[TriLUG] Bought my first Laptop--a new Apple Powerbook with OSX--With Linux software in mind I have three questions:

[John Franklin]

On Sunday, June 16, 2002, at 03:02 PM, al johson wrote:

> Re: Windows programs--I probably should have said that the few Windoze
> programs I can't do without (e.g. Usenet programs) will probably work 
> on the
> Macs, if I can't find an OSX substitute for them. I'm in no means in 
> love

Not sure I've mentioned it before, but I've found VersionTracker 
(http://www.versiontracker.com) to have an excellent index of software 
for Macs (both OS X and OS < X).  They list not only shareware and 
freeware but commercial updates and demos.  A search for USENET under 
the MacOS X banner brings up 11 hits including tin and MT-NewsWatcher.  
The latter I've been using since OS 8, been reasonably happy with, and 
consequently haven't looked at any of the others.

The Omni Group (http://www.omnigroup.com) has some first-rate software 
for OS X including OmniWeb and OmniGraffle.  The former is a good web 
browser, although it does have some issues with certain pages (in 
particular Wachovia's online banking) and lacks support for some little 
used CSS tags (border: outset, for example).  OmniGraffle I'm checking 
out now as a possible replacement for Visio.

Oh, VersionTracker also has Windows and Palm indexes.

jf
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