Probably because there is no money to be made? The FOSS crowd would want the source in public domain, free support and have a say in the future development. And then for multi varieties of Linux to boot.
Gerrit -----Original Message----- From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of John Sessoms Sent: Tuesday, April 8, 2014 12:51 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: OT - the XP doomsday thing That does bring up some interesting questions: 1. Why won't Adobe make versions of Lightroom & Photoshop for Linux? 2. IIRC, there used to be a windoze emulator for Linux called WINE that was good enough that some earlier versions would run on it. Whatever happened to that? 3. Mac OS is based on some king of Linux/Unix under layer. Why isn't there some kind of Mac emulator for Linux that would allow you to run the Mac versions of Photoshop/Lightroom? PS: I'm pretty sure there's a Lightroom clone for Linux - can't remember the name of it off the top of my head right now - that works a bit better than Gimp does as a Photoshop clone. On 4/8/2014 9:48 AM, Paul Stenquist wrote: > I suppose Ubuntu is fun if you’re a techy and like to play with > computers. But if you’re a photographer, an operating system that > won’t run the best image processing software sucks dead dog dick. > > Paul On Apr 8, 2014, at 2:31 AM, mike wilson <m.9.wil...@ntlworld.com> > wrote: > >> Not to prosyletise too much; you really should try Ubuntu. >> Download the installation iso from Ubuntu.com and try it running from >> a disk before you install. Unless there are specific Windows-only >> apps that you need, just about everything you want can be run as an >> equivalent. Firefox and T'bird can transfer their content to the new >> versions. Libre Office can be set to save files as Office versions by >> default. Filezilla is a cross-system FTP app. >> Plenty of other apps in the repositories. >> >> As a bonus, Ubuntu seems to use much less of your machine's resources >> to run. It speeded up the start on an old netbook using XP from >> "press the button, then go and make a cup of tea properly and I might >> be ready by then" (really) to about 40 seconds. >> >> On 08/04/2014, Ann Sanfedele <ann...@nyc.rr.com> wrote: >>> I have a feeling the threats from Windoze that their lack of support >>> will result in all of us die-hard Xp users getting hacked to death >>> at the stroke of midnight is a bit overstated, or to put it another >>> way, B S. Given one has one's own virus protection and >>> spam-blocker, that is. >>> >>> Anyone else have more educated opinions than mine? I SO don't want >>> to give up XP... >>> >>> ann -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
