Linux: Photoshop (Was: Re: [plug] dd'ing Windows disks)

[Onno Benschop]

On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 11:46, Derek Fountain wrote:
> The sooner Linux has an application which matches Photoshop, the sooner I can 
> get this piece of Operating System crap out of my life... Grrr.... >:o(

OK, while I'm in no position to gauge your use of Photoshop, I would
like to suggest any of the following approaches to "ban this piece of OS
crap from your life" - in order from cheap and simple to involved:
      * While GIMP is no Photoshop, it's getting better and these days I
        rarely fire up Photoshop anymore. More users means more
        eyeballs, more bug reports, more improvements, better all round.
      * I have (from memory) in the past run Photoshop under Wine, but
        please don't quote me on that.
      * I have a similar problem to you, my legacy applications are the
        ATO ECI interface and MYOB. I purchased VMware, made a very
        plain vanilla Windows install and run those two applications
        within VMware. I used it to migrate from NT, and all I did was
        point VMware at my old NT disk - it just worked.

So while I don't have a Photoshop for you, you can in fact get that OS
from your life to a large degree.

To get from exclusive NT to (mostly) exclusive Linux, I submit the
following tips for young players:
      * Run two computers side-by-side. I used a video switch and
        started using Galeon, then more and more applications. I shared
        their file-systems, slowly migrating my files from NT to Linux.
      * Disconnect the video switch and install VNC on both machines. I
        talked to my NT box via VNC for months until I'd mostly
        migrated.
      * I removed the HDD from my NT box, installed VMware, pointed it
        at the NT drive and launched NT in a window. I used this for
        several more months.
      * I made a virtual disk image on my Linux box with some of the
        data from the NT drive and pointed VMware at that. This is the
        state I'm at today. (Using VMware I only launch ECI once a
        month, and MYOB every time I write an invoice.)
      * I'm actively looking for an MYOB replacement, but migrating data
        without loosing all the details seems a real problem. I may have
        to get someone with a later version of MYOB to read my data file
        and using OLE get the data out. So far I've not found any
        accounting package that I'd dare run my company on.
      * On the ECI front, only groups like ours yelling at the ATO and
        our members will ever change that state of affairs I think.

Disclaimer: I'm but a boy who needed to get away from the evil empire
because my OS kept crashing hard for the silliest things like no SCSI
termination and running out of memory if it stayed up for longer than a
week. This is not the solution for everyone, but it's working for me
today.

Cheers - go forth and use Linux,

Onno Benschop 

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