Comments on The Perfect Desktop - Fedora 10 (GNOME)

Please... Please... Please.... Stop to say that The Gimp is a replacement for Photoshop!!! THAT'S NOT TRUE!!!

A freak geek guy  who installed a cracked Phostoshop on a cracked Windows to do things that he could do with MS Paint, well, this one will find that The Gimp is a great tool.

But a real pro WORKING with Photoshop will never use The Gimp! PLEASE STOP TO COMPARE THE GIMP TO PHOTOSHOP!

The author, Falko Timme, specifically made this objective very clear right from the beginning:

"This tutorial shows how you can set up a Fedora 10 desktop (GNOME) that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop..."

I thought that, since he wanted to illustrate how you can fully replace Windows with Fedora 10, what then can he replace Photoshop with since obvioulsy it won't run native in Linux? What else is there in Linux world that you can use in place of  Photoshop if not GIMP? For the objective as stated, it is TRUE that GIMP is a replacement of Photoshop.

I don't think the author is making a case of GIMP being equal to or better than Photoshop. He is simply showing us options, and that's that.

I have ONLY one nagging headache after replacing windows with fedora core 10. The headache is visio and microsoft project files. I still need to remote desktop to another system or start an XP virtual machine to view these files.

Hi Phist

Did you try "planner" or http://ganttproject.biz/ as a substitute for ms project?

Both progams can import ms project files.

 As for visio there is dia on linux. but it's not as good.

U i remember when microsoft bought visio. It was somwhen back in 1998 or so.

I have been using Dia as a replacement for Visio and I find it more than adequate for the purposes of drawing network diagrams. Definitely worth the price and not having to remote desktop into Windows boxes any more.

Hi Falco

 Nice Tutorial. I was able to use a part of it. However if you migrate from fedora 8 to fedora 10. Or if you want to clean fedora 9 and install fedora 10 there is a much faster way than doing all the things in your tutorial. You can do all this in just 5 Minutes!

 I wrote a simple script doing most of your things and a few nice things more. The skript installs these nice application you mention. Addtionialy it sets up 3D drivers and als a development environment for PHP. The skript can be easily ajusted to do your own things.

Its aviable for free for fedora 8, 9 and 10 under:

http://www.suvi.org/theory/linux_fedora_supersize.html

Please let me know if you have any inputs or questions to the skript.

 Cheers

Suvi 

As long as you're saying desactivate selinux, say also to remove pulseaudio right at the start in order to avoid a ton of headaches.

# yum remove pulseaudio

You can find directions to solving most of your pulseaudio problems at the following link.

http://fedorasolved.org/Members/fenris02/pulseaudio-fixes-and-workarounds

It has helped me with my continuing problem with various Fedora versions using my old Soyo Dragon MoBo with it's integrated sound chip.