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Thorsten Kukuk maintains a pwdutils package that includes LDAP-capable useradd, usermod, chage, etc. for SUSE.

People are begging Red Hat to integrate Thorsten's code into RH Enterprise Linux here. Join the throng and maybe Red Hat will get the thumb out.

You could also consider cpu which includes usermod/useradd functionality.

A lot of sites just use cgi-perl and Graham Barr's perl-LDAP to create a custom web app for this sort of thing. Once you've got an LDAP backend that seamlessly manages password transparency between apache, Active Directory, *nix, and Novell it becomes incredibly easy to set up secure web apps and push low-level system management functions down to people without advanced computer knowledge (like the HR department for example).

There are a couple of free Risk-type games, both of which run on Linux and both of which support computer AI and network play:

TEG is a clone of an Argentinian clone of Risk. The basic idea is the same, but there are some differences: 1) After winning a battle, you can move at MOST 3 armies instead of at LEAST 3. 2) Defender also uses 3 dice. 3) You do not take a person's cards when you wipe them out. 3) You get the extra 2 armies from a card when you DRAW the card, not when you play it (which takes out a bit of strategy). 4) You can have as many free-moves at the end of your turn as you want, with the condition that no single army moves more than one consecutive country. There may be more, but that's what comes to mind. The combination of #1 and #4 means that you can not just take out a whole continent in one turn, even with hundreds of armies. You can only move the "horde" one country per turn. Have to admit that I'm hopelessly addicted to this game.

The other is JRisk which, frankly, should be Hasbro's next hit. It does seem to violate their copyright and/or trademark. It's a reasonably faithful clone of Risk.

There are a couple of free Risk-type games, both of which run on Linux and both of which support computer AI and network play:

TEG is a clone of an Argentinian clone of Risk. The basic idea is the same, but there are some differences: 1) After winning a battle, you can move at MOST 3 armies instead of at LEAST 3. 2) Defender also uses 3 dice. 3) You do not take a person's cards when you wipe them out. 3) You get the extra 2 armies from a card when you DRAW the card, not when you play it (which takes out a bit of strategy). 4) You can have as many free-moves at the end of your turn as you want, with the condition that no single army moves more than one consecutive country. There may be more, but that's what comes to mind. The combination of #1 and #4 means that you can not just take out a whole continent in one turn, even with hundreds of armies. You can only move the "horde" one country per turn. Have to admit that I'm hopelessly addicted to this game.

The other is JRisk which, frankly, should be Hasbro's next hit. It does seem to violate their copyright and/or trademark. It's a reasonably faithful clone of Risk.

Why did they not shut down also http://jrisk.sourceforge.net/ a java implementation of risk?
or this http://www.dominategame.com/website.php, which is the same a risk
or this turbo risk? http://www.marioferrari.org/freeware.html

all of this version are listed on wikipedia.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_game

that could be an interesting question

Most scripting languages will have some kind of LDAP module available, like python has http://python-ldap.sourceforge.net/ and perl has http://ldap.perl.org/.

So even if Fedora's directory server doesn't offer any console tools (i dont know if it does), it won't be any problem making scripts manipulating its data. Take a look at this example on howto remove a record, its from the python-ldap site, and it isn't exactly overly-complex to use from the looks of it :-)

import ldap
try:
        l = ldap.open("127.0.0.1")
        l.protocol_version = ldap.VERSION3
        username = "cn=Manager, o=anydomain.com"
        password = "secret"
        l.simple_bind(username, password)
except ldap.LDAPError, e:
        print e

deleteDN = "uid=anyuserid, ou=Customers,ou=Sales,o=anydomain.com"
try:
        l.delete_s(deleteDN)
except ldap.LDAPError, e:
        print e

PS. Good alternative to CORBA is ICE (http://www.zeroc.com/ice.html), which is basically the same thing as CORBA, and founded by one of the CORBA gurus. ICE has much better C++ mapping, and lots of other nice features.

Hope this helps!

I've been working on a project called Appleseed, which aims to be a distributed MySpace that anybody could set up a site and "connect" it to the rest of the appleseed sites.

I've never heard of GLUI and never run into a program that used it; a more established library is GtkGLExt, and the most common GTK GL interface is gtkglarea, which has become a part of Gnome.

Well the article is pretty devoid of useful or interesting information, besides implying that Bioware has the names and addresses of all its customers, so I'll have to create some interest of my own.

