I would love to have these ported to Linux:

GoldWave http://www.goldwave.com (a great audio file editor)

DPlot http://www.dplot.com (a full featured scientific data plotting tool)

Only problem is that both of these are "paid" software ($59 USD for GoldWave and $195 USD for DPlot) but the authors have no interest in the "we want it for free Linux crowd" (which is exactly what one of them told me!).

I told them that Linux users do indeed purchase software, but I guess they think Linux is still the little novelty OS being run in a dusty basement by "computer geeks".

Both of the above programs DO run just fine in Wine, but a native version would be SO much nicer.....

I cannot understand why they're never of the opinion that Linux can host paid-for programs as well. I even have a sample of one which I've used for several years now: https://www.bricsys.com/estore/estoreBcad.jsp

I.e. 10x more than their "dinky-toy" prices. Which actually makes me think they simply don't have the resources or inclination to go with a different system and/or portable design. For these types of attitude I generally then ignore them and simply search for alternatives, which is why I generally find other programs (even free / open source) to be "better" not just "cheaper".

E.g. Have you tried Audacity instead of GoldWave? Looking at that site Audacity's actually got more capabilities, just less "bling".

Corel (Illustration, Design & Digital painting products): http://www.corel.com/us/

Not likely.
Some years ago now, microsoft made an $135 Million (Canadian) "investment" in corel. It might have been 150. Shortly thereafter corel's version of Linux and WordPerfect for Linux disappeared without a whisper.

Yeah, the Corel Linux (based on Debian) was pretty good. It was one of the first Linuxes I tried around the turn of the century.

IMO if they continued they'd have been the "Ubuntu" of the Linux world (at the very least) several years before Canonical was ever an idea. Especially as Corel's own office suite was (at the time at least) far superior to many others' (including Microsoft's), not to mention they could have given Adobe a run for their money on the graphics and DTP side of things too.

Stupid decision that Xandros made to buy the Linux division of Corel and not have anything else. It's major draw was that it came with an awesome word processor (Word Perfect) and had lots of office apps available. This split removed all that and relegated the OS to "just another distro" of the same as all the rest. Thus killing its head start into the desktop market. Probably a big reason behind Xandros's disappearance later.

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Itunes, so I can sync my data to ipad mini from linux instead of windows.

This has probably already been mentioned but if not...

The VMware client for ESX/ESXi. (it seems to change name on a daily bassis. Last I checked it was called VI Client).

The web client would work on anything - as it would run the VM through a web page in any compatible browser. You should also be able to use VMPlayer to connect to a remote server - if it works for ESX I'm not sure, but I know it works for VMWare Workstation, though it "should". http://www.vmwarebits.com/content/is...ient-for-linux

Other than that, from my own experience I've been able to run Horizon View on Ubuntu to link to our Horizon server with several Win7 Graphics Workstation VMs: http://www.vmware.com/download/view-linux-howto.html

Got to agree here. I too remember and used Corel Linux all those years ago. It was pretty good back then. As for Xandros... I was actually a beta tester for them and that too was pretty good. It had some good ideas but then it all just disappeared. I think the biggest problem with Xandros was that they wanted to go down the paid for route for the good stuff.

Now then, how about Caldera Linux

I sent them an email expressing interest.
http://bitcannon.io/

The reply:
"If you go to the bitcannon.io page and click download, you will see linux versions for a few distros available for download. I hope this helps!

-- Stephen Smith"

Beyond compare, because, can't find a comparator better.
Daemon tools, to get the same copy protection emulation, in order to play windows games in linux.
Miranda IM, think that IM's modular design makes the coolest IM and it has a linux type filosophy. Too bad, it uses WinAPI.
Sadly Internet explorer, starting from version 6, .til recent versions, so I can test the websites in it.

Rufus would be nice to be ported.

http://rufus.akeo.ie/

It's a great tool for burning ISO's to USB flah drives and runs on Windows.
It is opensource and free, but the person who wrote and maintaince it, is not going to port it himself.

I sure would like to see this little nifty tool running on Linux.

Bert.

you'll have only to choose ...! http://goo.gl/cjQloJ

The full Omron Automation Suite Both CX-One and the new Sysmac Studio.
This is the programming software for Omron PLC's and such.

If I got that and some other programs for linux, I would have no need for windows anymore.

i'd love to see the full functionality of Esri's ArcGIS (ArcInfo) either ported by the vendor or (better) donated for further maintenance and development within the open source community. ESRI's software has become a de facto standard in the Geographic Information Systems space. This causes difficulties for those of us in public service who are subject to regulations about competitive bidding and sole source providers. Now that GIS is applied pervasively it would be great if taxpayers would not be forever required to keep funneling cash to continuously develop ESRI as the only important provider of GIS standards, software and services.

Sorry Mr. Dangermond, and I know that ESRI is not the only de facto monopoly in existence today, but we must really balance the efficiencies of centralized oversight of the GIS industry in Redlands, CA with an often illegal requirement that taxpayer transfers must fund further sales and development of the technology whether they need future advances or not. Often public users simply need the already available technology to enable the multitude of benefits that GIS can bring with it. How about donating each past year's GIS technology under a non-commercial public use license for open source maintenance and development, with the provision that any open source advances can only be incorporated back into an ESRI commercial product as a commercially-allowable use?

Paul M. Suckow
Sr. Planner, Harris County (Houston), TX