try running it constantly for a few days!

I haven't had any problems out of the Linux version of Limewire as far as stability. However the system tray docking is kinda glitchy, every now and then it stays on my taskbar, but when I click it there's an empty window until I click the system tray icon. It's like it thinks it's there, but it's not really, but I've never had the program actually crash or anything.

same here... the tray icon does indeed behave kinda funny... =/

also, all the buttons and checkboxes in the program behave really weird until i change the skin to "limewire theme"... by "really weird" i mean they work but don't show they work, like for example during the initial configuration the "next" button will appear pressed/shaded throughout...

i think i experienced the tray icon thing on slackware also, but the interface weirdness is probably an ubuntu-specific thing... IMHO it would be cool if limewire was included in one of the repos (i actually wonder why it isn't), so it could be polished by an ubuntu package maintainer... anyhow, this is kinda off-topic so i'll stop now...

Well, mostly, I would need only two apps ported to ditch windows forever.

American Greetings Creat a card and dvd decryptor.

I think Linux has a competent alternative for almost everything else that I care about.

Big Bear

When you ask what "programs" (would I like to see ported to Linux), I think you really mean "applications" in the sense of category or set. For instance, Desktop Publishing, Spreadsheet, Database...all the standard "office" applications. Then, since people will be what people will be, rescue-utilities form their own category (sub-category? of Utilities?); the word "utilities" has only been used in the special sense of multitudinous mountains of contrasting programs useful, not useful, and downright harmful.

Another way to get this point across is to explain how at the very beginning of the home PC revolution, so to speak--when affordable, ordinary person or non-specialist desktop machines and peripherals made the initial blitz into our lives (see a book by an author whom, if I remember right, is Jennings, (the book is) "The Devouring Fungus". It would be dated (unless its been brought up to date, but my copy, well..., it ain't new, this I know for sure.).... when the PC infilitration into business, then homes, then the bathroom and, like an obediant pet, everywhere and anywhere we go; when the desktop home/business PC was "young" (1990-ish), with 360k floppy drives, a green ASCII char only screen, Intel 8086 or may 80286 CPU, at that time the best thing about the PC was something I mentioned: that it is a universal machine in the sense that it can emulate any other dedicated machine.

Here's a personal anecdoate. The typesetting-computer of 30-35 years ago (they're still around, and still manufactured brand, shiny-new, for larger and other special jobs), one was the "AM Varityper", or a name close to that. I had had one (that is, I had one of these typesetters--beasts with 8" floppy disks).It was used to set type as part of an off-set printing business. It was wonderful technology. Lots of people, Michael Faraday even, perhaps, would have loved merely typing in codes (like <ITAL>) and text, rather than inserting ink-y blocks of movable type), and here it was, approaching the end of the 20th century. No cold war. No nuclear weapons had ever, in all that time and still, accidentally (or otherwise) gone off. Faith in technology was becoming the religion it is. The varitype machine, though, was dedicated to its niche, its specialty, and it cost $80,000, at least, in 1988 or so. But it had a gee-whiz factor: an on-demand (rather than continously running process) WYSIWYG capable display! (it was the software that was gee-whiz, really--only Apple seemed to see this). But typesetting was all that these computing machines did. They were fascinating, virtuous existence proofs of societies power and humanity's cleverness, and they used floppies! These behemoths began their service to mankind with paper-tape, that was before even my time, my entry into that market, if you will. So a computer that was so "small" (the typesetters weighed tons), and so flexible--one could even use different fonts --- helvetica and Times Roman (Sans Serif and Serif), how quaint! But what're we going to do with them? Lotus 1-2-3 was the first "application" for the PC that I remember. Then the MAC, desktop publishing and the GUI arrived. Too beautiful (the PC and the MAC both) and possessed of technical prowess not to use, but what for??? The applications answered this questions and began the true IT revolution.

Early Linux was revolutionary.

The Mozzilla/Netscape GUI browser was, too; a first-adopter to coin a phrase, and opening the world of commerce to capabilities previously only academics' academics had access to.

Heck, Tim Berners-Lee himself, the man, inventing the paradigm of a web, and then actually, successfully implementing it (at the time and level of sophistication of tech, if you could use a general purpose computer, maybe the older DEC machines (PDP 11?), you could program, too.

Linux was born, I think, along with and/or because of the open source concept.

Open Source is the hypertext, the Netscape, the AOL, the Google and ten or so other major raison d'etre, of computing.

