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RAH

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Registered: 2008-06-20

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[SOLVED] Programs

Hello,

1.  Coming from using Microsoft FrontPage/Expression to Linux what package should I get?
2.  Is there a good package for handling nzb newsgroup downloads?

Thanks.

Last edited by RAH (2008-06-23 16:22:54)

Berticus

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Registered: 2008-06-11

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Re: [SOLVED] Programs

I have absolutely no clue what Expression is, but FrontPage, isn't that like a WYSIWYG web designing tool? From what I recollect, it's considered to be the worst WYSIWYG editor... Most people I know who do any sort of web development code by hand and test their pages in FF and IE. Of all the web developers I know, there was only one who used a WYSIWYG editor, and they only used Dreamweaver.

For editing the x/html directly, you can use any text editor such as vi/m, emacs, gedit, kedit, nano, et cetera. However, if you must, there are WYSIWYG editors such as NVU and Quanta Plus.

As for the newsgroup reader, hellanzb is a Newzbin post processor. I'm not sure of the protocols Thunderbird or Pan uses.

thayer

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Registered: 2007-05-20

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Re: [SOLVED] Programs

1.  Coming from using Microsoft FrontPage/Expression to Linux what package should I get?

Bluefish (package: bluefish) is the closest thing to MS FrontPage for GNOME.  Quanta+ is the equivalent for KDE (package: kdewebdev).

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ozar

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Registered: 2005-02-18

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Re: [SOLVED] Programs

I second the bluefish and quanta+ votes.

Either of them far exceeds the quality of FrontPage, in my opinion.

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Berticus

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Re: [SOLVED] Programs

The only thing is Bluefish is a text editor, not a WYSIWYG, like what this guy was looking for. Or did I miss something when I tried out  bluefish? For editing sources, bluefish was pretty good for a graphical program.

smoon

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Registered: 2005-08-22

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Re: [SOLVED] Programs

Hello,

1.  Coming from using Microsoft FrontPage/Expression to Linux what package should I get?

I do not have an idea what Microsoft Expression is either, but there's Kompozer if you really need a WYSIWYG HTML-Editor.

2.  Is there a good package for handling nzb newsgroup downloads?

Thanks.

No clue what nzb is, but searching the AUR gives a few results.

Zepp

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From: Ontario, Canada

Registered: 2006-03-25

Posts: 334

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Re: [SOLVED] Programs

As for the newsgroup reader, hellanzb is a Newzbin post processor. I'm not sure of the protocols Thunderbird or Pan uses.

nzb is not a protocol. Thunderbird/Pam and all news readers support the NNTP protocol. NZB is just an XML based file format that basically just tells a news reader what to download, assuming it supports nzb files.

Anyway I use sabnzbd+ on linux or klibido occasionally if I want to download and browse headers directly (but klibido can also import nzb files).