The Linux Alternative Project Forum

blufftitler (1 reply)

smmsamm — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:33:57 -0400

Looking for an alternative to a player that can show RSS and XML in 3d mode
there is a very good software for windows in this url
[www.outerspace-software.com]

It is professional 3D animation and video for showing RSS in realtime and many other titling purposes but I need something in linux

you can see its features in:
[www.outerspace-software.com]
and
[www.outerspace-software.com]

Fraps (1 reply)

timecatalyst — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:05:48 -0400

Looking for an alternative to Fraps (http://www.fraps.com/), though it doesn't have to be nearly as feature-full.

A friend and I have just recently moved development of our OpenGL game from Windows to Linux, and we want to do short captures for our development blog.

Third party comment systems? (no replies)

smk — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:39:13 -0400

I feel a bit out of the loop here. Apparently, third party comment systems are all the rage.

I'm interested in hear about your experiences with them. This is something I'd like to add to The Linux Alternative Project. Are there any open source friendly solutions?

- smk

New Layout and logo! (no replies)

smk — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:59:39 -0400

I'm looking for help and with layout and a logo.

The logo, well, I'm open to suggestions. I really don't have anything in mind, but I would like to start giving people banners that they can link to.

I'd really like to separate the mark up and design, even more. Maybe going to two columns instead of two? I'm open to suggestions.

Of course, I'll give you full credit for your work. Please help me out!

Snag-It (TechSmith) and VLC.... (2 replies)

rearviewmirror — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 20:06:08 -0400

Is there a program that has the screen capture capabilities of Snag-It?

Also.. how does VLC not make the LinuxAlt list for a media player? It's better than any of the others listed!

Windows Media Player (no replies)

ingeon — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:13:15 -0400

I know mplayer is on there but i found smplayer is way better than Windows Media Player
and mplayer, even though it`s based on it. It`s got awesome functions.
It would have been better than VLC if it had the video corruption test/check built into
it like VLC.

magic iso alternative? (1 reply)

dion — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:54:55 -0400

hello. I am trying to find a way to boot iso files in linux? Is there a program like magic iso or deamon tools for linux mint?

Microsoft Streets and Trips on Linux (no replies)

Dr Love — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:38:21 -0500

Does any one out there know of a good alternative to Microsoft's Streets and Trips program to run on Linux?
I am using Mint 8 a Debian based distro.
I tried to install using Wine Doors but no luck. I have a paid copy of Cross Over but it will not install correctly on Mint 8 either.

Newbie Linux user
Dr. Love

Open Shot (1 reply)

sploopidy — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 08:30:19 -0500

Hello world!

I would highly recommend adding the Open Shot Video Editor to your list of Alternatives. It is very extensive and is very simple. You can find it at www.openshotvideo.com.

-Andy Curtis
(sploopidy@gmail.com)

"...and that's all I have to say about that."

Future Ubuntu Linux user (2 replies)

DeaconMichael — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 08:18:45 -0500

Hello,

I'm Deacon Michael and I'm in Baltimore MD. I am still using the XP version of the world's most popular Trojan Horse, namely Window$. But I am increasingly frustrated with it. I've been trying to learn Linux for several years, but I do not have a systematic method of doing this. I can't take courses at the local community college because they keep saying that I am no qualified for the courses since I do not have academic credits for the courses which I could actually teach. A later review of my transcripts from other colleges reveal that I have earned a B in one of the courses for which I am "not qualified" to take.

I have two computers which have Ubuntu on them. One of them was running for over a year, but the only thing that I really did on it was to check one of my e-mail addresses. Most of my computer time is spent in WordPerfect X3 and WordPerfect X4 and so far I have not found anything that is as powerful and does what I need to do. I also spent a considerable amount of time with Adobe PhotoShop Elements 2.

I also use Panaroma to rotate the wallpapers on my Window$ desktop in a random fashion. And I use Dreamweaver and Image Maker to create my web pages.

I am open to suggestions to make my life easier.

Thank you.

