Since Internet was born on Unix machines, you find plenty of nice and easy-to-use applications under Linux. Here are just some:
elm
or pine
to handle your email; both
programs have on-line help. For short messages, you could use mail
, as
in mail -s "hello" user@somewhere < msg.txt
. You may like programs like
xmail
or some such.
tin
, very intuitive and self-explanatory.
ftp
, ask your
sysadm to install a graphical ftp client like xftp
.
netscape
, or xmosaic
, chimera
and arena
are graphical web browsers; a character-based one is
lynx
, quick and effective.