Well multimedia is screwed on updates in ubuntu. Works great on others. The pulseaudio transition was something that hampered a lot. Multimedia is otherwise great on Linux. It was an Achilles heel a few years back, but things have improved a lot and we have good stuff and unmatched versatility for multimedia in linux now.
CAD is very nascent. The softwares compare very badly to paid ones like autocad etc. And availability of older versions freely is also preventing switches. I looked for alternates to autocad and found some compatible stuff but nothing concrete... only viewing and printing... nothing to edit comfortably. Apparently autodesk was to release the standard for its .cad files so that a software can be built upon. In general there are a lot of science & engineering tools available, some of them good ones, and used nicely in Research and Development organizations. But its mainly for the geeky ones not ready for industrial usage.
Accounting is kinda disappointing but projects are running in rudimentary states. I'm sure it will catch up. * * *Sanket Shah*
India Email: 88.sanket@gmail.com On 4 June 2010 13:03, jtd jtd@mtnl.net.in wrote:
On Thursday 03 June 2010 21:02:27 Rony wrote:
On Thursday 03 June 2010 06:48 PM, shreekant bohra wrote:
FOSS events are great way to meet new and exciting people, celebrate FOSS and learn a few things as well and it hardly matters that where and who organizes it. Its a plus point though, if the people who organize FOSS events are actually FOSS developers or enthusiasts .
Unless the wrinkles in the FOS software are ironed out, promotional events will not achieve their required goals. For eg. Ubuntu was one software that brought people closer to Debian. With the new unstable versions of Ubuntu 'stable', users will get hassled by it. Accounting, Multi-Media, CAD are still grey areas that require attention.
Why is multimedia a problem?
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