On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 06:39, Soren Harward wrote: > On Wed 21 Jul 2004 at 11:42:05, Christopher Bailey said: > > Photoshop7 > > PaintShopPro7 > > Photo Impact > > The GIMP -- it's so good I no longer use anything else, even in Windows. > > > Adobe Illustrator > > Sodipodi -- an adequate replacement. You will also want to check out Dia, > which is like Visio with a broader vision.
Rather than use sodipodi, use inkscape. I believe it's superior. Michael > > > Camtasia > > You can't do screen recording directly, but you can set up VNC and do this > through vncrec. > > > FrameMaker7 > > Quark Express > > Corel Draw > > Scribus > > > Benchmark > > SearchAndReplace > > I don't know what these applications are, or exactly what they do. If you > can describe them (or tell me what companies wrote them), then I can figure > that out. > > > BI Query > > Most of the data visualization programs available for Linux are designed > more for scientific data rather than business data. On the other hand, when > it comes to graphing, there's not a huge difference (and as a scientist, I > think most business people I know could stand to learn a bit about > statistics and meaningful data presentation :), so you can try MayaVi, > scigraphica, xgobi, or the granddaddy of all graphing programs, gnuplot. > > > Corel (Paradox) > > Sun's StarOffice has a database component, or you can get a *real* database > system like MySQL or PostGreSQL (which really isn't hard to set up) and use > a front end for one of these. > > > VisualBasic > > No drop-in replacement for this one. Though it's becoming a lot more > end-user-friendly, Linux still has and always will have deep roots in the > Unix-hacker-culture soil. Visual Basic in an anathema to everything this > culture believes in, so the most honest answer you'll get to the question > "What can I use as a replacement for Visual Basic?" is "A real programming > language." Now I say that in all kindness, because having done VB > development many years ago, I can honestly say that there's nothing than can > be done in VB that can't be done better in another language, and there are a > lot of things that can be done in other languages that can't be done in VB. > If there's one thing that the Unix hacker culture knows, it knows how to > program and how to design a good language in which to do so. BASIC is not > one of those languages. > > So where to start? Being able to write a shell script for bash is about the > bare minimum for Unix programming competency. Being familiar with Perl is > extremely valuable. Other than that, you should learn at least one other > scripting language, Python and PHP being perhaps the two most popular, > though Ruby has a small but vocal group of supporters. Awk and TCL aren't > used as much anymore, but they still show up in older programs, so aren't > totally avoidable. Java and even Fortran show up in places, but don't worry > about these unless you have to (or really want to). > > If you want to do GUI programming, Perl and Python (and probably Ruby too) > have extensions for using GTK in X Windows. They -- and TCL -- also have > extensions for Tk, but I've found programming for GTK to be much easier. > You can even use Glade to design your windows graphically, just like you do > in VB. > > However, you can't do much Unix programming and entirely avoid C. You may > be able to get away without writing any C code (I did for about six years), > but if you're going to admin your own Linux box, you ought to learn at least > enough to coax a program to compile (ie, fixing Makefiles and #includes > where needed). > > Now I know this sounds daunting and not worth the effort, and you may ask > the question in frusturation "why can't I just write it in Basic?" It's > just like learning a human language other than English. Not only do you get > the advantage of learning a different language, but you learn your native > language better, too. -- Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
