I'd love to see PaintShop Pro ported to Linux, too. I am currently using The GIMP but would waste no time switching to PaintShop Pro if it were available.

Another application that's got to be ported to Linux is iTunes!

I'm a and switching to Linux and I'd really want to say goodbye to Windows and delete it from my HD, but I can't because:

a) I need AutoCad for school, and I guess there's no alternative for it?
b) I need BlueTooth software for my mobile phone
c) Photoshop and Paint shop Pro
d) Software for my Logitech Webcam
e) A chat program that supports MSN (I have that) BUT supports webcam (!)

give me a solution for these 5 problems and my windows is gone 4ever. I hate it to use Windows, but I can't live without it because of the programs it supports

a) There's JCad, but I'm not sure how good it is
b) There's probably some out there somewhere
c) GIMP-2 is excellent...you just need to get used to using it
d) Again, there is probably some out there somewhere
e) Hardly essential, is it!

This is the big problem, people won't switch until certain things work on linux. My way of doing it was just to switch and then get used to what linux had to offer. Sure, I can't use my webcam on MSN but then do I really need to?!

It's worth the sacrifice just to get rid of windows.

well, actually, my webcam is essential for me, I bought it so I don't want it to stand there until i realise after 3years that i didn't use it. I want to use it. And secondly: if you think a webcam is not important for everybody, why are all those people buying one?

thx for your reply, I'll check out JCad.

A webcam is not essential for everybody, therefore not everybody is buying one.

I see semantics aren't your strong point.

If your webcam is that important then stick with windows, but you're just gonna be one of these people who will always find another reason why they can't move across completely...destined to dual boot forever.

I think you see it another way I do, but i understand you.

Try to see it my way... I just want to be able to do the things I did in Windows...

I used to think that way....

edit: i now upload my webcam to an ftp page. It's a compromise maybe - oh well!

hi guys,

A recent problem that i faced was due to the lack of a a serial port terminal program like Hyper terminal (Windows). As far as i know, u have to telnet to a router (connected to a linux machine) to change the settings but in case of windows u can ALSO do it with the help of hyperterminal using the com port (?). Dont u think linux should also have something like hyperterminal (if it does not already....not in my knowledge).

Thanks
SiLiCoN.

Maybe I am a little over-specialized, but I would like to see BioEdit ported to Linux.

http://www.mbio.ncsu.edu/BioEdit/bioedit.html

This is a nice, free and comprehensive bioinformatics tool that is far more comfortable to use than the 'classical' Unix-package EMBOSS. It also contains a BLAST interface which is missing in EMBOSS. OK, I would already be happy if someone could program a web and blast interface for emboss

I've spent the last several hours googling for a Linux text/document/file search utility that supports keyword search on a workstation HD using Boolean operators. There are dozens for the Windoze platform, and not much of anything for the Linux platform that I've been able to find.

Yes, I know about grep. For certain kinds of operations, it's a very powerful tool. But I've found that keyword searching works better than character string matching for finding files with specific content. That's why google is based on Boolean search, not grep.

There's a very simple DOS utility called LOOKFOR that supports disk searching with Boolean AND OR NOT NEAR operators with a very simple text-based interface.

Those who would like to look at the lookfor DOS utility can find it here. http://www.ecis.com/~alizard/files/lookfor.com . It's under 20K.

If anyone wants to try porting it to Linux, please let me know. If such a tool already exists, I really want to know about it.

I would really like to see Slide Show Movie Maker for Linux.
http://www.joern-thiemann.de/subpage...m?/tools/ssmm/
Its a great piece of freeware that lets you convert jpgs and other image files to avi, with many transitions, Ken Burns Effect, and many other high quality effects. It would make a great edition to linux. Even better would be SSMM that wrote directly to mpeg!

Why? Because they are fun to have, but by no means, essential to the computing/online experience. I bought one several years back. The first time I moved aftter buying it, I never unpacked it. It's still not unpacked to this day....

NoteLens, an incredibly agile note-keeping and note-tracking application from Windsor Interfaces. On Windows, it requires the .NET framework, so I'm hopeful that soon Mono will permit me to run NoteLens on Linux.

in this order:

TMPGENC
Virutual dub
Photoshop,
Newzbin (works ok in wine though)

** Bittorrent it's around in beta ,but I cant get it working

Ah sausage-n TMPGENC & Virutual dub can be both be replaced with a much better program called Avidemux. I gave up on those 2 programs when I found Avidemux. It does what bot of them will do but better. The Only thins it dosn'[t do is video capture.