What Linux software would you use in place of these Windows counterparts?

[beer]

So, assuming that Crossover Office works as well as it is supposed to, I have support for Word/Excel/Powerpoint and enough photoshop and Quicken. I could run EphPod through WINE to get iPod functionality. I already use Firebird .6 in Windows so that wouldn't be any different if I threw Linux on there.

What about a PIM? Using Outlook, what would I use in Linux? Is Evolution that good?

Windows : Nero :: Linux : ??

Windows : Winamp :: Linux : XMMS, correct? Anything else?

What is considered to be the most functional FTP client? Granted none of them would be very hard to learn, so I'm wondering what the 'best' one is considered to be.

I've been reading a lot about how difficult it is to get Dreamweaver MX working in WINE. What would be a good counterpart to the WYSIWYG functioanlity of it?

 

[cleverhandle]

Originally posted by: Elemental007
What about a PIM? Using Outlook, what would I use in Linux? Is Evolution that good?

People who are into such things love Evolution. I prefer keeping my info in JPilot, and keeping email separate.

Windows : Nero :: Linux : ??

xcdroast, usually. I've always liked gtoaster, too, though not many others do. Lots of people just use the command line tools - mkisofs and cdrecord.

Windows : Winamp :: Linux : XMMS, correct? Anything else?

XMMS rocks out. If you want all your AV in one place, I think mplayer can handle everything by itself. I find XMMS's interface more convenient, and only use mplayer for long movies.

What is considered to be the most functional FTP client? Granted none of them would be very hard to learn, so I'm wondering what the 'best' one is considered to be.

What exactly do you need to do? wget is awfully powerful, though I haven't needed it in a long time (since broadband ).

I've been reading a lot about how difficult it is to get Dreamweaver MX working in WINE. What would be a good counterpart to the WYSIWYG functioanlity of it?

I think there a couple things (Bluefish, maybe?), but *nix users tend to shun WYSIWYG HTML. vim is my first love...

 

[beer]

Extensive use of detailed CSS makes hand-coding a bit hard, tho

I'll have to give it a try tho. With moderate MSIE support in crossover Office I can have more control over the site layouts I guess.

 

[Haden]

Nero - K3B
mplayer is a must have (after several minutes figuring out how to "extract" movie from bin/cue one realizes he can just play them...)
I'm using MC for ftp/file management, wget to download things from "nasty" hosts.
If you are looking for good editor: try VIM, it might be difficult to learn, but you won't be sorry you did.

 

[darktubbly]

Nero - K3B/GToaster
Winamp - Mplayer

Hey, look, it's basically what everyone else has said

Actually, there is native Linux software for your iPod here, and Dreamweaver MX setup instructions for WINE can be found here.

 

[xcript]

For me:

Outlook -> Sylpheed
Nero -> CDRX (menu based)
Winamp -> XMMS
FTP -> ftp

Do the job quite nicely.

However, it'd probably go more along the lines of KMail/K3b/XMMS/Konqueror if I didn't mind cluttering up my system with the KDE, etc. libs.

And as far as HTML editing goes, I hear Quanta is great (not sure if it's WYSIWYG though). Haven't tried it myself (nano is good enough for the likes of me ).

Later..:beer:

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Just mkisofs and cdrecord are how I like to make/burn cd's. Super simple, no 80 pages of checkboxes like in most cd burning programs.

For ftp, there's plain-old ftp, ncftp, gftp. I like ncftp.

Extensive use of detailed CSS makes hand-coding a bit hard, tho

I think it's the exact opposite. I would have a really hard time getting a wysiwyg editor to produce the exact css I wanted. But I suppose that's just a matter of what you are used to. I prefer vim for everything.

 

[zantac]

I burn with cdrecord, ftp with ftp, and write code/whatever with vi

 

[EmperorRob]

cdbakeoven is the best burner I've ever used on linux

http://cdbakeoven.sourceforge.net/

 

[mcveigh]

for ftp I love GTFP

 

[Syran]

Another vote for ncftp for ftp