Father Deacon Michael

Alternative to OmniFocus, Things, The Hit List, FusionDesk? (no replies)

ArchiMark — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:44:30 -0500

Wondering if there's anything comparable to any of the following ToDo List organizer apps that allow you to easily tag, organize, and sort ToDo tasks in various ways and have very simple looking, elegant graphic interfaces?

Wouldn't mind paying for such as app if it did the job....

Only app that I know of that is anything like this, but is still quite different would be ThinkingRock......

Thanks for any suggestions!

Preparing data for collaboration (7 replies)

smk — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 07:58:42 -0400

One of my New Year's resolutions is to open The Linux Alternative Project to collaboration.

I'm pretty much set against a wiki. In my opinion, wiki's are bloated, spam magnets and not shared hosting friendly.

I'm looking at my options. Right now I'm thinking of using the same model that perl101.org is using. Organize the data, use some sort of a HTML/CSS compiler to create the static site, and use version control for collaboration.

For some more reference, here is perl101.org's code:
[github.com]

We gain:
- Collaboration
- Version control (it's good, in general)

Possibly annoyances .
- No instant gratification. There still a review process, and publishing.
- I'm leaning toward using git. git isn't newbie friendly. But it has the features I like.
- sending in patches isn't newbie friendly either.

To move toward this or any other system, I have to start organizing the data into a friendly format. I'm leaning towards YAML right now. There are YAML parsers for most languages and the syntax is easy to read and edit.

The HTML/CSS compiler I'm looking at is markdown(http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/). A good way to keep the style and data separate.

Please feel free to reply with ideas you might have, positives and negatives or anything else you want to chime in with.

Thanks!

Good alternative for Dragon Naturally Speaking software in Linux (2 replies)

sam4dl — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 03:25:15 -0500

Hi, Im looking for a good alternative for Dragon Naturally Speaking software in Linux.

I know i can install Dragon through Wine but i do not want to and want to find a good alternative for linux.

Please assist... with name and link to download..... Thanks in advance 8-)

ratings on different software choices (no replies)

ncy — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:55:18 -0500

great website, very informative.

it's difficult to choose between some of the software listed, though. maybe you can implement a voting system. some of the listed software seems to have stopped development for some time, too.

thx,
-n

Incremental backups like File Hamster (1 reply)

cerulean — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:38:34 -0400

Moving from Windows and looking for replacement for "File Hamster" (filehamster.com)

Basically I'm a PHP developer and it would watch my apache web documents folder for changes and make a backup with a time-stamp of any changed files. Once you had those backups you could restore from an old version, compare two versions with a diff app like Beyond Compare, and you could get a report of changes for a certain time period. That last part is useful for verifying time spent on projects.

Anything like this exist in Linux?

Google Gears , Adobe Air alternative (no replies)

balki — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:02:31 -0400

Open source, cross platform supporting alternative for Google gears and adobe air.
I want to develop web applications for desktops (preferably which will run on a browser or will run without much of installation requirements) with local cache, so that limiting bandwidth and online time.
Apps like feed reader , mail reader , forum reader ( have plans to customize for all popular bulletin boards ) ,etc..
Are there any open source libraries or tools available or i've to code from scratch ?

identi.ca! (no replies)

smk — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:28:29 -0400

As suggested, I signed up for identi.ca.

Please follow us if you're a member.

http://identi.ca/linuxalt

Also gwibber is giving me some problems. Any other clients out there?

Identi.ca ? (1 reply)

MagicFab — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:08:51 -0400

May I suggest you also post your notices on Identi.ca ? It's a popular microblogging site based on Laconica, which is free software.

You can post to both Identi.ca and Twitter simultaneously with different clients and online services.

Thanks in advance for considering this.

Great FTP client (no replies)

Bashar — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 04:59:31 -0400

Hello,
Please add FileZilla to your FTP alternative its great opensource software

Website Software (4 replies)

azpublisher — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:20:41 -0400

I have a suggestion to make, I think you should run the site on wordpress. Any body else agree?

