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SPSS .. It's a program for statistical analysis... though many things can be done in OpenOffice.org I haven't found any specific statistics program for linux that's interoperable with SPSS (university requirement)
What about donating support to those inferior products so they can get better? Big companies will NOT invest in Linux market, be sure of that. They have NO interest to invest 10-20% of their budget for 1-5% market.
It's fine to say such. And I've donated before to various Open Source programs / projects. I even have created an OS project of my own. But I also know that these donations don't do much if not in large numbers, and the donations won't roll in until the program's quite evolved already. No-one wants to pay for something which doesn't (yet) work.
As I've stated the clones are not Open Source (there are some, but then they're even worse). The best clone to ACad I can find is BricsCAD. They're not free ($ 380). Although they're a lot cheaper than AutoCAD ($ 3,975), be that without quite many of the features - and the UI looks like something from the Win95 days (not that I mind that though).
what programs would I like to have ported to Linux.
i would like the "Ocean " program from the Bahaii Education .org
program to be ported to Linux. Presently it is only available in Windows.
They say to use Wine.
It is very helpful for Research.
Yeah, I guess I'll come back in about 5 years and see if someone realizes we need a REAL replacement for Norton Ghost in Linux...
It's downright pathetic that we still can't do simple things like pluck a single file out of a backup archive with the backup software Linux has now. (Well, you can pluck it from a tarball, if you untar the whole bloody thing first... oh snap.)
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Yeah, I guess I'll come back in about 5 years and see if someone realizes we need a REAL replacement for Norton Ghost in Linux...
Norton Ghost was born out of pure misery that you cannot simply clone a Windows system. Linux doesn't need a clone tool as you can simple copy all files onto the new system. If you need to copy partition information and boot sector as well, a huge collection of tools exist for that.
This is not intended to attack you in person (this is by far not the first request for NG), but wanting a Norton Ghost is wanting to re-incarnate a workaround which was invented because of the limitations of and inferior system.
Well, you can pluck it from a tarball, if you untar the whole bloody thing first... oh snap.
Most archive browsers / creators (GUI based / or even CMD based) can extract one file from most Archives. E.g. I like using 7Zip, which allows direct extraction (as well as creation / addition / replacement) of files within numerous archive types (TAR, TGZ, 7Z, ZIP, etc.).
But as stated you usually don't even need an extra one of these programs. Your standard linux should come pre-installed with something which can at least browse and extract from a TAR. Maybe not a TGZ (tar->gzipped).
Even midnight commander can do that if you truly need such a thing. The standard command line tools work very well though, so you don't even need mc.
Of course you can't see anything if you don't want to see but a norton logo somewhere in your screen.
There are lots of other options, for example, squash the files and you can just mount the loopback squashed image fs and you can just browse it in any distro with any regular file explorer (unlike ghost images).
Maybe there is hope for Linux. I wouldn't expect it to be open source, however.
Yes, I've seen this as well - can't wait! If they can get it working on Mac (aka BSD) then it shouldn't be much more difficult to run it on Linux, should it? That is as long as they stick to the XWindows libraries instead of the proprietary Apple desktop libraries.
Now that we have the UltraEdit linux version (uex), I would like to get ultracompare on our platform of choice.
By the way I would like to support the iTunes proposal.
i would love to see quicken on linux,
i think the program (with the kind of tight coding Intuit does) will have many a users shift base to linux, i will love to buy the first copy, hope to see less data corruption issues.
Restore Point Functionality Very Much needed in Linux
If there was a functionality like a restore point it could probably help immensely. One would then save saved the state of the machine every week or so giving each restore point a name. In case one faces problems down the line in terms of speed, non functioning features of applications that were working very well before, one can easily restore the state computer to any restore point that was saved in the past. Data could be saved but all the newly installs would be wiped away thus getting rid of the offending program causing the problem.
If linux does not have this feature already it would be great to have. (do let me know how to use it in case it already exists) Would the administrators consider having this functionality. It would be a GREAT feature to have.
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