Open Source Software vs. Commercial Software:
Migration from Windows to Linux
An IT Professional's Testimonial
CUPS PDF Writer (Adobe Acrobat Writer replacement),
PDFEdit (Adobe Acrobat Standard / Professional replacement)
CUPS PDF Writer
The CUPS PDF Writer is mainly what it says, it's a PDF Writer that works with
the CUPS printing system. CUPS is installed by default with Fedora. You will
almost always want CUPS unless you are installing a very specific machine (i.e.
a firewall box). To get the PDF Writer, install the "cups-pdf" package.
This makes a PDF printer that will appear in your printers list and prints to
the desktop. It works great, and beats a painful installation of Adobe Acrobat
any day!!
PDFEdit (Adobe Acrobat Standard / Professional replacement)
This program still has some work to be done, however if you need to edit PDF
files it's a great start. I will be adding more on this in the future.
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Table of Contents |
- 1. Preface, People Are Habitual, A Little History
- 2. A Little Politics
- 2A. Open or Closed, Software
Editions, Market Usage
- 2B. Monopoly Game, Support Nightmares,
Competition, Piracy, Licensing, Activation, Developer Pool
- 2C. Web Browser Wars, Web Application
Wars
- 2D. Windows Failures, Windows
Jokes, Windows Problems, Behind Closed Doors, Windows Mutation to
Linux
- 3. Maintenance Headache of Windows
- 4. A Matter of Cost?
- 5. How About Standards?
- 6. Conclusion, Goodbye Microsoft
- 7. Migration Experiment
- System Settings / Tweaking
- Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird and
Sunbird
- OpenOffice Office Suite (Microsoft
Office replacement), Dia (Microsoft Visio replacement), Gnome Planner
(Microsoft Project replacement)
- WINE (the Windows Emulator)
- Rsync (File Synchronization / Replication
Utility)
- CUPS PDF Writer (Adobe Acrobat
Writer replacement), PDFEdit (Adobe Acrobat Standard / Professional
replacement)
- FontMatrix, the X11 Window System
Font Manager (Adobe Type Manager, Font Navigator, Suitcase replacement)
- Kino and Cinelerra, the Video
Capturing / Editing tools (Adobe Premier replacement)
- Sun VirtualBox (VMWare Player,
VMWare Workstation, Microsoft VirtualPC replacement)
- Scribus (Adobe Pagemaker, Adobe InDesign
replacement)
- Gens (Sega Genesis Emulator)
- Miscellaneous Additional (Optional)
Settings / Software
- Nvidia Video Card 3D Support
- CDEmu (Mounting Virtual CDs, DVDs)
- Troubleshooting Tips
- 8. Additional Migration Considerations
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