On Friday 04 June 2010 16:22:58 Sanket Shah wrote:
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.
Multimedia as in professional Multimedia was always miles ahead of
doze. Listen to a puretone on linux and listen to the same on doze.
Oh well maybe one's ears are a bitwornout. Use a distortion meter and
you will know.
Playing mp3s on tinpot speakers is not mutimedia. It's time pass.
Nonetheless i havent had a problem with tinpot multimedia since
2002.
CAD is very nascent. The softwares compare very badly to paid ones
like autocad etc.
Ah the drafting package masqerading as cad.
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.
IMO R & D requires stuff that industrial guys dont even know about.
So that would put the R&D stuff 5 years ahead of the industry.
Accounting is kinda disappointing but projects are
running in
rudimentary states. I'm sure it will catch up.
--
Rgds
JTD