Windows to unix conversion. Looking for software recommendations.

Fenster

And no, I'm not some fricking ricer.

I use KDE! Fluxbox isn't that great for a laptop on the move, so I'm trying out KDE after Gnome headaches and I'm suprised to find myself actually enjoying it.

And I realise I really sounded like some sort of ass when speaking of the apt server. Fedora doesn't have that much extra software from apt, out of the box, and while there's a plethora of third-party apt servers, they all have differently compiled versions of programs. It gave me a headache on more than one occasion. Portage is dead nice as just about everytime I went looking for a program, it was in there, even stuff I normally think wouldn't be there, such as Celestia and Opera.

Snowbat

Khannie wrote:

VNC is crap compared to Remote Desktop and I can't get freenx installed.

What problem are you having with FreeNX?

On my Mandriva server I found that the user 'nx' was locked so all freenx logins failed. When I unlocked 'nx', everything started working. Someone else had this problem in Fedora Core 3.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-February/msg04552.html

Khannie

Snowbat wrote:

What problem are you having with FreeNX?

I'm not root

flamegrill

Ubuntu. The end.

As a desktop distro its pretty flawless. I would even be willing to provide a) a full package list you can feed apt and b) my apt config.

Simply install all the packages and the machine will be a fully working desktop, it'll play mp3's/dvd's the works.

For remote desktop tsclient is a GUI front end for rdesktop, its rather handy as it'll have a history of hosts you've connected to.

gedit is a tabbed editor, very handy. use it all the time.

Just on ubuntu though, the install takes about 15 minutes. After that your pretty much set. Also OOo 2 beta is available in universe, might make the change a bit easier for windows types

Paul

Capt'n Midnight

Knoppix 3.9 also has Openofice Beta 2.