On Sat, 8 May 1999, Lawrence Wickline wrote: > As I am a new user of Debian I have a couiple of Questions as to what > apps to get . I am not a couplete newbie but am still very new ( I know > how to use gzip and tar and can do most basic functions of a *nix > system) Here is my dilema after searching though several different dists > I have come to the conclusion that debian wins.
I always suggest it to people who are looking at installing linux. I myself have tried Debian, Slackware, and RedHat, and well, Debian Wins hands down for me. > Now I have a minimally configured box running WindowMaker and I need to > find Replacement apps for my windows junk. Specificaly a Word > Replacement ( I tried WordPerfect but the install blew up at the end) > There doesn't seen to be a .deb package available for it for some reason > in spike of the aliance between debian and corel (same is true for KDE > but i like WindowMaker better anyway). Any Ideas? There are a number of different Word Proccessing Packages out there, seeing as you've tried Word Perfect, I'll skip that one (grin). If you just want to use basic word Processing, I would suggest Emacs (you have to install it for a few packages, so why not get some use out of it? BTW - I myself don't like Emacs, so here's another option. You could try (if you've the HDD space), Staroffice. It's pretty good, and it'll read a large variety of formats, only problem - it's 120+ Megabytes of harddrive space used... Not as much of a problem as it might seem, but it is VERY big in reference to most Linux Software. There are many others, but I haven't tried them.. I myself decided to switch from Windows, and Star Office suited my right down to the ground... > Also need something that will make .gifs (Gimp doesn't seem to do this) Haven't found one yet myself... I wouldn't mind a decent package... I'll probably just wait until Wine gets better and run Paint Shop Pro... > I need a good HTML code editor for debian (Been thinking I may just > program macros in emacs but I don't realy want to) Umm... Ditto for me... I've tried all the Linux-Native HTML editors I could find, and I think at present I'll stick with multi-booting this system and running my http design software under windows... You might be interested in waiting a little yourself, at least until Gnome gets fully off the ground, those packages are beginning to look VERY good. > On a side note I will be needing a Database to connect a website to > fairly soon. Any suggestions (I am leaning towards mySQL but I would > like a GUI interface to work in if possiable) Someone is ahead of you here, I do believe... There is a GUI interface for it, but it's very cumbersome, and might be best handled at present from the command line... I'm not sure if there is a Database package written for Linux which has a decent GUI interface... though if you don't mind buying commercial software, there is at least one... can't quite remember it's name now (I'm a big help, aren't I?) > P.S on a happy note > I got Netscape to work Finaly! > and TinTin++ rocks (please include it in a furture debian release. They > are working on it again finally and I would love to be able to apt-get > it as they improve it. Version 2 coming soom:) Thats good to know... btw - what's TinTin++???? Hope this helps, Peter Ludwig