Olaf Greve 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 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > . > Just do a clean install of windows with all the updates...yet just create the partition big enough to run the apps you need and any files you may create.... thats what i do...