tectonic.co.za — A ccording to the results of a survey conducted early this year by Novell, Adobe Photoshop tops users' lists as the most critical application not available on Linux. While Adobe continues to only support Windows and Mac OS X with most of its products for its own, unknown reasons, alternatives are becoming increasingly popular with the...
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thenonhackerSep 29, 2006
This is good news! I wish the Pixel team success, and I hope they make Pixel's UI very easy for those who are switching from Photoshop.
thoroxSep 29, 2006
Why does everything have to be a "something-or-other" killer these days? Killing completing products is becoming a meaningless buzz word...Does a dude trying to bang your wife become a briangoins pecker killer? He doesn't want to kill your pecker, he just wants HIS piece of YOUR pie.Digg me down, but I am tired of the using buzzword to get Diggs bulls**t.
yohanSep 30, 2006
It's not a 'killer' it's just a shameless copy. Then again, it's Linux..
vertinoxSep 30, 2006
@"I use the tools that do MY job best."Sometimes using a nuclear bomb would make me do my job best, but there are so many etical factors involved I don't think we could use it ;)But seriously... The best tool the job is often not available or impractical. (Which I suppose at the same time would make it not the best tool.)
nthdorkSep 30, 2006
GIMPShop<a class="user" href="http://plasticbugs.com/?page_id=294">http://plasticbugs.com/?page_id=294</a>doh! guess someone beat me to it
fatnutzSep 30, 2006
I can't stand articles that are labeled like this.You can't kill photoshop, I don't know if pixel could put a dent into photoshop. It's nice to see I can edit pics in Linux, but come on, get real people.
obeseotronSep 30, 2006
I don't know where any of you guys get a 4 or 5% desktop marketshare for Linux from. It's just not true. I have NEVER seen a stranger with Linux running on their laptop, I have NEVER seen someone not directly employed in IT/programming with Linux installed on a desktop.In a less anecdotal kind of way, according to a story a few days ago, only 5% of Digg users even use Linux. This compares to 64% using Firefox, and 19% on a Mac, both of which are about 5 times as high as their overall marketshare. I'd be surprised if even 1% of real PCs run Linux.Anyone who really needs photoshop isn't going to worry about the cost of a $100 windows license that probably came with their machine anyway.
Closed AccountSep 30, 2006
@Workz again.Congratulations for making such a huge assh**e of yourself that it takes TWO replies to point it out:"you will fold like everyone else"Doesn't that just say it all? I have a word for people who "fold like everyone else" in the face of monopolistic tyrany:PUSSIES!You go ahead and fold. Some of us are human f**king beings with a spine and everything. We make revolutions happen, and if this one comes to pass you best not be in the crowd the day it's my turn to operate the guillotine - I go by the opinion that a tyrant is only a little bit guiltier than the people saluting him.And hey, I demand to be modded down. Click your little red button, cowards!
grumpyrainOct 1, 2006
@vinbob"If the Linux desktop is already as popular as Mac OSX why have a Mac version and not a Linux version?"This is not about popularity, or more correctly, this is not about number of installs. The ratio of win:osx users for Photoshop will be quite different to win:osx computers. Traditionally the sort of design companies would use Macs for their work, for a variety of reasons. Now there is little performance difference regardless of platform, but there is still the tendency to favour the OS you are most familiar with."I suspect Adobe are quietly working on it as we speak."I would agree. Photoshop is threatened by some of the features in Gimp and Pixel. What Gimp lacks at the moment is colour management. Free software tends to be driven by requirements of programmers, while paid for software tends to be driven by requirements of those willing to pay money. I suspect those who most need other colour spaces like CMYK, Adobe RGB or LAB (non sRGB) tend to be involved in printing and have always had to pay for Photoshop, while typical Gimp users tend to be designing on screen graphics so never really need to go past RGB, or they are willing to accept the loss in quality.
srg13Oct 1, 2006
"[ms-dos] was and always has been Microsoft's baby."Actually, Microsoft bought DOS from a company called Seattle Computer Products in 1980. It was called "Quick and Dirty Operating System" (QDOS) then. And that was a shamless copy of CP/M<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS</a>
sailorOct 2, 2006
Linux has a larger user base than Mac, however I think it is likely that Adobe knows that most professional graphic artists use Mac or Windows.But as others have mentioned, there is a big movement towards linux now that Win98 is no longer supported and the machines in runs on will not run WinXP or Vista. The future of linux is looking good...
carzorstelatisOct 5, 2006
Why would I want to replace one piece of proprietary payware with another piece of proprietary crippleware?