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

[rbowles]

On Saturday 13 September 2003 12:11, Onno Benschop wrote:
> 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
>
> Connected via Optus B3 at S15:51'18" - E128:45'05" (Crossing Falls,
> Kununurra, WA)

You mentioned that you haven't found an accounting package, but i stumbled 
across this the other day. Hope this helps.
http://www.linuxcanada.com/quasar.html

Richard Bowles
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