Which future developments are more important to you?

[hop-frog]

There are a lot of developers working on different aspects of Linux to make it better. Which of these developments is more important to you? Which of these do you look forward to succeeding the most?

[ricstr]

Native software support such as Macromedia flash, Propellerheads Reason.

[mr orion77]

the design and 3d apps, or an alternative native to linux. its such a pain.

[ashibaka]

3 reasons why I don't just remove my Windows partition entirely:

- Macromedia Flash
- Shareaza 1.9 (http://www.shareaza.com/)
- VirtualDub

Otherwise, Linux is perfect. ^_^

[sharth]

i'm the other person. Rather than developing more stuff, lets do more bug-squashing and get more programs to a 1.0 release.

[blackbelt_jones]

I answered whatever will Loosen Microsoft's hold on the market, but I might have answered WINE (is there some reason why WINE was divided up by various applications? Technically, does it really make a difference?}

My favorite Windows program is a great, practical text-to-speech program called URL=http://www.readplease.com]ReadPlease[/URL]. As soon as I can port it to Linux, I'll be able to pull the plug on Windows4-ever! :p I still haven't tried to use WINE, but I hear it doesn't work well in Red Hat which is what I'm currently running.

What distros does WINE work well with, by the way? I'm sure for many beginners with beloved Windows programs, it's a question worth asking.

[serz]

increased WINE support in 3D, CAD, and graphics.

And games.. :D

[Elijah]

More native support especially for video editing, macromedia flash and games :)

[Brocket99]

Companies like EA developing games for the linux platform as well as for windows. Or GPL game development.
What could be the harm in releasing the source code for a video game? 99% of the people who would read and modify it would submit their changes to make the product better.
Or perhaps GPL Video card drivers. GPL Graphics technology in general. 3/4 of the Linux users that dual boot with windows is because of the fact that they either don't know how to install their windows games in Linux, or because linux just can't play them.

I can't see any reason why in a year from now games/drivers/engines/rendering developed under the GPL Liscence wouldn't have surpassed their commercial counterparts. I'm sure they're tonnes of guru's and hackers that love gaming.

The wine project is good since it brings microsofts crappy products to linux, hence giving the windows user a almost total way out.
But while the WINE and WineX developers are trying to keep up with Micro$ofts crap products, Linux gaming itself gets nowhere.

[Raoul_Duke]

Just more killer native/cross platform apps :)

Short wishlist (for me and also for what people seem to ask for)

WYSIWYG web tools

Pro quality music editing/creation apps

Perfect OSX emulation on x86 (that's for me, don't really know why.....just would be cool)

Native version of Photoshop or a plugin for the gimp that allows use of .PSD's

Linux installers included on windows-games disks (a la UT2003)

My last wish is that the majority of promising/mature open source projects fulfill their potentional and release some exiting and inventive apps :)

[sarah31]

better coding, a standard for perl to remove its bad coding, a major overhaul of XFree86, less point and click, ABSOLUTELY NO MACROMEDIA FLASH (it is the most annoying bleeding eyesore ever invented), and the death of gentoo zealots.

[dungscooperdave]

1. games
2. just to have the edges of everything that we already have smoothed out.
3. Whatever will get rid of Microsoft. (Though I voted for more Native apps, not this one, but I think that this one's a good one too.)