On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:09:33 -0700 (PDT) Truth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> as for software is gOS compatible with Adobe photoshop, illustrator, > dreamweaver, flash , etc? also fruityloops (music production)? Let's take these one by one :-) Photoshop is proprietary software, which means that the source code is not available and you have to agree to a licence which restricts your freedom. As such it is not free software (as in freedom) and deprecated in Linux or a version of BSD. However.... ...the free software community has developed its own image-editing tool, the GIMP (the Gnu Image Manipulation Package), which you will find in Synaptic along with a lot of brushes and tools. You can also use GIMPshop, which is the GIMP laid out with more Photoshop-centric menus. Nevertheless, you could go down the non-free route of getting Crossover Linux, which will cost you but will enable you to run Photoshop in Linux. This only encourages companies to take away our freedoms, and not something I'd recommend. GIMPshop: http://www.gimpshop.org GIMP: http://www.gimp.org CrossoverLinux: http://www.codeweavers.com/ I have never used Adobe Illustrator, but I understand that its a companion program to Photoshop and has an integration of web creation tools. A friend of mine says its a vector drawing program. All of the above about proprietary software applies to Illustrator. The best vector graphics application IMHO is Inkscape, and it has a really good tutorial at http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/ Now to Dreamweaver: its proprietary software and not available in a Linux version. It *might* work with Crossover Linux, but its best to check the compatibility list. WINE might be the way you can get it to work, but I doubt it. Again, the real problem is that the culture of Linux: we have the GPL to enforce copyleft in Linux, but have other operating systems with other software which require you to agree to their licences before you can legally use them. Linux hasn't got the range of web creation software that exist in Windows, but then how many web-sites have you come across that do not work on other browsers than IE? Tools in Linux generally help those of us who use HTML code directly, so there are few WYSIWYG progams to make a web site. Having said that, the Web Wizard of the OOWriter (Open Office Writer) is pretty good. Now to Flash. There are no 48bit versions of Flash by Adobe, but there is a native 32bit version which *might* work with the mozilla-plugins if you have a 48bit machine. I have 2 x 48 bit machines at home; the Flash plugin worked on one but not the other. FOSS alternatives exist in gnash or klash. Acrobat files are read by a wide range of applications, mostly as front ends for ghostscript. Open Officer Writer and AbiWord can export http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/its-not-the-gates-its-the-bars forms in .pdf (Adobe Acrobat) format. This fairly long email is to underline that gOS is not the same as Microsoft or Apple products - its an alternative Linux operating system based on Ubuntu, itself based on Debian. You can find the basic Philosophy around free software at: http://www.debian.org/intro/free or http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/its-not-the-gates-its-the-bars You should not expect applications designed for one operating system to work. There are alternatives applications which are designed for gOS (such as GIMP instead of Photoshop) -- Graham Todd --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gOS Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/goslinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
