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| Newer page: | version 79 | Last edited on Monday, December 26, 2005 3:56:44 pm | by CesarSuarez | Revert |
| Older page: | version 77 | Last edited on Thursday, August 18, 2005 8:39:12 pm | by PeterHewett | Revert |
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+Really i´ve probed many of the Corel Draw equivalent sofware, but really i can´t work similar to.
+I would great to develop something more similar about files compatibility
and GUI
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-'Desktop stuff' What do you all use? I need to know! Mostly I just do web browsing (mozilla), email (pine), irc (xchat), listen to music (xmms), and work on various web pages (joe :). I've also played with openoffice but I don't really do the kind of stuff that requires it (and the fbsd version is pants). -- zcat
-Would it not make more sense to consider tasks instead of specific Windows applications? For example, my parents only ever used their copy of Microsoft Office to view Word documents they had been sent via e-mail. When they switched to Linux, they did not need clones of MicrosoftExcel, Word,
!PowerPoint,
and Access. All they needed was an application that allows them to view Word documents
. See http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/09/1934259 for an example of a task-oriented table. -- MatthiasDallmeier
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See http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/09/1934259 for an example of a task-oriented table.
|^__Windows Equivalent__|^__Linux Software__|^__Notes__
|vvvvv Internet Explorer|[Mozilla]|MozillaNotes and [1]
| MozillaFirefox | also available for Windows
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| Microsoft Access / FileMaker Pro or similar | OpenOffice base | OpenOffice 2.0 has database front end.
| [Family Tree Maker| http://www.familytreemaker.com/] / [Legacy| http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/]| [Gramps |http://gramps-project.org/]| Genealogy software
|v Frontpage / Dreamweaver | [Quanta | http://quanta.kdewebdev.org/] | [3]
| [Screem | http://www.screem.org/]| [2]
+|vvvv Microsoft Visio / Corel Draw | dia(1) |
+| xfig |
+| Inkscape |
+| kivio |
+| sodipodi |
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[1] The Linux software is generally considered much more secure.
[2] This is a [GNOME]/[GTK] application
[3] This is a [KDE]/[Qt] application
