Thinking Of Making The Switch.....

[MetalPrincess]

To a linux based machine. Need to know what would be the best Linux Distro for what I need to run.

Need to run:

Nero 6.0 (at least)
Dreamweaver 8.0
Flash FXP 3.0
Bulletproof G6 FTP server
MS Office (Excel, Word, ETC)
PowerLink DVD
ACDSee 6.0
DC++ (Direct Connect File Sharing)
Azureus 2.3
Mozilla Firefox
Outlook Express (Can Be Mozilla Thunderbird)
WinAmp
CDex 1.51
DVD Decryptor
DVD Shrink 3.2
Many fonts (True Type and others)

What would you guys & gals recommend other than keeping WinXP! LOL


MP

[bAdWaYz]

I would pick a distro that is pretty newb friendly. As far as that list of app's go either look into the linux alternatives for each or see if some are ported for linux. Stuff line Dreamweaver will have a linux alternative not sure about the dvd ripping stuff as I don't mess with dvd too much on my linux boxes.

[kage]

I'll see if I can list some alternatives for you to check out.

Nero 6.0 (at least) -- K3b
Dreamweaver 8.0 -- Screem / NVU / Bluefish
Flash FXP 3.0 -- GFTP
Bulletproof G6 FTP server -- ProFTPD
MS Office (Excel, Word, ETC) -- OpenOffice / Abiword / Gnumeric
PowerLink DVD -- Xine / Mplayer
ACDSee 6.0 -- GThumb / Konqueror (it's built-in viewer)
DC++ (Direct Connect File Sharing) -- Linux Port
Azureus 2.3 -- Runs on linux
Mozilla Firefox -- Runs on linux
Outlook Express (Can Be Mozilla Thunderbird) -- Thunderbird
WinAmp -- XMMS
CDex 1.51 -- Grip
DVD Decryptor -- see below
DVD Shrink 3.2 -- dvd::rip
Many fonts (True Type and others) -- not sure here, most should be available though

As for which distro to use, all distro's will/should be able to run all of the above programs listed. You might want to check into ubunutu, fedora, and mandrake, as they are pretty easy to use and get used too.

-kage

[DaveQB]

Heck of a post there Kage.
Its like a mini listing of that huge page with comparable Linux programs..... I'll dig it up...

As for a distro, i have been trying out SuSe on new Linux users and they seem to have no problems. It also asks if you want to install MS TrueType fonts at the end of the install. Might be what you want.

SuSe has just released 10.0, it looks great.

[DaveQB]

Here's what I was talking about
http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html