> I wonder why Adobe don't produce Photoshop for Linux? Bet a deal was > done somewhere so it will only run on Windoz/Mac......
If you buy a copy, you can run it wherever you want. We only test it on PowerPC-based Mac OSX and x86-based Windows, but if you've got a machine that can run software for one of those two environments (say Linux plus WINE or whatever), you're free to do so. We're unlikely to fix any bugs that don't also occur on the "real" OS, and I don't know what the phone support policy is. But we don't do anything to keep it from running on such platforms. Why doesn't Adobe develop Photoshop for Linux? Well, let's see -- a platform with negligible market share among mainstream users of our product, whose main attraction is that most of the software is cheap or free. Neither marketing nor the finance people have been beating on the engineering department's doors about that one for some reason. Photoshop 3 ran on several flavors of Unix, back when high end Unix boxes were many times faster than commodity x86 boxes. It didn't sell well enough to justify continuing it. The cheap hardware choice is now also the fast hardware choice, and the price difference to customers between Windows and Linux as a percentage of the overall cost of a system running Photoshop is small, which is one reason why the vast majority of the market doesn't run Linux. And has been noted, people have already gotten Photoshop running on Linux under Windows emulators -- more power to 'em. That gives Adobe even less incentive to spend the big bucks and engineering time (it would come out of the engineering time we could otherwise spend on adding features or improving performance) it takes to support another platform. (And I haven't even started on the question of "which graphics / windowing / toolbox API on top of Linux"?) Russell Williams Not speaking for Adobe Systems =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
