I would like to see more applications for musicians on Linux. I simply can't imagine writing music by programming in Lisp... and the graphical music software I've seen on Linux is a far cry from what I'm used to.

My favourites on Windoze are

- Jammer Pro
http://www.soundtrek.com/content/mod...showpage&pid=9
Generates band accompaniments from chords.
Similar to Band-in-a-Box (http://www.pgmusic.com/)

- Capella 2004 (this is a German page)
http://www.whc.de/capella.cfm
Notation software, similar to Sibelius (http://www.sibelius.com/)
but much less expensive and can be scripted in Python.

- Obtiv Octava (this is a German page)
http://www.octava.de/index.html
Similar to older versions of Capella; supports composition better.

I would pay an upgrade price for the licenses I already have and the full price for those I don't yet have (Capella).

I think Futuremark 3D Mark 2000 or 2003 should be posted because us Linux users need a benchmarking utility for our graphics.

OpenOffice is my choice 99.9% of the time, I have back-uped MS Database stuff, OpenOffice won't open up..

I've never had any trouble out of OpenOffice. I guess I haven't opened up some of the stuff that may be supported.

Will SoundForge be available for Linux anytime?

WINAMP... I don't care how good any of the players on linux are I don't like any of them half as much as Winamp. Supposedly Nullsoft are working on it but they don't wanna create too much hype cause AOL might say no.

have you seen XMMS?

Makes no sense to me.

Cool Edit pro 2, Awesome track, music editing program since i cant find any for linux

Adobe Photoshop has frequently been mentioned. Fortunately, Adobe Photoshop 7.0 can be made to run under Linux. Codeweavers make CrossOver Office which can be used to run Adobe Photoshop 7.0 under Linux. I use their product to run Adobe Photoshop 7.0, MS Word 97, MS Excel 97, and MS Powerpoint 97 under Linux. The very latest versions of those products are not currently supported. Here is where they talk about using Adobe Photoshop 7.0 under Linux:

http://www.codeweavers.com/site/prod...ted_apps/?id=8

On the Codeweavers webpage it says "CrossOver will run 95% of all Windows applications by the end of 2005." That claim is about half-way down the webpage below:

http://www.codeweavers.com/site/compatibility/

What kind of Windows program can be used in Linux? I mean, using WINE.

I cannot leave Windows because there is not a Matlab or Protel for Linux. Dreamweaver and Flash MX are my favorites web design programs. I need it!.

aren't winamp and xmms the same thing - i got xmms and i looks the same, and the skins from winamp work?!

Acid. definatly Acid (2.0, too). Acid rocks.

Mc Dialer - see at www.mcdialer.com
it's kind of callback/callthrough isdn phone server

1) PTC ProDesktop... Its a great piece of CAD software, they did ProEngineer! (http://www.ptc.com/)
2) PIC Simulator IDE... Great piece of PIC Chip programming software (http://www.oshonsoft.com/pic.html)

The above two pieces of software and the fact that I cant begin to see how to configure my Belking Wireless PCI card are the only thing stopping me moving to linux permantly

For I all of software I need are included in linux.
But I wait the next version of linux for a better support of all hardware.
Thus quickly the next version of the kernel !