If you could choose to port one program to Linux?

coliver

MS Office running native would be nice

This would be nice to have, but I don't use very many advanced features so the Office WebApps actually work really well for me. For everything else LibreOffice or Apache OpenOffice has me covered.

A Former User

Adobe and Avid software would be great. Autodesk already has smoke for linux. As well as Lightworks from editshare but its a bit old fashioned

lance

Someone mentioned on reddit they would chose Auto Cad just for the sake of bringing more users to linux.

A Former User

Waiting for someone to say they want to port some package they have on their computer that's actually malware.

coliver

@thecreativeone91 said:

Waiting for someone to say they want to port some package they have on their computer that's actually malware.

I really like this Conduit thing that came with my free wallpapers... I wish that would get ported over.

A Former User

coupon printer, registry pro, speedupmypc.com/superfast

I wish those would linuz

Carnival Boy

SQL Server

A Former User

@Carnival-Boy said:

SQL Server

Do You mean MS Sql? MySql and mariadb are already there and they preform much better than MS SQL

scottalanmiller

@thecreativeone91 said:

@Carnival-Boy said:

SQL Server

Do You mean MS Sql? MySql and mariadb are already there and they preform much better than MS SQL

The way that he capitalized means MS SQL Server. It's true name is actually "SQL Server" like he wrote. We put MS in front of it like Chevy Malibu, but the car is still just a Malibu, and it is made by Chevy.

MS SQL Server is a pretty amazing database. Open source has some serious competitors, not sure I'd use MySQL as the example But MS SQL Server is actually at the top end of databases these days. They are competing with the best of the best on everything but price.

PostgreSQL is the big leading in the open source space, very much on par with SQL Server.

tonyshowoff

Winamp. I mean there are similar alternatives which run on X, but the little things are missing, and the worst part is that Winamp isn't even that great, and in fact it's kinda crappy.

Everything else is already available if it's worth using.

I do second @scottalanmiller though on Microsoft SQL Server and I'm honestly surprised that Microsoft hasn't done this, but I really know it's because, like Exchange, it's strangled with so many COM+ objects, API calls, etc that porting it isn't really going to happen, instead the base engine and T-SQL parser is what needs to be ported.

A Former User

@tonyshowoff WinAmp is stuck in the 90's still. It's better than iTunes but that's not saying much.

tonyshowoff

@thecreativeone91 said:

@tonyshowoff WinAmp is stuck in the 90's still. It's better than iTunes but that's not saying much.

The 90s was my hay-day.