*clears throat*

How does Bioware make a community work?

<spiteful>Well, it's certainly not by letting Linux and Mac users create their own content!</spite>

*grumble grumble*

Yeah, I know they did better than most by having even clients/servers for Linux and Mac, but NWN without a content editor is like Quake without multiplayer — its replay value has dropped a thousand-fold. (Hell, I could barely stand to play through the original campaign the first time—BioWare is in more desperate need of quality content creators than they are willing to admit!)

And, yeah, I know there are such open-source utilities as neveredit, but third-party tools don't make Bioware look any more supportive. Last I heard, Bioware wasn't even giving hints about their proprietary package formats, let alone a full specification, so it's all been through reverse engineering.

Interestingly, TFA includes this:

Fans as content creators are another asset. "If you build it, they will build it as well..." Some members want to add to the community in very real and meaningful ways, and some of them possess "mad skillz." "90% of what sustains a community," Watamaniuk stated, "is the community itself. You provide the framework for their work. If fans are there creating content, it means that you don't have to create 100% of the content yourself."

I guess none of the talented artists are using Macs, and none of the talented scripters are using Linux; they are all using Windows, right?

It's still not too late for Bioware to stitch its own self-amputated leg back on. If I had the tools, I would start making content (I am, IMNSHO, both a talented artist and a talented coder) at the drop of a hat.

There's a newer version of Winamp (2.95) available at http://www.oldversion.com/program.php?n=winamp

BTW. From personal experience Media Player Classic is the best video player for Windows. You can get it here http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group _id=82303&package_id=84358

I totally agree. "Mainstream" media players these days totally suck ass. They are so bloated and ugly that it makes me want to die.

If you use Windows, I _highly_ recommend Media Player Classic. It's interface is based on the old school MS Media Player 6, which was as simple as it gets. It's small, fast, light footprint, but tons of option and keyboard controls if you want.

VLC is also pretty good and available for many different platforms. I dont like it nearly as much as MPC, but, the nice thing about it is that it will play about 99.9% of all media files you will ever download, regardless of whether or not you have the codec installed. This is the only time I use it in fact - when I dont have a codec installed for some random type of file. Some people love it as their main media player, it's just a matter of taste really.

I believe both have built in support for DVD playback as well. However, as I have a regular DVD player for my TV, I've never actually tested it.

foobar2000 for audio.
for video.
Haven't found anything these can't play on Windows yet...
but then, I simply don't watch realmedia.

I maintain mail servers with some honeypot addresses. Incoming mail is not only used to train our own filters, but reported to other services like Razor. The whole thing about getting the signatures to travel faster than the worm is easy if you already know where you're sending the data (the worm either has to do scans or pick destinations at random).

Is the novelty

1. Using this technique for viruses?
2. Using a dedicated honeynet?

http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net/, particularly http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net/kernel/kernel .html would be helpful.

Compaq hotplug PCI has beein in the kernel since 2.4.15, BTW, and those PC cards in laptops (Cardbus) have been supported since before that (IIRC).

http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net/, particularly http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net/kernel/kernel .html would be helpful.

Compaq hotplug PCI has beein in the kernel since 2.4.15, BTW, and those PC cards in laptops (Cardbus) have been supported since before that (IIRC).

Hauppauge Media MVP. This works great as a media client - S-video out to the TV and a remote control. I use it as a client of a MythTV server. The MVP also has a rudementary VNC viewer and a slimp3 client as well when you boot the open source MVPMC code. No keyboard, but for streaming media this is a good solution. On closeout sale a Radio Shack for $40. Checkout http://mvpmc.sourceforge.net/idx.php?pg=main

Convert your image to PNG, trace it with delineate, and open the resulting SVG in Illustrator.

That's odd... short of saving at 16bits/channel (which maybe Photoshop can't do - I don't touch that thing), I don't think there are any quality settings with PNG per se; it is a lossless format, after all.

There's a lot you can to optimize PNGs, for example with pngcrush. See Wikipedia's detail on PNG filesizes. For more info on PS's bad handling of PNG, see Photoshop & PNG about halfway down that page.

