[ILUG] can we get 2fm to mention linux?

[Niall Walsh]

Ken Guest wrote:
>  On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 01:57:42PM +0000, John Madden wrote:
>
> > Well, there's already a list of alternative software on linux.ie
> > (http://www.linux.ie/newusers/alternatives.php) which I would
> > consider to be a valuable resource. A lot of viruses etc. that
> > affect Windows do so through the user tools, mainly IE and LookOut.
> > So, replacing these with a more secure alternative would obviously
> > be in the user's interest (presuming they want security over
> > software they're accustomed to).
>
>
>  Keeping that in mind, are there any other packages or projects that
>  we should see on that page to show people that although an exact
>  match of what they use on Windows might not be available, there is a
>  very close match to the software they use which might even be more
>  suitable to their needs.

Looking through the existing pages I've come up with a few comments and
some additions!   I've posted it to list rather than to Ken to see if 
perhaps
I'll jog anyone else into coming up with anything?

Any chance of moving the Censorware/Web Page filtering from the top of
the page?   I doubt it is the most popular reason for visiting the page 
and I
think it starts things on a bad footing.  Perhaps do a bit of 
re-ordering on the
whole page? It seems to have grown organically and is now quite jumbled up.

Email Applications:
    Evolution
        Am I correct in thinking Evolution + the now free Exchange Connector
       provides a working exchange client solution to replace Outlook?

Web Browsers
    It appears Galeon is close to dead in the browser wars, remove it?

CD Burning
    imho K3b murders everything else on Linux and probably beats most
    commercial offerings as well. Mention it first? and also 
xcdroast/cdrecord

DVD Players
    Is Ogle really still the best DVD player for Linux?

Making Movies
    heroinewarrior
        Captures, composites and edits audio and video.
        Recommends a very powerful system (dual 2.4GHz Opteron w/4GB RAM)

It might also be worth flagging on that page the programs people can run
natively under Windows to see if they will suit them?   In what follows 
(which are
intended as additions to the existing list), projects preceded by a * have
Windows builds, if I put it in brackets then the (official anyway) 
windows build
is not complete.

Email Applications:
    *Thunderbird
        http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/
        The new stand alone email client from the Mozilla Project
        Broadly similar features to kmail.

Web Browsers:
    *Firefox
        http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox
        The new stand alone web browser from the Mozilla Project
        The most popular browser on Linux

Web page Editors:
    *OpenOffice.org Writer
        http://www.openoffice.org
        Known to produce very clean html when used carefully/sparingly!
    *mozilla.composer
        http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/
        An easy web page editor/creator built into the Mozilla suite
    *nvu
        http://www.nvu.com
        A project developing on the Mozilla Composer code
        Powerful standalone web page editing program.

DVD Players / Change to Media Players?
    Some mention should probably be made of the legal issues.
    *Videolan
        http://www.videolan.org
        The Videolan project includes both a player and network streamer
        Can play most popular/common audio and video formats
    Xine
        http://xinehq.de
        Straight forward and powerful video player
    (*)MPlayer
        http://www.mplayerhq.hu
        It is usually possible to configure MPlayer to play any video format
        Includes mencoder for converting video formats.
    XMMS
        http://www.xmms.org
        Virtually a clone of winamp

Audio Tools
    *Audacity
        http://audacity.sourceforge.net
        Simple but useful audio editor
    Ardour
        http://ardour.org
        Record, edit and mix multi-track audio
    vstserver/fst
        http://www.djcj.org/LAU/quicktoots/toots/vst-plugins/
        Use (some) vst plugins under Linux

Making Movies
    Kino
        http://kino.schirmacher.de/
        DV Video Editor, provides support for firewire video cameras
    *MEncoder
        http://www.mplayerhq.hu
        Converts video from virtually any format to most formats
    Dvdauthor
        http://dvdauthor.sourceforge.net
        Prepare DVD Video discs (including menus etc.)

Terminal Server and Remote Access
    FreeNX
        A Free implementation of NX

For Developers
    *Eclipse
        http://www.eclipse.org
        IDE built with java and using plugins to support many features.
        Basis for PalmSource's own Developers Suite

IRC Clients
    *Xchat
    *Chatzilla

Instant Messaging Clients
    *Gaim
        http://gaim.sourceforge.net
        The most popular Instant Messaging client for Linux
        Supports all the most popular networks in one client.

Peer to Peer Clients
    *Mldonkey
        http://www.nongnu.org/mldonkey/
        Supports a number of peer to peer searching and downloading methods
        Can be used by a wide number of front-ends

Partition Tools
    QTParted
        http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/
        supports creating, formatting, moving and resizing all common 
partition types.

Niall Walsh