Andy Green wrote:
Open Office draw manages this for me, there's also Dia and Sodipodi.
I have installed Sodipodi and it looks at first glance to be able to do the job I need.....but I have the horrible task now of re-saving all my
CorelDraw files into something that Sodipodi can open.
Open OfficeMS Publisher equivalent
Have just installed Scribus and that looks interesting, but I will also
look into OpenOffice. I still have these ex-Windows mind-sets, in that when I tried to use MS Office desktop publishing, the results were not good, bloated and very often incompatible with other peoples systems, so I avoided OpenOffice thinking it may suffer the same fate. I will look into it though.
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.
Again - I'll look it up - YUM says that the version I have 1.2.? is up to date, so I'll do a search for a FC1/RH package.
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).
Kazaa used to be useful, but now all I get are movie previews. I use Soulseek a lot as I held a repository of Palm freeware and the combined chat/file share facility was good. However, as I am now leaving Windows behind, and a lot of what I did on the Palm was tied to Windows (there are not that many Linux versions of 'Windows versions of Palm software')
I might be leaving that behind. I'm certainly not going to give up on Linux just because of p2p apps.
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.
For that price, I could get a low-power PC and a KVM switch and not lose on performance on the Linux box.
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 :?)
Well - personally I am prepared to offer whatever contribution I can, given the time to get into Linux and to find out what contribution I can give. At the moment I consider myself a newbie so don't feel confident in being 'responsible' for anything. In addition - I can't code at all, but I guess that there may be a need for help with hosting/building web sites/etc?
And I wasn't complaining - I was commenting. To complain about the lack of a piece for software when the guys writing and maintaining this stuff are doing it for free, in spare time, would be downright rude. I complain about MS software and the quality of software that I have paid money for - my comments were simply a wish-list.
And yes - it can be very difficult to find your way through the vast number of packages out there....but now that I've found:
http://linuxshop.ru/linuxbegin/win-lin-soft-en/table.shtml
...it ought to be a lot easier!
Bryan Anderson <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
