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16-Feb-2005, 01:36 PM #1
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Im wanting to switch to linux mandrake but i need to know that programs like the ones i mention for windows are available for linux...

Msn Messanger Subsitute!
Bearshare Subsititute!
Mozilla FireFox Substitute!
Microsoft Word Subsitute!

can anybody send me a name or link to any substitutes for the programs i mentioned?

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16-Feb-2005, 02:39 PM #2
Ive found one answer buy myself so far!

Limewire works on linux (kinda like bearshare)
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16-Feb-2005, 03:27 PM #3
Well of course Mozilla works on Linux. That is the most obvious one. You can use Open Office to replace Microsoft Office. And you can use Gaim for all your messaging needs.
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16-Feb-2005, 05:41 PM #4
does Gaim support the webcam feature?
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17-Feb-2005, 03:00 AM #5
Lightbulb mandrake-
been using this distro now for 2 years -

Use Open Office 1.1 - http://www.openoffice.org

never had any problems, except a few little misses in spell checking scans on the word processor -
Also has spreadsheet etc included - and yes you can save documents in word format and excel and email to MS office users.

Only thing is if you have a excel spreadsheet that uses vba you can have some trouble - but we found a way around that.

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18-Feb-2005, 10:57 AM #6
I prefer openoffice to MS Office, even in Windows. I just like it better.

Gaim is awesome.

If you want to try out these programs first, Gaim and OpenOffice both have Windows versions:
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
http://www.openoffice.org/

Good luck!!!

Firefox is crossplatform and runs on Linux also.
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24-Feb-2005, 01:19 PM #8
Can anyone tell me if OpenOfiice does file searches with cut/pastable search results.(eg. find doc files conttaining the word 'foobar')
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24-Feb-2005, 04:03 PM #9
you can always just make a script that will do that for you not that hard actually..simple bash with a bit of sedding.
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24-Feb-2005, 07:30 PM #10
Does it ever occur to anyone that the person using a tool to do something may not have the time to make the tool. Just think: if you had to do a home renovation, would you pause to make hammers, nails, screws and mix varnish.
Luckily linux is less messy.

Sorry to be off topic. So you are saying OpenOffice doesn't do file searches with regexp? Do tell how would a streaming editor acting as a filter to grep (i guess) be useful on binary doc files? I tried grep with a text content search and I get the whole file dumped in console (instead of lines of occurence). What about Koffice?
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