one of the longest awaited Windows CD burning program is now ported to Linux

[SensoVision]

While reading Linux related forums I've seen number of posts what programs people missing on Linux platform and Nero burning Rom was one of the most wanted product to port under open source platform, seems that now porting of Nero come truth and it's offered free when you register a copy of Nero 6 for Windows. take a look here http://www.nero.com/en/NeroLINUX.html if you interested
Andy if you read this post( I remeber that Nero was on your list of the program you're missing) would you now give a chance to Linux or you still have number of programs which doesn't work?

PS I'm not using NeroLinux as don't have Nero 6 registration, and actually K3B do everything I wish to do and almost everything what Nero can do(from what I know)

[12noon]

Nice one. I will have to try that !
 

[SensoVision]

if possible let us know about your experience with NeroLinux, I wonder is it perform so well as M$ version or not. As I didn't seen a lot of feedback about this program yet

[SensoVision]

today I become aware that new version of NeroLinux 2.0.0.1 is now available, and you don't have to have Nero 6 license anymore to try demo version. You can download it now here: http://www.nero.com/en/NeroLINUX.html
I'm downloading it right now, just curious to try how it would work and would I like it more than K3B or not

[SensoVision]

yesterday I've burned few disks with Nero, and I think it's worth trying for xWindows users, as it gives you native interface and almost everything you can get under Windows Nero. For myself I found K3B a better choice for now since it gives me better idea when disk burning would be finished, when Nero could stand for a moment with a progressbar on 5% and for the next second it would jump to 90% and stall there for a bit again I know that under M$ almost all programs do like this, but here under Linux I've accomodated to more informative progress bars which really mean something and not just jump here and there.
I've also got impression thatf file buffering takes few minutes longer than with K3B but maybe it was ocassional... Anyway it's great to see that company did step in porting softwate under Linux OS, hopefully other software developers would go same way and soon we'll see their products here as well(maybe Adobe would be the next? as many people don't like GIMP as it doesn't provide them necessary flexibility in what they do).

[donecweb]

I think the main one I would like to see ported to Linux is PaintShop Pro.

DonEc

[SensoVision]

yeah, there are lack of graphic applications under Linux, here is only GIMP and everything else could be run through Wine or Cross Office. from what I remeber Corel already tried to port their products in the past e.g. Word Perfect was already ported for Linux, so maybe they would make next step and port PSP or maybe even whole Corel Draw Suite...

[donecweb]

I've seen you mention Wine before. Can you explain what it is?

DonEc

[SensoVision]

Can you explain what it is?

sure thing
Wine - http://www.winehq.com/ is a program specially designed to programs designed for Windows to run under Linux OS, once it's installed it create structure of folders and libraries which look just like if you would install Windows in some folder. So when program is started it think that it was running in native Windows, a lot of programs are working through Wine, including PhotoShop and many games, although sometimes happen glitches which could be a bit annoying, but I believe you still can work with them.
BTW here two other program which is derivation from Wine, but used for specific tasks and they are commercial:
CrossOver Office - http://www.codeweavers.com/ - specially designed to run different office programs like Photoshop, Microsoft Office and others. And if compare it to Wine it has GUI which make it easy to install and use these programs.

CeDega from TransGaming - http://www.transgaming.com/ - this one is also built around Wine but is targeted on gaming tasks, it could run a lot of games, including new ones too e.g. Half Life 2. You can search their database of supported games here: http://transgaming.org/gamesdb/
BTW there is GUI for CeDega to make it easier to add and run programs, it's called Point2Play.

There is also such product like Win4Lin - http://www.win4lin.com/ it do same things as Wine, I couldn't tell you much about it since I never seen or had chance to use it.

There is also other way to run programs, you can use system emulator like VMware http://www.vmware.com/ which would create isolated environment where you can install DOS, Windows, another Linux or other OS and run all programs in it's native OS. It could be useful in some cases when there is no alternative for the program in Linux and it couldn't be run through Wine or other emulators...
seems I've told everything I know about programs to run M$ programs, hope it would be useful.

[donecweb]

Thanks Denis for clearing that up. Since you use wine would you say it is the best or easiest to use and install?

DonEc

[SensoVision]

the reason I'm using Wine is because it's free In the past I've also had license for WineX(now it's called CeDega) and it was work just the same way but also let me run Games which require DirectX library and won't run under usual Wine. So if I have to buy some product I would choose CeDega as one day I maybe wish to play SimCity 4
As for easiest interface all of them have .deb package version, which mean that you need to execute one command in order to install and start to use it.

BTW Wine isn't that hard, you have to run programs there like this:
wine program.exe and that's it. So the only problem is to make shortcuts for the programs you need to run.

BTW I don't really use any of these programs anymore since I've found alternatives for all programs I need under Linux. But when I was merging from Windows, Wine help me a lot as I need to access some programs e.g. TheBat (my old mailer program which now is replaced by Mozilla ThunderBird).

[donecweb]

I'm in the process now of switching to programs that are cross platform like Mozilla ThunderBird, Firefox, OpenOffice (which I changed to years ago) and GIMP, I'm sure there are others but just can't think of them now. My main problem with Gimp is the multiple window situation. I tried the background window plug in but it doesn't work. It used to then I upgraded and it quit working right. I tried to go back to the older version and it still doesn't work right. I even rebuilt my computer for other reasons and reinstalled the older version and the newer version and nothing make it work right.

DonEc

[SensoVision]

are we talking about GIMP for Windows or Linux? As I've never heard of such plugin, I maybe would look for it, as I don't really like how windows are managed in GIMP. Anyway this program is just sufficient for my photo editing needs. BTW if you're photography fan you'll find here some nice program called Hugin, it's best panorama stitching program I've ever used. It put photos together really smoothly and give you a bit more manual control over process as most programs in Linux
Here is homepage of this program: http://hugin.sourceforge.net/

[donecweb]

I was referring to GIMP in windows but from what I have read it is a set of windows in Linux also vice just one window.

DonEc