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

[Ben New]

Onno Benschop wrote:

>On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 11:46, Derek Fountain wrote:
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>
>>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 
>
>Connected via Optus B3 at S15:51'18" - E128:45'05" (Crossing Falls, Kununurra, WA)
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>

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Ben New
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