Online Marketing software for Ubuntu (linux)

[wimster]

Hello fellow warriors,

Since i installed Ubuntu 9.1 on one of my notebooks i'm very enthusiastic about this O/S. All drivers are instantly installed and my notebook is performing great. Also there are loads of software programs available for free, which can make me easily forget Windows........

However, since i didn't find any nice marketing tools for Linux, i still have to work with windows as well. Currently it's the only reason why i do'nt install Ubuntu on all my pc's.

Anybody found any linux marketing software?

Thanks,

Wim

[sparrow]

Where did you find the software, could you pm me please

I have been looking into this, seems like a whole new class of OS and browser utilizing linux is about to give Windows a run for its money

could be the next major upset coming for computers

Ed

Originally Posted by wimster

Hello fellow warriors,

Since i installed Ubuntu 9.1 on one of my notebooks i'm very enthusiastic about this O/S. All drivers are instantly installed and my notebook is performing great. Also there are loads of software programs available for free, which can make me easily forget Windows........

However, since i didn't find any nice marketing tools for Linux, i still have to work with windows as well. Currently it's the only reason why i do'nt install Ubuntu on all my pc's.

Anybody found any linux marketing software?

Thanks,

Wim

[dmderoeck]

I would be interested in the marketing tools (software) as well. I've been using Ubuntu for a while and love it. But since the majority of computers use Windows, that's where the development $ is - and we are faced to revert to it using Virtual Box, or CrossOver, etc.

It would be great to free ourselves from Windows once and for all!

[Richelo Killian]

Been using Linux since the very 1st kernel was released by Linus back in 1991.

LOVE it!

Sadly though for us marketing folks, still HAVE to run VMWare with Windoze for some stuff.

[shaddai]

Ubuntu Home Page | Ubuntu
For those that are wondering :-) And I can see how linux could smash windows into history...all it would take is Google releasing a linux OS.

As far as tools, what kind of tools are you looking for?

Quick tip: Install lighttpd and php5-curl on the machine. That lets you run all the php scripts that most people use with websites right on your machine...as well as write your own tools in php.

Todd

[wimster]

Originally Posted by shaddai

Ubuntu Home Page | Ubuntu
For those that are wondering :-) And I can see how linux could smash windows into history...all it would take is Google releasing a linux OS.

As far as tools, what kind of tools are you looking for?

Quick tip: Install lighttpd and php5-curl on the machine. That lets you run all the php scripts that most people use with websites right on your machine...as well as write your own tools in php.

Todd

Maybe Android will!
I mean tools like article submitters, automation software, backlink builders, that kind of software.
I must say, i just love Ubuntu already! Even my harddisk makes less noise and it's fast and stable.

Thanks for the tip!

[Online Bliss]

Anybody found any linux marketing software?

Most Ubuntu users use free software (open source)
I would hope any marketing software for this platform
would be free also.

[mywebwork]

Originally Posted by Online Bliss

Most Ubuntu users use free software (open source)
I would hope any marketing software for this platform
would be free also.

And herein lies the problem...

Ubuntu is also my platform of choice, but as a software developer I write either for the web or for Windows. It's a matter of making a living.

Web-based tools are my preference as they are platform-independent, in fact I'm currently developing a whole set of web-based tools specifically for Internet Marketers (and I always test my designs on Ubuntu, as well as OSX and several "flavors" of Windows). I'm almost at the beta test stage (and about 6 months behind) so if anyone is interested please PM me.

I have yet to design anything exclusively for LINUX, the money just isn't there. But for my application I am constructing an "offline" mode that runs on Mac, Linux and Windows desktops. Adobe Air is the magic that makes that possible.

As LINUX moves more into the mainstream you will see more applications written for it. Don't expect it all to be free though.

Bill

[um1001]

edit - forgot to mention that lots of stuff will also work with wine or crossover

Market Samurai runs on Adobe Air, which I believe works on Linux.

If you're familiar with scripting languages, you can do practically anything these products do just by using command line tools.

For example, I have a script that takes a keyword list and finds the competing pages using cURL, sed, awk and basic bash scripting...it works very much like Keyword Elite and took me about ten minutes to write that functionality.

It generates text output but there's no reason it wouldn't generate a local web page or something similar.

--Jack Morrison

[wimster]

Originally Posted by um1001

edit - forgot to mention that lots of stuff will also work with wine or crossover

Market Samurai runs on Adobe Air, which I believe works on Linux.

If you're familiar with scripting languages, you can do practically anything these products do just by using command line tools.

If only this was the case with me....
Maybe it's not too late to learn.

[Paul Myers]

Evolution inaction:

Prehistoric caveman: "Rarg. Ogg crush!"

Modern technologist: "Grep. Sed bash!"

Sorry. I'm getting off the script. A bit awkward, I suppose, but I had to escape my inner geek for a moment.

