Roxio makes a large number of products which one are you looking for?

GTA 5,Maya and After Effects

I doubt that we will ever see GTA V or After Effects on Linux, but Maya has already a Linux version, assuming that you mean the 3D design software.

Agreed: http://knowledge.autodesk.com/suppor...desk-Maya.html

tortoise SVN

A windows client for subversion. I can't seem to find a linux equivalent.

Honestly, i know this would never happen but certain parts of IIS (including the actual server software) i actually miss.

The IIS remote manager is really useful for when you don't want to expose the management of the server to everyone on LAN etc through a website, yet still retaining ease of management (a dichotomy i know - given IIS's ability to over complicate most easy things and alienate casual potential users)

Actually i guess just most server management things, there're good ones on linux but it's usually payware

Quicken! It's the only reason I have a Windows VM running. GNUCash (though coming on strong), and the others, can't hold a candle to it, they are to simplistic. If one of them catches up to Quicken I'd gladly switch. Please?!?!

Intuit's becoming way too arrogant and though their tech support is pretty good, can't fault the working women, but overall I really have a poor opinion of the company. Especially their crippling of the app after a few years, that works perfectly good, and provides all the functionality I need, forcing me to buy a new version that does not have a single feature I need or want, and isn't even as stable, to boot! ahhhrrrgggg! <end rant>

Marcus

IrfanView. It might run under Wine but I could not get the IrfanView Installer to run on my Wine on a Linux Mint Rebecca. So, the argument "Runs under Wine" is not very strong.
Another, commercial, app would be Rosetta Stone.

I too would like to see dreamweaver, fireworks, and all the adobe products especially illustrator ported to Linux.

Some explaination is called for here. I like to build systems and use alot of older, antiquated parts to do so. I, of course can't afford to pay Mr. Gates for an OS every time I build or modify a system so Linux is ideal. I chose Linux Mint after reading some reviews and started using release 13 (Maya) a few years ago.
My current issue is with Linux Mint release 17.1 I know this is a new release and may still be a little buggy but I have not been able to load FreeCad on this release no matter what directions I follow. I researched both Linux Mint forums and FreeCad forums to no avail. I think this release is either not complete or my installation is some how broken. I pumped up an old Dell inspiron 531 with a new power supply, 2gig of ram and , a fire gl graphics card with dual monitor support.
Win Vista was the os installed on the machine and everything worked. I wanted to try FreeCad on Linux to see how it performed in comparison to the windows enviorment. FreeCad was not 100% functional in Vista (what is?) I hoped for better results with Linux but can not get FreeCad to install. In terminal when I enter the command to find updates it tells me freecad is not found in line 1 of resources .etc. I don't really want to try to compile this myself. Is it always this difficult to add software to Linux? Should I try Wine?

Hi there shart4legged, its not often i get to help someone with a linux problem and i would be more than happy to help you out with your dilemma
if you are willing to help yourself, it will require a little effort(not too much) and yes here is the ugly word(not really) involves compiling!

if the devs have packaged the src tarball properly then it will be a breeze and compiling form source is really quite straight fwd as long as you have all the required libraries and/or dependencies and no harm done if you don't you simply start again after having located them on the web, downloaded them and either compiled them too or if its puppy linux (which is what i use) then you can often get a pet package or an sfs to install or for lack of better words load on the fly!

so yes it will require some patience on your part but the end result will be extremely rewarding. I assume you have run live cd versions of linux before? if so then youre already well on your way. download the iso of puppy 525 (many will laugh and say omg thats so old) but if you are using a dell inspiron its perfect as its designed for older systems! I run puppy 5.2.5 on an old P4 and it just laps it up like its nobody's business.
you can get the iso from here http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/puppy-5.2.5/ its the file called lupu-525.iso.there is also a file called lupu_devx_525.sfs download that as well from the above mentioned index. burn the lupu 525.iso to a cd and run it from your dvd drive. follow all the instructions to set it up how you want and then shutdown you will then be asked to make a save file. if you get confused about this process there is a tutorial here http://fermatslastspreadsheet.com/20...em-for-coding/ and you can get a lot of help from http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtop...5444c09867a254 if you dont want to install it to a hdd theres always the pendrive route but it can get very confusing if you are not used to how grub sees your partitions differently than the rest of the system.
I am happy to answer your questions if you get stuck. ive found the pendrive or usbstick option very handy and because puppy loads into RAM you have no issues with your system resources being hogged unless of course you compile or install your programs inside your savefile. a general rule of thumb is to always just download everything to /mnt/home extract everything there as well like src tarballs etc. sfs and pets, whatever. it never impinges on your savefile too much and when it does you can just symlink it.

once you have a relatively happy puppy with the devx-sfs loaded which is your gcc compiler then you can unpack the freecad src file which you can downloasd from here http://sourceforge.net/projects/free...eCAD%20Source/ remember at /mnt/home nowhere else and remember to unpack it into a new folder as sometimes if you dont instruct your extraction program to unzip to new folder you end up with any number of directories sitting all about the place at /mnt/home not a biggy as you can just simply select all the directories highlighted in bold and move them to a new folder. ive found that prevention is often better than cure though. so anyway
once you have your src tarball unpacked cd to that directory in the terminal run the command:

pwd (present working directory) which should be something like /mnt/home/freecad
often the config file will not be executable (don't know why but i will save you years of frustration and hair pulling) simply right click the config file scroll down to permissions select and then choose the option make executable/searchable etc you will notice the text under the file changes from black to green. now you can configure.

im sorry for the mish mash way i do things but i dont know all the commands like how to make something executable so the only way i know how to do it is a combo of using the terminal and the gui together so back to the terminal
make sure youre at /mnt/home/freecad
now type ./configure (no spaces!!!)

sit back and let it do its thing wait until it either gives you a final error message
or it says leaving directory bla bla but just wait dont rush at the first attempt oif it looking like its doing nothing , sometimes it can take 10 -15 minutes to configure depending on your system and your libs and deps. when its finished configuring and granted you get no errors
type:
make (this will sometimes take even longer)
wait and see ......
when its finished building and granted again you get no error messages type:
make install

and thats it enjoy freecad

I'm going to go and test this out right now as i could really use something like this.
I'll let you know how i get on and which src tarball seems the most stable?
cheers and good luck
M

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Thanks for the iinformation. Please post back and let me know how the freecad installation goes for you.

I know this does not directly answer your question as related to Mint, but as related to Linux generally, FreeCAD runs great on Slackware and you can find a build script here.

You might want to try Slackware, or you might be able to use the SBo build script as a template for your Mint platform.

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Thanks astrogeek, im going to give that a try too because puppy just has way too many libs and deps missing. Not all of us have the luxury to sit and compile all day (i wish) but it's just a hobby. So anyway I've abandoned the puppy idea. Will try Slackware. Do you happen to know a good flavour of it that will run on a p4? Failing that a Toshiba A300?

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Ps. I wouldn't dismiss puppy. If u want an OS thats super rapid on antiquated hardware then give it a go. try Saluki for any Asus Eeepc Netbooks although i don't know whether Jemima or Crusty Lobster are still maintaining it or branched off into something else? ;-)

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