Anyone here tried out Rekall?

I had netzero.. Its not all its up to be... They dont even let you dial directly... I switched to www.ispwest.com ...they truely let you have a 2 week trial... al they want is your phone number and address... ..ANd ask your self.. ???Do I like spyware???

Yes.... Macromedia apps. UltraDev, Fireworks and Flash. I would nuke my windows partition for good if they did.

I know microsoft will never go for it but if Access worked in Linux i would be a very happy man. Also Dreamweaver; any one have any luck getting this to work in wine?

-AG

I cannot live without Dreamweaver and Photoshop. The minute they port over I'm done with Winblows.

So what I like to see most is the product line from Adobe and Macromedia.

It's a wanderful prepress solution but they use windows only for the server - it sucks. MAC and Win are not best friends.

UO. Its the only reason I keep Windows.

There are a couple of GUI usenet clients for mac that are better than anything for windows or *nix. I'd love to see somthing like both hogwasher and thoth ported over. As both work with OSX, it surely wouldn't be that hard to port over. I'd pay for such a thing.

Macromedia Studio MX, Premeire (maybe it would WORK), Juno (anyone know if it is going to or not?), and ummm yeah thats about it then goodbye windows except for special stuff...

Autocad? Arris? ANY usable 3D cadd software. Prefferably one i can legally obtain with out selling my child in to slavery.

I would love to see Dreamweaver ported (I don't wanna use wine for anything) and most games being installable on linux. Not being able to run a few things I often use on linux is the only reason 1 still have one box in my network running windows (2000).

You DON'T want Linux versions of Quicken or Turbo Tax. That means Intuit would get into the picture. The fact that Intuit ignores Linux is a good thing for Linux. What you want is a decent tax preparation program that isn't Turbo Tax (such as Tax Cut) and a good personal finance program that isn't Quicken or MS Money like ... um ... er ... well maybe somebody could buy the rights and resurrect Andrew Tobias' erstwhile MYM. But yes, there is a crying need for good personal finance software. Moneydance is close but not quite there. GnuCash, forget it.

There is also a need for good OCR software. Abbyy Finereader is an amazing OCR program but alas, no Linux version.

There is also a really good BASIC to C translator for Windows called BCX. I keep trying to prod them into doing about a Linux version.

With regard to Macromedia Studio MX (or other expensive commercial applications), why bother? That suite is so expensive, just spend a little more and you can also get hardware. Sit it next to your Linux box, set up some sort of file server thing between them (probably SAMBA) and you're good to go with one each of 'your computer' and 'Bill's computer'.

Or if you can afford MX, shell out a bit more for vmware and run it in a virtual windows on the same machine.

I wonder if that has something to do with Macromedia not porting to Linux, the fact that people who can afford their software can afford a windows machine exclusively to run their applications if nothing else. That could be the next step for them, a bundle that includes the computer as well.

I don't use the Macromedia stuff, but for the occasional time I need windows I've got it on another computer. If I used it more regularly I'd set up Samba, but for occasional file transfers scp is fine (WinSCP for windows, http://winscp.sourceforge.net/eng/ ) . Dual boot is also an option, but a pain in the butt in some ways, and when windows is up and Linux is down it feels like being exiled to some horrible place.

The thing about that, is many linux users don't want anything to do with a Windows machine, let alone have a specific box set aside just to run that pos. I say most. Some people choose to use both. Everyone has their own preference. I know I'm going to have a a hard time putting this into words... It's not like all *nix users are, or should be complete zealots or anything, but Microsoft is working day and night at crushing any creative ideas or products that don't belong to them, and Linux is at the top of their list these days. I read every piece of news (pc related) that I can get my hands on each day, and I see it- on every site, in magazines, newspapers and on tv; Microsoft is scared. Whole countries are talking about losing windows for an open source alternative (some are even developing their own) because they are also tired of the OS, the company, their monopoly, and especially the complete lack of freedom they provide. Even certain bodies of the US government are researching open source alternatives in order to ditch microsoft.

Personally, I never thought it would happen to me. I started using Linux a little over a year ago and figured I'd always dual-boot. But after getting comfortable and familiar with Linux, I get real aggravated when I have to use somebody's windows machine. All it's idiosyncracies, spam-like software shoved down my throat, spyware, bugginess, and simply because it's completely inadeqeute keep me pretty far away from any m$ o.s.. Every new 'feature' takes a little more control away from the user, while making sure to provide more ways of targeting us all with more effective advertising. I will never spend another dime on a microsoft product. If work requires that I learn something new released bt m$, they can give me a copy of it. I am not going to contribute my hard earned money to fuel microsofts agenda against choice. I especially won't help them fund their whole FUD campaign against Linux and open source software.

Wait till Longhorn comes out. That OS is going to be like 'Big Brother' itself. Digital Rights Management immediately comes to mind. Longhorn is also being designed to completely prevent users from veiwing certain documents with any software other than what m$ wants you to use. This isn't a rumor, and it's not paranoia. It's fact. Search it out on Google. Read about the 'new and improved' Longhorn. It scares me. I'm all done spending most of my time searching out ways to circumvent most everything on Windows is order to have a useable system. Thats what I used to do. Even before I heard of Linux. Spend tons of time finding/applying ways to 'beat' microsoft and prove I can have it my way. Now, I don't bother and I always have it my way