Linux Adaption!!!

[am_i_registered]

Hello everybody,

I'm new to the community and new to Linux, too.

I remember years ago, I've installed Linux Suse 6 but my adaption to the Linux world was a failure and I quickly switched back to Windows.

Now, I'm back using Fedora 7 (dual boot though) and I can say that I'm pretty surprised of the progress that Linux have done.

What made me install Linux again was Windows Vista. Their incompatibility with most of my software made me think that maybe it's time to change OS.

I managed to find how to do all the every day tasks on Linux (listening to music, watching movies, using OpenOffice etc.), but there still many things that I can't find how to do and that's why I have dual boot.

So, I would really appreciate if somebody could help me with the following:
1. Organizer (smth like GeX do-Organizer)
2. Personal Finance (smth like MS Money)
3. Web Developing (smth like Dreamweaver)
4. Archiver with .rar support (I'm using WinRAR with Wine - smth better?)
5. DVD Decrypter (smth like DVDFab etc)
6. DVD Authoring (smth like DVD-Lab Pro)
7. Download Manager (smth like GetRight)
8. Website Search Engine Creator (smth like Xtreeme SiteXpert Professional)
9. Tag & File Rename (smth like Tag&Rename)

If there is Linux software for all the above I'm ready to format the windows partition.

Thanks in advance and I'm sorry for the post's length.

[oz]

Welcome to the forums!

Here's a table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux that should help:

The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux. (Official site of the table)

[rudie_rage]

Welcome to the forums, and welcome back to linux

Dont take this personally, I just have to take this opportunity to ask why people insist on using dreamweaver.

The tool takes a mild language like php (or an even milder scripting language like html) and hides it behind an overly complicated GUI.

before I learned php, it took me a week to make a database driven website in dreamweaver. a year later when I took the time to learn php (the only reason i didnt earlier was because dreamweaver had me convinced it was crazy complicated) the same sized project took me 2 days.

Anyways, back to the topic at hand, If the link ozar gave you dosnt have something specific your looking for, googling a windows program + 'linux' often gives you open source parallels.

Good luck!

[am_i_registered]

Welcome to the forums, and welcome back to linux

Dont take this personally, I just have to take this opportunity to ask why people insist on using dreamweaver.

The tool takes a mild language like php (or an even milder scripting language like html) and hides it behind an overly complicated GUI.

before I learned php, it took me a week to make a database driven website in dreamweaver. a year later when I took the time to learn php (the only reason i didnt earlier was because dreamweaver had me convinced it was crazy complicated) the same sized project took me 2 days.

Anyways, back to the topic at hand, If the link ozar gave you dosnt have something specific your looking for, googling a windows program + 'linux' often gives you open source parallels.

Good luck!

Hello, thanks for your help.

I've checked the table ozar gave me I've found solution to most of my problems.

I mostly code my HTML manually (text) but Dreamweaver does much more than just translate the Design mode to code... search and replace within tags etc. Anyway I'm going to try IBM WebSphere to see if does what I need.

2. Personal Finance (smth like MS Money)-> Moneydance (can't find full version though)
4. Archiver with .rar support (I'm using WinRAR with Wine - smth better?) ->Archive Manager
8. Website Search Engine Creator (smth like Xtreeme SiteXpert Professional)->Wine!!!! Yes it works great!

and keep going.....

[rudie_rage]

as far as I know, there is a program called rar and a program called unrar.

They are terminal based programs that are really simple to use. I know to extract an archive it was pretty much as easy as typing 'unrar <archive name>'

building an archive with rar shouldnt be much more difficult.

[netstrider]

Make sure you have rar and unrar installed then afaik, xarchive - GTK frontend for most used compression tools or Karchiver should do. For something like dreamweaver...well I personally like Bluefish but that doesn't provide a GUI. NVU will do that for you, it's pretty similar to Dreamweaver.

For the download manager there's wget for the terminal or gwget as a gnome GUI frontend (which will also work on KDE) and there's Freeloader, downloader-for-x.

About the others you have there, well I hope you found substitutes, I never use tools for DVD's etc. so can't help..

Good luck