Sibelius would be awesome, but I think that's already been mentioned.
Adobe Audition 3 would be cool as well.
I could think of a Plethora of programs that I would like to see ported
to Linux, but the industrious nature of the developers within the Open-Source community is laudable, amazing, and beyond impressive.
Getting the hang of Linux is a must for me, as forums like this, and an abundance of other web-based communities have given me some invaluable advice on my many shortcomings as a newbie.

Thanks for the forum, and, of course, this thread:


Cheers,


Stephen

To make my Fedora 8 more usuable, I would love to see someone make a viable voice dictation program for Fedora 8 and OOo.

Feb 20 , 2008
Dear all: Here are my thoughts on Linux sound support and some problems with open suse 10.2. I have used RedHat 7.1, suse professional 9.1 and now Open suse 10.2. There is absolutely no reliable sound support in Linux. Windows might have n number of problems but one can very easily digitize audio signal and in the process the digitized signal gets written to Hard disk automatically.I have yet to come across this in Linux. If things continue this way Linux can never get foot hold in market. People will shun away from it. I have tried alsa etc. Open suse problems - in Yast software management one cannot reinstall the system with their CDs easily. It first conacts suse repo sites. This is unfair. They should keep the reinstall from CD option available to user. Many times when one tries some things the system gets corrupted and one requires a reinstall from CDs. expert programmers and linux experts will laugh and would advice me to give up linux.

Executable files are just binary files. It's just an extention (as a previous poster pointed out)
The problem with linux running windows programs is not the extention, but all of the additional windows libraries. This (to some degree) has been resolved with the WINE project, however that isn't 100% perfect by any means, however it can (with some tweaking) run Microsoft Office and (as more recently) Photoshop.

It is available and users can re-install from their OpenSuse disc. It worked for me - though I was using 10.2 DVD.

That aside, my experience of OpenSuse has been mostly negative compared to most of the other distro's i've tried.

http://download.camfrog.com/
they already made a video chat server for linux last year.
to run your own video chatroom.

but the client i hope soon there comes a port for linux

Dear all! locate command does not work in open suse10.2 at present. It was working earlier. I was writing some very simple script to open Seamonkey1.1.8 web browser. I had earlier written similar script earlier and was working fine. I found locate coomand not working accidently. I wanted to find some utility so I gave a locate command. At that point I found that command did not work. gnu find utility and gnu find-locate utility rpms are installed. I have to again reinstall the whole system, as there is no way to install packages from open suse cds (their retail pack). One has to go in for a complete new install.
regards to everyone and thanks and best regards to Jeromy.
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I would recommend you try a different disto. I've not tried (Open)Suse but I've tried Fedora (a RH derivative) and have mostly negative things to say. For an out-of-the-box experience, try one RH is not a good choice.

I had opensuse 10.2 running on my laptop for a few months and never had the kind of troubles you describe (i only had problems with on board wifi).

sounds to me like you need to ditch suse though. Try another distro- theres enough out there to choose from.

If you're after a polished end user experience then you're probably better off with Ubuntu. If you want a streight forward by highly configurable system then try Arch (which is rapid growing to be my favourite distro)

I really support free (in every sense) software, so for the most part I'd prefer to see free equivalents to Windows/Mac commercial software. That being said, as a musician, it would be nice to have native Finale and/or Sibelius for our platform.

I think apps like Canorus and MuseScore are making fantastic strides in the right direction, though, so I don't think it will be long before Linux's native music notation applications rival the other platforms' in terms of both capability and ease of use. And really...the capability is all there...you just have to be willing to geek around with Lilypond and few other tools.

I'm about to begin my Master's composition thesis, which will be a large-scale orchestral work, and I optimistic about being able to do the whole thing on 100% free software.

I would like to see amarok ported to linux....boy would that rock !

Have heard about all the KDE ports to Windows? We are about to take over the world! Seriously though amarok is IMHO one the killer apps for Linux.

Thanks Jeremy, I had visions of this thread becoming overrun and actual programs being buried by requests fo certain games.

I have seen some games sites offer a small program to allow their Windows games run on Linux. If this were possible for programs then we wouldn't need to buy 2 versions of the software.

I know of a few people who would switch if Macromedia would allow ports.

I'm going to have to agree with LauMars...sounds a distro/hardware problem to me. I've been using Linux since 2003, and while I had issues with sound for a year or a year and a half, now I couldn't tell you the last time I struggled with it. I use Ubuntu on my desktop and sound is virtually flawless. To do audio recording I do have to mess with JACK a little bit, but it works well. And on my Eee (which runs Xandros) I've had multiple sound-producing apps open at once, while using Skype...and I've never had a problem. All that to say...don't be too discouraged! There is solid sound support...you may just have to find the distro that works best with your hardware.

Is there a ranking or something like that for the software mentioned in this post?

It would be very interesting to see it...