The major reason Windows users, who are fed-up with Windows, aren't switching to Linux, is because Linux doesn't play the new video formats...
Seems Windows is maintaining its hold to the Publics monies by forcing new format video systems, which Linux can't keep up with, and/or can't build into Linux systems, yet...

Maybe what's needed is a separate little video-player PC, or adapter, just for playing Internet videos..? One that blends Windows-shitt with Linux good stuff... But not for people's main PC's, because the global Windows-System is chock-full of hackers, e-viruses, criminals, and bullies.. and running anything that bridges Windows to Linux opens up Linux PC's to the many Windows curses...

Linux is playing all the video formats

While I agree that GTalk could do with a native client for Linux, we do in fact have at least one audio/video chat app already: Skype's native port.

I'm also curious as to what video formats are not currently available under Linux. I have had no problems with any I've tried.

Since VB is very much a MS Windows language, it is questionable whether it would be worth porting any part of it to Linux. Especially when we have the much more powerful Qt option.

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Anyway, I wonder if others would be interested in commercial video editors.

I am curious about this and the game thread of the same idea about having programs ported to Linux.

Both these threads were started in 2003 and here we are 6 years later and personally I have not seen any movement
on this. Originally it was stated that if enough people were interested then it would be taken to the
distributors. I am guessing that plenty of people are , but if it has been forwarded to the likes of Adobe
then it has also been summarily rejected.

Sorry but i just needed to vent as i thought the original idea was very good and dissappointed that nothing has
nappened

You can always contact software maker yourself. However if there's no incentive for them to make a port, then it's never going to happen. Making a port of any medium-and-above size program to linux is not a trivial work, overall when the program hasn't been built from scratch with portability in mind, and relies in every existing windows-only API, directx and a plethora of proprietary libraries that don't exist for linux.

What about Scribus ? It's open source, linux native and for the same purposes than InDesign.

Regards,
Sebas

I think what you mean is that some distributions like Fedora and RHEL/CentOS do not have mp3 support (and few other) out of the box, and on the official repositories. It is because of the fear of law suits.

The thing is, in third party repositories support for all of those missing formats exists. It is mostly marked like "gstreamer-plugins-ugly" and "gstreamer-plugins-bad". You just have to add desired repository, install few packages, and you will have all the formats you will ever need.

You're probably installing a 32-bit version of Flash Player.
The 64-bit browsers (FF/Moz) won't load it.

I would suggest running the 32-bit version of your browser on your 64-bit machine. It's really not going to make any difference speed/memory consumption wise. It will bypass compatibility problems with 32-bit plugins.

There is an ALPHA release of a 64-bit Flash player.
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html

Sure it can, can't it?

I think cosmicbrat's point was that the various distributions, by default, do not play some video formats (but, neither does Windows, you have to download REAL and Quicktime, etc.), and we're always playing "catch-up" with what is available on Windows.

The distros are getting better. I recently played around with Ubuntu 9.04, and while they don't ship all the codecs needed on the CD (no one will, without giving some lawyer a job), it makes them easily accessible to the end-user via the internet.

Linux will always play catch-up with commercial (non-open source) drivers. The best hope is to get content publishers behind open-source too.

I installed the normal flash on 64-bit Debian, but I had to install the 64-bit Firefox from the nightly builds (Minefield). Works awesome though - I use it for Hulu and the like.

I really, seriously would like to see Family Tree Maker in Linux. The Gramps program just does not even come close. Lifeline does not install.

Has anyone been able to get this Free Internet Dial Up Service to work in Linux with or without there customized installation program?
I have tried for weeks now under Wine but have had no luck in getting windows .net service installed for their windows instalation program to work.

It would be a good portable dialup service when travelling in NA for use with Linux.

I can't get any response out of the company at all.

Dennis

Mono is opensource .Net alternative sponsored by Novell. You can even install Mono for Windows in Wine, to have windows applications using .Net.

There is excellent winescript to install various technologies for windows into Wine that will help you download and install Mono in Wine.

Not true. There is no good support for Silverlight. The open source Moonlight is a bit behind and doesn't provide full support for various video including the popular Netflix.

That's because Silverlight is pure Microsoft, and they sure will never, ever try to help Linux by letting Linux users have it.

As for Flash Player, I use Gnash (It's still very, very buggy and experimental, though). Actually few things work at all in it to tell the truth, but most importantly YouTube only has minor glitches with it.