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On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:50:53 +0100 Ruairi Fullam wrote: > Hi, > > I have been lingering on the list for a fair while now and been > fascinated by the quality of posts and responses. Over the last weekend, > I attended the Breakpoint Demoscene party in Binghem, Germany and was > very surprised with the amount of alternative platforms being used, from > all flavours of Linux to AmigaOS. > > A lot of my software I use under Windows is GPL / LGPL / OSS - I'm not > fed up with Windows per se, I am just curious as to whether Linux can > handle some vital elements of my work flow, specifically Flash and > Dreamweaver 2004 which of course aren't Open Source. I have used Wine in > the past and had variable success. I would consider using Xen as a > virtualisation tool as long as it doesn't chew CPU cycles when the > emulated PC is idle, and provides a decent throughput and response. > > The full switch is tempting, I have used Mac OS X for a long time and > enjoyed it apart from some of the slower parts of the interface (I don't > care that much for animated windows, as long as they are smartly > presented and not too garish). Does anyone have real world experience > with running these kinds of Windows apps under Wine? > > Any responses appreciated. > > Ruairi Hello and Welcome, Ruairi. Dreamweaver - it would be nice if a native port was available for Linux, but that ain't going to happen in the near future. Which, is a good thing. NVU - built from Mozilla Compose - is a very nice GUI page/site builder. I would recommend it to anyone who doesn't want to be hassled by the raw HTML (personally, I quite like doing things manually). Flash - don't get me started! FlashPlayer is available for Linux. It isn't great. It's only at version 7 at the moment, so it can't handle some of the new things coming out now. In Macromedia's infinite wisdom they have tied it to using the OSS drivers for sound. Not helpful when Linux 2.6.x uses ALSA for sound by default. And don't get me started on Shockwave either! Fireworks? --Grant - The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html