Have you considered using Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator). That may allow you to run your favorite windows apps on Linux. Michael. On Tuesday 10 May 2005 23:53, Chris Weisiger wrote: > 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... > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Michael Weisman "chaos is merely a function of the granularity of the sample"