I would like:
Nero Burning ROM
Starcraft
Matroska Video Codecs (I know they exist, but I have yet to figure them out)
MS Paint (or a clone) :-) (but seriously)


And Apple doesn't want to support any MS-alternative other than MacOS X. Including Linux. And MS and Apple aren't that big of adversaries any more. They have MS Office for MacOS X.

I want a G5. Badly. It will be mine...

For a Replacment to MS Paint use The Gimp...

If your asking for Matroska Video Codecs than your must not know that you can already play more types of videos than you ever could play with windows? The latest version of k3b can do every thing that Nero Burning ROM can do. Check out this site for alternatives to windows programs before asking for a program to be ported over when one already exist. http://www.msboycott.com/thealt/

I think I will have better luck with GnomeToaster then with k3b

Your one of the few then. Everybody I know gave up on GnomeToaster we just couldn't get it to work on mandrake. Where as k3b work like a charm and does DVD's and the last time I tried GnomeToaster it wouldn't.

k3b was not working for me.. and I don't do DVDs.. so now its a matter of getting gnometoaster working. I also need to find a package called libgift.so.O which I cannot find online to get apollon working..

Sorry I didn't see that your using Redhat/Fedora Core 1. That's one of the reasons I left the RedHat camp dependency hell to the max. I don't have the dependency problem with Mandrake anywhere near as much. Their are MDK rpm's for K3b. I normally burn cd's with a DVD evey now and then. My son was a big gnometoaster fan until the last MDK upgrade k3b work right out of the box and blew away gnometoaster for ease of use. It's more like the Ms Window burning programs.

dont laugh....

I would like to see AOL ported to linux. When I first started using a pc, AOL was my ISP and I still use it. I dont feel like emailing everone to tell them about a new email address and I would probably forget the most important ones anyway. Also, a lot of novice pc users use AOL. Their $ could help linux, but they wouldnt switch to linux if the cant use apps they are used to, and I dont know of a dial up ISP for linux any way. Why isolate the majority of the market by not bringing apps like AOL to linux?

I won't say anything other then AOL Sucks and I am anti-AOL....

mabey so, but like I said, lets not shut out most of the market from being Linux users. The more layman apps on linux and the more user friendly, the better.

AOL is far from user friendly... there support people are rude, I don't like being called a lier on the phone when I tell these people that AOL is not working..

I have never got AOL, but my mother used it.. I encourged her not to now..

AOL-Sucks...

- Adobe Photoshop Elements (or Photoshop Limited Edition)
- CorelDraw Essentials (CorelDraw OEM)

Each piece of software worths about 100$.
Definitely Adobe & Corel should port their main apps on GNU Linux.
IIRC Corel already did, but currently there is no support for the Linux platform

...are Photoshop and Winamp (ok, and IE for all those incompatible sites, but that's another thing).

Gimp doesn't cut it (by far, as I see it). As for media players, we're in bad need of a good/complete/user-friendly one.

There's XMMS, but it's a bad copy of winamp 2 and hasn't been updated for ages. Then there's xine (dreadful interface), Mplayer (awesome, but needs some usability improvements), noatun (hmmmmm), amarok (promising, but needs *lots* of work), juk (needs lots of interface & usability improvements).

Sorry if I sound a critical but I don't mean to be ungrateful to the folks who wrote all these programs. But the fact remains that one way or the other, we still lack a *complete* and easy player.

Thanks,

Trian

All those things you mentioned I agree with, yet it is a working progress.. and for free software we are pretty good off...

winamp, that's the only thing I miss from windows