Counting "unfinished" non-open source software on Linux platforms

Although GNU/Linux systems are often used as masterpieces of open source software, the system also allows non-open source software to run. However, compared to the open source software that receives community care, the development of these non-open source software does not seem so optimistic, so it has many of the "unfinished" described in this article.

QQ for Linux

Unexpected version: 1.0 Beta1

Reason for rotten tail: same room operation

Tencent launched QQ for Linux in China in 2008 The Linux user community in the region has caused a lot of repercussions. Although QQ's instant messaging software seems to be less accepted among the geeks, there is still a huge user base among the average users. QQ for Linux is considered to be a milestone in promoting the popularity of Linux in mainland China. Although the software has many flaws (such as different version changes), it has received a positive evaluation.

However, with the quiet launch of WebQQ in the second half of 2008, QQ for Linux has not been updated since the New Year holidays in 2009. The final version left many problems, such as high CPU and disk occupancy, unstable file transfer, etc., which is no longer available to current users.

Foxit Reader for Linux

Unexpected version: 1.1

Reason for the end: Unknown

Foxit Reader is a popular on the Win32 platform Lightweight PDF reading software, officially released the Linux platform version in 2008. Although the PDF reader for the poppler library is pre-installed on the Linux platform, Foxit Reader for Linux has won the favor of some users because of its small memory share and better support for CJK character encoding.

However, in December 2009, Foxit Reader for Linux did not follow the original release of version 1.2, and the author's inquiries on the official forum were as deep as the sea. It’s been four months, maybe Foxit Reader for Linux 1.2 will never come ……

Fortunately, Foxit Reader for Linux 1.1 can still run on this year’s new release. .

Picasa for Linux

Unexpected version: 3.0

Unexpected reason: low user acceptance

Picasa is Google's photo management software due to The ease of use and lossless editing of photos have won the favor of many users on the Windows platform. However, the Linux version is implemented by wine non-localization, which is criticized by many Linux fans, and the user acceptance is low.

It's worth mentioning that when Picasa for Linux was bundled with Wine, Google engineers also contributed to the development of the wine project.

Unfortunately, the recent Linux distribution update caused the wine bundled with Picasa for Linux to not properly call the system library to complete the login of the Picsa Web Album account. You need to refer to the help center for this modification.

Google Desktop for Linux

Unexpected version: 1.2

Unexpected reason: Secrets that cannot be said

When the concept of desktop search rose in 2006 At the time, many companies launched desktop search solutions for the corresponding platforms, and were also hailed by the media as a new era of personal file management. Google, the search engine giant, certainly couldn't be excused, entered the battle immediately, and landed on the Mac and Linux platforms in 2007.

Google Desktop for Linux features integrated browser integration that can be integrated into the browser's web search project, and the search box that the hotkey calls out has a modern look. However, the lack of support for regular expressions is a huge flaw. In contrast, the integration of the desktop environment is not as good as Beagle and KDE Strigi. In addition, Gadgets on other platforms were split into google-gadgets and were not installed with the desktop search.

Desktop Search Review for Linux.com

However, as the concept of "Desktop Search" gradually cools down, Google Desktop for Linux is no longer updated. At the moment, maybe only people like the author who use the GNOME desktop environment and don't want to install the huge Mono runtime will use it.

It must be said that the Linux version was developed by Google China.

EVE Online for Linux

Unexpected version: 3.23

Cause: There are too few Linux users and client performance is unsatisfactory.

EVE Online is a popular online game among European and American players. Due to the particularity of the game background and process, it attracted a lot of geeks to participate. Given the variety of user operating systems, it is understandable to introduce Mac OS X and Linux versions.

When the client of the Linux platform was just launched, it received a lot of support and was considered a sign of the mainstream game login Linux platform. However, the subsequent Linux version maintenance and performance compared to the huge gap between other platforms, so that many players prefer to run through the wine-based compatible technology and are not willing to use Linux's native client, it can be described as resentment.

Finally at the end of 2007, EVE Online officially announced that it would stop the unpopular Linux version maintenance and instead guide the Linux platform players to use wine to run.

Summary:

I believe that there are still a lot of non-open source software on the Linux platform. For such reasons, this article hopes to play a role in attracting more people. . Even though Linux is a large open source community, the popularity of Linux is hard to come by without commercial software support.

However, the reality is that in addition to these unfortunate, there are many commercial softwares that are worn by small shoes (ATI/AMD driver, Adobe Flash Player), which seriously hinder the further popularization of Linux. It is also difficult to complete the open source implementation of some commercial software in a short time. What is the Linux version of commercial software?