3 windows apps that you would like to see ported

[deanjo]

OK, lets see what Windows only apps you would love to see ported to linux. In my list there is really only one big app that I would like to see ported and a couple of smaller ones that IMHO still do not have a good linux substitute.

1) 3DStudio Max
2) AutoGK
3) Ultraedit

[d2kx]

1. Trackmania United: Forever (getting it on my birthday next tuesday, I so love the Trackmania series)
2. Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (coming 2008)
3. Grand Theft Auto 4 (2008)
(4. Valve's games - I trust Michael on that one, so it got lower priority)

[movieman]

Avid Media Composer.
Final Draft.

Those and games are the only things I have to keep a Windows box for; Celtx is OK for script-writing and has some nice features, but it still isn't as convenient as Final Draft.

[LordLethis]

mIRC
Miranda IM

aaaaaand...

DirectX :p

[deanjo]

1. Trackmania United: Forever (getting it on my birthday next tuesday, I so love the Trackmania series)
2. Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning (coming 2008)
3. Grand Theft Auto 4 (2008)
(4. Valve's games - I trust Michael on that one, so it got lower priority)


Apps, not games, apps. not SDK's, apps.

[Aradreth]

1. SolidEdge - I have a windows install eating up hard drive space because I have to use it.
2. Foobar - Awesome music player although I'm starting to like MPD+GMPC/NCMPC more and more.
3. Other then games? Nothing

[givemesugarr]

at this time i cannot find a real app that hasn't a real counterpart on linux and that i regularly use.
as for the apps that i use sometimes i'd say:

adobe photoshop -> this is a real need for linux and if this will in some way be made available to linux users in a good way then it will mean a lot of new users

now i cannot find any other apps and this could mean something, or not?!

[Kano]

A tool for canon printers for cd printing.

[curaga]

None. There's everything I need already in the open.

[d2kx]

Sorry deanjo.

What curaga said.

[rbmorse]

at this time i cannot find a real app that hasn't a real counterpart on linux and that i regularly use.
as for the apps that i use sometimes i'd say:

adobe photoshop -> this is a real need for linux and if this will in some way be made available to linux users in a good way then it will mean a lot of new users

now i cannot find any other apps and this could mean something, or not?!

Photoshop CS2 works well enough in Wine/Crossover Office that it is usable for my needs. YM, of course, MV. If you haven't tried it under Wine lately it's worth updating and giving it a shot. However, if you are for some reason tied to CS3, or perhaps some third party plugins, you're still OOL.

[givemesugarr]

Photoshop CS2 works well enough in Wine/Crossover Office that it is usable for my needs. YM, of course, MV. If you haven't tried it under Wine lately it's worth updating and giving it a shot. However, if you are for some reason tied to CS3, or perhaps some third party plugins, you're still OOL.

wine needs a videoboard that supports it well. i'm always a fast upgrader of wine (as soon as it hits portage or sabayon tree it goes also in update). the real problem stands in the opengl part of my board not being well supported (opengl is really crappy on x200m if you're able to have it work and not hang the system) so anything that is opengl based, including wine cannot be rendered. i'm using a virtualbox base windows just to be able to use iexplore (i have to go sometimes on sites that embedd activex controls for confirmation and this drives me so mad everytime that i do it that i'd like to kill the webmaster). i know that wine is making a lot of progress but still it needs a videoboard that is able to work with it. and still cs3 doesn't work.
i hope that project air would bring a lot of cool news about adobe stuff in the near future, like a 64bit flash plugin and an ability to write apps that work with its software.

[yoshi314]

allaroundautomations' pl/sql developer - a must have tool for anybody using oracle databases in production environment (opensource alternative tORA is ok, but it has a different approach to the task and lacks some features).

oh and most likely adobe's flash development suite. it might work on wine, or not but linux really lacks some of adobe's flagship products.

[marco71]

None. There's everything I need already in the open.
same for me; didn't use windoze@home for more than 5 years

[JA_SAM]

1.Photoshop
2.Dreamweaver
3.Illustrator
and a lot more..
good ati drivers also :p

[Jade]

I vote for VirtualDub, as implied here:

(5) Compile a C,C++,Java,Fortran cross-compiler for Windows.

