KMail</application> and configuration can be located in <ulink type="help" url="help:/kmail">The KMail Handbook</ulink>. If you plan on using <application>KMail</application> within <application>Kontact</application> also refer to <ulink type="help" url="help:/kontact">The Kontact Handbook</ulink>.

Chat Clients

Chatting with friends and family is one of the more popular uses of the Internet. Kubuntu provides you with the necessary applications in order to do so. There are two main chat clients in Kubuntu; <application>Kopete</application> for all of your instant messaging needs and <application>Konversation</application> for chatting on <acronym>IRC</acronym> (Internet Relay Chat).

Kopete

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<application>Kopete</application> is the KDE instant messaging (<acronym>IM</acronym>) client. It provides you all of the functionality similar to that of other popular <acronym>IM</acronym> clients today. With <application>Kopete</application> you can setup accounts for: <placeholder-1/>

More help is available in the <ulink type="help" url="help:/kopete">Kopete Handbook</ulink>.

Konversation - IRC Client

User-friendly tabbed interface

Customizable Quick Buttons for often-used commands

Visual and auditory notification for a wide variety of events

On-screen display (<acronym>OSD</acronym>) of messages

<application>Konversation</application> is the KDE <acronym>IRC</acronym> (Internet Relay Chat) client for KDE. It provides you a lot of the functionality similar to that of other popular <acronym>IRC</acronym> clients today. Some of the included functionality of <application>Konversation</application> is: <placeholder-1/>

BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file distribution protocol with a method of distributing vast amounts of data without the control of a middle man. There are many available BitTorrent clients available for use in Kubuntu, however <application>KTorrent</application> is the default application. Other applications available as a BitTorrent client include, but are not limited to, <application>Azureus</application>, <application>BitTornado</application>, <application>BitTorrent</application> and more. <application>Azureus</application> is one of the more popular BitTorrent clients in use today and is created in Java.

<application>KTorrent</application> is a BitTorrent application designed specifically for KDE. Loaded with features, <application>KTorrent</application> is a very functional application that is light on the system and fast on the Internet. To use <application>KTorrent</application>, simply download a <filename>.torrent</filename> file and <application>KTorrent</application> will automatically recognize the file and start the download. Using <application>KTorrent</application> is very simple and straight forward.

This section will briefly explain the procedure for setting up <application>Konqueror</application> to utilize <productname>Java</productname>.

Start up <application>Konqueror</application> and enjoy.

This section will briefly explain the procedure for setting up <application>Firefox</application> to utilize <productname>Java</productname> on 32-bit systems.

If you are unsure which processor architecture you are using, simply open <application>Konsole</application> by going to <menuchoice><guimenu>KMenu</guimenu><guisubmenu>System</guisubmenu><guimenuitem>Konsole - Terminal Program</guimenuitem></menuchoice>, and then typing at the prompt <command>uname -a</command> followed by pressing the <keycap>Enter</keycap> key. You should see an output similar to the following: <screen> Linux konqi 2.6.22-9-generic #1 SMP Fri Aug 3 00:50:37 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux </screen> The <acronym>i686</acronym> towards the end of the line means that you are using a 32-bit processor. If you see <acronym>x86_64</acronym> instead, then you are using a 64-bit operating system and should see <xref linkend="plugins-java-ff-64"/>.