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Re:Project management 101GanttProject is nice. It's written in Java, so it's especially useful if you're not only using Windows. Works on Linux, works on OSX. It's the one I use. Of course it doesn't have all the features that MS Project does, but it's pretty useful for making initial drafts or working with relatively simple projects.
There's also MrProject for Linux, I don't know if there's a binary for Windows. I compiled this on Linux once and it was nice but it broke pgAdmin, I think it was some version incompatibility with GTK or something.
There are some other similar tools here. Open Workbench Is supposed to be really good, although I haven't tried it. iTeamWork is another free tool.
And finally, this is a list of some more tools.
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Re:OT: FOSS competitor to Microsoft Project?
uuuuuhhhhhhh Mr. Project??
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Good simple ones for PalmOS & LinuxAs an anonymous coward has mentioned, Progect is a good one for palm. This is very close to pen-and-paper simplicity (as are most of the best PalmOS software). It's the only thing that threatens my use of paper todo lists. Yet it sports:
- flexible hierarchical organization. In fact, I end up using it as a general purpose outlining tool as well (are there even any good ones under Linux, outside of a word processor?)
- manual sorting (I really hate trying to sort by meaningless arbitrary "priority" numbers like in just about every other PIM sw)
- several simple forms of progress & completion reporting
HandyShopper is another good one for tracking non-hierarchical things that have costs and quantities associated with them. It does nice things like let you tally up totals, as well as maybe schedule recurring need-to-do/buy items. It's bizarre that it doesn't really have a desktop equivalent yet
:/For the Linux desktop, you might want to take a look at MrProject, a nice Project clone that's part of GnomeOffice. I've only played with it a little bit under Mandrake, but it looks fairly competent when you want to add hierarchical schedule and resource loading data to your task list. Sadly, there's little else that I've seen that comes anywhere close, and I've been searching for one fairly recently for a project management class I took last semester. Oddly enough, I don't even like MS Project for doing this kind of thing, it just doesn't give me enough flexibility in rearranging things, scheduling parallel activities, automatically sequencing constrained resources, etc.
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Re:Chasing the Windows Rainbow...
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they're called HYPERLINKS
It took me all of 2 minutes with Google trying to find links for all the software you mentioned - and greatly enriches your post.
Other than that, thanks for the pointers.
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ImageMagick
K3b - DVD/CD burner software
Plone - The most mature open source CMS.
Mamboserver - Not as mature or featurefull as Plone, but very nice as well.
OfflineIMAP - Simple, reliable, powerful
Kstars - and KDE Technology in general
The ones that are almost there but could use a hand to make them more intuitive:
GNUCash - Can't wait for their Gtk2 version.
Mr. Project
KOffice - has a great technological underpinning. -
Re:Some things in life money cant buy...
And yes, its a shame that MS Projct is the defacto standard PM PC Tool, and I havent seen any OSS that comes close.
There are a couple. Last time I checked out Mr Project it had a fair way to go but wasn't bad:
Mr Project
Toutdoux
Cheers
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Re:Make?I've seen make used to represent all types of dependencies: (Definitions of each given)
- contractor punch lists
- P.E.R.T. charts
- A replacement for Microsoft Project
- Emergency notification call list trees
- Web site content change propagation update tool
- Human Resource function support (Did Bill, tell his department? How about Sue?
... ) - Legal case tracking
- And of course, nachos
:-)
Make: It's not just for breakfast any more :-) -
A GNU/Linux solution ...
.... is Mr Project. OSS for the Gnome environment.
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Mr. ProjectMr. Project can do Gantt charts.
It needs GNOME under Linux (not BSD for some reason) and can't import MS Project files (yet), but you can print charts.
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Mr. ProjectMr. Project can do Gantt charts.
It needs GNOME under Linux (not BSD for some reason) and can't import MS Project files (yet), but you can print charts.
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Mr. ProjectMr. Project can do Gantt charts.
It needs GNOME under Linux (not BSD for some reason) and can't import MS Project files (yet), but you can print charts.
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Re:Or not...Let's not forget about KIllustrator; now Kugar.
Adobe could not be cool with a long tradition of GNU tools using mangled names of products for their GNU "clones."
Just a few:
Linux ~= Unix - Unix was a mangled name for Multix, btw.
gawk ~= awk - There are so many similarly-named command-line utilities that Stallman had a hand in that I don't dare try to list them. I think most of them even kept the names of the original Unix programs with little/no hassle.
KOffice ~= M$ Office - This is the suite that KIllustrator/Kugar belongs to. Boy, "office" is a word about as worthy of trademark as "illustrator." Wait, was that Microsoft being tolerant of trademarks!? I think so. Adobe is more viscious that M$?
KWord ~= M$ Word - more from KOffice suite.
