[HLUG] HLUG Meeting - 16th April 2008

[Paul Stenning]

I've been there before.  But it seems that if I am running Windows on 
Linux to do what I want I might just as well run Windows directly instead.

I was reading in Linux Format that Google (I think) are sponsoring some 
development of Wine to support the newer CS2 and CS3 versions of Adobe 
products, with I believe support from Adobe, so this may be the way 
forward in a year or so.



paul.maddox.mail-list at synth.net wrote:
> Paul,
> 
>  :-)
> I was just teasing, I guess you could use VMWare server and build a
> windows VM. on my mac I use virtual PC to do this...
> 
> it would be nice to see some of the biggies like adobe developing for
> Linux, though I'm not sure how much take up they'd have, a lot of pople
> pick linux because they beleive it's free (which it's not 100% free if you
> count your time, and lack of certain apps).
> 
> Paul
> 
>> Paul
>>
>> Well there is the usual issue of applications (Dreamweaver CS3,
>> PhotoShop Elements, Adobe Acrobat 7 Professional, UltraEdit, Beyond
>> Compare, Visual Basic 6 etc) for which there are currently no suitable
>> Linux alternatives.
>>
>> For instant messaging I use aMSN on Vista which works OK.  I do use open
>> source where possible - OpenOffice, ThunderBird, FireFox, FileZilla,
>> FrostWire etc.
>>
>> The situation is improving!
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> paul.maddox.mail-list at synth.net wrote:
>>> Paul,
>>>
>>>> BTW, I tried the current Windows version of Pidgeon on Vista and it
>>>> keeps crashing after a couple of hours.
>>> easy to fix, install linux.
>>>
>>> :-)
>>>
>>> Paul
>>>
>>>
>>>
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