Replacement apps after you go Open

Lincoln Russell 13 Nov, 2006 at 10:08am ET Article published in Tech

Here’s a quick guide to replacing your Windows apps in a Linux/Unix environment if anyone’s planning to make that switch soon.

Just about everything you can do in Windows, you can do in Linux, sometimes even better and with more control. Linux has been around for quiet a long time, so its no surprise that there are a ton of applications out there that offer the same type of functionality that many of our favorite Windows applications have.

Source: foogazi

Comments

13 Nov 2006 ~ 3:36pm Thrax I am terribly shocked and amazed that a website named "Foogazi" turned out to be a WEB2.0 shindig. Really. Astonished.
13 Nov 2006 ~ 5:04pm BuddyJ Foogazi is hardcore
13 Nov 2006 ~ 5:30pm profdlp That's a great link. If it wasn't for the handful of games I play (and the fact that I'm a sissy), I think I'd jump into Linux right now.
13 Nov 2006 ~ 6:46pm RADA I'll stick with Office 07..
13 Nov 2006 ~ 6:56pm Linc

profdlp wrote:

That's a great link. If it wasn't for the handful of games I play (and the fact that I'm a sissy), I think I'd jump into Linux right now.

I feel about the same, though my sizable financial investment in Windows XP Pro (three licenses) makes it unlikely until it's time to put it out to pasture.
14 Nov 2006 ~ 10:38pm Private_Snoball I feel like this news article was made for me. Not even 3 days ago I dual booted my system with WinXP and my new Ubuntu linux distro. Here I am rumaging forums for some neat opensource stuff and I come on by here and poof, a sexy little news article with a link to an awesome page. Thanks!

btw, dual booting linux is really easy these days so don't be too scared to take the dive. If you like gaming, WINE basically emulates DX9 in Win2k (or 98, 95 and ME) and lets you game. I can run half-life 2 at a few less frames in Ubuntu than I did with winxp, but its very much playable at over 50fps.

If you do take the dive, its not as scary as it seems I promise
19 Nov 2006 ~ 5:12am Enverex Few faults with that list...

XMMS: Has been dead for 2 years or so now and uses a GTK1 engine so the menus and windows look AWFUL. BMP was forked from XMMS but died. Latest supported fork is Audacious. Seems a few people aren't up with the times.

Well, that was the only fault, heh. Someone mentioned Nero on Linux, but it lacks most features of Windows Nero and it's pretty much not worth using.

If you want a nice lighter CD burner than K3B then I recommend GnomeBaker.