Madwifi for Atheros chipsets. My tablet (Fujitsu 3500 Stylistic, For Sale!) runs Gentoo Linux and has been using my cheap-as-dirt Blitzz 802.11g card to connect to the router. Works with everything, wpa_supplicant and all. The only thing it won't do is Airsnort which I find highly dissapointing. I've also used the ndis wrappers with a Belkin 54g card. They weren't that hard to install and provided at least the functionality to connect to the wireless network I wanted it to.

You could find some techniques to install a Linux system automatically on a lot of computers at http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Debian/kickstart.html

Copy'n'paste:

Kickstart is a Red Hat package that deploys Red Hat to multiple
installation targets with minimal customisation. SystemImager is a
third-party tool that does a better job. http://systemimager.org/

fai (fully automated install) is a Debian-based tool to do likewise.
http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/ Like System Imager, it's
suitable for building clusters.

Replicator is similar. http://replicator.sourceforge.net/ It tries to
do some customisation for differences in hard disk sizes, video cards,
etc.

Partition Image is a semi-automated tool for replicating a Linux
partition to multiple targets. http://www.partimage.org/

(Of course, you can also use an LNX-BBC maintenance disk and "dd"
or dump/restore images. Pick your poison.)

FWIW there's a debian-specific solution in the form of apt-proxy, a program that runs on your server, then the clients point their /etc/apt/sources.list at you, etc. etc. I haven't used it, but I know it exists, so your mileage may/will vary. (At my last job I was responsible for setting up a large web cluster; one machine acted as sort of the "mothership" providing all sorts of network services to the web hosts and so on... I was just looking into apt-proxy when I ended up getting a better job elsewhere. ;))

http://apt-proxy.sourceforge.net/

Well, Solaris 10 is a proprietary Sun product. It's no surprise that there are additional or conflicting terms for it. There are plenty of analogues to use; for many years, BSDI sold (without source, and under very restrictive terms) various derivatives of the open source BSD operating system. Perfectly acceptable, and when Solaris 11 comes out I'm sure it will have terms different from those of the OpenSolaris technology too. The license allows this, and you shouldn't be surprised by it.

If the Solaris license makes you unhappy, don't use Solaris. Use one of the other OpenSolaris-based distributions instead; each distributor is free to offer you any terms he or she likes, provided that the source files they use that come from OpenSolaris are made available to you. You really should go read the license.

I guess I have to actually download the disks to know for certain what I can or can't do as the information from their website seems contradictory.

Actually this term exists partly because a lot of the software included in Solaris is open source, and you have additional rights to that software that aren't specified on that page. Do you really want to read 500 pages detailing all the licenses and what they cover? Especially since many of them are familiar licenses you probably know and love, like BSD and GPL? I sure don't want to.

Wow, thats not very open, and what is the point if the source is available?

You've answered your own question...the parts of Solaris that are open don't need to be reverse-engineered. The parts that aren't, well, Sun can license those under whatever terms they like. Again, if you don't like the Solaris license, you have a choice of distributions, just like you have with other open source operating systems.

My, a bit touchy about how people may talk about us, are we?

If you look at the Solaris Express (for Solaris 11) license terms, you'll notice that this has been removed. Again, Solaris 10 predates OpenSolaris and is not an open source operating system. Of course the benchmarking term does not apply to source or binaries you receive via OpenSolaris, either, only to the official Sun distribution.

I still wonder how supportive Sun is of open source. Do they only support it if they have little choice and then only if you use it in a way that will not benefit anyone else?

Check out the other distributions available already and other projects people are starting to work on. Sun gets nothing directly from these - neither revenue, nor opportunity to sell services or other software. Of course Sun does benefit, too; it gets increased mindshare for Solaris and perhaps a larger installed base of Solaris-compatible operating systems. But to say that these uses don't benefit anyone other than Sun is just wrong.

Can you run an MTA on it? An X server? And if you could, why? Doesn't that go against the "let the firewall be the firewall and not host a bunch of other crap on it"?

Fair point, but it is more than a firewall, it is ALSO a router. The stock version does not, for example support SNMP (yes, I know about the problems with SNMP) - and, as another poster pointed out, you can custom script IPTables on it. Heck, you can even run SNORT on it, and who knows, possibly HOGWASH.

