Hi Guys! I'm new to Linux and tired of windows

[Gernot Hassenpflug]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:14 PM, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
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> Fernando Lopez wrote:
>  >
>  > Just wanted to know if I install the Ubuntu distro will run Photoshop
>  > CS3???? Corel Everything Adobe.
>  >
>     Nope but check out Gimp and the other native Linux image processors.
>  I really like gThumb for my digital pictures. It will take a day or two
>  to get used to the new software. Then you will Love it.

Guys, really, this should not turn into a "love the gimp" thread :-) I
love Gimp as much as I love the next free software that fills a need,
but it does not (yet) match professional needs, and we all do know
that. Thus, while I agree that education about Gimp is good and
proper, the pertinent question is giving information about Photoshop
under wine. And the answer to that is a resounding YES for CS2 with
wine 0.9.55 (and for Photoshop 7) and NO for CS3. I can give evidence
that it runs with wine on a Debian i386 550MHz Celeron system with 384
MiB RAM as well as on x86_64 Ubuntu system with 8 GiB of RAM. And if
the CS2 installer would not ignorantly claim that I need at least 384
MiB and then exit instead of realizing that I do not care, then I
could install Acrobat 7 on the low-end machine too.

Please experiment with installations and report bugs to the wine
Usenet groups or mailing list.

Regards, GH