<quote who="Jason Rennie">
> I was wondering, I have to fix a coimputer for my father comapny. IT is
> simply a win95 reinstall, but i have a spare machine lying arounda t home,
> and i'm sick of reinstalling these machines every 6 to 12 months.
(Well, first off, you should never actually have to reinstall a Windows
machine - that's what dd is for.) :D
> So i am after suggestions for what would be useful suggestions as
> replacements on a linux desktop for an M$ one.
Woo-hoo! I'm sure there will be many more of these happening in the future
too - guinea pigging close relatives and loved ones is almost worth it! ;)
> Specifically, I was after a replacement for office
StarOffice. You could do an AbiWord/Gnumeric combo, but I think StarOffice
may be more appropriate right now.
> a replacement for a browser (mozilla obviously ;)
Ehhhxcellent.
> and a replacement for photoshop (not just the gimp).
Win4Lin. The GIMP does not replace Photoshop, as you've noted.
> I would also like replacements for the windows file sharing
> stuff. Obviously samba on the machine, but it needs a nice interface like
> Network Neighbourhood.
apt-cache show linneighbourhood
or
http://freshmeat.net/projects/linneighborhood/
> I was merely after people sexperiecnes with different things.
Thankfully, I have avoided "sexperiecnes" with Free Software so far.
- Jeff
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