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.