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The Linux Transition

May 2nd, 2009 Ben Brouse

Recently I’ve installed Ubuntu 9.04 on a laptop (not work) and have been trying to live on the other side. This note represents my first blog post from this laptop.

Impressions
• Firefox continues to be my main browser.
• Google Apps for Domains (email hosting & calendaring) works nicely.
• OpenOffice 3.0 – Does everything I need outside of work.
• Dropbox – Cool Cross Platform solution for file sync across machines.
• XMMS – Nice WinAmp replacement
• TomBoy – Note taking app that does everything I need
• VLC Player – works just as well as it does on Windows.
• FileZilla – Great FTP client.

What I haven’t found yet
• BitTorrent – a good client that I like.
• Adobe Lightroom replacement (I’m hooked on this app and probably won’t find an alternative)

The future
• I’ve been working on brewing software that runs cross-platform. I hope to debut this soon.

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  1. Sandy
    May 3rd, 2009 at 12:54 | #1
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    Thanks for the kind words about Tomboy. :-)

    Have you tried Monsoon and Transmission? They are both great bittorrent clients.

    I don’t know of any Lightroom replacements (that is one awesome app!), but F-Spot is a pretty good iPhoto replacement.

    I find Mono to be a great environment for writing cross-platform apps, but there are plenty of other options like Python, too.

  2. John
    May 3rd, 2009 at 13:28 | #2
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    Ben,

    I too have recently made the plunge into the Linux world. I’ve got a VM of Linux Mint 6 (variant of Ubuntu) running within my main PC running under Vista. It could not have been easier in setting it up…but I do think that some of the software bundled is a little older than the versions you have. I may have to spin up another VM and try Ubuntu 9.04. I don’t think its going to replace my laptop running XP…nor my main PC running Vista…but is something different to play around with. Linux certainly has come along way over the last couple of years…

    John

  3. John
    May 3rd, 2009 at 15:02 | #3
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    I just installed Ubuntu 9.04 on a VM in about 10 minutes or so…allocated 1 GB of memory, and 2 CPU’s…it works flawlessly. I’ve only been playing with it for about 30 minutes or so…I definitely like it better than Linux Mint (at least the GUI).

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