Here are some common utilities such as Calculator, Text Editor, Clock, City Time, etc.

File Manager

This is the Console if you feel like doing some geeky command line.

A handy Drawpad for quick drawing, similar to Paint on Windows.

A simple text editor similar to Notepad on Windows.

A nice backup and restore utility is also included.

Familiar distribution along with GPE or Opie (or even a full blown Linux environment) provides a very good foundation to build a open mobile Linux platform upon which businesses and individuals could take advantages of. Given that most of the vendors exited the standalone handheld or PDA market, applications such as phone (yeah phone, both GSM and CDMA), GPS, and so on are sorely needed. There are individual efforts to port this platform to other phones, such as Palm Treo, HTC device-based Pocket PC phones but none is stable enough for day to day use yet.