But lets say you do use it for a mail server, or apache or something else. It consumes VERY little power compared to a PC. It has (at the very least) a 200 mhz MIPS processor. This is more than enough to compensate for light jobs - why pay the power bill on a large PC when you can have a much smaller device to boot? Have you noticed how much room this thing takes up compared to a PC? It also has no fans - it is silent. It lasts FOREVER if you put it on a UPS supply! :)

If you really wanted a good, cheap firewall, check out Smoothwall. Get a $10 crappy PC .. throw in 2 NE2000 (or similar) ISA based NICs (you've probably thrown them away before .. I have). Then you have a very VERY useful firewall, that DOES a helluva lot more than these little failure prone Linksys devices.

The only failue I have had with one of these so far is that I left the office router on top of one of my CRT's and it started going haywire. I could not figure out why - until I realized being on top of the CRT I was causing it to overheat. The office router runs dd-wrt, and since we have 2 offices, and when the second office phones with problems, instead of running next door, I use SSH. (Sadly, it is usually someone accidentally tripping over the power cord...) :p

And yes, I used to love the Linksys hardware, but now I have a pile of dead ones from my clients and from personal use. Smoothwall is running and -ZERO- failures as of yet. as long as you dont let it overheat (or run something that is going to wear out the ram), I would guess that one of these would be just as reliable - if not moreso - than a smoothwall PC. (Zero moving parts)

I use Thunderbird and Mahogany with an external editor (Vim).
Mahogany is also cross-platform and user friendly.
http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/

Although not as widely known, the daily user experience on Mahogany
is incomparably better than with Thunderbird, especially for POP.

OS Platform Statistics October 2005:

Windows XP and WIN.NET 72% Up 2% from September 05
Linux 3% Up 1% from March 03

the third party products available for..Linux will explode which will in turn have users demanding to run something other than Windows

The reality is that when an open source project moves beyond the hobbyist stage it is generally ported to Windows or is developed as a native Windows app. Most Active Projects

$ grep -i -r zippy mozilla/
mozilla/extensions/spellcheck/locales/en -US/myspell/en-US.dic:zippy/RT

Without any details, I can't really help you with the network connection, but ...

I also tried to play some mp3s on it and none of the audio players installed would recognize the file. I've since read that I may need to install additional software to get those programs to use mp3s. WTF? Something that minor, playing an mp3 file, shouldn't be that big a hassle.

The algorithms used in MP3 are patented by the Fraunhofer IIS. For this reason, many Linux distros simply don't include MP3 support to avoid licensing issues and possible lawsuits. There's really nothing in the world Linux programmers can do except wait for the patent to expire. If you want, you can pay Fraunhofer $0.75 for a license.

Or, you can do what I do. When I get ahold of an mp3, I run it through the command-line decoder that Fraunhofer provides (free as in beer, but proprietary), and then encode it to FLAC (not Ogg, because I don't want to convert from one lossy format to another lossy format). Kind of ironic that I'm using Fraunhofer's own tool to avoid playing MP3, but yeah ... IMHO, setting MP3 as the "standard" lossy audio codec is one of the ISO's biggest mistakes ever, given all the patent issues.

Anyhow, in short, the MP3 issue you're running into has nothing to do with how good Linux is; it has to do with the legal issues surrounding MP3s.

Unfortunately, maybe it is the kind of help we don't want, because such a driver would be slow. To some people, this makes the vendor look bad, but to others, this makes Linux look bad. And it is unavoidable that a portable driver interface would slow things down. The problem is that you have to capture not only existing functionality, but also existing developmental approaches that are completely different from platform to platform. By that, I mean that different operating systems are designed to prioritize different types of usage and methodologies, so when we go to create a "Universal" driver interface, we have two things to balance - the level of abstraction from the OS and the performance of the driver, inversely proportional. Since fast performance on Windows is a market necessity these days, a driver abstraction layer just isn't going to get any attention.

I have been led to believe, through examination of commercial open source drivers as well as proprietary drivers that are subsequently open sourced, that vendors who want to support multiple operating systems design their own hardware abstraction layer, and that this layer is typically specifically for the product in question. It suggests that creating a portable driver framework from scratch really isn't that big a deal, in which case developers can create that framework with full knowledge of the hardware and specifically to take advantage of the hardware's design, instead of using a "universal" layer designed by people who have never seen your hardware and your users' requirements. I'm just not sure that a UDI-type thing being available is all of a significant time-saver for driver developers, especially when it has performance ramifications for the end user that may affect their perception of the product negatively.