This compiler runs on a Windows box. It compiles Windows source code and the resulting binaries will run unaltered on Linux. Ever wanted to compile VirtualDub so that it runs on Linux? This avoids having to port the source code.

cd /gcc/binutils-win32-linux
/gcc/binutils-2.18.50/configure --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu \
--host=i686-pc-mingw32 \
--target=i686-pc-linux-gnu \
--prefix=/mingw
make
make install

cd /gcc/gcc-win32-linux
/gcc/gcc-4.2.3/configure --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu \
--host=i686-pc-mingw32 \
--target=i686-pc-linux-gnu \
--enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,java \
--disable-libgomp \
--prefix=/mingw
make
make install

Now you copy everything in /mingw to C:\mingw on a Windows box and start compiling there. After you have compiled your Windows program, say VirtualDub, on your Windows computer, you transfer the resulting executable back to Linux and run it there. Of course, for most compilations you will also need to compile a version of the make program for Windows. You can compile the make program for Windows, on your Linux box, by using the cross-compiler you built in step (3).

FROM: Free Compilers and Cross-Compilers for Linux and Windows.

http://linuxhelp.150m.com/compile/gcc-compilers.htm

Also: http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8411

[Malikith]

I'd like to see some more/better guitar effect apps ported over to Linux as I play bass and need some crazy effects from time to time. I don't care for any specific one whether its Guitar Rig or whatever. Guitar Rig has a mac port so it couldn't be hard for Native Instruments to get it on Linux. I refuse to run it in Wine too because I don't get native asio that way unfortunately.

The second thing I'd like to see is some more games obviously. And then the third one, hmm.. I don't really need anything other than that.

[mgc8]

I think the most important things lacking in Linux at the moment, besides the obvious (big-name games) are the little yet pervasive apps that everyone uses:

1. Messengers -- Skype is in a very unstable shape with limited features, Yahoo and MSN are completely missing, while Pidgin and Kopete are valiant efforts but lack the important features like voice and webcam.

2. Total Commander -- it is THE best file manager out there, and unfortunately Krusader and Gnome-commander don't even come close (they are clunky, unstable and ugly). MC is better but console-only unfortunately.

3. IrfanView -- yes, we have a plethora of various image viewers, but they are unstable, featureless, and slow as hell. The fact that I prefer running IrfanView in Wine to any ot the native ones says it all.

Frankly, if these three areas were covered 100% in Linux (the way playing videos is, with three excellent apps in MPlayer, VNC and Xine) then we could say that Linux is "ready" for mass adoption. As it stands now, people who are used to Win* need to adapt and compromise in order to make the switch -- sure, it's possible, but they'll always feel something is "missing".

[mlau]

TeraTerm (or something similar). Minicom sucks beyond measure,
putty lacks xmodem/zmodem support (and a menubar), and teraterm can't
even display 2400baud serial line data in realtime when running under
wine.

[deanjo]

I vote for VirtualDub, as implied here:

Have you tried avidemux2? I was a long time virtualdub fan until I started using avidemux2. I've found it to be as good (in somethings better) then old vdub.

[rbmorse]

I like avidemux2, too.

[marcobrancalion]

Cubase. With all the working VST Plugins system.

[Death Knight]

Foobar
Notepad++
floAt's Mobile Agent

[Aradreth]

1. Messengers -- Skype is in a very unstable shape with limited features, Yahoo and MSN are completely missing, while Pidgin and Kopete are valiant efforts but lack the important features like voice and webcam.
http://www.amsn-project.net/ might help with the webcam support for MSN.
IrfanView -- yes, we have a plethora of various image viewers, but they are unstable, featureless, and slow as hell. The fact that I prefer running IrfanView in Wine to any ot the native ones says it all.
I've gotten used to Comix now although I really do miss Hamana I really liked it when I used windows.
http://miyano.s53.xrea.com/

[niniendowarrior]

I've never had Skype crash on me ever since I've begun using it on my new laptop. Webcam works fine, voice chatting works fine.

[colmo]

Adobe Lightroom - there is no open source end-to-end digital image workflow app that can hold a candle to it, especially on the tagging and sorting end of things - at least there are RAW processing options, from all the dcraw-based apps like UFRaw and the closed-source RawTherapee. Bibble is the best of the commercial Linux options, but it has a clunky UI compared to LR, while Lightzone shows real promise.

Adobe Photoshop - I had CS1 working in Wine for a while, but it stopped working for reasons unknown (possibly a font issue), and it never did close down tidily anyway. Again, there are no open source apps that bring everything to the table, though GIMP and Krita are converging on it. I've given up on the glacial development of Cinepaint.

There is no #3 in mind right now, but I'll post it if I think of one.

