Adobe doesn’t comment on future OS developments, but doesn anyone have any insider info and/or wishful rumors that hint at the if and when of Photoshop coming to Linux? With Soft porting to Linux, if PS goes, I am _so_ giving up windows.
Scott
I do not know of photoshop going to Linux. I have heard Amazon Paint may be making the move to Linux from SGI.
Of course, there is always GIMP and Corel draw.
I know I am not really answering your question, but I would think Adobe would follow the market. With MacOSX having Unix at its core and Photoshop already existing on SGI, a Linux version doesn’t seem to far off.
i dont think porting photoshop is the problem, i think adobe just doesnt want to support all the different variations of linux and all that fun… yet.
nick
Of course, there is always GIMP and Corel draw. <<
No there's not. Don't get me wrong, I've seen very impressive work done with both, but Photoshop is the industry standard, and I can't expect graphic artists to learn new software when they've already spent 3+ years training on Photoshop.
Amazon Paint would be awesome to have on Linux though.
Scott
i agree with you whole heartedly. I only meant right now. If you need image editing on linux, there are some choices, unfortunately they do not include photoshop.
photoshop on linux would great. an update on irix would be great too.
I agree that for Linux to become a major player in 3D graphics, it’s going to need some good 2D tools, especially Photoshop.
Remember that Adobe products are for high volume sales. Maya and Soft are highend and don’t have as many seats. So Adobe is going to need more customers to attrack them, besides the highend 3D market. Since IRIX doesn’t get much support from Adobe, this would seem to be the case with Linux.
However, as the customer base grows, a Linux port would make since to Adobe I am sure.
Urp
Photshop on an SGI sucks. really slow.
Isn’t version 3 the last one on SGI?
Dan
I saw some anouncments for osX (and everybody knows it is an BSD os) i think Adobe could easily move to linux but i suspect they wait till some distro become THE linux quasi-standard (best chances for RH, cos suse is most popular in europe and they don’t give a damn what’s popular in here)
SGI paid Adobe to port Photoshop to IRIX .. this apprarently did not turn out to be a really great deal for Adobe. There hasn’t been support for Photoshop on IRIX for at least 3 years. I seriously doubt that Adobe is going to make a move to Linux in the near future..but maybe the squeaky wheel will get the grease if enough people voice interest in to Adobe and are willing to pay for Photoshop on Linux.
Until then I would highly reccomend using Gimp.
I suggest looking into WINE. WINE Allows you to run Windows APIs on Linux. Some of them run better than others but I believe photoshop being something of a staple with people that it is fairly workable.
The way I understood it is that Adobe is using the Mac-libraries on MacOS X and not the BSD part at all. Hence porting Photoshop and the like to Linux would mean a total recoding… unless somebody ported the Mac environment (yuk) to Linux.
check out VMware
No distro will become a standard, it’s the nature of linux. Anyone can develop for it. Besides most of the dists are the same. They just need to require certain libraries, and a specific target for the kernal version they’ll support.
Matt Hyner
http://www.metagraphical.com
Yeah yeah yeah…total recoding. Every package needs to do it once in awhile. Technology doesn’t stop and either Adobe will keep with the times or get lost with SGI in the stampede.
Gimp still has some growing up to do, but Adobe is going to go down the tubes to some free software package if it doesn’t do something quick.
Matt Hyner
http://www.metagraphical.com