osalt.com top-requested commercial app stats

[Dan Kegel]

http://www.osalt.com/ has a list of most-requested commercial windows
apps, currently:

1. Visio
2. Norton Ghost
3. Photoshop
4. Nero Burning Rom
5. Dreamweaver
6. AutoCAD
7. Illustrator
8. Access
9. Premiere Pro
10. ACDSee

No idea how they generated that list, but it seems somewhat
reasonable.  cc'ing them in case they feel like commenting
on where that list comes from and what it means.
(And no, I don't think Ghost will ever run on Wine :-)
- Dan

[Anders Rasmussen]

Hi Dan (and wine-devel)

The list is based on the number of visits each of the product pages has on
http://www.osalt.com/ .
Thus, only products listed on the site is included on the list. The lists
shows the most visited products during the past two weeks.

Do you need the list for checking which products that wine should support?

Here are the following 10 commercial products on the top list:

11. Final Cut Pro
12. iTunes
13. Fraps
14. MSN Messenger
15. Publisher
16. Outlook
17. Movie Maker
18. Money
19. Acrobat
20. Quicken

If you have any further questions - please let me know.

best regards,
Anders Rasmussen
Editor
Open Source Alternative - www.osalt.com

On 9/4/07, Dan Kegel  wrote:
> http://www.osalt.com/ has a list of most-requested commercial windows
> apps, currently:
> - Visio
> - Norton Ghost
> - Photoshop
> - Nero Burning Rom
> - Dreamweaver
> - AutoCAD
> - Illustrator
> - Access
> - Premiere Pro
> - ACDSee
>
> No idea how they generated that list, but it seems somewhat
> reasonable.  cc'ing them in case they feel like commenting
> on where that list comes from and what it means.
> (And no, I don't think Ghost will ever run on Wine :-)
> - Dan

[Alex Waite]

Dan Kegel wrote:
> http://www.osalt.com/ has a list of most-requested commercial windows
> apps, currently:
> - Visio
> - Norton Ghost
> - Photoshop
> - Nero Burning Rom
> - Dreamweaver
> - AutoCAD
> - Illustrator
> - Access
> - Premiere Pro
> - ACDSee
>
> No idea how they generated that list, but it seems somewhat
> reasonable.  cc'ing them in case they feel like commenting
> on where that list comes from and what it means.
> (And no, I don't think Ghost will ever run on Wine :-)
> - Dan

I don't know exactly what versions of Ghost they hope to use, but at
work we have an automated imaging system that reboots into Linux,
launches Ghost via DOS emulation, reimages the machine, and then comes
back up on the newly re-imaged windows partition.  Running Ghost under
DOS emulation is actually pretty well documented around the internet.

---Alex

[Dan Kegel]

On 9/4/07, Alex Waite  wrote:
> I don't know exactly what versions of Ghost they hope to use, but at
> work we have an automated imaging system that reboots into Linux,
> launches Ghost via DOS emulation, reimages the machine, and then comes
> back up on the newly re-imaged windows partition.  Running Ghost under
> DOS emulation is actually pretty well documented around the internet.

Oh.  Can you send me a link?   Do you think Wine should support it?

[Kuba Ober]

On Tuesday 04 September 2007, Dan Kegel wrote:
> http://www.osalt.com/ has a list of most-requested commercial windows
> apps, currently:
> - Norton Ghost
> - Nero Burning Rom

Native applications exist for both, it's pointless to have wine support either 
methinks.

Cheers, Kuba

[Roderick Colenbrander]

> http://www.osalt.com/ has a list of most-requested commercial windows
> apps, currently:
> - Visio
> - Norton Ghost
> - Photoshop
> - Nero Burning Rom
> - Dreamweaver
> - AutoCAD
> - Illustrator
> - Access
> - Premiere Pro
> - ACDSee

Number 4 of the list Nero has a native Linux version using GTK2. It even supports HDDVD and Blu-Ray. Further it used (?) to run on wine using wineaspi in case you were using scsi hardware/emulation.

Roderick

[Stefan Leichter]

Am Tuesday 04 September 2007 21:27 schrieb Roderick Colenbrander:
> Number 4 of the list Nero has a native Linux version using GTK2. It even
> supports HDDVD and Blu-Ray. Further it used (?) to run on wine using
> wineaspi in case you were using scsi hardware/emulation.
>
> Roderick

What Nero Version are you taking about? Some days ago I tried Nero 6 SE here 
and it fail because of a missing olethk32.dll. Putting the olethk32.dll of 
win2k into the system 32 directory gets me to a crash after choosing the disk 
type to compile.

Stefan

[Nemes Ioan Sorin]

Stefan,

Please take a look at Nero website.
I use Nero 3 linux native build.
It works perfect.

Also K3b and Brasero - which are free alternatives (they have some 
problems with symbolic links).

But Nero 3 is perfect.

Stefan Leichter wrote:
> Am Tuesday 04 September 2007 21:27 schrieb Roderick Colenbrander:
> > Number 4 of the list Nero has a native Linux version using GTK2. It even
> > supports HDDVD and Blu-Ray. Further it used (?) to run on wine using
> > wineaspi in case you were using scsi hardware/emulation.
> >
> > Roderick
>
> What Nero Version are you taking about? Some days ago I tried Nero 6 SE here 
> and it fail because of a missing olethk32.dll. Putting the olethk32.dll of 
> win2k into the system 32 directory gets me to a crash after choosing the disk 
> type to compile.
>
> Stefan