CrossOver 5 has been a disappointment. Buggy piece of software, and the compatibility has hardly improved.

I'm really looking forward to SuSE 10.1. Hopefully, they decide to have full multimedia capibilities out of box. I'm even more excited about KDE 4. I just cannot wait.

I am anticipating spending some time with Wolvix live CD soon.

First look: It has style, perpetual home on USB option, roll-your-own assistance with easy customization, and can be configured to boot from USB. So far, it seems to deal with our particular hardware better than Slack-based distros of the past.

Wolven** has put together a speedy, versatile, and classy OS. As soon as my life slows down a bit, I will be playing with Wolvix alot.

** Wolven: Actually, my personal belief is that "Wolven" is more than one human being. There is just way too much going on here.

pilot-link is an enormous disappointment. There has been absolutely no development in almost a year. A question I posed to the mailing list almost a month ago still pends moderator approval. I think it's safe to say that pilot-link is dead.

Does anyone know if OpenSync is expected to be compatible with Palms?

Ditto the comments about CrossOver Office. I am not a programmer, but I find it puzzling that there can be an interface spec that allows one to write for Windows, but which is not adequate to write an emulator ( I know--its not really an emulator).
I annoys me that releases of CXO always tout support for the latest version of MSOffice--when OpenOffice has matured to the point that many users will not ever need MSOffice again.
The final affront is to install a Windows app under CXO and discover that it is dependent on IE. Let's see: I got into Linux to escape things like IE, and now to run a favorite Windows app on Linux I have to have a license for IE......gag, barf.

My wish list says take all the brainpower going into Wine and CXO and re-direct it to some missing Linux native apps---eg: (Windows equivalents)
MS Project
Fasttrack
ACDSee (yes, some of the Linux equivalents are pretty good)
Photoshop (admittedly, GIMP getting there fast)
Misc photo-related stuff like panoramas and full support for color management and profiling.

And---to complete the rant---convince people like Adobe to port to Linux. For example, what would Adobe have to lose by creating a Linux port of Photoshop? (I am not asking for it to be free or Open Source---I would happily pay for it)

Hey, pixellany, I'm from Pasadena too.

But I think Wine is vital to the development of Linux. There will always be small applications that need porting, so there will always be a need for Wine becasue it is impossible that every app will need to be ported. For example, BioEdit. I need it for the research work I do. I can't just tell the developer (who probably isn't a professional programmer) to port it to Linux just because.

OpenOffice has matured. I use it primarily for simple documents, and I can kind of rely on it now, especially with the 2.0.1 release. But if I have anything mission-critical (proposal, presentation, CV, etc.), guess whether I'll be trusting OpenOffice? Especially if I unfortunately need it in some proprietary format to send to others.

Yes--I guess we need wine....grumble.

OOo has a very good pdf export---and pretty good ability to save in MSOffice formats. Will be interesting to see hoe the open standards thing plays out---eg the Massachusetts action.