Fire Rules!

http://fire.sourceforge.net/

It's GPL'd
It supports AIM, Yahoo, MSN, Jabber, ICQ, and IRC
It supports the basics like file transfers and buddy icons.
It supports Zero-conf/Rendezvous/Bonjour/Some-other-french-wor d-Apple-decides-to-use
It supports text to speech
It supports Aliases... (in other words I never see nicks, I see my buddies actual names)
It supports inline spell check (questionably wrong words underlined in red)
It supports customizable triggers (notifications) for different buddies.
It supports 6 languages, perhaps 7 in the near future, depending on how well I do in Japanese class
It supports the basic drag and drop support of OSX.

What it does not support
Video and Audio chats...
Anything other than OSX (Linux or FreeBSD support would be very nice)
Probably something I've not needed/wanted

If I'm on a Windows machine I use Trillian. If I have a choice I wouldn't use another IM client without inline spell check and multiple network support.

Ultimately, it's the hardware manufacturer's responsibility to provide drivers for those systems they feel they can profit from. And they have no obligation to support hardware they label as "obsolete." Take the case of Wacom. They never provided any drivers for Linux at all, so a project called "linux-wacom" had to take the reigns there. And as much as I wish Wacom would support their old serial tablets under Mac OS X they absolutely refuse to do so. So it fell to me to step up and start my own open source project to get my perfectly-good serial Wacom tablet working.

Incidentally my project needs help with the preference pane, ADB, and Intuos components... any takers?

http://tabletmagic.sourceforge.net/

File-sharing folder? Uh, try nearly any P2P program in existance...

# Grouping of nicks under a single nick, so you'd only have to click on the nick and the first available (or even preferred) protocol client would be connected. This would also hold for "pounces" - Those messages saved and autosent when one of the nicks becomes available/meets criteria.

That's already a feature...

# Transparent encryption - always encrypt for a protocol, and make those protocols/clients with encryption the preferred protocol for a particular nick with multiple clients.

They've already gone over that and why it wouldn't be a built-in feature until an actual protocol supports real encryption as a feature.

# Grouping of nicks under a single nick, so you'd only have to click on the nick and the first available (or even preferred) protocol client would be connected. This would also hold for "pounces" - Those messages saved and autosent when one of the nicks becomes available/meets criteria.

That's already a feature...

# Transparent encryption - always encrypt for a protocol, and make those protocols/clients with encryption the preferred protocol for a particular nick with multiple clients.

They've already gone over that and why it wouldn't be a built-in feature until an actual protocol supports real encryption as a feature.

So just put it on a usb stick and take it with you.
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/win32/index.php#portab le

see http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/gaim/gaim/sr c/protocols/oscar/adverts.c?view=markup

Grab the Extended Prefs plugin here and you can change all of the font sizes. I nearly went blind without it.

I'm using 1.5.0 and the file transfers have actually been fixed.

Here.

Gaim is definitively the best for me. In addition version 2.0 will provide webcam support for MSN and Yahoo.

http://gaim.sourceforge.net/

GoogleTalk in Gaim :

- for the messages, use jabber :
explained here, or in short :
Screen name : your gmail name (djsmiley2k)
Server : gmail.com
Password : (your gmail password)
Under Jabber option, Connect server : talk.google.com

- for the voice :
SIP isn't supported by Gaim, yet.
There was a fork experimenting with voice, Gaim-VV.
They did manage to get something interesting to work, and now they're working to port back their results into the main Gaim.
According to gaim's news, it'll be included in version 2.0.
Best part, one of the developper has been hired by google to make sure that gaim works with google talk's feature.

For your "IM window taking over the PC", it's a window manager problem.

Under Linux, it's just some settings to tweak
- KDE's control pannel "Desktop" - "Windows behaviour" - then play with "advanced" option (how much is it easy/hard to ask for focus) or "focus" (like "focus follows mouse", never get your focus stollen. Old school unix style)

Under Windows, well... the window manager just sucks. You must find another way.
- You may try Gaim - Tools - "Preferences" - "Plugins"
"notification icon" (message can stay minimized (and not focused) until you clic on icon, like on old icq98 client)
"message notification" (set different ways to alert about new message, like changing the title instead of asking for focus)
and optionnally you can install the "guifications" plugin (use "toaster" non-focused windows, like MSN. Effects on 3D games may vary. Doesn't show up when playing games on my old 3DFx Voodoo 5)

- There may be free tools (the "check against spyware before installing" kind) that can control the focusing behaviour of windows.

