[CLUE-Tech] My transition

[Grant Johnson]

Mike Staver wrote:

>At work this week, I've decided that I'm going to be a rebel and ditch
>the windows 2000 installation I currently have on my laptop in favor of
>Red Hat linux 7.2.  Problem is - before I make this a reality, I need 4
>things:
>
>1) A very, very good HTML editor for linux.  I use Cold Fusion Studio
>4.5 on windows - it doesn't write code for me, it just color codes
>everything to it's easier to read.  I spend 8-10 hours a day coding with
>this program, so it must be comfortable for me to use and be stable.
>
I have heard good things about Blue Fish and Quanta, but have not used 
them.  I usually use pico or the KDE advanced editor.

>
>2) I need a front end that interacts with SQL Server 2000 remotely -
>like enterprise manager does on windows.  Is there such an app?
>Enterprise manager gives me a drill down into things like stored
>procedures, tables, etc for a list of databases on our windows database
>server.  
>
That will happen as soon as they publish the API.  In other words, there 
will be blizzards in Tampa first.

>
>3) An app that works similar to Visual Source Safe - that allows me to
>open an MS Visual Source Safe 6.0 database.  That is our code
>repository, and it is vital that am able to access this.  
>
See #3, but replace API with file format.

>
>4) Some great howto on getting my new linux box to authenticate against
>a windows active directory box.
>
PAM Samba?????  I don't know for sure.  At my house, everything 
authenticated against the Linux box.

>
>
>With linux, I've already got my outlook clone, netscape messenger and
>browser, mp3 player, and everything else I use a computer for.  It's
>just these 4 things that will give me absolutely no reason to keep using
>windows.  I can't expect my company to stop using windows, because the
>accountants use 3 major tax software packages for doing
>corporate/foreign national/expat tax returns, and ofcourse these
>packages only run on windows.  So, I just need a workstation that plays
>nice with the current windows network we have.  
>