Kivio ~= M$ Visio - KOffice suite again.
mrproject ~= M$ Project
AbiWord ~= M$ Word
KTron ~= Tron (the movie) - KDE group again. Threw this package in there to show that even the MPAA and Disney are tolerant (but not in all cases). Then again, Tron 2.0 is coming up, so maybe attention will come back. -
OT: gtkhtml2 ?
A little bit offtopic, but now when it is a lot of talk about different HTML rendering engines (like KHTML, Gecko and now Opera with it's own rendering engine), what's the status of gtkhtml2? Its home page http://gtkhtml2.codefactory.se/ doesn't say much about its current status, and if their goals will be fulfilled soon.
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TCP/BEEP
FYI, this is BEEP
No, it's not Captain Pike's YES/NO beeps -
The BEEP community is strong and gettng stronger
BEEP's an impressive protocol framework with even more impressive implementations.
I'm using it in a burgeoning open source project because of it's ability to multiplex bidirectional communication channels in a transparent fashion. Other features such as dynamic client/server roles, authentication, and channel encryption are just icing on the cake. The less I have to muck around with protocol state details the better!
When I first started looking at BEEP I was impressed by the spec but I was suspicious as to the quality and breadth of implementations. After looking through the high level Java abstractions and more specifically BeepCore-Java I was able to throw together a workable protocol that's proven to be extensible and quite robust in just a few days.
The BEEP community is alive and well!
There are a number of opensource BEEP implementations:- BEEPCore-Java - Java implementation with a BSD-like license
- BEEPCore-C - C/C++ implementation with a BSD-like license
- PermaBEEP - C implementation with a SleepCat-like license
- BEEP4j with an Apache-like license
- PyBeep for Python with an unknown, but OSI approved, license
- RoadRunner - C and Python implementation with an OSI approved license.
- Beepcore-Ruby - Ruby implementation (though just beginning) with a BSD-like license
There's an excellent IRC channel at OpenProjects with the kitschy name #beepnik.
There's the obligatory O'Reilly book, BEEP: The Definitive Guide.
But the best source for information is the Beepcore.org site which has, among other things, an excellent whitepaper on the justification and design of the BEEP protocol.
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RoadRunner mailing list
I think it's pretty funny that the only message in the July mailing list archive for Road Runner is from that spam-bitch, "Christine Hall."
List:
http://lists.codefactory.se/pipermail/roadrunner/2 002-July/thread.html
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Get To Those Mirrors!
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ftp://ftp.codefactory.se/pub/GNOME/
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Re:Mirrors
Karma whore alert! Please mod down, and mod this anonymous post up!
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Re:Something's broken...
http://apt-rpm.codefactory.se/ is also a useful link if you like to setup apt-rpm on Red Hat 7.2. Will possibly be updated for 7.3 soon.
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Here's one in sweden
Interesting thin client solution running linux on even old 486 computers.
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Free software replaces office apps
Fred is a DBA, so Windows "major major asset" is DB modeling tools.
Recent Oracle clients run on Java technology. Java technology runs on Linux86; Fred can download a Linux version of the SDK or the smaller JRE.
Sally is a project manager, so Windows "major major asset" is project tools.
She can use MrProject or Toutdoux.
Biff is an accountant, so Windows "major major asset" is spreadsheet software.
Like Gnumeric?
The situation with office apps does not parallel like the situation with Photoshop vs. GIMP. Most office suite users do not need the "high-end features" that Microsoft pushes on users with each new relea$e. Even then, those who clone MS Office don't have to worry about broad color-correction patents that play a significant part in keeping GIMP from matching Photoshop's feature set.
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Re:I'm a disappointed GNOME user...And where is GNOME's promised 2.0 release!?!?
... Damnit Miguel?!?! What happened to the enthusiasm and momentum?! Put your marketting hat on!Huh? Do you even remotely keep a watch of the GNOME community? A couple months ago the GNOME 2.0 schedule was released and things are moving along pretty much as planned. A 2.0 API freeze just occured, activity on the lists and in CVS is dramatically rising. We've had recent releases of the new Control Center, a brand new AbiWord, second Beta of Evolution, new releases of development tools gIDE (screenshot) and DevHelp (screenshot), a new file selection dialog, etc...I could go on. I suggest you at least read the GNOME Summaries or check out Gnotices every now and then.
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Re:I'm a disappointed GNOME user...And where is GNOME's promised 2.0 release!?!?
... Damnit Miguel?!?! What happened to the enthusiasm and momentum?! Put your marketting hat on!Huh? Do you even remotely keep a watch of the GNOME community? A couple months ago the GNOME 2.0 schedule was released and things are moving along pretty much as planned. A 2.0 API freeze just occured, activity on the lists and in CVS is dramatically rising. We've had recent releases of the new Control Center, a brand new AbiWord, second Beta of Evolution, new releases of development tools gIDE (screenshot) and DevHelp (screenshot), a new file selection dialog, etc...I could go on. I suggest you at least read the GNOME Summaries or check out Gnotices every now and then.