[nflug] Gimp/Adobe port to Linux

[Sam Stern]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nflug-bounces at nflug.org 
> [mailto:nflug-bounces at nflug.org] On Behalf Of anthonyriga
> Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 02:39 PM
> To: nflug at nflug.org
> Subject: [nflug] Gimp/Adobe port to Linux
> 
> I have heard from people who use Gimp and said that it
> still dosent have the power like Photoshop. Lots
> people use premiere and aftereffects for animation
> graphics too. I have been working and supporting Macs
> lately at our company that has a creative dept that
> runs 50% Mac servers tiger os and 40% windoze,
> packages like these would get users to switch over and
> save company money by going to Linux. I like the Macs
> but IMHO Linux is free and easier to use and to
> configure dont have to buy their hardware etc. What
> would the cost be anyways the price of Linux = none
> price of the  Adobe programs?
> 
> 

Hi Anthony,

While reading over the vmware thread, it occurred to that there may be
another option:

Wine.

Wine will not work as well the vmware solution but it might work well enough
while you get the bugs shaken out of the vmware solution and might be good
enough to provide to one or two more sophisticated users. Who knows, it
might just work well enough for you that you can dispense with the extra
labor and licensing cost of the vmware solution.

Here is the Code weavers Cross over office entry for Photoshop 7.0:

http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?app_id=8

And the WineHQ entry:

http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=1336


I've chosen Photoshop 7 to search for as that is the last version that Adobe
made for the mac platform (Adobe Photoshop CS2 is Windows only afaik).


HTH,

Sam S.
 

_______________________________________________
nflug mailing list
nflug at nflug.org
http://www.nflug.org/mailman/listinfo/nflug