I want to move to Linux...please help!

[bwid_s_01]

I really to want to move to Linux soon. However I don't know what software to use. I do tons of work with multimedia, and I can only make the move if ALL of the following programs I use are available for Linux. Please someone tell me all the programs (both free and commercial) that are out there for Linux that do the following. And please only list the BEST ones, like the programs that a professional in each category would use:

Premiere-like video editor (firewire/dv support)
Excellent quality MPEG encoder (as good as TMPGenc)
High Quality MP3 encoder
Audio editing/mixing (like Cool Edit Pro)
DVD Authoring
DVD Ripper that has all capabilities of DVD Decrypter
 - by ripper I do NOT mean DVD-VCD/SVCD. I mean
   a program that can make enprotected ISOs of my
   legally bought DVDs!
Photoshop like image editor
Media Player (Would LOVE and all in one player)
   - Audio CD
   - DVD/VCD/SVCD
   - MPEG 1/2
   - WAVE/MP3
   - RAW DV files
   - (WMA,WMV,ASF,QT,RM nice, but not mandatory)
HTML/Web page designer
Word Processor
Need a good calculator program
All in one organizer like Lotus's
   - Calendar
   - Address/Contact manager
   - Web account manager
   - Notepad
AN IM Chat program for AIM and Yahoo (an all in one like Trillian would be nice)
CD/DVD Burning program capable of doing:
   - regular burning of files
   - burning Audio CDs
   - testing & verifying after burning
   - burning/creating ISOs
Virus/Spyware/Trojan Checkers
Something P2P like Kazaa
Something like Daemon Tools to mount ISOs as virtual drives
Something like WinImage to make floppy/HD/CD images
And finally something that read/writes BOTH .zip and .rar files

If I can have good quality programs that do ALL of those things I will be incredibly happy to move to Linux right away. I know I can dual-boot with Windows to use other stuff there, and I probbaly will keep my Win2k (fuck XP). However I want my primary OS to do everything I want in it.

Also, please explain something to me. I keep hearing the protected DVDs (like most of them are) cannot be played on Linux because Linux doesn't support the encryption protection. Is this true? Does it mean I can't play most DVDs are Linux??

THANKS A LOT!

[ July 30, 2003: Message edited by: bwid_s_01 ]

[skyman8081]

quote:Originally posted by bwid_s_01:
Premiere-like video editor (firewire/dv support)

I'm looking for one aswell. so either get a mac or wine  

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Excellent quality MPEG encoder (as good as TMPGenc)

Mencoder?  

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High Quality MP3 encoder

hmm. dunno. grip maybe otherwise wine

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Audio editing/mixing (like Cool Edit Pro)

wine  

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DVD Authoring

k3b plus dvdrtools  

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Photoshop like image editor

GIMP (now with CYMK support!) or wine  

quote:
Media Player (Would LOVE and all in one player)
   - Audio CD
   - DVD
   - MPEG 1/2
   - WAVE/MP3
   - RAW DV files
   - (WMA,WMV,ASF,QT,RM nice, but not mandatory)

xine and xmms  

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HTML/Web page designer

vi or the WYSIWYG amaya  

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Word Processor

Openoffice.org  

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Need a good calculator program

a plethora availible  

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All in one organizer like Lotus's
   - Calendar
   - Address/Contact manager
   - Web account manager
   - Notepad

Open Office?

and there ya go

[ July 30, 2003: Message edited by: [root@localhost /]$ ]

[emh]

I can help on a few things:

 

quote:Originally posted by bwid_s_01:

Premiere-like video editor (firewire/dv support)

You might want to take a look at Cinelerra.  I haven't used it myself, so I can't comment on it.

http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3

 

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High Quality MP3 encoder
Audio editing/mixing (like Cool Edit Pro)

The best resource I can offer here is on this site.  It gives links to many great audio/midi applications:

http://www.linux-sound.org

I use Ecasound and Audacity myself, and MuSe and Rosegarden occasionally as well.

 

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Photoshop like image editor

I'll get flogged for this, but probably your best best would be to go to http://www.codeweavers.com and purchase a copy of Crossover Office.  It supports Photoshop.  But look into GIMP as well.

 

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Media Player (Would LOVE and all in one player)
   - Audio CD
   - DVD
   - MPEG 1/2
   - WAVE/MP3
   - RAW DV files
   - (WMA,WMV,ASF,QT,RM nice, but not mandatory)

MPlayer runs all of these

 

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Word Processor

Open Office.

 

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Need a good calculator program
All in one organizer like Lotus's
   - Calendar
   - Address/Contact manager
   - Web account manager
   - Notepad[/QB]

[/quote]

You could also try running Lotus in Crossover Office as well.  If I remember correctly, it's also supported.

I don't know about the rest of your items, because I don't do any of those things regularly.

[emh]

Ooops, I missed the last portion of your post:

 

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AN IM Chat program for AIM and Yahoo (an all in one like Trillian would be nice)

You've got several choices here.  Gaim, Ayttm, and Kopete come to mind immediately, and you can also run Trillian in Wine or Crossover Office.