I believe the future is in open source. Software is already embedded in most everyday, ordinary things. A full blown universal computer, that can emulate anything, needs a purpose. Sounds ridiculous, right? It's not the computer per se that needs a purpose. It's us, the people who use the computer, spend big bucks purchasing the computer (computers -- how many PICs (and Basic Stamps and a zillion other microprocessors are in a talking, stuffed Teddy Bear? Certainly more than one. My niece has a roomful of stuffed animals. Not all of them talk, move their eyes or arms or what-have-you, but enough of them do show me I'm not off-point in this...).

I apologize for sloppy thinking in this post; I'm in a hurry to be honest (conflicting priorities, is what I meant to say, I have them so I cannot proof-read what I've written above.)

Thus, on Linux, I'd like to see someone create an open source application application. No mistake there. How does one go about marketing open source products? Certainly there's more to it than sort-of sharing a publicly available source code. Can a lone computer guy, on his own--and not a genius but ordinary in intellect--toy with open source? How? I don't think marketing is salient here. It's not how to build a loyal fan... er, customer-base that I'd like to see; but a kit for wanna be inventors of Linux, hypertext, methods or interfaces to networking, whatever.

For better or worse, this idea is rambling and on the fringe of meaningless. But if you know next to nothing about open source, or patent, or business, but you know "source" or prgramming well, you want an everything-included and well explained kit. Think back to when you were a kid. The best toys of the science/chemistry/rocket/erector set construction type were those where nothing else was needed to have fun with the thing. Now, think of yourself today. Surprise, you are still a kid, inside of course! And I don't mean neoteny (sp?). I'm a regular guy, pay the government its due and listen to Police Officers, yet I must be honest, men (such as myself and anyone who has read this or is reading it) never really "grow up". I want an open source kit! (All I have to do, according to some sociologists, is ask 8 times and it'll be done, I want an open source starter kit. Hey, the question was what you'd like to see ported to Linux. This kit idea may or may not exist such that it can be ported and may or may not have meaning, I'm not knowledgeable enought to know, but my answer appplies to what I'd like to see ported to Linux, a fantastic example of communal effort (we made it to the moon after, oh, 5 million years of desiring it, so we can make open source work. Software of any kind should be available like water, and will be. In the end its always about money, I'm afraid. I hate this but again, I want to be honest. Truly ubiquitous computing, as common as a ballpoint pen, and as easy to use, inexpensive, and inconsequential and so forever getting lost and coming in packs of 10, will get us to our next dream come true, sure, but only because in the someone, somebody with wealth will put wealth on top of hir or her wealth. I'm not being conspiratorial or anything. God forbid! That kind of thing has been thrown at me. It's not a conspiracy anymore than natural selection is a conspiracy.

In the immortal words of my neice of many microcontroller hidden inside many stuff animals:
"It is what it is."

Dan Golderg

For file shareing:
Limewire- official port (did you know that limewire is actually open source?)
Frostwire- A GTK clone of limewire
Appolon- THE BEST!!, it uses the gift daemon so it can connect to ALL the major networks at the same time (limewire, Morphious, etc.). Its a really nice kde app

Lol, how can people want a port of a windows IDE, when Eclipse is an industry grade IDE native to UNIX/Linux?

not to mention Kdevelop, an exellent program.

I would like to see VLC media player... Considering it has all the codecs that are needed to paly my movies.

vlc already runs on Linux.

a really good cd recording program (there isnt one yet), shareaza,filetopia.

I'd like to see Adobe Premiere ported to Linux.

There's a new free NLEs out there like Cinelerra and Kino, but if Premiere was ported to Linux, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

i'd like to see RENOISE (www.renoise.com) ported on linux ... there are a few linux-native music trackers but their functionality is discutable ... renoise is very sofisticated SW and there are 2 official ports existing: windoze and OS X! why not LINUX port??? at least version 1.2.8 wold be great! yes renoise works quite fine under wine, but there is a huge CPU load and some problems with DSP plugins ...

so my vote is RENOISE and possibly soundforge ;-)

macromedia flash, windows media player, java console, tts stt.

lime wire runs fine on my comp which is quite old but it uses so many system, resources that i cant realld do anything elce with it...

appolon looks good but i cant get it fully working, it will only acsess FT and open FT but stays at conectinf for Gnutella and Ares forever

I want good drivers for Linux first. ATI sucks badly, i regret for buying its products.

What apps do I like to be ported?
-Dreamweawer
-Photoshop

what about quanta plus and gimp? why don't you like those?