Jack,

There are really only three things that have kept marketing software from going the FOSS route. The market is relatively small, the cost of development is uSoft-driven, and (here's the biggie) there have traditionally been relatively few competent programmers who also understood marketing.

Desktop server capabilities could change those weightings. Especially when it gets to be better known that those old computers that are just not up to running the latest version of Windoze will handle most variants of *nix quite nicely.


Paul

[shaddai]

Evolution inaction:

Prehistoric caveman: "Rarg. Ogg crush!"

Modern technologist: "Grep. Sed bash!"

That's awesome!

[mojojuju]

I've found that most marketing related windows apps install and run just fine on wine. Other apps run good as well. For instance, today I installed Photoshop CS2 on wine and it installed and runs without a hitch.

If you find something that won't install under wine, installing it under Windows running virtualized under virtualbox works quite well. I run dragon naturally speaking that way. If you don't want to consume lots of memory running apps on a virtualized Windows installation, you can cut down on some of the RAM overhead by installing MicroXP, a very stripped down version of Windows XP.

Whether you use wine or run Windows virtualized, you can work freely with any windows application on a Linux machine. This is the route I take, it works out well, and I don't own a single computer that boots Windows.

[orenrowz]

I'm a bit confused -
Let's take Micro Niche Finder as an example or any one of Incansoft's bots (social bot, rss bot....), or maybe citrix online (used for go to webinars) - all of these don't run using wine on my ubuntu 9.04.

Actually, Micro Niche Finder does, but it only displays some of its screen. I'm guessing the part of the screen that doesn't show is html based and lacks some sort of internet browser setup, but what do I know?

So if I install lighttpd and php5-curl as shaddai suggests, will that make it work? Or do I need to somehow figure out the internet browser setup? Or do I install MicroXP on a vritual machine? Or do I install Adobe AIR?


I really don't want to install windows. I'm very happy with my ubuntu thank you very much.
So... what next? Any suggestions?

[Wakunahum]

I normally stick with firefox plugins and use those tools.

Here are some of the ones I use. Not my site but it has a useful list.

15+ Useful Firefox SEO Tools For Serious Bloggers And Web Designers

[mojojuju]

Originally Posted by orenrowz

So if I install lighttpd and php5-curl as shaddai suggests, will that make it work?

No. Shaddai was simply explaining that you could install lighttpd and php5-curl and then create your own scripts that serve the same purpose as popular marketing desktop applications. Also, by having php5 & an http server running, you could run some server based scripts. But it won't help you at all in running micro niche finder or similar windows programs.

It's good to learn some scripting for this reason, whether it be PHP or shell scripting or whatever, as you can duplicate the functionality of most of the software geared toward internet marketers. The stuff that those software applications do is not all that advanced or difficult to do when you have a modest knowledge of scripting or programming.

Originally Posted by orenrowz

Or do I need to somehow figure out the internet browser setup? Or do I install MicroXP on a vritual machine? Or do I install Adobe AIR?

Wine can usually handle programs that need to display HTML. For instance, I recently installed Dragon Naturally Speaking under Wine (wasn't worth it BTW), and during the installation Wine prompted me with a message saying something along the lines that in order to have internet functionality, the Gecko HTML rendering engine will need to be installed. So then I click 'OK', wine downloads Gecko and everything is peachy.

However, sometimes I understand, wine will not prompt the user to install Gecko but you can install it yourself. This link might be a good place to start.

Advanced Wine Installation - Wine-Wiki

Adobe Air is not going to help you either, unless the program you've downloaded runs on Adobe Air. Micro Niche Finder does not.

Anything that will run on Windows will run on a virtual machine running windows. You don't need to use MicroXP, you would use regular WindowsXP, or Vista, or 7, or 98 or whatever you've got. I just recommended MicroXP as it uses much less RAM.

And I don't like going the virtualized Windows install route unless I have to. But it's not that much of a pain, and plus it's nice to have access to a Windows installation on your machine in case you need to test out web pages in Internet Explorer.

I'm just saying that you can't lose by installing your software on a virtualized Windows machine - it will definitely work, but I'm like you and I don't want much to do with Windows unless I absolutely need it. Wine + Gecko might do it for you and I'd definitely give that a shot.

[Aubrey]

I have Ubuntu on all computers that I own and control. When I need to run any program in Windows, e.g. Simply Accounting, I install Windows XP inside Ubuntu via VirtualBox. See my blog post on tricks to get USB work:

http://gain4you.net/217/run-windows-...nux-desktop-os

BTW, if you switch from Windows to Ubuntu, go with LinuxMint rather than the regular Ubuntu distro. LinuxMint's menus are very similar to Windows.

The major advantages of Ubuntu over Windows are speed (never slows down with time) and security.

I would like to see more programs written for linux OR instructions written to run web-based programs inside Ubuntu.