Hello all, I have been a 'lurker' for a while, gone to a couple meetings, would like to go to more, but family/kids/work/dogs/house/life... <div><br></div><div>In any case, since 90% of my job at my work is about supporting systems that are run largely on Ubuntu, Oracle EL, RedHat, it would be feasible to run Ubuntu on my desktop. Although, I have been out of the 'Linux desktop' space for probably 6-8 years, and I don't really know what's out there. I have Ubuntu 11.10 loaded dual-boot on my work laptop, and have begun acquiring tools, but I would like to ask the group what software they use, hopefully saving me MANY hours of installing, testing, and removing software that doesn't fit my needs.</div>
<div><br></div><div>So. What I need to do my work is this:</div><div><br></div><div>1. Connectivity to Exchange 2007, so I can use email, contact, calendars, meeting scheduling, etc. </div><div> - I have found a couple options, Evolution w/ Exchange MAPI add on, which seem very buggy. IMAP which is not really acceptable, or using actual Outlook itself through Crossover.</div>
<div><br></div><div>2. Connectivity to Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 OCS</div><div> - Look like empathy is supposed to do this with a SIPE plugin, but I have installed it, and it's not connecting. I do have the sipe plugin working on my windows box through pidgin however, so I know it's possible.</div>
<div><br></div><div>3. SecureCRT or something like it for SSH/SFTP connectivity. Needs to have a nice directory tree where I can sort our 300-400 servers into folders for easy use. </div><div> - Installed SecureCRT from Vandyke on Ubuntu, but it locks up parts of X when run, so maybe it's not ideal.</div>
<div><br></div><div>4. RDP Client like RoyalTS, where I can sort our 100 or so windows servers into groups, and each RDP session is contained within the window so I don't wind up with 20 windows open (too hard to manage)</div>
<div><br></div><div>5. Office, word processing, spreadsheet.</div><div> - Libre office seems quite nice, so I think I'm all set here.</div><div><br></div><div>6. Visio and Project :(</div><div><br></div><div>7. VMWare Virtual Infrastructure Client.</div>
<div><br></div><div>8. NetAPP Storage Manager</div><div><br></div><div>9. Windows Domain tools (ADUC, DNS, DHCP, DFS, GPMC, Exchange Management Console)</div><div> - (ugh. probably have to be in a VM of some type, looking for recommendations. I like Oracle's Virtual Box, but haven't looked for a Linux version)</div>
<div><br></div><div>10. Connectivity for Cisco VPN on ASA. </div><div> - Standard IPSEC VPN tools will probably work, but I haven't looked for any.</div><div><br></div><div>11. Good LDAP Manager. Is there Apache Directory Studio for linux?</div>
<div><br></div><div>12. Cisco IP Communicator (soft-phone) - probably not. :(</div><div><br></div><div>13. A nice multi-time-zone clock that stays on the desktop. I use Qlock on windows, and it's perfect. </div><div>
<br></div><div>14. A nice on-desktop task reminder list. I use 'rainlendar' on windows, which I just found, and is awesome!</div><div><br></div><div>I think that's about it. Some of this stuff just isn't possible on linux for licensing or other stupid reasons. So I think I will have to run a VM of some type, so suggestions on that front would be awesome. How far has WINE come ? Ideally I would like to not have to boot up a huge secondary OS if I don't have to.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
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