Hi,
I do not know if Adobe people are actually reading the forums (but one can always hope). I am currently researching the possibility of raw conversion on Unix operating systems (BSD, Linux, Solaris and the like). The only solution currently in existance is called 'dcraw', and well... it's quite limited in its scope, and ugly (both from an engineering point of view *and* from a user's perspective).
It would be nice if Adobe could be persuaded to provide access to their DNG converter sources, so that one can at least try and produce a non-Windows port of it. Together with the DNG SDK, this could be a very powerful combination. Judging from a short look at it, at least the SDK should not be completely impossible to port to a another platform (of course, licensing issues would have to be clarified, but that's another issue). At the moment, the main problem remains: who to ask?
Regards,
Robert