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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. Hands down! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Port 80.

    Everyone wants that sweet sweet http.

  2. Heh. From TFA: by republican+gourd · · Score: 5, Interesting

    From TFA:

    Also, I think a nice attention-getter for the survey would be to get it slashdotted. Generally, I give about 75 points for a great article. If someone can get the survey on Slashdot, I will give you 250 points. As you all know, we have some incredible stuff for which you can redeem your points.

  3. Port photoshop by baryon351 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Convince Adobe to bring Photoshop to Linux and I know dozens of people who'll switch in an eyeblink.

  4. Biased Survey Construction? by DongleFondle · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "Of those top 10 applications, two of them are financial management packages. Looks like there is quite a demand for that. It looks like there is a huge interest in the AUTOCAD arena, as well. Something that is very well worth noting is the demand for multimedia applications."

    I imagine this is probably because of the fact that they suggest all of those top ten applications in their dropdown menu (leaving an "other" option at the bottom in case you don't want any of their default applications). Anyone whose ever worked on survey or statistics theory knows this is an obvious bias. That's not to say that's its a bad idea to do this if they have an agenda, I'm just pointing out that the results should definately be taken with a grain of salt here. There may be more relevant programs people would like to see ported to Linux. I imagine lots of people can think of specific games they'd like to see ported. Anyone whose ever reads /. knows that there's a pretty large community of gamers that keep that one Windows box around just for gaming.

    Anyways, I say best of luck to Novell. I'd love it if they were able to make some ground with Adobe on porting some of their apps.

  5. Of that List... by SmartSsa · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It actually surprises me that Lotus Notes has never been avail for linux. Since it's heavily Java based it should be easily portable and with IBM backing it in their Pro-Linux state... why hasn't it been? Maybe because it's a hunk of junk.

    The only ones on that list that I'd care to see are Visio, Autocad and Photoshop.

    But I do agree that there's a serious need for business/money/finance software. GNUCash and a few other's that are out there just don't cut it. I just hate Quickbooks with a passion :)

    --
    It's just Crap.
    1. Re:Of that List... by bobrog · · Score: 5, Informative

      IBM is rolling out GTK based Linux Notes client called the "Notes Plugin" which will be a part of their Lotus Workplace product. This article says the Linux Notes Plugin will be available later this year and this blog discusses its demo taking place at Lotusphere 2006 this week.