Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/03

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Computer question
From: Ken Firestone <kenf@speakeasy.net>
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 07:47:58 -0700 (PDT)

On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Eric Welch wrote:

   It's not a Mac vs. PC issue. Linux is platform-agnostic. There's 
   already a version of Linux (Yellow Dog) that runs on G5 Macs. Making it 
   the fastest Linux going in a desktop personal computer.
   
   But the problem is a complete lack of professional graphics apps. GIMP 
   is not capable of replacing Photoshop, and won't be for some time, if 
   ever. How do you replace Quark or InDesign? Illustrator? It just can't 
   be done.
   
You don't! You call on Adobe, and ask them for Linux versions of their
products. Then you call Adobe and ask them again. You have your
friends do the same.... Maybe eventually we get lucky and Adobe gives
us Linux products. They may already be working on it. Quark is another
story. Quark is a strange company. They almost didn't do an OS X
version, which could have been a good thing for Adobe.


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