After a long time, i am on the search for some good gnu/linux tools again.

best would be a collection of tools, which are opensource and freeware, so i run a search on known things i was missing under gnu/linux for a while...

1. a tool for editing files from an ftp on the fly
2. a tool which acts like homesite for gnu/linux
3. something dreamweaver'ish
4. a good chess program, which does play without online partners

I searched for a pretty while, but found exactly what i needed.

the first one, i had a look which i did a preview for a long while ago, the cool is called nvu, and it may be downloaded from www.nvu.com, it offers all those nice little gimmicks, you might expect from a common html editor, it has preview mode for the page, has its own css edito built in, which lets you design css code with a few simple clicks, it lets you insert elements on your page without having to type down every statement, comes with a site manager, which lets you simply connect to a place on the internet and directly edit your sources, and then publish your changes with a single click on the so called publish button.

not to mentoin, it has a possibility to add functionality via plugins, just like you would do it with firefox by using xpi files.

nvu has come a long way, since the last time i looked at it, and i think its time to put it into the mainstream development.

Secondly, for pure editing of all kind of sourcecode, there is a multiplatform editor called jedit, which might be found at www.jedit.org.

it has lots of features out of the box, you might best compare it to editors like pspad or ultraedit, its big difference to these kind of editors is, that it also, like nvu, has support for all kinds of plugins and themes, and compared to nvu, there area already dozens of plugins available for it, e.g. on the fly editing from internet sources.

There are not many chess games out there, that are free and support playing without an online connection, the best i have tested so far is jose, which might be found at http://jose-chess.sourceforge.net/

It has a nice table setup, you can see your opponents movement and prediction, it tells you field numbers and has the necessary timer.

i have to say, gnu/linux is getting better pretty fast, and it gives me a good feeling, that even projects, that where started as a case study get improved very quickly.

Links:

www.nvu.com www.jedit.org jose-chess.sourceforge.net www.jpo-aktuell.de/OpenSource.php