[mgc8]

I've never had Skype crash on me ever since I've begun using it on my new laptop. Webcam works fine, voice chatting works fine.
Unfortunately in my case it wasn't so rosy :-/ I tried it on various computers, both laptop and desktop, and indeed the newer versions seem not to crash -- however, they aren't very stable either, i.e. sometimes I can login and chat perfectly with voice and cam, and in the next minute it complains about not being able to connect, errors about the audio hardware (which works perfectly otherwise) and so on. I just can't rely on it the way I do with the windowz version which works flawlessly (and the new HD mode is quite astonishing when both parties have the right hardware)...

I also tried aMSN but it kept giving errors about my webcam, that was some time ago so I should give the newer versions a try. Also gYachi was promising in the Yahoo departament until it kindof died as a project. Kopete has some support but still patchy... etc. etc.

I've gotten used to Comix

Hey, thanks for that one! I didn't know about it and it seems to be a nice viewer, although quite unstable too -- it crashed on me the second time I ran it... *Sigh*

[lordmozilla]

i want VMware infrastructure Client....

apart from that... I'm with fine with apps on Linux, I do like winSCP but konqueror does it all, just prefer the way winSCP does it... and photoshop would be cool, but I'd rahter learn how to use the Gimp. I agree with IRFRANVIEW or whatever it's called, I really like it in windows and Kview seems to have a few really annoying problems on my system, but i've never looked any further so i'm sure I will find something.

[supermonkey77]

1. Addictive Drums
2. Ableton Live
3. Native VST support.

The whole reason i got into linux is because of the immense routing options JACK gives for audio work. It makes Rewire look like poop.

[Aradreth]

Hey, thanks for that one! I didn't know about it and it seems to be a nice viewer, although quite unstable too -- it crashed on me the second time I ran it... *Sigh*
I've never had comix crash on me maybe you where just unlucky.

[DanielVidal]

I'd like to see some more/better guitar effect apps ported over to Linux as I play bass and need some crazy effects from time to time. I don't care for any specific one whether its Guitar Rig or whatever. Guitar Rig has a mac port so it couldn't be hard for Native Instruments to get it on Linux. I refuse to run it in Wine too because I don't get native asio that way unfortunately.

The second thing I'd like to see is some more games obviously. And then the third one, hmm.. I don't really need anything other than that.

Hi

If you want a good set of guitar/bass effects on linux you can test Rakarrack at http://rakarrack.sourceforge.net/ . This app have 10 effects and 80 predefined presets ... someones very crazys...

Best regards

[Tarmael]

I wouldn't go back to windows (on my home box) even if you payed me on a weekly basis.

[Licaon]

1. AutoCAD ( since BricsCAD: http://www.bricsys.com failed to deliver a version 7 and 8 for Linux )
2. ETABS/SAP ( that code needs some optimisations badly, it's 20 years old in development, and it feels old too; no 3D acceleration, bad UI :( )
3. Tekla ( given it's price tag and it's features this could be awesome to port )

these are the apps that keep me on Windows, at job anyway

[hmmm]

1 - Autocad
2 - Auto Gordian Knot - can anyone pt out a current FOSS alt to this?
3 - Matlab [although SAGE http://www.sagemath.org/ looks interesting]

[Aradreth]

1 - Autocad
2 - Auto Gordian Knot - can anyone pt out a current FOSS alt to this?
3 - Matlab [although SAGE http://www.sagemath.org/ looks interesting]

Matlab has a native linux client already[1] and as for Gordian Knot it's under the GPL so it's already FOSS and just needs to be ported.

[1] http://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab/requirements.html

[hmmm]

wow didnt know matlab was... perhaps someone should post something on the doom9 forums and mplayer mailing lists...

[Aradreth]

wow didnt know matlab was... perhaps someone should post something on the doom9 forums and mplayer mailing lists...
Honestly I think if there was someone interested in porting it would have been done by now as it's been around for a fair few years now.

[deanjo]

Matlab has a native linux client already[1] and as for Gordian Knot it's under the GPL so it's already FOSS and just needs to be ported.

[1] http://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab/requirements.html

Ya matlab has been native in linux for a long time, but although Gordian Knot is GPL, AutoGK is a separate project that is not GPL nor does the author show any interest in releasing the code.

[Aradreth]

Ya matlab has been native in linux for a long time, but although Gordian Knot is GPL, AutoGK is a separate project that is not GPL nor does the author show any interest in releasing the code.

I thought AutoGK was based on Gordian Knot, opps.

[curaga]

While I liked how simple AutoGK was, it never got my subtitles right, I always had to go an tweak them manually in a text editor. Compared to that, using mencoder is less work and also better results.