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Kupotek:
If I'm going to switch to Linux, this is what I should be able to do:
1. Browser
2. Mail client
3. Media Player
4. mIRC
5. FTP client
6. Dreamweaver
7. Adobe Photoshop
8. Sprint DSL pppoe connection
9. mouse/keyboard drivers
10. Geforce 4 ti 4200 video drivers
11. Anarchy Online ( 3d RPG game )
12. Norton Systemworks ( not required )
13. mircstats
14. cheetachat for yahoo ( not required )
Refalm: Even I'm not perfect. Instead of quoting Emiko's message, I edited it. I'm very very sorry, for this mistake Emiko, it was accidental. I tried to bring it back though...
[ June 13, 2003: Message edited by: Refalm ]
Maniaman:
quote:1. Browser
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Linux has around 10 browsers you can choose from and they're all better then internet explorer.
quote:2. Mail client
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Mozilla has a built in mail client, and there's Evolution
quote:3. Media Player
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Not quite sure of the names, but it has some good quality media players...
quote:4. mIRC
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Linux Alternatives: XChat, BitchX, probably more that I dont know about. Or you could emulate mIRC in Wine I believe.
quote:5. FTP client
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Again, Most distros come with about 5 ftp clients that you can use
quote:6. Dreamweaver
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I always thought there was a version of this for Linux. I could be wrong though... I prefer doing HTML in text editors ;)
quote:7. Adobe Photoshop
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The Gimp.
quote:8. Sprint DSL pppoe connection
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Can easily configured.
quote:9. mouse/keyboard drivers
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99.9% of the time you ownt need to isntall drivers for hardware in Linux
quote:10. Geforce 4 ti 4200 video drivers
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See response to #9
quote:11. Anarchy Online ( 3d RPG game )
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Never heard of it. You might be abe to run it in Wine.
quote:12. Norton Systemworks ( not required )
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Exactly right. Antivirus software is not required.
quote:13. mircstats
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Can probably be emulated in Wine...
quote:14. cheetachat for yahoo ( not required )
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Yahoo probably jas a Linux port of that software. Could be wrong. Again, try Wine.
Of course, you could always do a dual boot with windows/Linux :D
Refalm:
3. Media Player
VideoLAN (my favourite, sorry Doctor V ), XMMS, Mplayer...
10. Geforce 4 ti 4200 video drivers
nVidia has very easy to configure GeForce 4 drivers. Don't stick to the ones that come with Linux if you want to play UT2003, Return to castle Wolfenstein or something...
11. Anarchy Online ( 3d RPG game )
Maybe through Wine... if that doesn't work out, you can always check out Falcons Eye or even the cross-platform Runescape (going to be in full 3d next month).
Kupotek:
Thankyou for the replies. I know mirc will work with Wine, although AO will not run ( yet ) on either Wine or WineX... this has been a long standing debate ever since Funcom, the designers of the aforementioned game Anarchy Online, promised there would be a native linux client for AO madein 2000, and since then it has been said by FC that it will never happen, most likely soemthing about switching out OpenGL, double patches, not enough man hours... etc etc ad nauseum.
I code in mirc which is why I won't choose an alternate IRC client at this time.
I'll keep you posted how my progress goes.
Faust:
quote:
3. Media Player
VideoLAN (my favourite, sorry Doctor V ), XMMS, Mplayer
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Xine is better, you just know it :-P
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