Hello!

I've found Linux programs for most of my needs thus far. About the only thing I'm missing is a really good genealogy program. After "Reunion for Mac", I've just not seen anything that covers my needs.

Also, I'd like to see a program that lets me set up a budget _my_ way (read: not Quicken) and then connect to my PDA and exchange banking transactions.

The only other thing I'm missing are games---I'll have to go over to the games thread to share my list at some point.

Anne.

[list=1][*]Dreamweaver

Nothing beats DW for quickly producing drafts for approval of concepts, etc
[*]Paint Shop Pro

Gimp can probably do it all, but I know PSP so well I rarely have to think about the process and I can concentrate on getting the image right
[*]Canon printer drivers

Good printers. If only there were more drivers
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emgee

Not "out of the box", I tried. It does have a MP3 decoder placeholder though.

...as far as the Canon printers, you might be able to go to www.canon.com or something and nab a few drivers for your model. I bet they're making Linux drivers.

FLIGHT SIMULATOR

I second the votes for:

turbotax
Quicken
Nero

I haven't bought either Turbotax or quicken in several years since I'm trying not to buy anything more for my win2k box. I do love Nero. I have k3b on my RH 9 box, but I haven't actually sat down and tried it out yet.

I have dumped MS office, IE and OE on my win2k box and am now using OOo 1.1, Moz firebird and Tbird email, so I am going in the right direction. But I can't really dump my winbox yet since what if I decide to start using quicken again or decide I want to do my tax return on turbotax sometime. And I haven't ever figured out CD burning in linux yet, although like I said I haven't tried k3b yet.
Last time I tried CD burning was maybe 2 years ago with CD Bake Oven I think (and I sucessfully burned a data CD, but unfortunately I wanted an audio CD...)

Omnipage...

Dreamweaver MX and Paint Shop Pro The two programs I use
quite often and would love to see them ported. However I can
get both to work with Win4lin. Problem is the 128MB ram limit
with win4lin though..

Snafu:

On your CD burning, I've had a lot of luck with X-CD Roast, though it will only copy-on-the-fly data CD's. ...though I have copied a Disturbed CD a couple times (audio CD) using it. M$ Office can be dumped by using Sun StarOffice or OpenOffice. ...as far as Quicken and TurboTax, you have a point there. We're getting a common theme with those two.

eQSO, and some decent Linux Ham Radio Packet programs...

Somebody who's a friend of one of my friends uses Linux BECAUSE of the software he uses for Ham radio. ...so you should be covered there.

I have found alot of tarballs for linux software.. I cannot yet install things with tarballs.. also it would be nice to see some well known ham applications for Linux, like MMSSTV, and ISS Packet..

Adobe Photoshop

my wish list.....


a SAPGui that works! (if anyone has made the f***ing SAP java gui work, please help!)
Dragon Naturally speaking (a lovely piece of work)
..and better driver/manufacturer support - laptops, sound cards, modems, etc

I really need the SAPGui - I can live without sound or a functioning modem.

And hardware support will drive application support.

What really delights me is the competence of current Linux distros - most just work on most hardware without fuss. This comes from an ASUS S5200N laptop a I bought a week ago. I can't sort modem and soundcard isues, the ACPI took a day or so, but the rest just worked! External USB CD burner, USB storage, wireless mouse, just lovely!

Jim

I did notice that Mandrake 9 was a WHOLE lot better than Mandrake 7.2, but 9 still had its Terrorist aspects to it (compared to RedHat!). ...though I would like to see Linux ports to many of these games that are out vs. having to run them in WINe to get software 3D support.

jburford,

its about time you switch to RH9, RH9 is a much better OS with hardware and software then RH 7.3 which I used has one of my first linux OS's I tried.