> > fmiser wrote: > > > > I banish those specialty applications to a virtual machine. > > And I have a bunch. [sigh] The host is GNU/Linux. From the > > host (Linux) I have good software ...
> Craig askes: > > Are your "browser, email client, pdf viewer, pdf creating, > image/photo editing, vector graphic editing, CAD, spreadsheet, > word processing, music player, video player" all on Linux, or > are some of the virtual machines for that? > > If those are on Linux, which programs do you use for them? All Linux Browser - Firefox and Chromium, but also occasionally links2, or lynx, dillo or hv3 email client - claws-mail and thunderbird PDF viewer - evince, but not since GNOME3. Now MATEs version atril. And xpdf. pdf creating - ghostscript, pdftk, and imagemagick, and CUPS. But many programs have a built-in "print to file". image/photo editing - bitmap. the GIMP, krita, imagemagick. vector graphics - inskscape CAD - libreCAD spreadsheet - libreoffice, openoffice, and gnumeric word processing - libreoffice, openoffice, and abiword music player - rhythmbox, mpd, vlc, mplayer video player - vlc, xine, mplayer, ffmpeg And I missed a couple in my list of "can't live without". emac, a text editor and more. xcircuit for schematic drawing, and other drawings that benefit from pre-defined objects. fcron, system scheduler. I find it more flexible and usable than anacron or cron. synergy, current open-source port called barrier. Not the new, Synergy2 which abandoned open-source, but the older one. This allows sharing keyboard and mouse across multiple computers. So as I sit here with my desktop's keyboard under my fingers, I can move my mouse off the right end of my screen and it shows up on my laptops's screen. Now I can type, mouse, copy/paste on my laptop. Further explanation on a few of the ones I did list. sshfs. Kinda like nfs, but not. nfs requires setting config files, has various issues, transfers files in the clear, but seems to not mind if the network disconnects and re-connects. In contrast, sshfs can be setup in fstab, but I mostly use it on the fly, no config, simple command. Transfers are encrypted, but it's pretty unhappy if the network fails and will not reconnect on it's own. I use it to view, edit, move, copy files on remote computers - which might be the laptop sitting next to me, but could be my Android 'phone, or a computer in another state. Because the far filesystem is mounted locally, I get to use all my tools. So on my 'phone, by installing a simple SSH server and mounting it on a directory on my desktop computer with sshfs, I get all my desktop tools (find, grep, emacs, GIMP, etc) to work on files on the phone. Another slick use is to mount another users files as though they were mine. I have a system user (clicker) with limited privileges that owns all the photos. To protect these, none of the ordinary users have write access. So if I have photos on my 'phone that I want copied to the photo directories I have a problem. Clicker doesn't have access to the phone ssh server. I have access to the phone, but don't have write access to clickers dir. So I sshfs mount the phone to Dir1, and sshfs mount as user clicker the photo dir on Dir2. Now I can just copy files from the phone to Dir1 to Dir2 and all the permissions stay correct. Unison - file synchronizing. Fast and efficient. And by default shows me a list of all the files that will be changed, and whether it's a real change or just a permissions change. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