MS Photo Story (1 reply)

jamiers — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:27:29 -0400

Searching for a good alternative for my third graders to use. Microsoft Photo Story is as easy as it gets. I'm hoping that someone can suggest a good easy alternative for this program to install on Windows and Linux. Thanks.

Mp3tag alternative (2 replies)

mem.namefix — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:34:32 -0400

Can we add namefix.pl to the mp3tag alternatives ?
Does everything the others do though its main function is a batch file renamer it does a great job on mp3s.

I am the author of namefix.pl :P

SuperCopier alt for Linux? (1 reply)

DigitalDreamer — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:50:59 -0400

Just wondering if there is alternative application to this one, cause the one the openSuse (11.1) isn't good enough.
Tnx

Twitter! (no replies)

smk — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 22:03:42 -0400

I just signed up for twitter!

[twitter.com]

Welcome Reddit Users! (no replies)

smk — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:07:38 -0500

Welcome reddit users!

Introduce yourself here!

danboids list of additions (3 replies)

danboid — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:25:24 -0400

Hi Linux Alternatives!

I've been a Linux user since '96 and my main area of interest is multimedia production. I've seen your page linked a few times now and there are a few big omissions right now. I couldn't see a way to edit the main page so I'll just list them here:

DeVeDe - DeVeDe makes it simple to author DVD videos (or (S)VCD) including menus converting from any type of video supported by mplayer. Also available for Windows.

winff - A great ffmpeg GUI with many useful presets, winff makes batch conversion of videos simple under Linux. Windows version too.

dvd95 - dvd95 is a simple GTK app for shrinking dual-layer video DVDs onto single layer discs.

handbrake - handbrake is a cross-platform alternative to dvd::rip- it rips DVDs to MPEG4

qcad - qcad is a GPL 2D CAD program with a QT4 interface that is available for Linux, Windows and Mac

soundconverter - soundconverter is a simple GTK app to easily convert sound files into MP3, OGG, WAV or FLAC

nautilus-image-converter - This is a plugin for the GNOME file manager that allows you to quickly and easily resize a large number of images just by selecting and right-clicking on them under Nautilus.

rebuild_db - This is a platform independent python script that allows iPod shuffle users to ditch itunes entirely and use their ipod like a normal USB memory stick by copying the songs over then running the script on any computer that has python installed to update the ipods song database.

Musescore - Musescore is a FOSS cross-platform musical score editor ala Finale or Sibelius

milkytracker - milkytracker is the premier open source, cross platform music tracking program for creating and editing Amiga MOD and similar files

sooperlooper - Is a great fun multitrack sampler

I'm sure there's more cool apps that should be on that list that I haven't remembered just yet...

EndNote (bibliographical database) alternative (1 reply)

hubert — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:00:36 -0500

I just found this JabRef witch is an alternative to EndNote.

It's a great freeware (I don't know if it's opensource though) available with Linux, OSX and Windows and is a frontend of BibTex.

I don't know much about it, but it should be added to the web page "Linux Alternative Project" (http://www.linuxalt.com/)

Website Merge? (1 reply)

Sparks — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:57:16 -0500

Excellent site, however the desing seems to a bit lacking, but it is updated fairly often, and the additon of the forums is great. There is another website out there that is on a similar goal called Open Source Alternatives Link, it doesn't seem to be updated on a regular basis, no community discussion either. With a merge of sites, you would have one great site.

CSS help (no replies)

smk — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:10:03 -0500

I'm looking for somebody to help out with the CSS design on the site. The markup should be done so all I got to do is drop a new CSS file in place and it should work. I'm looking for pretty much of the same design I have now, however, I think I can be talked into a two column type of design too.

Drop me a PM or reply to this post!

Autoruns (3 replies)

who — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:12:52 -0500

First of all hello!

I'm looking for something similar to Autoruns from Sysinternals. I can find out what boots with Linux, but i haven't found a nice GUI program that shows the info like Autoruns for Windows.

Cheers