Thanks Cristian for your long and detailed answer. Maybe I'll dive in the Linux stuff too. Still a small question remains: viewing and converting Word is not the problem. I'am supposed to deliver texts in Word format. That's what they pay me for ;-) Does Star Office accomplish that?
BTW here develloping projects for PIC, 8051 family and Z80 family. Bastiaan On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 00:51:42 +0200 (EET), Cristian Burneci wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ wrote: >> Are there enough programs for Linux? >> At least I need: Word >> Something like adobe photo shop >> Drawing electronic diagrams >> Excell > Lots of... and most of them free, in comparison with Windows, where very > few programs are free. > Suggestions > Instead of Microsoft Office --- Star Office (free for non comercial use) > It is as powerful as the former (at least from my point of view). It also > manages to convert the Microsoft Office docs pretty well (not perfect, > but, still I haven't seen anything better). Open Office is also Star > Office, but Open Source. There are also commercial suites like the one > from Corel. These should solve the problem of finding a Word/Excel/PowerPoint > replacement for Linux. > Free and lighter software for not so powerful computers: > - AbiWord -- very promising WYSIWYG text editor. My favourite for writing > various small documents. (I can't run Star Office in 16 Meg of RAM) > - Siag Office -- small office suite comprising a text editor, spreadsheet, > simple tool for drawing animated images, file manager, ASCII editor. Lacks > features though. > - All sorts of things that come with Gnome or KDE. > - Finally LaTeX. This are professional text proofing and formating > engines, providing high-quality results. I always use LaTeX when writing > papers, booklets, user manuals and other things like these. There is also > a nice GUI interface for LaTeX, called LyX. > Adobe Photoshop -- Adobe or/and Corel should have something commercial, > but Gimp is everyone's favourite (and free). For vector graphics there is > the good old XFig, but I use another program called Sketch for that. For > technical drawings I have installed QCad (Autocad like and also free), but > I haven't yet used it for a serious job. > Electronic Diagrams -- Eagle, of course does everything. It is > very popular and very cross-platform and quite cheap. > There are many Spice flavours, too. > There is also a nice GNU utility called gEDA (for schematic diagrams > only). It is part of a GNU project aiming to provide a whole suite of such > programs. >> An equivalent to BASIC to devellop controllers to control electrical and >> mechanical equipment. > I think I know what you mean here. You do realize that bit-banging the > parallel port when using a multi-user multi-tasking OS is rather > complicated, but it is possible. I'd use C for that and a version of those > embedded Linuxes, but DOS still remains a better choice. > Still I am developing projects employing members of the AVR > microcontroller family from ATMEL, using AVR-GCC. >> Now I am switching to and fro DOS and Windows, A third OS will not make >> things easy. Would be nice to delete Windows but that day will only come >> if linux offers the same wild variety of programs. >> CU Bastiaan > Cristian Burneci > DHP Technology S.R.L. > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://users.pcnet.ro/dhptech > Bucharest, Romania -- Arachne V1.61, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
