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caveman_piet:
Hi.

Just been reading the previous topic by void main.

Q. Is there anyway (or someone to do it) of
getting a list of most often used progs in
winbloze and their Linux alternatives??  :D  

eg. visio vs. kivio / dia etc.
    word vs. open office / Star office etc.
gimp... xmms... and so on

A lot have been written in the forums re. Linux
programs to use in place of the eq winbloze jobs.
But combing the forums is a nightmare -
I usually know that something was written about
a program - but finding it.... jeeez..    

Or is there a better way of scanning the forums
that I haven't figured out yet?  :confused:

Or a book or internet site with the above?

voidmain:
That's a good idea, there has to be lists out there like that but I can't for the life of me think of one that I have seen that lists them out like that. It would make a great FAQ entry. Do it just like you say:

MS Word - OO Writer, KOffice, AbiWord, etc, etc
MS Excel - OO Calc, GNUmeric, etc, etc
MS PowerPoint - OO Impress, etc, etc
MS Project - Mr Project, etc
MS Visio - Kivio, Dia, etc
MS SQL Server - PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc, etc
MS IIS - Apache, etc
MS IE - Mozilla, Konqueror, etc, etc, etc
MS Windows - Linux, BSD, etc
Quicken/Quickbooks - GNU Cash
?????????? - OO Draw
Write/Notepad - gedit, kedit
Edit - Vim, Emacs, etc, etc
BSOD - N/A

This is just an example of a start. And of course my list only contains the open source and free versions of the equivelant apps. There are many other very nice proprietary software apps that could me added to the list (as well as boatloads more free apps). Maybe we should get ideas for a left side list and then find all the alternatives on the right. And then rate all the apps on both sides.

[ December 11, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

DJ:
I was just going to start a topic about this but while we are on the subject, is there a open source alternative to SoundForge?

Dj

zooloo:
SoundForge alternatives:

waveforge linux.tucows.com/mmedia/preview/31585.html

ecasound www.wakkanet.fi/~kaiv/ecasound/download.html

Both Linux only (I think so anyway) and I've been told not up to SoundForge's standard.

zooloo

Refalm:
Windows 9

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