Actually, you can usually print/export to PDF in most apps (OpenOffice I know).

Linux has loads of good download managers ranging from remotely accessable PHP scripts to stand alone binaries.

Access is crap. Tons of better solutions on the market (both for Windows and for Linux)

I was viewing some web site, Apple inc. said, Mac is better then Linux, cos they have Adobe Creative Suite and Apple has easily accessed and easy to use service and support, Linux doesn't; Apple is driven by someone who has some understanding of end-user needs, Linux is not (http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/08/01/04/1730254.shtml). Will some one come out and write some program to compete with them?

Did anyone ever make a database, graphic or a spreadsheet of all the software requests in this thread? I got tired reading at about page 90, I tried to continue reading, but skipped to the end instead...

I have used Linux since mid May 2006, and am still trying to use Linux applications, rather than trying to run windows software I own in Wine, Crossweavers, or VirtualBox with version of windows that will let me use my windows software.

I need to learn more of the software that runs in native Linux, reading the requests in this thread there are a number of software packages that other also need to learn about, because they do not need the comfort of the windows version, as the linux equivalent is decent software...

I would like a Greeting Card Software package, not the Japanese new Year Card software that does a good job of making it easy to modify and address the Japanese Post Office New Year Lottery cards. I would love to see a port of Broderbund's 1995 consumer version of "The Print Shop" that program does not need extra CDs, it was a self contained program with millions of different configurations & designs to construct letterheads, post cards, posters and Business cards.

I would also like to see early version of Powerpost 2000 for Usenet posting. The graphical interface was complete, the later versions based on Chris's original code we not as nice, but I have never located a decent Usenet posting program for Linux that has a GUI...

I would also like to see Adobe's Software ported to Linux, but I imagine if there was a linux Version of Adobe's software line-up we would have far too many converts to Linux, and then more spam, and advertisement/malware targeting linux...

JR

Linux has support companies, look at Red Hat and Novell. Linux is driven by the people who use it, so I would imagine that the people that make it have an understanding of what they need. Also, CS2 runs in wine, and I'm sure alot of linux users have no need for Adobe CS

I have not come across user friendly data acquisition software in Linux, that 1)digitizes with user controlled variable sampling rate unlimited duration of signal(from audio cassettes) and writes directly to Hard disk.
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This may not be what you are looking for exactly, but you can do a lot with Nero for Linux. Here is the link. There really isn't a lot of stuff out there for Windows either.


http://www.nero.com/enu/linux3.html


I would go on youtube and download the flash files for your music. Then, use http://www.media-convert.com to make them into mp3 type files. After that, burn them to a CD or DVD. You can probably also make wave files out of them if you like. I would recommend against doing that. Daily motion also has lots of songs online. After making MP3s of all your music, to stay legal, destroy the cassette tape so your total number of copies stays the same so you don't get sued. (one in a billion odds of that)

Oh, songs from flash are not good

and you can convert them using mencoder in one line, in whatever format you want

Hi! everyone. I have noticed the following.
1) No digitization software. 2) open office 2.3.1 crashes my machine. 3) cups does not print properly. even test pages are not 100% printed correctly. 4) Cannot insert page brakes in .odt document.
This is just for info to all.
regards
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Openoffice _is_not_ the only word processing software in linux

I think it's been quite a while since I posted here, and so I thought I might revise the list of software I'd like to see ported to Linux:

* Microsoft Office
* Microsoft Mediaplayer/Apple Quicktime and plugin for internet browsers
* Adobe software (Photoshop, etc)
* GrabIt newsreader
* Project64
* TeXnicCenter + Miktex (though miktex is also available in Linux it comes without GUI and no Latex editor for Linux that I know of automatically downloads packages on-the-fly when compiling documents)
* The drivers and related software for my Canon printer and Logitech mouse
* iTunes
* MDL Chime plugin

Why would you want MS Office, WMP, Quicktime or iTunes?
mplayer plugins usually work for WMP and Quicktime

Microsoft Office is used almost universally. At my university I once had to complete an assignment that required including error bars in a graph, and OpenOffice Calc did not know how to produce error bars. I'm reasonably sure, in spite of explaining the problem, that this cost me half a point on my grade. Not much, but not nothing either. This is just one example, but I'm sure many other examples exist. When people specifically ask for documents in one of the Microsoft Office formats, the *best* results will be obtained only by composing those documents in Microsoft Office.

Furthermore, being an experienced user of Microsoft Office products looks better on your CV, because that's the software most companies use, and companies tend to prefer employees who know how to use the company's computers to be productive.

The reason I want Windows Media Player and Quicktime is because mplayerplug-in often does not work well for me. And the interface of the embedded mplayer looks terrible, very unpolished and unpleasant to behold. So instead of mplayerplug-in, I often use the Mediaplayerconnectivity add-on in firefox to start VLC. But that's not embedded anymore, and doesn't look very nice either. Furthermore, mplayerplug-in does not easily work with the Opera browser.

The reason I want iTunes is because I tried Amarok et al. and I didn't like the look of it, and/or didn't like using it. At the moment I use gtkPod to manage tunes and banshee to play them, but I sometimes get errors in gtkPod when updating songs.
I've even used Rockbox for quite a while, and enjoyed being able to play my Ogg and Flac files, and the option of just organizing the music into folders and playing them without needing to create playlists. Unfortunately, the lack of decoding optimization meant terrible battery life, so this became an impractical solution.

So I would rather have the professional looking iTunes software, an all-in-one solution with updates for my iPod and access to iTunes music store, ripping CDs in aac, etc.

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You are right about Calc vs Excel. Calc severely lacks features and performance. Writer on the other hand is a fabulous product, in which features like auto-numbering of paragraphs and inserting figures where *you* want them actually work. Maybe some parts of the Office suite are better by M$, but some are worse (in terms of reliability and usability) as well.

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