What programs would you like to see ported to Linux?

bd1308 · 08-30-2005, 02:07 PM

Age of Empires II on linux....

I dont think I would ever sleep if they someone ported it to linux...

tp11235 · 09-01-2005, 05:45 AM

As a teacher I would love to move all my students over to Linux.

The benefits in terms of reduced time wasted on viruses and crashes alone would be great.

Open Office is fine for their general IT needs, however we would need a couple of other key tools as well.

Autograph 3 would be great.
Geometer's Sketchpad would be useful.

NetOp would be essential. For those of you who have not heard of this it is a system that lets me see and control all the PCs in the classroom from my own laptop.

Cheers

Tim.

intmail · 09-02-2005, 04:35 AM

My dream is these software will ported under linux:

-- Adobe Framemaker:

This is the best technical page layout software. Nowadays I am forced to use two systems because Framemaker is not ported to LINUX. Note that porting Framemaker forces to port Adobe Distiller/Pro and OpenType font.

-- Ai0WIN - KBSi

It is BPMG software to draw IDEF0 graphic

-- TMPencode
-- virtualdub
-- PGP under Xfree/Xorg

courtrrb · 09-02-2005, 07:25 AM

ah "intmail". instead of
TMPencode - Use Avidemux, ffmpeg tovid these all blow the doors off it
virtualdub - Use Avidemux it blows the door off it.
When I was in windows I use these 2 programs I thought they were great until I made the switch to linux. When I found Avidemux then I found out that TMPencode & virtualdub were crap after all. porting these 2 program would bring crap into the Linux world.

ffang · 09-02-2005, 05:59 PM

Video edit applications, photo editors are my dreams.

PNH · 09-04-2005, 01:21 AM

I owm a computer shop and a print shop, I just obtained Suse 9.3 PRO.
I would want to see Adobe Photoshop and Coreldraw ported.
This is the only 2 programs I can use on my Printers and cutters

impeteperry · 09-04-2005, 08:51 AM

I have a "CorelDRAW for Linux" disk. I never used CorelDRAW for linux so I haven't installed it yet, but here is the "Readme" file from the disk. Hope it helps.

Quote:

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The Coriolis Group

CorelDRAW for Linux f/x and design

CD CONTENTS

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Contents

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The companion CD-ROM contains elements specially selected

to enhance the use of this book.

Included on this CD-ROM:

- All of the tutorial files in either native CorelDRAW or Photo-Paint format.

Load the files and see first-hand how the techniques work.

- Linux graphics utilities and plug-ins.

- Interface design and Web page samples.

- Animated icons and movie samples.

- Clip-art images from Time Tunnel to use in your own projects.

SPECIAL NOTE:

Due to the unusually large amount of tutorial information on this

CD-ROM, we have been forced to compress the tutorial files into archival

files. You can uncompress and use these files by using the following

applications:

* Macintosh users--You can open these files with the Expander 5.5

freeware program from Aladdin Systems

(http://www.aladdinsys.com).

* Windows users--You can unzip these files with the WinZip 8.0

evaluation program, by WinZip Computing, Inc.

(http://www.winzip.com).

Both of these programs are also available for download at:

http://www.download.com.

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Technical Support Information

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Technical support is available for installation-related problems

from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Mountain Standard Time, Monday through

Friday.

Phone 1-800-410-0192

Fax (480) 483-0193

Email techsupport@coriolis.com

Web www.coriolis.com

Please send written inquiries to:

The Coriolis Group

14455 N. Hayden Rd.

Suite 220

Scottsdale, AZ 85260

linuxgeekery · 09-04-2005, 02:23 PM

World of Warcraft. Nuff said.

tahoeob · 09-06-2005, 08:55 PM

<yank>

afunghang · 09-10-2005, 02:17 PM

they have office for mac and windows, why not linux?

Linux281651 · 09-12-2005, 10:22 AM

Deed Plotter or MapDraw. These are CAD-based programs that draw out a parcel of land when you enter the metes and bounds descriptions of the land. It will also calculate the area of the land in acres once you have plotted the land.

Better still, develop a similar program that runs on linux. I'm sure that Deed Plotter and MapDraw do more than plot and calculate but that is the meat of the programs. It is useful for real estate lawyers, realtors, surveyors and other land work like leasing for oil and gas or cell towers, etc.

How hard could it be to come up with this... (besides being too hard for my simple brain, that is)?

greennick · 09-12-2005, 02:13 PM

OpenOffice (already ported to 32-bit Linux) needs porting to amd64-based systems!

I've been a loving user of OpenOffice since it came out as StarOffice (and I used it under Windows then - why pay for M$ Office?), and just bought a 64-bit Pentium 4 system and can't run my favorite editor (at least not without complicated library arrangements and/or chroot setups)! Port it quick before it falls behind the curve!

impeteperry · 09-12-2005, 03:07 PM

DesignCAD an extremely powerful user friendly inexpepsive general psrpose CAD program.

manux31 · 09-13-2005, 05:15 PM

Video editors like Adobe Premiere or Vegas Video.
Il's the only reason i'm still using windoz.

kirandip_sidhu · 09-15-2005, 03:40 AM

There is a great piece of free software called DScaler. It is a TV viewing software, which does not use drivers as it interacts directly with the hardware! This makes for a great picture. Dscaler are currently looking for programmers to help port the program to linux. Hint Hint!!!!