I think fedora needs...
Bryan Anderson
fedora at bryananderson.co.uk
Mon Nov 24 14:23:15 UTC 2003
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.
>>>MS Publisher equivalent
> Open Office
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 at bryananderson.co.uk>
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