Isn't this basically running a shell program of Windows, which allows one to run PhotoShop? That seems like a stretch to me. Wouldn't it be faster to just run windows on the same machine? If you have to run a shell to use the software you want, you're probably using the wrong operating system. Paul On Nov 14, 2006, at 6:02 PM, Jeff Monks wrote:
> > Quoth Francis: > >> I just got a new 100gig hard drive for my (old) laptop and (having >> just >> had a rather unpleasant virus fiasco) I'd like to switch to >> Ubuntu, but >> not unless I can run Photoshop and or rawshooter/lightroom. Is that >> possible? > > Photoshop runs pretty well under Linux using Crossover Office > (http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxoffice/). Linux is actually > becoming a decent platform for photo editing - with Crossover, you > can use > Photoshop; there's a native Linux version of Bibble; and while GIMP > isn't > Photoshop, it is quite powerful. > > You can always download a trial version of Crossover to see if > RawShooter > works, too. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
