-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 24 November 2003 13:36, Craig White wrote: > On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 06:01, Bryan Anderson wrote: > > Fernando Fernandez wrote: > > > When i was seduced by the dark side i used ms paint a lot i would > > > create complex artwork via that little application--its one thing that > > > calls me Back...to windows--the simple ms paint... > > > > Personally - I think that Linux needs: > > > > CorelDraw equivalent Open Office draw manages this for me, there's also Dia and Sodipodi. > > MS Publisher equivalent Open Office > > PhotoShop/PaintShopPro equivalent Gimp is better than it seems at first meeting it. There is a MUCH newer 1.3.23 beta version of Gimp available for download from http://www.gimp.org/ too, I think somebody was talking about it earlier as being packaged. Its meant to be a beta but I started using it a couple of months ago and its perfectly stable. > > Kazaa/Soulseek clients Bittorrent is pretty good. I don't use the other P2P any more but there used to be limewire and other such things that ran on Linux (with Java I think in the case of limewire). If you MUST stay with Windows for one or two apps because they just can't come over, Vmware is a great solution (at $299 tho). This literally makes your Windows session a window on your Linux desktop and it runs fully concurrently sharing the hardware. Windows runs drivers that fake up hardware while actually passing the requests through to your regular Linux drivers. Its REALLY GOOD, you can even have things like XP and 98 up at the same time without leaving Linux. There's a 30-day trial for free at http://www.vmware.com. > I think Linux needs less people who make statements such as this > without: > > - bothering to check on the status of projects that might give them what > they want. To be fair, it can be a problem finding out what is good and available... its the kind of thing that it can be difficult to frame in a Google search. I heard about Sodipodi the other week from Slashdot, for example, its hard unless you spend a lot of time reading up on what's going on. Sourceforge/Freshmeat search by popularity and activity can help but it only hosts a fraction of the projects that are out there. This is where the distros can help, by bringing in the best of breed it means you don't have to have your ear to the ground all the time. If the original poster had said "Fedora needs" instead of "Linux needs" then maybe it wouldn't've got your back up. > - making contributions to the development of projects that interest > them. > > But hey, that's just me. Well, fair enough, but its surprisingly hard to frame an email complaining about someone complaining without inadvertantly becoming guilty of the very thing you abhor... wouldn't it've been more useful if your email had contained something more than the same kind of complaint you were complaining about :?) - -Andy -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/wg5xjKeDCxMJCTIRAqVSAJoDbJ295aoyMNQfOBbLE78q5VCkKwCglw8g fFDyNSzIU3+Z+zHn9OxVzuU= =6ES0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
