ouch.

supposing you mean a web composer (*) there's at least three i know of right now that work on linux:
seamonkey
bluegriffon
bluefish

... and yes, why not the outdated kompozer, too. btw, my distro has the "Nvu unofficial bug-fix release" in its repos.

(*) i hate those things. they generate un-editable (by normal means) code bloat.
editing html with a syntax highlighting code editor is orders of magnitude easier and more satisfying, and the result will be much smaller and nicer.

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I would like to see a distro in which all use of RPC style access is left out or made an option. I was shocked to see that the Linux Mint distro of VLC required a remote desktop viewing library. I compiled my own version of VLC without that support and deleted the library. VLC works fine and no-one has access to my desktop.

RPC in various guises seems to sneak back into the GNU-Linux OS without asking or invitation. atspi comes to mind. I'm not disabled. Why was that installed in the first place. At the very least, an install should ask if you want to allow remote access or not and install appropriately. A single user like me has no need for anyone to remotely access my system. I'm not talking about lan sharing. I'm talking about remote call and the like.

In the early days, access was by 64k modem and there were apps that gave a blinking light warning when the modem was active. Green for download and red for upload. That may not be practical today but I sure miss it.

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^ agreed.
on my android phone, the firewall works "inside-out": it restricts applications' access to the internet. i'd love something like that for my linux machines, preferably hooked right into the package manager (so the decision can be made right after installation).

IPtables or ... netfilter should be capable to do this and weren't there distributions which came with the package-filter pre-configured and you had to explicitly allow all kind of network connection in whichever direction?

I stopped using IPtables long ago, as you see, but even back then it could be part of a nice firewall of the kind that ondoho describes or other. I do not even know if it is still called netfiler, the man-page is for iptables, but the site is still netfilter.org.

Cheerio.

AF-Wall+ uses IP-tables. Works quite intuitively and well. Linux is currently progressing to Bp-filter...

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so what it does is achievable on GNU/Linux as well?
is there software that does that?

what's that?

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Paket_Filter

Urgh, sorry I am doing this in a mobile...

Yes, AF-wall does it on Android, you can transfer the rules anywhere.

The link I posted refers to a site in German, you should be.able to carry on from there.

Grrr, this mobile stuff is sh*tty.

^ luckily i read german. it's funny how many english terms are used unchanged. this is almost unreadable. for computer stuff, better to read it in english straight away.
anyhow, thanks.

The Linux ecosystem is growing at a rapid pace. The ease in which today's distros recognize hardware is much more user friendly than say Windows 7 (I cannot say anything on Win 10 since I have not yet used that). I remember how I used to dig around for drivers (even installing the drivers that my PC did not require) in Windows XP and Windows 7. Now, in a recent Linux distro, this is mostly covered. Yes, there are a few hardware that are lacking in driver support, but for the most common things, we are good.

A lot of the missing things listed in the posts in this thread are covered or in process of getting covered in the near future:
- We already have snapshot/rollback feature using additional software (like Timeshift - https://github.com/teejee2008/timeshift, snapper - https://github.com/openSUSE/snapper) or by the underlying file system (ZFS, btrfs).
- Gaming has been covered by GOG, Steam, and the community.
- One click application installs are now becoming reality with Snap packages, Flatpak (Silverblue), AppImage, and more.
- World over, Free/Libre and Open Source Software are ruling on the Developer minds. I think, nearly the entire web/internet is being developed using free software tools and technology --> Databases (MySQL/MariaDB, MongoDB, PostgreSQL), Programming Languages (Python, PHP, Ruby, Dart, C family), Servers (Apache, NGINX, Lighttpd, Node.js), Source Control (git), and more.
- Our Multimedia creation needs are covered by LibreOfice, Blender, Godot, Synfig, Video Editing (Cinelerra, Kdenlive, Pitivi, Shotcut, Flowblade), Open VFX (Natron, openeffects.org, opencolorio.org, opencv.org), Audio Production (Ardour, Audacity, linuxaudio.org/members.html), Desktop Publishing (Gimp, Scribus, Inkscape, SwatchBooker, libregraphicsworld.org), and many many more.

What Linux needs is the end of patents/restrictions on obvious (and essential) things. Obvious things like the way something is kept (For example: the ribbon design; color palettes) to essential things like the S3TC, H.265, and more. And we require more open standards/formats, and I think many of the world's top businesses are acknowledging this and collaborating on open standards / open formats.

For you as a non-native speaker that may seem unusual. The English terms became parts of the German language long ago. 40 years or so earlier the word was "Rechner" now usually it is computer. Compiler probably always was compiler .

i am a native speaker. i'm just not working in IT in german; that part of my life happens in english only.
"unreadable" was an exaggeration; but i find the mix of familiar (english) terms and german translations unwieldy, esp. when they happen in the same sentence or even the same word:
"Just-in-Time-Kompilierung"; "unixähnliche" etc.
or:
"Kernel-Modus-Interpreter werden z. B. für Socket-Filter unter Linux oder WinPcap-Mechanismen benutzt. Einen Benutzer-Modus-Interpreter bietet die libpcap-/WinPcap-Implementierung des Pcap-API."
well, that last one probably wouldn't sound too good in any language.

and no offense of course; just interesting, funny maybe.

Sorry, didn't geht that.
I totally and abyssmally cede the point .
None taken. And yes, it is.

^
...back on topic...

... liest sich völlig normal für mich. 8)

BTW. The translation-services that I use, abuse, address via a diversity of scripts of my own creation, are naturally subject to changes when the Web-standards remain the same, but everybody thinks they don't.., erm. Or, when CSS-code must be updated to reflect the highest available version-number.

“Missing from Linux” is absurdly exaggerated, but I would appreciate it, if someone else would do the work in my place and keep a selection of useful translation-, conjugation-, synonym-searching routines up-to-date. Maybe limit the number of services addressed in this way by establishing active cooperation.

I once wrote to Larousse (French everything) and asked if they could agree to my publishing scripts to automate vocabulary-searches on their site. They were enthusiastic about it and welcomed my endeavor. This was in the context of creating glossaries from HTML-pages (see blog).

Get inspired or ignore.

Cheerio.

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