Need Linux Notepad replacement

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Dos-Man

Well, windows has been getting on my nerves lately, too many crashes. I
need a break so I installed Red Hat 6.

Where are all the quality "Free" programs? It doesn't appear to come
with any.

Here is what I need:

1) Visual programming IDE
I need a vb or delphi clone for linux. The sooner I can start creating
Linux versions of my own software the better the chances I will stick
with it.

2) Notepad Replacement
Wasn't there a linux version of either Editpad or Metapad? I can't
remember which one, but I desperately need a half-decent text editor.

3) Program Launcher
Not having access to my ShellExec launch pad is a real punch in the
gut. Hopefully someone can recommend something similar.

4) Calendar Program
There is probably one somewhere but the OS comes with so many files it
makes it hard to find anything.

5) File Search utility.

6) DOS and/or Windows emulator.
Maybe I can run some of my programs on Linux if I'm lucky.

I need programs that are small enough to fit on floppy disks because
the OS does not appear to like my CD burner :(

dos-man
 
Dos-Man said:
Well, windows has been getting on my nerves lately, too many crashes. I
need a break so I installed Red Hat 6.
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Red Hat 6?

If that is not a typo: why install such an outdated OS? Since version 6,
Red Hat progressed to version 9, and now the OS is continued in Fedora
Core, which is almost at version 3.
Where are all the quality "Free" programs? It doesn't appear to come
with any.
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Install a modern distribution and things will become clearer.
Here is what I need:

1) Visual programming IDE
I need a vb or delphi clone for linux. The sooner I can start creating
Linux versions of my own software the better the chances I will stick
with it.
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Gambas would be the closest thing, I think: http://gambas.sourceforge.net/
2) Notepad Replacement
Wasn't there a linux version of either Editpad or Metapad? I can't
remember which one, but I desperately need a half-decent text editor.
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nedit would be a standard choice on Linux.
3) Program Launcher
Not having access to my ShellExec launch pad is a real punch in the
gut. Hopefully someone can recommend something similar.
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I don't know ShellExec, so can't say much.
4) Calendar Program
There is probably one somewhere but the OS comes with so many files it
makes it hard to find anything.
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Try gnome-calendar, or Kalendar.
5) File Search utility.
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Learn to work with the command line, that will give you the most powerful
tools for file searching.
6) DOS and/or Windows emulator.
Maybe I can run some of my programs on Linux if I'm lucky.
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Windows emulator: wine is the standard, AFAIK.
I need programs that are small enough to fit on floppy disks because
the OS does not appear to like my CD burner :(
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Then you still got some configuring to do. It might not work out of the
box, but you'll get it to work with some tweaking.

Regards,
Wald
 
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dos-Man" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: alt.comp.freeware
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 10:11 AM
Subject: Need Linux Notepad replacement

Well, windows has been getting on my nerves lately, too many crashes. I
need a break so I installed Red Hat 6.

Where are all the quality "Free" programs? It doesn't appear to come
with any.

Here is what I need:

1) Visual programming IDE
I need a vb or delphi clone for linux. The sooner I can start creating
Linux versions of my own software the better the chances I will stick
with it.
Click to expand...
I am not familiar with Red Hat's differences, but...

I am using Lazarus (http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/) under Knoppix (I
also use Lazarus on WinXP), and it is very similar to programming Delphi. I
highly recommend it. It has a nice IDE and you will feel at home if you are
used to Delphi (I don't know about VB). I am using it now to program a
simple quiz program. I haven't tried loading any Delphi code directly into
it and compiling, though.
{Snip}
6) DOS and/or Windows emulator.
Maybe I can run some of my programs on Linux if I'm lucky.
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I haven't tried running any of my DOS programs under Linux - I recompiled a
couple of them and they ported without too many changes.
I use the Wine version from the Knoppix installation, and all of my
standalone Delphi 1.0 (16-bit) and 2.0 (32-bit) applications I have tested
have worked better than expected under Wine. The font scaling isn't exact,
and I had one glitch with a Help->About box in one of the applications, but
it was nice not to have to rewrite them. I recommend trying your programs
under Wine first, to see how well they run. For any that do not run as
expected, maybe Lazarus would help in porting them to Linux.

Good luck.

Jeff
 
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 10:11:13 -0800, Dos-Man wrote:

[...]
2) Notepad Replacement
Wasn't there a linux version of either Editpad or Metapad? I can't
remember which one, but I desperately need a half-decent text editor.

3) Program Launcher
Not having access to my ShellExec launch pad is a real punch in the
gut. Hopefully someone can recommend something similar.
Click to expand...
[...]

Kate. Has plugins for TIDY, has block copying, HTML hi-lighting and other
sh*t. Editpad does comes in a Linux version but once you try Kate you'll
fall in love with her (all over again) :).
 
Lordy said:
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RedHat 6 was released in 1999. A LOT has changed since.
Try any *recent* release of the big distros.
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Windows 98 was released in 1998. What's your point?
I use what works.

I have purchased several updates for
Redhat, and the install has always failed for
one reason or another. The most recent flop was
with Redhat 8. The book I bought (Linux for Dummies)
came with it. There is no setup floppy disk, and my
CD-ROM drive is not bootable. There is no way I can
install it. The book says to use the RAWRITE util, but
neither CD appears to contain it.

I'm not even sure if I am using redhat actually. I think
I'm using MANDRAKE. It's the only one that ever installs
successfully.

dos-man
 
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