Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 13:42:29 02/12/03
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On February 12, 2003 at 15:58:48, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote: >SuSe 8.0, and I am using KDE. I haven't tried some of the "office" options yet. >I certainly will. If I find a nice office that export simple word and powerpoint >like documents... AFAIK, OpenOffice will handle all MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Word Perfect, Lotus, etc. files just fine. Just about any format you'd need to read or save to. >+ scientific reference manager (like Endnote in MS and Mac world) >+ a scientific plotting program (there must be something, some time ago I saw >some project to build something like an "OriginTM" program) I could start using >Linux as a main OS. I'm not a plotting program guru, but GNU Plot comes to mind. I'm not sure if that's the kind of program you're looking for or not. It's standard on most distros I think, and available from GNU's ftp I'm sure. >What I am doing now is very simple, compiling my chess program, testing it with >xboard and scid, editing some of the files, profiling etc. >Whatever I do in "console" mode works flawlessly and I am happy with gcc and >related tools. But I have to be very careful with what I do with other "friendly >tools". I have the option to use 3 or 4 simple editing tools (like notepad or >worpad) and none of them satisfied me 100%. The one that is closer to what I >expect is Kwrite but still not perfect. Either printing is not correct or >something silly is not there, or the font I see in the screen is not the one I >see in the printer etc. As you can see, I am not that greedy. I thought that >these things would work very well. I will be patient and alert. >As a hobby, at home, it is ok. At work, I cannot waste a lot of time. If you use MSVC, you might like KDevelop. It is basically the linux version of the MSVC IDE. There are lots of programs that are "basically the free version of <insert expensive program here>". Photoshop->GIMP, MSVC->KDevelop, MS Office->OpenOffice, etc.
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