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Lindows Announces Nvu - Frontpage For Linux?

Posted by simoniker on from the beer-and-webauthoring-perfect-playmates dept.

CmdrStone writes "Michael Robertson, the Lindows founder, has announced in his 'Michael's Minute' newsletter that Lindows has started the creation of a Frontpage-type program for Linux, called Nvu." Nvu promises to be "...a complete Web Authoring System for Linux Desktop users to rival programs like FrontPage and Dreamweaver", is "100% open source", and will be free to download when it launches.

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  1. Who cares? by evilmuffins · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    vi is all you need, anything else is for failures...

  2. Why? by fermion · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    Does Linux really need a program whose primary purpose is the creation of non-standard HTML that is guaranteed to only work in IE and is likely to crash any other browser?

    I think creating a Golive clone would be much more useful.

    --
    "She's a scientist and a lesbian. She's not going to let it slide." Orphan Black
  3. Re:It doesnt look promising it looks EXACTLY like by r_glen · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    C++ is just a rerelease of C man

  4. Oh boy. This is sad.. by pair-a-noyd · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    1. Lindows is crap. Do some research for yourself. Google up "lindows security root" and see for yourself.

    2. Frontpage is total, absolute, complete monkey shit trash.

    Frontpage mangles html pages so far beyond salvage that NO OTHER html editor can ever work with that page. It renders the pages almost unreadable by human beings because it throws SO MUCH non-standard bullshit in there.

    Frontpage can take a 4k webpage and when it's done the same page will then be 400k of bullshit.

    Only the most ignorant of the ignorant that ride the short yellow bus to Internet class on Friday night use frontpage. God, I don't think even M$ uses frontpage to do their own shit with..

    Please, let's stop this Lindows mess and let's stop the frontpage insanity..