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

Neil hok.krat at gmail.com
Thu Feb 21 14:27:03 UTC 2008


On 2/21/08, Gernot Hassenpflug <aikishugyo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:14 PM, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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.

True, but we were just pointing him to a solution we would chose. Gimp
is more than sufficient for most Photoshop users, and it might solve
his problems. The simple answer to his question was already given: No
CS3 does not work (yet) under wine while CS2 does.

> 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
>
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