Alternative Open Source Applications @Work
As I stated few days ago I got a computer @work which is Windows OS. After few days being in the office and some clarification with the administration I was given green light for installing and using Linux instead of Windows. Heck, they can't stop me. Always said that it's my choice and it's up to me which tools I will use to accomplish the tasks, making sure that the company's security issues are not put in danger.
But (wrong way to start sentence - grammatically), as I am new here and need to catch up with my responsibilities, I decided to delay the transition for few days, and in the meantime switch to alternative open source applications where applicable on Windows OS.
MS Office, ICQ, MSN, IE, Outlook Express and few more were removed and replaced with OpenOffice, GAIM, Firefox, Thunderbird and few more applications such as Freemind, ClamWin Antivirus, GIMP.
Some more packages were installed from Google - Desktop, Picasa, GTalk and Earth.
Eventually I will install Linux, which will be 100% for sure SUSE distribution. I need to clarify first whether Xerox WorkCentre Pro 315 will work. Also, I will go for GNOME this time. It's not to say that I have started prefering GNOME over KDE, rather I will get back to see what's up with GNOME, experiment little bit and plus I want to see faces in the company once I have Xgl/Compiz up and running, which runs better on GNOME, than KDE as per my experience. I have already tried GNOME on SUSE 10.1 on my old notebook, P-III 650Mhz with 256MB RAM, and like it quite a lot. The office computer is 2.8Ghz with 512MB RAM and the thing that bothers me is the built-in Intel graphics controller.
Gotta get back to work while listening to LugRadio podcast.
July 4th, 2006 at 9:00 am
I would swap that Firefox with Opera. Opera is much faster and has many of the capabilities that are as plugins for Firefox. Also Firefox tends to slow down and eat up all the memory with certain essential plugins (it was perhaps Greasemonkey). Opera is also freeware now, with Google nicely integrated.
Also to block ads in Opera (and others) - use Wine and Windows freeware Proxomitron and then grab yourself Grypen filterset.
July 4th, 2006 at 9:07 am
And I would not use Gnome or KDE as window managers if you just want to “get the job done”. I would set up KDE but only to use Konqueror for file browsing. Then as window manager I would use Blackbox that is kind with memory usage and doesn’t get on my way. There are bbconf, bbrun that are making it easy to add programs to menu. Light and fast is the best way :)
Check the topic at Arch Linux forum.
November 13th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
most yu mention are not open source…
visit http://open-source.onestop.net