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The Most Desired Linux Ports

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the show-of-hands dept.

zenboomerang writes "It looks like Novell is trying to hit the hammer on the top of software developers heads and try and get them to port their applications directly to Linux. With help from the public they will try to pursuade the management of the most popular programs picked to get into the 21st Century and do some Linux testing. It seems to me to be a good idea and all it needs is a little help from the community."

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  1. Dreaming by nathanh · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Microsoft Word.

    No, really, I'm being honest. If there's one application moreso than any other I want on Linux it's Microsoft Word. None of the word processors on Linux (free or pay-for) have decent enough import/export filters for me to collaborate on documents with Word victims. Unfortunately in my line of work that is a serious limitation and it's basically impossible for them to switch to OpenOffice. It's extra sad because OpenOffice Writer is just fine as a word processor.

    I wouldn't mind MYOB either.

  2. Re:autocad, but not microstation? by jonwil · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ok then, so why DOESNT GIMP have CMYK support?
    Is it just a matter of someone saying "I will add CMYK support to GIMP" and writing some code?
    Or is there something more?