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    Question Windows to Fedora 8, list of equivalent programs

    I am migrating over to Fedora after being a long-time Windows user and I was hoping some of you could contribute to my pre-migration research.

    I have a list of programs that I have been using in Windows for a long time and I dont know their equivalents in Fedora, I will paste the list below and hopefully I can get a decent Fedora program for each Windows program. Thank you!

    Photoshop-type program

    FTP program

    CD burning and ISO image burning program

    Font-viewing program

    Clean up temp files program

    Anti-spyware

    Anti-virus

    Firewall

    IRC

    Web coding (I use HTML-Kit in Windows)

    Font viewer

    color sniffer (allows you to pick up color code of any color on the screen)

    CamStudio type program

    Microsoft Word/Office type programs

    Disk imaging software (like Acronis or Ghost)

    Media PLayer

    DVD player (rented DVD's)

    Programmable hotkeys program (i use winkey in windows)

    Torrent downloader

    Screen capture program (something with more options than whats built in, i use Snagit in

    WinXP)

    Partition magic type program

    WinRAR type program (i think 7zip, right?)

    Skype

    Lookup IP addresses

    Adobe Reader

    Yahoo chat (not just IM, but also chat)

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    Gimp

    gFTP

    Built-in to Gnome

    Built-in to Gnome

    Temp files get cleaned by a CRON job

    Not needed

    Not needed

    Built-in to Gnome

    XChat-Gnome IRC

    Kompozer, Bluefish, Screem

    Gimp

    *************

    OpenOffice

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    Built-in to Gnome, Totem-Xine, Xine, Mplayer, VLC (Plus extra codecs needed)

    Built-in to Gnome, Totem-Xine, Xine, Mplayer, VLC (Plus extra codecs needed)

    **************

    Transmission

    Gimp

    gParted

    Built-in to Gnome (need to install unrar libraries from Livna repo)

    Skype

    ****************

    Adobe Reader, Ekiga (Built-in to Gnome)

    Pidgin Internet Messenger

    Wayne

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    The only thing I would say is that depending upon your needs, some of them might not be sufficient. It depends upon what you do in Photoshop--according to my graphic designer friends, Gimp isn't there yet. There is an alternative called Pixel which I haven't used. It's not free, but it's about $650 cheaper than Photoshop, if not more.

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    Ok most of those are the standard that come with Fedora 8 right?
    Now what if I wanted something better?
    Some of those, like Transmission, are very basic.

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    Quote Originally Posted by beeball
    Ok most of those are the standard that come with Fedora 8 right?
    Now what if I wanted something better?
    Some of those, like Transmission, are very basic.
    Not all of those come installed by default, but most if not all of those can be installed from repositories quite easily (you do know that Fedora practically requires a decent broadband connection?).

    If you want something better, there are plenty of choices in most areas of software (some are admittedly lacking). You're right - Transmission is a basic client (that's incidentally why some people really like it). But there are others:
    Ktorrent
    Azureus
    Bittorrent (official client)
    Rtorrent (ncurses/console based)
    Deluge
    There are apparently some good Firefox plugins that allow torrent integration.


    There's also WINE, which can work for some situations. I've heard of people being quite happy with running utorrent through WINE.

    Here are my thoughts on those apps (some overlap with Wayne, of course). I've skipped a few outside my ken or interest.:

    Photoshop-type program: the GIMP, but it's not quite as good as Photoshop
    FTP program: gftp, filezilla, or fireftp (firefox plugin)
    CD burning and ISO image burning program: k3b
    Font-viewing program:
    Clean up temp files program: yup, Cron job. but you could also manually delete all the files under the /tmp directory.
    Anti-spyware: Don't need it.
    Anti-virus: don't need it, but there are a few that I know of (ClamAV, AVG). But from what I understand they're mostly mean for running scans of Windows network drives remotely. There's really no need for anti-virus on the Linux desktop right now.
    Firewall: built-in, as Wayne mentions, but I also like Guarddog
    Web coding (I use HTML-Kit in Windows): Bluefish is quite good - for languages other than HTML, too. Kate can also do in a pinch (good multi-purpose text editor with syntax highlighting)
    color sniffer (allows you to pick up color code of any color on the screen): might be able to do this with GIMP
    Microsoft Word/Office type programs: open office, though not a full replacement
    Media PLayer: oh, wow. I'd actually say the multimedia player situation is far better on Linux platforms than on Windows (I've personally been searching high and low for a music player in Windows I really like but can't for the life of me find one). Let's split it up:
    Audio: Amarok, Banshee, mp3blaster (ncurses based console player), XMMS, XMMS2, Audacious, Rhythmbox, Quod Libet, Songbird, Listen, Gtkpod, MusikCube (maybe - think that one might be BSD only)
    Video: VLC (my favorite), Xine, mplayer, kaffeine, totem
    DVD player (rented DVD's): VLC, some of the others above
    Programmable hotkeys program (i use winkey in windows): depends on your Window Manager
    Torrent downloader: see above.
    Screen capture program (something with more options than whats built in, i use Snagit in WinXP): sometimes built into your GUI, but there are also some command line utilities available.
    Partition magic type program: I advise a Gparted live cd; http://gparted-livecd.tuxfamily.org/
    WinRAR type program (i think 7zip, right?): Wayne's got it - you just need a package from a third party repository
    Skype - runs native on Linux
    Lookup IP addresses - besides whois.net?
    Adobe Reader: can run it just fine on Linux. I usually use xpdf, a lighter pdf reader, except for those tricky pdfs that only display right in Adobe reader (rare).
    Yahoo chat (not just IM, but also chat): Pidgin, Kopete. Those are both multi-protocol chat programs. There are some other ones out there that act is clients to just one protocol, but I like having all of my screennames in one program.

    Did I mention you can choose from lots of different GUI shells?
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    Thanks!

    What about if I just need something out of the blue? Right now, I need an audio converter, to change .flac files to .mp3 files. In Windows, I would search download.com for something. How do I find something for this in Fedora?

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    I also need an MD5 checksum calculator for verifying ISO images, where/how do I look?

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    isomd5sum is available via yum.

    A lot of stuff verifies with shasum now rather than md5. man sha1sum

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    what about one that does both? like eXpress checksum calculator?
    any ideas for an audio converter, .flac to .mp3?
    Thanks!

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    You can try sweep. It is a multi track editor but I THINK it can do conversions too. It is available via yum.


    On of the base ideas in Linux is the right tool for the right job. So in general you will find that each separate task requires a separate tool.
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    Quote Originally Posted by beeball
    Thanks!

    What about if I just need something out of the blue? Right now, I need an audio converter, to change .flac files to .mp3 files. In Windows, I would search download.com for something. How do I find something for this in Fedora?
    In this case mencoder would do what you require.

    The first place to look for software to do a particular task is always to run the Package manager and use the search tag, other than that google or the search functions on these forums.

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    Quote Originally Posted by beeball
    what about one that does both? like eXpress checksum calculator?
    any ideas for an audio converter, .flac to .mp3?
    Thanks!
    Audacity will do audio editing and conversion:
    Code:
    yum install audacity
    ... or use Package Manager (Add/Remove Software) to install.

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    Thank you.

    As all the packages' titles dont necessary describe the package, how would I search for something then?

    If I type rpm -q checksum calculator, that wont necessarily find what i need, and if i found it, then i might not recognize it by the package name.

    Is there a way to search for packages with random keywords (like in google) and then bring up a list of packages WITH descriptions so that I know what I am looking at?

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    Switch to root install yumex when you find something that looks interesting click on it then read about it in the lower window, that simple
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