On 4/19/18, Olaf Greve <o.greve at axis.nl> wrote: > Hi, > > Well, the installation of the dual W*nd*ws 2000 and CentOS boot worked > swell. I have followed the instructions regarding first setting up Win2K > on a separate drive, then making that the slave drive, and setting up > CentOS on the second drive. After performing the Grub patch, it now > works fine! :) > > I already like CentOS a lot, and I've got most of the important things > set-up (i.e. Firefox, Thunderbird, Gaim, Openoffice, webserver software, > ...), so I'm almost ready to roll. > > However... There are a few W*nd*ws programs which I actually like, and > for which I'd like to get good Linux alternatives. I hope someone can > make some good suggestions for that... > > In particular, I'm looking for good substitutes for the following > W*nd*ws software: > > - Ultraedit (!!! very important !!!) - vi is cool for terminal stuff, > but for programming etc. I prefer Ultraedit (column mode, multiple > windows, replace in files, regular expressions, etc.). > > - Jasc Paint Shop Pro, or Adobe Photoshop - often The Gimp is mentioned, > but is it really as powerful? I particularly like PSP (as I think it's > more intuitive than PS), but over here at work we also use PS a lot... I > fear this may be one of the very few remaining reasons to keep W*nd*ws > at all on the 2nd drive...:( > > - Flash MX (7.20). I fear there is no Linux variant of this one, but I'm > asking just in case... > > Cheers! > Olafo Give Cross-Over Office a try. It's fairly cheep and works pretty well, and their list of supported programs just keep growing. That way you can still run those applications you haven't found a OSS/Linux replacement for without rebooting all the time. Best regards Michael Boman