vbenares wrote:Since August I have been trying to use only a linux on my desktop. I think my needs are those of a fairly typical office worker. These four things are what prevent me from ditching my windows box entirely:
A good, gui web composer suite - with a site manager included, i.e. like Dreamweaver & Fireworks. Screem is headed to solving the Dreamweaver part but - in my experience - still has a long way to go.
Egads! Why don't you use handcoded HTML and manually checked links? For one thing - it is much more professional.
An Access clone.
Egads! Why do you need a clone of such a worthless sub-enterprise database program? Use semi-enterprise level ones like MySQL or PostgreSQL in combination with something like Webmin or phpMyAdmin...
Or you could do it the manual way with an SQL script.
A WordPerfect filter for openoffice.
Hmm, I thought everyone used Word? There's a Linux version of WordPerfect, if you're interested.
A way to fax from a networked fax machine. (This would be nice, but I can walk over to the fax machine.)
Erm, isn't this supposed to be done with modems and fax programs?
A simple way to browse (mount and unmount) networked windows shares. LinNeighborhood is a pain and doesn't automatically unmount. I have not been able to get autofs (?) working though every couple of weeks I pull out the relevant posts and try again. (This is just a constant nuisance that I cannot seem to overcome. It makes me long for MS Windows Explorer - yikes.)
Do it properly... Mount and unmount it from the (root) command prompt. Use LinNeighborhood for browsing for shares only.
Don't expect automatic things to work well. They can only make guesses at your intentions.
IglooFTP.... Errrr, it's not free and under the GPL 
