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Alternativeto - alternative software for Linux
Posted: Tue 10 May 2011, 10:22
by muggins
Came across this site which mentions a lot of alternative software I'd never heard of:
http://alternativeto.net/software/?profile=linux
Posted: Wed 11 May 2011, 14:04
by russoodle
Thank you muggins, always good to find more resources.
Posted: Thu 12 May 2011, 07:32
by disciple
Did anyone find a sensible way of navigating that site? I couldn't see a proper index or anything...
Using site
Posted: Thu 12 May 2011, 08:14
by jabu2
Site is based on searching
(for alternative software to something you have or you think you want
)
So a conventional index is not really needed. Just use the Search box.
Perhaps a note of caution: this type of site (and similar other listings) may not be so useful with Puppy - because your choices of alternatives may be constrained by Puppy, which puppy variant you are using, and by what's in the repositories.
You could waste a lot of time.
Probability is that the really good choices (for whatever you need) have already been served up for your delight by the Puppy developers and presenters
- for which let us give thanks.
Check out Tronkel's motto.
Posted: Thu 12 May 2011, 09:34
by Aitch
disciple, try
site:http://alternativeto.net/software/?profile=linux in a Google searchbox.
If there's a specific app, space/'your specific'
e.g.
site:http://alternativeto.net/software/?profile=linux /office
you may also need to tag 'for Linux' to the end, as it's a crossOS [win/lin/mac] site
site:http://alternativeto.net/software/?profile=linux /office for linux
dunno why the links won't activate....so I didn't for the last one
Aitch
Posted: Thu 12 May 2011, 09:43
by muggins
I only posted the link as, whilst browsing it, I came across software I'd never heard of on freshmeat or softpedia. Whether they're easy to port to puppy, or not, is another question.
e.g. I just entered
scribus into the search field, and one alternative which I'd never heard of, is
Laidout. Having no printer, I have no use for it, but I agree with Russoodle about having more resources available.
Posted: Thu 12 May 2011, 09:49
by muggins
I should have searched the forum first! Disciple requested Laidout, and ttuuxxx responded with a ,pet,
here.
Posted: Thu 12 May 2011, 14:07
by Flash
Aitch wrote:dunno why the links won't activate....so I didn't for the last one
The forum software didn't recognize what you put inside the url tags as a URL. I'm surprised it didn't show your entire post as blank. That's usually what it does when someone tries to show an
improper URL.
Posted: Thu 12 May 2011, 19:48
by Aitch
OK thanks Flash
I modified your emboldening to show the last link fully
weird....URLs that don't appear to be URLs, but which work....?
Perhaps John M has been tweaking scripts...?
Aitch