Have you tried abcde?

Internet explorer for testing my webpages, and because its doesn't eat my memory like chrome or hang like Firefox

Or RubyRipper?

QuickBooks is business essential for me
 

I must work with QuickBooks to service clients. There is simply no practical alternative as it is not my wishes but theirs that control.

I don't think that there is any way that this could be done. As it is, there are slight rendering differences between the browsers that are cross platform. I always use vmware or virtualbox for this, especially since Microsoft released images for testing in different Internet Explorer version.

Nero Linux is listed on this thread as abandonware since 2005, but I bought a copy last year. It is the only linux software that I have found that writes Blu-ray data disks without ruining them (spitting them out at 90 etc.).

People on this thread have requested a few programs, which have either become available, or new alternatives have:-
Foxit PDF for linux - this is now available.
logmein, which is still not available, but worth watching, as they have a beta version of Hamachi at beta stage.
Adobe Acrobat (not reader) - PDF Studio Pro is available for $129 at https://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio/

There are also a few linux alternatives that I think are worth mentioning, though I have seen no sign on here:-

Images - Pinta is a far better lower end image editor than gimp is, as far as learning curve is concerned.
Images/Graphic design/desktop publishing/vector graphics - Karbon is good, but personally I use XaraLX.


Personally, the one program I most want to see is Serif PagePlus, which is the best budget DTP program I have seen. You can probably do as much in Inkscape/scribus, but it isn't very intuitive on either, and the learning curve is high on both. The sales team at Serif have been telling me for years that they will work in Wine, but on recent versions, the installer won't even run properly. They have also said that they are planning a Linux version, which I doubted very much, though they have got around to working on a Mac version now.

Telnet 5250 - is priority in my wish list
 

To get connected to IBM i servers I need a Telnet 5250 app.
To my work that is a requisite. Personal comunications, Rumba and other products like that.

Cubase
 

I don't know if this has been mentioned, but if there isn't any vote for Cubase yet, I'd like to put one in. The lack of a pro-quality industry-standard DAW with focus on BOTH Orchestra over EDM and MIDI over audio, is the one thing preventing me from switching over to Linux full-time. Even on Windows and OSX, there are only three that really fit my requirements: Cubase, Sonar, and Logic Pro. I'm stuck using Logic right now, but Apple won't even port it to Windows, so Logic on Linux is an escapist fiction. Cubase is the only one that is cross-platform at all, so it has the most hope of a port.

/rant

There are DAWs available, but every single one has problems. LMMS compares itself to FL Studio, which is not encouraging to someone whose needs overshot the capabilities of FL Studio after less than a week using it. Rosegarden's documentation is a nightmare, which has led to development stopping completely on several occasions, and they admit themselves that if it happens again the project will be dead. Audacity is audio only, and all the other MIDI-centric DAWs don't have the orchestra-centric features I need.

If Steinberg ported Cubase, I'd probably pay full-price for the ability to switch platforms alone. Also, I think it would be a smart business move. Despite the small user-base compared to Windows and OSX, whichever major DAW vendor ported first would (among users who will use proprietary software when they absolutely have to) gain a near monopoly on the platform.

/end rant

I think it is bit sad that requests are posted without even looking if a program is availabe. The first hit in google is an open source implementation for telnet 5240 client. What do you want, that it is installed for you while you sleep?

jlinkels

Adobe Frame Maker
Microsoft Excel

Really? The only things I cannot do in LibreOffice Calc which I can in Excel is get automatic-formatting to tables. In which case it's literally a one-click event to get the same thing in LO Calc. Everywhere else LO Calc surpasses Excel, especially when it comes to making something which "works" instead of just "looks nice". Especially its formula wizard is much more capable and intuitive than Excel's. They've even recently added proper Engineering format - which was a niggly point for me.

You could also try Gnumeric or Calligra Sheets, though I don't have enough experience in those to give a "review".

The only piece of software that is keeping me from total segregation from Microsoft is http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/ - Ubuntu has the Gramps
genealogy program but I would hate to have to learn all the ins and outs of a totally new system, however, if Legacy does not respond more positively (I have asked them a number of times) then I will be forced to eventually migrate to Gramps.

Roxio or a good equivalent would suit me fine.

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