[Bradford] Fwd: What Windows programmes do you want to see ported to linux ?

[John Robert Hudson]

On Sunday, 31 December 2017 17:46:52 GMT Darren Menachem Drapkin via Bradford 
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> Subject: What Windows programmes do you want to see ported to linux ?
> Date: Sunday, 31 December 2017, 17:40:41 GMT
> From: Darren Menachem Drapkin <darren.drapkin at ntlworld.com>
> To: wylug-discuss at wylug.org.uk <wylug-discuss at wylug.org.uk>
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> These came up as requests for software to be ported from windows to linux.
> The question was asked on an OU linux forum earlier this year(2017).
> Any takers  to try porting them?
> 
> MS-access,
> Total Commander
> native irfanview
> VBA
> The Timeline Project
> Paint Shop Pro Millennium Edition
> Adobe Digital Editions
> 
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> Yours &c.
> Darren Drapkin
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> Yours &c.
> Darren Drapkin

HI Darren

You cannot port proprietary programs. But, in any case, whatever its virtues, 
Access is limited in its security features; why not use Midnight Commander? 
Why use BASIC when you have so many other options? What is wrong with GIMP? 
Have you tried Sigil?

John