Is there anyplace to get free powerpoint software?

Blue|Fusion · Posted: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 17:32:55 Post Subject:

k3b is Linux only, incase you're looking for Windows software :-P.

GAIM, however, is written for Linux but has Windows ports available. I've never tried Trillian, though.

DragonMaster · Rated NC-17 Joined: 31 May 2006 Posts: 134

For Windows, instead of Gaim, there's also Miranda IM (Not O/S I think, but free)
For Linux, there's Kopete too.

Instead of Nero in Windows, there's CDBurner XP Pro (Yes, it's free!)

Gimp has Windows port, no problem here...

What about Google's new Spreadsheet(beta) thing to replace Excel?

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 18:13:04 Post Subject:

CDBurner XP Pro is pretty good. Been using that for a month or so.

Blue|Fusion · Posted: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 19:57:33 Post Subject:

DragonMaster · Rated NC-17 Joined: 31 May 2006 Posts: 134

BeerCheeze · Posted: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 21:42:34 Post Subject:

KDE > GNOME.

Laughing

Don't know why, but I seem to like KDE better than GNOME.

Also, been playing with Suse 10.0... I'm liking it. Tempted to dual boot to it.

DragonMaster · Rated NC-17 Joined: 31 May 2006 Posts: 134

Better looking, and the interface is better IMO. But, it uses a lot of RAM. (At the same time, I find that my P3 800 / 384MB / Fedora Core 5 is faster than my Athlon XP 2000+ / 512MB RAM / Win2000 machine.

BeerCheeze · Posted: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 00:50:45 Post Subject:

XP is faster than 2000.

Blue|Fusion · Posted: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 00:58:02 Post Subject:

I like KDE alot more than GNOME, too. KDE offers more options that GNOME just does not have, and it has more features that Windows users might be used to. Multiple sessions, for example, are available with KDE 3.5. It's a lot more complicated that Windows XP's "switch user," but still just as useful and neat.

But I did uncover a neat lighweight GUI called Enlightenment. It was the GUI on the Pentoo LiveCD I had to use to install Gentoo on my laptop. It lacks alot of the configuration stuff that KDE has in the extensive Control Center, however, it's still very useful and looks as good, if not better, IMHO. DR16 looks a bit rough, but DR17 is something to look at. If you want to try different GUIs out, definately try that one.

And Dragon, Linux 2.6 kernels are much faster than the Windows 2000 kernels. Infact, by default, it's faster than Windows 2000's kernel in frequency (250Hz), but you can change the kernel frequency to 1000Hz (like I did) and it's the fastest kernel in theoretical clock speed. The different that you would notice is minimal in a server, infact may be a performance decrease. But use that setting on a desktop with the PREEMPT config settings and you can shave off 7ms latency off online gaming instantly, and increase your framerates. XP = 8ms kernel clock, whereas when set to 1000Hz, Linux kernel is 1ms kernel clock. Plus Linux makes better use of caches/buffers in RAM than Windows. Windows removes programs from RAM once it exits. Linux leaves it there so if it's called again it loads practically instantaneously, or until the RAM is too full and then just enough cache is dumped to fit the newly running program.

You'd have to compile your own kernel if you want those types of settings, but it really is easy to do. I can write a mini-HOWTO to share if you want for RPM based distributions (mainly Fedora/CentOS/RHEL).

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 10:46:47 Post Subject: