Ubuntu(linux) version of the followings software...?

[EQTitan]

Internet Explorer > Firefox
Outlook express > ?
Winamp > ?
Windows media player > ?
Office > ?


Is there a site that has a basic list of the cross over programs of each windows equivalent?

 

[SoundTheSurrender]

Thunderbird for e-mail

VLC Player for video

OpenOffice for Office stuff.

I believe those were what they had.. I'm not sure of VLC player.

 

[TheRyuu]

Doesn't it come with a lot of that junk?

 

[imported_LoKe]

Outlook Express -> Evolution/Thunderbird
Winamp -> XMMS
Windows Media Player -> MPlayer Movie Player/VLC
Office -> Open Office

 

[xcript]

Thunderbird
XMMS or Beep Media Player
VLC or mplayer
OpenOffice

Some links: Link0, Link1

 

[xtknight]

Internet Explorer -> Epiphany (more consistent with the GNOME desktop aesthetically and functionally) [Firefox for more advanced features]
Outlook Express -> Evolution [Thunderbird for more advanced features]
Winamp -> XMMS/Rhythmbox
Windows Media Player -> Totem/VideoLAN Client
Office -> OpenOffice, Abiword for MS Word

The native GNOME apps (Epiphany, Evolution that are part of the GNOME branch) tend to be faster in my experience. They do tend to be more simplistic by nature. All the programs listed above exist in the Ubuntu Dapper repositories.

See here for more suggestions: http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/AppHelper

 

[EQTitan]

What CD/DVD burning decrypting software can anyone recommend?

 

[xtknight]

There is a Nero for Linux. I've never tried it but I like GNOMEbaker myself.

Decrypting (CSS) as in ripping? Enable all dapper repositories (universe/multiverse) and search 'dvd rip' in Synaptic.

 

[xcript]

For burning, K3b and Nero are good.
For ripping DVDs, dvdshrink + frontend (xDVDShrink) does the job.

 

[tuteja1986]

Originally posted by: EQTitan
Internet Explorer > Firefox
Outlook express > Thunderbird
Winamp > XMMS/Rhythmbox
Windows media player > ? BSplayer or Media Classic (VLan player i don't like)
Office > Open office


Is there a site that has a basic list of the cross over programs of each windows equivalent?

I only use Linux OS on Servers. I don't recommend it for normal use.

 

[xtknight]

If you weren't aware, you can grab the free VMware server and run any Windows apps you want inside a "cage".

 

[Nothinman]

I only use Linux OS on Servers. I don't recommend it for normal use.

And then I'd say that you're missing out on a lot.

 

[tuteja1986]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

I only use Linux OS on Servers. I don't recommend it for normal use.

And then I'd say that you're missing out on a lot.

Ahh yeah , I missing out alot All the 200 Unix/Linux server i was incharge of in older job as system engineer.

 

[sourceninja]

Here is a rundown of stuff I use
Web: Firefox (duh)
Email: Evolution (now that I finally found a good tutorial to get spam filtering working. It was so easy I feel stupid for missing it)
IM: Gaim (although I only use google talk)
Scripting editor: Bluefish (I use it for all php, html, and other scripting projects)
Notepad/text editor and mild programmign editor: Gedit
Map software: Google earth linux beta
VNC/RDP client: Terminal Server Client (comes with ubuntu by default)
Office: Open office. My wife uses abiword and gcalc instead of open office.
Video editing: Kino
Video playing totem-xine (Plays everythign I've thrown at it, including dvd's)
Video playing in web browser: Totem-browserplugin
Music: Rythembox (its good enough, although I wish it had an EQ)
Games (native): UT2004, Doom3, Quake4, freespace 2, X2: The threat, Neverwinter nights, Battle for wesnoth, ufoai, and other open source games.
Games (cedega): Steam, guildwars, starcraft, bualders gate 2, Icewind dale 2, Battlefield 2.
DVD/CD burning: I use the built in functions in gnome for ripping iso's and burning iso's. I find an actual app is not really needed for my needs.
DVD ripping: xdvdshrink (download the rpm and run it though alien to make a deb, works perfect).

There is a ton of posts in the ubuntu forums covering this in great detail.

 

[silverpig]

Music: Amarok >> winamp

 

[Nothinman]

Ahh yeah , I missing out alot All the 200 Unix/Linux server i was incharge of in older job as system engineer.

You know what I meant. I use run Linux on my notebook and my home workstation and the only thing that I can think of that Windows supports better is games and I'm at the point now where I don't play enough games to care.

 

[EQTitan]

What about torrent client?

 

[xcript]

Originally posted by: EQTitan
What about torrent client?

Azureus

 

[EQTitan]

doh!!! no more utorrent =(

 

[imported_LoKe]

Originally posted by: xcript

Originally posted by: EQTitan
What about torrent client?

Azureus

Are you insane?

WINE + uTorrent Standalone.

 

[xcript]

Originally posted by: LoKe

Originally posted by: xcript

Originally posted by: EQTitan
What about torrent client?

Azureus

Are you insane?

WINE + uTorrent Standalone.

No, are you?

Using a Windows BitTorrent client under WINE when there are so many options for linux is ridiculous IMO. I suggested Azureus because many Windows users moving to linux have used it before and so are comfortable with it.

I usually use BitTornado + TorrentFlux (PHP front-end) but have been giving KTorrent a try recently. Both are great.

There's a pretty decent list of BT clients here (it's missing a few).

 

[sourceninja]

I simply use the ncurses based bittorrent. I like to set it up so I just stick a torrent in a directory and it takes care of the rest. No need for a gui on this end.

 

[SleepWalkerX]

No need to wine a windows torrent application.. Azureus is feature rich and there's KTorrent for people who want something more lightweight.

 

[Nothinman]

Azureus is feature rich and there's KTorrent for people who want something more lightweight.

That's an understatement, hell I would probably consider Windows more lightweight than Azureus.

 

[Atheus]

I wish I could port uTorrent to Linux but it's closed source. It's only 150k or something so it would be relatively easy to reverse engineer, but why bother really, it would be quicker to just write a new one. nanoTorrent or something. picoTorrent.