I didn't know Rawtherapee existed until yesterday. Just installed on UBUNTU 12.something and it works fine. It's a 7-8 year old Samsung laptop - quite high spec for the time, with a multicore processor, 8Gb of memory and 500Gb HDD - and the only thing that might slow it down will be the onboard graphics. If I pixel peep, it takes about 5 seconds for the image to re-render (demosaic) when I move it.
> On 13 February 2016 at 23:48 "P.J. Alling" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I was using it on windows, Win2K IIRC. I expect that it's improved > immensely in the last few years, and it has been a quite a few years > since I used it. I never used it on Linux. I had a headless file > server, running Linux, and Samba, (for file storage), but hadn't > installed a GUI so I have no idea how well behaved the Linux version > is. That server has been replace with a single external USB drive with > roughly four times the storage by the way. I do have the hardware > somewhere, it probably still runs, but just isn't worth resurrecting. > > On 2/13/2016 3:19 PM, Mark C wrote: > > Thanks, PJ - where using Raw Therapee on WIndows or Linux? I would > > probably only use it if I decide to abandon Vista and convert the PC > > to a Linux variant. > > > > On 2/13/2016 2:05 PM, P.J. Alling wrote: > >> I tried RawTherapee, back when Adobe killed RSE, it wasn't bad, but > >> there was a serious bug when opening K20D files, even to simply > >> display the thumbnail view. The program would at best simply go away, > >> a crash that left no vestiges of the software in memory. At worst it > >> would lock resources requiring extreme measures to even get a PC to > >> reboot. It was also quite slow on the machine I was using at the time > >> when processing *istD[s] files. After a few months of waiting for a > >> fix I uninstalled it and moved on. > >> > >> On 2/13/2016 1:44 PM, Mark C wrote: > >>> My scanning PC is setup as a dual boot into either Lubuntu or Win > >>> XP. I need XP to run NikonScan but have played around in Lubuntu a > >>> bit. I test drove Gimp and Darktable but they really did not catch > >>> my fancy. That was a couple of years ago so maybe they have > >>> improved, and i never tried RawTherapee or Shotwell. > >>> > >>> After a clean install of Vista (not from the disk image files) I > >>> found that I still could not install the utilities I had tried > >>> earlier. I grabbed older versions of each and to my surprise found > >>> that they installed fine. Maybe something in the installer changed > >>> over time and made it incompatible with Vista. Or maybe there were > >>> still Vista updates pending that would fix the issue. At least the > >>> clean install is free of all the crap that came bundled with the > >>> laptop. > >>> > >>> Mark > >>> > >>> On 2/13/2016 12:43 PM, Henk Terhell wrote: > >>>> No doubt you can blow new life to your laptop with a light-weight > >>>> linux distro such as Lubuntu or Xubuntu. > >>>> But you will have to get used to the photo software (GIMP, > >>>> RawTherapee, Darktable, Shotwell). > >>>> I have installed these all but my preference is still also LR with > >>>> Elements. > >>>> > >>>> Henk > >>>> > >>>> Op 2016-02-13 om 18:03 schreef Mark C: > >>>>> Thanks, I may give that a try. > >>>>> > >>>>> Unfortunately, Vista glitches wasted no time in arriving and I'm > >>>>> suddenly blocked form installing many pieces of software. Clicking > >>>>> on some .exe installers results in absolutely nothing happening, > >>>>> while some do install and any installed .exe works fine. I think > >>>>> it may be due to the anti-virus software blocking something or > >>>>> having corrupted a registry setting. So, I am again re-installing > >>>>> Vista and if it fails this time I think it is time to move on to a > >>>>> new device.... > >>>>> > >>>>> There are linux distros that claim to support this laptop, but I > >>>>> have not been successful in finding Linux software that I like for > >>>>> photo processing. > >>>>> > >>>>> Mark > >>>>> > >>>>> On 2/12/2016 3:26 PM, Brian Walters wrote: > >>>>>> Depending on how much processing you want to do on the road, > >>>>>> Faststone > >>>>>> Image Viewer is a low cost (as in no cost) option. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> If you set up the settings correctly, it will read raw files (rather > >>>>>> than just the embedded previews) and it has a limited range of > >>>>>> editing > >>>>>> options (Levels, curves, colour correction etc). It's useful if you > >>>>>> just want to develop a few jpgs while travelling. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Cheers > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Brian > >>>>>> > >>>>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > >>>>>> Brian Walters > >>>>>> Western Sydney Australia > >>>>>> http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> On Fri, Feb 12, 2016, at 01:56 PM, Mark C wrote: > >>>>>>> A couple days ago I dropped my 9 year old laptop and the hard > >>>>>>> drive was > >>>>>>> trashed. I replaced it with one that I had on hand and am now > >>>>>>> completing > >>>>>>> the process of downloading and applying every Windows Vista > >>>>>>> update patch > >>>>>>> ever issued... One of the few things I still use this laptop for is > >>>>>>> processing photos while traveling. My phone now handles email, > >>>>>>> casual > >>>>>>> web browsing, etc. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> The laptop has a decent dual core processor (Intel Core 2 T5300) > >>>>>>> and 4 > >>>>>>> gigs of ram. I've been using Photoshop CS 5.1 and bridge to > >>>>>>> review and > >>>>>>> do some light processing of photos. K3 DNG files are pretty > >>>>>>> slow on > >>>>>>> this setup, K5 files were not too bad. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> So - before I reinstall Photoshop, any suggestions about a > >>>>>>> leaner and > >>>>>>> faster program for basic raw file processing? I don't want to > >>>>>>> spend much > >>>>>>> money since I could upgrade to a much more competent laptop for > >>>>>>> a few > >>>>>>> hundred dollars. But maybe there is a sleek and simple photo > >>>>>>> editor out > >>>>>>> there. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> I'm also wondering if an earlier version of Photoshop might be > >>>>>>> the sweet > >>>>>>> spot in terms of light footprint. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> Any suggestions? > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> Mark > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> --- > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> --- > >>>>> This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > >>>>> https://www.avast.com/antivirus > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >>> --- > >>> This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > >>> https://www.avast.com/antivirus > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > > > > > > --- > > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > > > > > > -- > I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve > immortality through not dying. > -- Woody Allen > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > 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 [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
