[SWLUG] Re: Hello

[Jim Killock]

Hi Gary,

I do similar work in Bangor, and use Illustrator, photoshop and 
Indesign etc, although we are Mac-based

We have redhat on one desktop for our programmer, and use RedHat on our 
Apache_PHP_MySQL box, mail server, ADSL internet gateway and fileserver.

I would be comfortable running redhat as a desktop for a admin person, 
so long as they were given a functional set up with say openoffice; but 
i do not think the alternatives to photoshop (Gimp etc) etc are 
sufficiently mature.

On the other hand Disney I believe run Photoshop under an emulator and 
equivalents to Dreamweaver do exist - but these and workeable windows 
emulators are often / usually commercial products themselves. (Is there 
an open source Wysiwig html editor?)

So why bother? It's just a headache.

My advice is to use Linux for what it's good at - server technologies 
and desktop replacements - and not disrupt your business! (But maybe 
ditch M$ Office - try downloading it from http://www.openoffice.org )

Jim
ps you could check out http://www.blender.org for a GPL raster / 
animation package

pps we use a USB Alcatel slug on our ADSL gateway - that you were all 
slagging off as an unworkeable route to go down .. I would say that 
you're not far wrong, it's a lot of hassle, and sometimes it crashes \\ 
:-(  ) cos of its hacked kernel ... but it can be done ..


On Tuesday, December 17, 2002, at 11:02  am, Gary Read wrote:

> Hi Stu.
>
> I'm from Pontypridd and quite coincidentally I was about to ask a 
> general
> question to everyone on the list.
>
> I have just bought a new-media/web design company in Pontypridd. I 
> bought it
> as a going concern, and I need now to think about software licencing - 
> a
> major financial headache for me. The office has 4 networked desktop
> machines, ISDN line for Internet access shared on one machine acting 
> as a
> server.
>
> I am thinking of implementing a Linux distro for all the desktops, 
> cutting
> my Windows licencing at a stroke. However, the designers need and use
> Macromedia Dreamweaver for HTML/ASP development, Photoshop 7 for 
> imagery,
> Illustrator 10 for Vector graphics and Adobe Idesign for DTP work. I 
> would
> guess that we could use open source software for all our other 
> requirements
> (Office, scanning etc.)
>
> My questions are, could I either run these essential products in Linux 
> under
> WINE or similar, or can anyone suggest open source alternatives, and 
> if it
> looks viable does anyone on the list offer a service to install and
> configure Linux on these machines for me. (I would assume that 
> Mandrake,
> Redhat or Susie would be best) for a fee of course!
>
> Sorry its long-winded
>
> Best wishes
>
> Gary
>  > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Just joined the list this morning.  Thought it'd be a good
> > idea to say
> > a big hello to everyone here ;-)
> >
>  > Oh yes, and to find out if there's anyone else on the list from  > 
> Pontypridd.
>  >
> > Best regards,
> > Stu
>
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