Camtasia by TechSmith captures video, and makes it very easy to capture movement for a video illustration. Xvidcap captures video, but I have never gotten it to work, and it is not as elegant as Camtasia.

There aren't any good genealogy programs in Linux and it is only that which now holds me to windows OS. Two that l use are Brothers Keeper and Family Tree Maker. Gramps is ancient compared to what's available in windows. I hope someone in the Linux community with the know how will address this shortcoming.

I have installed Brothers Keeper using Wine but l can't get it to work with regards to importing a Gedcom file or backup data and such. I'm sure it could be done but not for a person of my meager experience.

Wayne

Most engineering s/w is windows.

I used Win4Lin, and it worked very well.

Unfortunately a bunch of new apps refuse to start without win2k or XP. Also my work now needs direct usb support, and win4lin does not give the windows session use of the usb hardware.

I use an engineering application called Inventor by Autodesk. It does not run on Linux, and the company has no plans (or reason) to switch to some other program. Unless Autodesk plans to support Linux, or some very inexpensive and file compatible application comes out, we're stuck in the MS Universe.

Doug Norton
VP Engineering
EWI

I have to use a dual-boot system and I would *love* to get rid of windoze once and for all but unforunately, I need a working webcam and decent voip to keep in touch with my fiance in mainland China. So far, the best I've managed to get working in Linux is for my Quickcam Pro 4000 to show my picture (to me) in Gnomemeeting (and Skype is almost useless for voice because of the noise).

I just loaded MEPIS on my spare HD in my desktop and can mulitboot between WINXP and Linux. The OS and apps included are overwelming but look great.
I use the dutch speller in MS Word a lot, and do not know of any for OpenOffice
In MS Excel I use the statical functions(histogram) and the database query via ODBC (for Paradox) a lot, and do not know of any for OpenOffice Calc
so I am not sure if Linux is the way to go in 2005.
Happy 2005
Ronald

I suspect it is a long time coming, but decent (affordable) Optical Character Reading software for Linux does not seem to exist.

I need to be able to run both Mac and Win apps on Linux boxes, mostly because there are not any truely professional music notation packages available for Linux. Those music notation packages available are either stone-age text input packages AND/OR with printed output that look horrid. Unfortunately my experiences with MOL and WINE have been dismal. WINE as delivered with SuSE 9.2 doesn't even run the calculater properly let alone AppleWorks, RagTime or Finale. MOL will run in it's own window under YDL 4, but has wierd time-outs of up to 30 seconds where the MacOS freezes in mid-stride. I've not been successful in getting it to load completely in it's own virtual terminal.

greetings

Leonard Cecil, Systems Engineer
mailto:leonard.cecil@fh-aargau.ch

Department of Design
University of Applied Sciences Aargau
Northwestern Switzerland in Aarau
Bahnhofstrasse 102
CH-5000 Aarau, Switzerland
Phone: +41 (0)62 832 6682
Fax: +41 (0)62 832 6665
Web: http://www.fh-aargau.ch and
http://ganymed.dbg.fh-aargau.ch/

and:
Music of Note - Music Notation Workshop
http://www.music-of-note.ch

I like to do my own income taxes (U.S.) and have not found a way to do it in Linux.
I am also doing so video editing of old home movies on VCR and the few tools available are not yet up to the task. I have to use XP also for this.

as a genealogist I need the LDS source file viewer program. I have managed to get it to install using wine but cannot access the data CDs, This is the only application for which we still need a windows system at home. And of course there are still those websites that don't recognise a decent browser :-(

Looking forward to Kexi--or similar--but until then I still need Access. (MySQL is a little too complicated for me right now--haven't figured out how to attach a GUI front end to it. Hey, maybe that could be an article?? Newbies to Linux are not necessarily newbies to computing in general.)

I switched pretty much everything over to Linux, with the exception of personal finance. I tried KMyMoney2 and did okay for a few months, but wanted to have more in the way of reports and OFX import. I switched to GnuCash and got the reports and OFX imports (WooHoo!!!) but ran into problems now and then - and noticed that there is no CSV or QIF export, so I'm pretty much committed to GnuCash (well, at least until KMyMoney2's GnuCash import filter is production).

I finally gave up and installed Quicken Basic under Wine. I should have done that a year ago. I just need to figure out how to get GnuCash imported to KMyMoney2 and then exported to Quicken (or just scratch the whole year's worth of data and start fresh).

basicly i have to use IE to check what the coding looks like in IE other then that i don't really need to as i have found linux equivelents that work as good or better than their windows counterparts
I'm glad the wine project is there I'd have to dual boot if i didn't have wine

I'd like to run Audithost_Client from Productive Access, Inc. in Linux. I need it for work.

I'd also like Macromedia MX to run on Linux...

I get along fine without most MS-Windows stuff, but some of the more obscure software I want to use is not available for Linux--e.g., a beginning piano class and a Spanish language program.

Most of the Windows stuff that I run is for classes that I'm taking. We have to use a Windows-only version of Smalltalk (a programming language) and a SkyChart program that is Windows/Mac only.

I also play games once in a while under the CVS version of Winex, but that hasn't been happening nearly as much lately because I haven't had time:-(

Yes as not many Linux applications are written for Amatuer Radio Sound Card modes. gMFSK comes close but could be better. For slow scan television, have never had QSSTV to work under Fedora, Mandrake or Debian and it's off shoots, Knoppix or Mepis, program loads and installs fine, but not able to decode one picture, yes have messed with the slant correction to no avail. KPSK seems to only work under Fedora correctly, has problems running KPSK on Mandrake or Debian, author said I need to download the source and mess with it, WHY???. Linux has a long way to go to catch up with Amatuer Radio applications that work right off on Windows sad to say. I am not a programer or do not I know where to start, am a old geezer and would take to long to learn.

I dont use any Windows for years.
My last choice is Mepis as desktop linux distribution on a Medion laptop.

I will need to use Adobe Pagemaker until an equal package is available for linux.

I have a Linux LAN at home and use WinXP at work. My wife uses a Linuxworkstation at home and Windows machines at her work. I find the intercompatability of Linux versions of StarOffice, the GIMP, and so on, works well for me. I do use spreadsheets but no other financial or database apps. I have no real desire to use Win apps at home. I can always use rdesktop and work on my office computer if it is necessary.

I did see some good reasons for wanting Win apps on Linux, though.

I have several clients I'd like to move over to Linux on the desktop (they're already using Linux as servers) but they require either Quickbooks or Peachtree Accounting apps. Since Intuit and Peachtree don't have Linux native versions of these apps, Windows is still required at these offices.

In addition, I have an insurance brokerage as a client and they still windows for insurance apps only running on Windows and IE in order to some insurance company sites for policy applications.

Mark