I had switched to Nvu on my PowerBook a while back. I do very limited website work, and I have two desktops where I do most of that so they took care of my Dreamweaver licenses.
That and the slowness of Dreamweaver even on a dual G5 kept me looking for another package Someone recommended Nvu, and I managed to get it configured on my Mac. It worked fine and I wrote a very short post on my impressions.
My last comment in the post was the thought that I was going to try to install without any help Nvu on my Dell Linux box. Well last week I gave it shot using YAST which I'm told stands for "Yet another system tool." It returned a couple of errors, but I figured I had nothing to lose since my Linux box just keeps on chugging mo matter what.
I launched Nvu and created this sample web page without a lot of difficulty. As far as I can tell Nvu seems to be working fine with Suse Linux 9.3, and everything else seems to be okay so I guess the installation was a success. Nvu seems like a solid product so I certainly hope it will be included in the some of the distributions coming out. There are instructions for installing linked from this download page.
You can also find a good list of reasons why you should try Nvu at the following link.
Though I don't use my Linux machine quite as much as my OS X boxes, I continue to be impressed, and I consider the biggest limitation to Linux at this point the lack of the proprietary printer drivers that I need from Epson.
My tests show that the GIMP drivers for my Epson 2200 just don't produce the high quality that I need. Based on that I haven't even tried my Epson 4000.
Yet as far as word processing, mail, spreadsheets, browsing, and now web tools, I think Linux is doing very well at meeting my needs. I'm not interesting in connecting an iPod though I did get that to work once.
The photo archiving tools in Linux are not as sophisticated but they do work. Since I only use a couple of tools in Photoshop, it's hardly worth trying to switch to GIMP for the limited work I do, but I will likely also give it a try someday.
Obviously I would use Linux a lot more if I had it on a laptop. I haven't found a distribution that has wireless drivers for Apple products so I'm resigned to waiting for my next laptop which at this point with be Intel one way or the other. So far I'm reading success stories and challenges on Linux on Laptops for a reality check before I jump.
If anyone has recommendations for what distribution with GNOME works works well on a particular laptop I would love to hear about it.
I'm looking forward to Suse Linux 10.0.
Can you share how did you install NVu in Suse? I use Suse 10.1 KDE and totally clueless about command line. I downloaded the latest version of NVu and hoping to install it from YaST, but it fails all the time. Is there anything I missed?
Thanks, Maria
Posted by: Maria Crosby | November 30, 2006 at 10:31 AM