I know that there is a project out there to get NTFS compatibility, and I know that it is not yet ready for primetime, but I would like to have whatever the state of the art is in NTFS read/write/resize capability, even if it may be a bit buggy yet.

The Kino video editor mentioned in another post sounds promising. Presently, I do all of that in Windows.

Any GUI based DVD burner that's easy to use - sort of a K III B for DVD.

Personally, I'd like Shogi and Chinese Chess included in the games, although they probably wouldn't have broad appeal. I found a few on sourceforge and elsewhere that I haven't had a chance to try yet, so if anyone knows of some good ones, your recommendation would probably be better than mine. I particularly enjoy the Tori Shogi variant. If no one else comes up with one, I'll check out a few and provide some links when I get a chance.

GAIM would be nice.

Definitely keep OpenOffice. If there is an open source equivalent of MS Access, I could sure use it. I've looked, but I haven't found one that I can use.

Are there any other/better Windows emulators than Wine? I haven't been able to make it work for a darn.

Maybe a 2.6 kernel option to play with?

Thanks,
JD