j river media center - its by far the best media program ive seen - everything good about itunes and everything good about windows media player mixed together, which ideas of its own and far more utilities.

I use Fedora Core, not Mandrake. What is plf?

Hmm... I think the key is actually having web standard apps such as media players and all sorts of software entirely cross-platform.

It gets on my nerves when sites use fancy realplayer setups in a browser that you can't view them. For instance... bbc.co.uk and click on "watch/listen to BBC news". Annoying! Yeah I know there's realplayer for Linux and that, but in comparison to the Windows version - its pants. Same goes for other media formats and players, they should all be cross-platform.

Once these smaller and free applications are across the board, its then that some of the bigger commercial software will become cross-platform. I'd love to see Photoshop on Linux, winamp (yes u can do on Wine, but XMMS is bugging me!), err... Itunes perhaps.

I tell you what's also lacking are decent P2P apps.....!

I personally would like to see Final Draft ported to Linux. I like to write movie scripts and such and I can only do so in Windows since Final Draft wont work with wine. I really want to get rid of Windows too. Maybe there is a program like Final Draft already for Linux, if so I'd greatly appriciate knowing of it.

There are other people who have repackaged Real Player. The version that I am running looks the same as the Windows version of RealONE (Real Player 9), which Real Networks does not offer on their site (for GNU/Linux, they only have 8). Google around and I think that you'll find it.

As for playing audio/video in a web browser, there are a bunch of plugins available. I don't know what they are, I just installed a bunch of packages from FreshRPMs.net and Planet CCRMA. My guess is that they are the gstreamer and gstreamer-plugins packages. That probably wouldn't be much help to you if you don't use Fedora Core though.

Multisim (logic circuit symulator),
Sybase PowerDesigner.

Regards

Nero Burning ROM.

Or even better, an open source app able to burn *.nrg files. There's some emulators for Dreamcast that only come in .nrg format.

what's the big advantage in being able to burn nrg files over any other kind of image file?

FlashFXP (which I've for 5 years or something) and UltraEdit are the two programs I miss most while at home.

You heard rumours of the IRA and muslim extemists but you've seen nothing until you've had to deal with the P.L.F.

- perry

Bill Gates needs to be ported to Linux... by the P.L.F.

We need to catch him in the act, we need to catch Bill playing with Linux late at night and get it on camera, get a recording of Bill Gates saying that Linus Torvalds must be God.....

- perry

my choice are: DreamWeaver, PhotoShop, LightWave and that's all I can think right now... maybe later I'll post a bit more but I doubt.

Add me to the list for:

Nero and Paintshop Pro

I'd also like both these programs ported to OSX too, since my school refuses to use
anything on the windows boxes that doesn't have a Mac version as well. This
leaves me stuck with Roxio and Photoshop at work. (not to start a flamewar, but I think
Paintshop's handeling of scratch image creation, i.e. drawing lines and cutting
and pasting is much more straightfoward than Photoshop's with multiple layers
and such.)

Okay, haven't read this threa the whole way through yet, but...

I'm finding this thread ironic because most of the programs I use in windows were either a) ported from linux to windows, or b) exist solely to clean up window's messes.

In fact, I'm kinda hoping that someone ports over a cd-burning ap to replace nero. (I'm running a small computer shop, and I've compilied a gratis, mostly libre, collection of programs that replace the programs that 90% of users use 90% of the time.)

Also, I think it would be better to open-source clone apps rather than port them. Thirdly, how about a Software Bounty Central where use poor slobs who can't program could vote for open source apps and features and/or put our money where our mouth is? That way, open-source developers could know what we want, plus get a little money on the side.

That said, the three programs that keeps me from running linux 100% (aside from my lack of knowledge- windows may be broken, but at least I know its quirks) are kazaa, waste, and UT2k3/4. UT2k3/4 isn't linux's fault, but rather ATI's

Several people have pointed a replacement or two for kazaa. Since waste is open source, and a port for OSX exists, that won't be much longer.

Some programs my friends could use: Finale (a musical score writing program), Learn <insert language here>, and some random game I'd never heard of. Basically, the core programs that everybody uses exist for linux, but we have to flesh out the niche markets now (and games!)

So mainly, drivers, games, and niche market apps.

I could use these features: The ability to edit id3v2 tags in XMMS (it can read them but not edit them, at least in Mandrake 9.1). More visualization plugins for XMMS (which were written for winamp by third parties.) The ability to play DVDs with XINE legally (stupid DMCA). The ability to play wma, wmv, real audio and video, which I bet mplayer can do, but I haven't tried yet.

OT, but somebody asked why OSX doen't have modem problems when Linux does. Apple hand picks its hardware (and doesn't share its drivers). Windows gets its drivers written for it. Linux is stuck with writting its own drivers for every piece of hardware out there, except for when we can twist manufacturor's (SP) arms. Then, half the time, they release it binary only.

Autocad + photoshop...