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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. Way OT: Re:What we really need... is more stuff.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    snot....
    SQL-Ledger is a double entry accounting system. Accounting data is stored in a SQL Server, for the display any text or GUI browser can be used. The entire system is linked through a chart of accounts. Each item in inventory is linked to revenue, expense, inventory and tax accounts. When you sell and purchase goods and services the accounts are automatically updated.

    With the assembly feature you can build manufactured goods from parts, services and assemblies. When you sell assemblies all the accounts linked to the individual parts, services and assemblies are updated and stock levels adjusted accordingly. If any item belonging to an assembly is changed all assemblies are updated as well.

    Invoices, Packing List, Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Sales and Purchase Order, Statements, Receipts and Checks are generated from templates and may be changed to suit your needs. Templates are provided in html and tex format. The tex templates are processed with latex to produce postscript and PDF documents and can be sent to a printer, displayed in a PDF viewer or sent out via email ...

    SQL-Ledger can be used on any UNIX, Mac OS X and Windows computer. The application is written in Perl, developed on FreeBSD and Linux with Galeon, Konqueror, Netscape, Lynx, Links, W3M, Voyager, Explorer to render the display, Apache, thttpd, boa to communicate between the server and the browser, and PostgreSQL, Oracle, or DB2 to store accounting data. /snot....

  2. Re:It doesnt look promising it looks EXACTLY like by muzza · · Score: 5, Informative

    Indeed the "Publish Settings" dialog shown in this image sitemanager.jpg still has the Mozilla icon on it.

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    --Murray Barton
  3. Re:Looks promising by dtfinch · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you want some sort of preview release, try the Mozilla Standalone Composer. It's a couple weeks old, and released by the same person who's now head of the Nvu project.

  4. Re:It doesnt look promising it looks EXACTLY like by asciono · · Score: 5, Informative

    And this dialog has the Netscape logo.

    Lindows will be releasing it under the Mozilla license. And, they've contracted a ex-Netscape employee (Daniel Glazman) to be the lead developer.

    Read here for more and past information:
    Lindows.com Announces Mozilla-Based Nvu...
    Lindows.com Contracts Daniel Glazman to Develop...
    Daniel Glazman Starting Company to Develop Composer