 

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CD/DVD Burning program capable of doing:
- regular burning of files
- burning Audio CDs
- testing & verifying after burning
- burning/creating ISOs

K3B is probably the best Cd-burning App I've ever used.  It does all of that seemlessly, and it's much easier to set up and use than X-Cd-Roast, GCombust, or E-Roaster, in my opinion, anyway.  That being said, the others do this as well.

 

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Virus/Spyware/Trojan Checkers

Not a huge concern in Linux, but not something that should be ignored, either.  I don't know of any off-hand, though.

 

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Something P2P like Kazaa

Kazaa will work in Wine and Crossover Office, but there's also a number of Gnutella clients (http://www.gnutella.org) plus there's eDonkey.

 

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Something like WinImage to make floppy/HD/CD images

That can be done on the command line, but I don't remember the command off hand.

[ July 30, 2003: Message edited by: emh ]

[Mirrorball]

quote:High Quality MP3 encoder

Lame is available.
Do you know Ogg Vorbis? It's an audio compression format that sounds better than mp3 and the files are smaller. You should check it, it's available for Windows too.

 

quote:Photoshop like image editor

Run Photoshop on wine or use The Gimp if your images are not for print.

 

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Media Player (Would LOVE and all in one player)

MPlayer

 

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HTML/Web page designer

You would do better without a WYSIWYG HTML editor (in my opinion)... But if you must... Mozilla Composer. Dreamweaver on wine.

 

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Word Processor

OpenOffice.org Writer.

 

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Need a good calculator program

KCalc.
Octave and Python if you want a super calculator. Octave is similar to Mathlab and Python is a very high level programming language.

 

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AN IM Chat program for AIM and Yahoo (an all in one like Trillian would be nice)

Kopete and Gaim.

 

quote:
CD/DVD Burning program capable of doing:
   - regular burning of files
   - burning Audio CDs
   - testing & verifying after burning
   - burning/creating ISOs

K3b.

 

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Virus/Spyware/Trojan Checkers

There are very few virii for Linux and the probability you get infected is almost nil. Open source applications don't come with spyware. There are tools that check for invasion but I just use a good firewall.

 

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Something P2P like Kazaa

Lmule (Edonkey), PySoulSeek (Soulseek), giFT (several protocols including Kazaa).

 

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Something like Daemon Tools to mount ISOs as virtual drives

ISOs are natively supported. I don't know anything about virtual drives.

 

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And finally something that read/writes BOTH .zip and .rar files

Ark (GUI for lots of command line apps). Zip, rar, tar, bzip2, gzip...

 

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However I want my primary OS to do everything I want in it.

I think you should be less ambitious and use both OSes while you get acquainted with Linux apps. No one can't make sure you'll find everything you need.

[madluther]

@bwid_s_01:

For your DVD / mpeg2  needs this might interest you.

Regards.

[solo]

Lemme iterate on the ISO thing. I don't know if GNOME or KDE have an automatic mounting option, but Linux itself supports mounting ISOs as virtual _devices_ natively and has so for a long time   .

Here's how you do it straight from the command line (there may be an easier GUI method):

mount <filename> <mntpoint> -t iso9660 -o loop=/dev/loop1

Now in Linux there are no "drives" (like C:, D: etc). Instead, Linux keeps track of whats called a Virtual File System. When Linux boots, it puts your hard drive at the very root of the "VFS" (this root is referred to as "/"). Then the system mounts your CD-ROM, Floppy etc under certain mount points. Although the system usually handles this for you, you can do it yourself too.

The cool thing about VFS is that you can mount other hard drives, partitions, network shares etc directly onto the filesystem. So if you want to use one copy of the Linux application directory (usually /usr/bin on traditional Linux distributions) between two computers--perhaps to save space--you can do so by making a network share of /usr/bin on one computer, and then mounting that share on the other computer (at /usr/bin). Now, anything that happens in /usr/bin on either computer is seen by both.

Now a common misconception about VFS is that Linux copies all the files it is mounting to the hard drive. It doesnt, it just makes it look like it is all one file system.

[solo]

God damn am I tired. I posted twice.

[ August 02, 2003: Message edited by: Fury: Freedom Fighter ]

[Faust]

quote:
Need a good calculator program

Maple if your really interested in an uber powerful maths application.   Kinda like a graphics calculator pumped up on loads of steroids and with a nicer UI (and some cool 3d graphing.)  The PhD lecturers in my university use this little puppy when they're not on the supercomputers and it kicks god damn arse.  You wanna try factorising equations which involve both complex numbers and +/- infinity?  Go the fuck ahead.  You wanna try and work pi to an arbitrary number of digits from within the program itself and then try and find common factors in it?  Maple can do it.  (Question is whether your CPU can take that amount of mathematical strain...)  Also you can do >2 dimensional calculus with it (yay!)
That said octave is probably adequate to your needs, and it's free and Free.  I haven't used it yet, so I may have to have a peepers at this octave...  I kinda need to get rid of the shame of using proprietary Maple.  

Also mp3 is crap, use ogg.  Not that Linux doesn't support mp3, but it's still crap.