I use Gaim to connect to the AOL IM servers, and I've found it surpasses the traditional AOL AIM client by far, as well as alternatives such as Trillian (bloated and graphically immense.)

The Gaim interface can be customized down to being nothing but a window with a list of user names (customizable names can be introduced for your list), and has optional buttons on the bottom of the user list for quick action. Bottom buttons can be graphics, textual, or removed entirely. This is a user list interface at its best.

The user list spawns a traditional 1-on-1 chat window with a remote client, and supports tabs allowing switching between conversations easy, as well as noting other conversation changes without needing to reference another window.

Gaim is portable, and runs on Linux, Mac, and Windows.

Gaim is modular. I have quite a few nice little plugins that do interesting tricks. For example, if I'm too busy to respond to someones IM (this is rare), there is a plugin to set your idle time. Sure it may be a little cheap, but it allows me to avoid talking to someone if I'm deep in writing code without making them feel like I'm just ignoring them if they see I've been idle for say, 20 minutes or so.

I also find Gaim's logging system efficient. The AOL IM client tends to save all logs in HTML format, including all the color tags and formatting. This seems to me to be a waste in hdd space (granted it's small, it's still annoying.) Gaim saves only the textual information, and provides a nice interface to viewing and searching logs based on the user you're searching for and the date of the conversation.

Being a developer myself I think it would be beneficial if there were some sort of drawing utility on the client, similar to a traditional chat window but with graphical point-and-draw type interface. A feature such as this would help in discussing new ideas for programs between developers, or perhaps go as far as drawing driving directions for friends.

Of course if we're talking "chat rooms" where the communication line is more than 1-to-1, IRC is always the best :) In that case I would recommend X-Chat.

Send messages to receive when the come back and the ability to go invisible are both possible on AIM as well. Use GAIM to be able to do these things.

1. Timestamps, because I may start a chat with someone and then leave the window open. If they add something as an afterthought an hour later I'll be able to distinguish that from the older conversation.

2. Logging to a text or HTML file, because I use chatting/conference rooms during meeting to capture ideas. It's wonderful get this all into a file and then post an URL to it for the meetings attendees.

3. Plugins to support various other IM protocols. This allows the client to be extensible to anything new that comes along.

All these can be found in GAIM.

http://gaim.sourceforge.net/

Why not Gaim on Windows?

Sounds like you're looking for Trillian with the Jabber plugin (and some instructions) to be able to connect to all three.

Anyway, I abandoned having more than one IM client installed a while ago. ICQ, for example, has always taken up gobs of RAM, and was one of the main reasons I wanted to consolidate a few years ago. I used to use Gaim, which is a good open source client that can connect to most networks (including Jabber, so it'll work with Google Talk). For whatever reason though, it kept crashing on me whenever I'd send a file, so now I'm using Trillian (Pro), which has worked very well for me. (Much better than the 1.x version I tried several years ago, if anyone hasn't tried it in a while.)

As for the networks themselves, I have contacts on the major four (ICQ, AIM, MSN, Yahoo) and really, the features of each aren't that different when they're all in the same client; it's all mostly small things. ICQ doesn't have the thing that shows when you're typing, for example. But for me, if they can do text chat well and can send files, they're fine for my usage.

You could try using gaim?

GAIM is an Open Source program, and therefore is completely free. Trillian has a free and Pro versions, but the free version is still quite capable.

"Note that in order to use the Intel-based cards, you will need to acquire the firmware files"

Intel has released centrino drivers under GPL http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/ Firmware is freely also downloadable. Do you want them to release firmware also as open-source?

Some people just have to complain. Stop cribbing.

The stumbling block is that I use a Canon i9900 printer in large format photorealistic mode, and a Wacom graphics tablet in Paint Shop Pro, for a very small percentage of my work, and there are no Linux equivalents. So I'm stuck with one toe in the Windows world. I can move more than 97% of my work to Linux at any time, but I'll have to go to WinXP to print the 11x17" photos and to do some of the photo touch-ups. I spend perhaps 4 hours a month on these activities-- it really is a small but important part of my work.

While I can't find any good news for the printer, most Wacom tablets are supported in Linux. As for Paint Shop Pro, most versions run in Wine, and I'm sure you've heard of GIMP before.

Screenshots

Dont fear the lack of the dancing paper clip!