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In article <3101D808.2177@38north.com>, don winsby  <donw@38north.com> wrote:
>Kazimir Kylheku wrote:
> Unfortunately, you can't get Photoshop for Linux just yet, which is why 
>the Mac is there.
>
>ive been told that you havent lived till you configure your graphics 
>card for linux using (xfree86).  its kinda tricky.  since graphics is 

Yes, you have been told this...  You should try it yourself to see
how easy/difficult it is.  It's definitely harder than configuring
a video setup for Windows but I had my computer up and running
in 1024x768 in about 45 seconds from when I started the setup.
I must admit that I did not really try to get it to run in 
1280x1024 until last week when I reinstalled some of the documentation.
I realized it had misdetected my clockchip.  I set it correctly
and had 1280x1024 in 10 seconds.  Using SuperProbe, /usr/X11/lib/X11/Cards
and xf86config can make it trivial or you may still have problems.
It could definitely be easier but I don't think it is anywhere
close you "you haven't lived till you configure it" since I
have done it on 7 different machines.

>why photoshop exists...why would anyone bother using ps on linux?  

"Anyone" would bother with PS on Linux if they prefer using Linux
to a Mac.  If I were using PS then I'd rather use it on Linux
than on a Mac, but it isn't available in the first place.

>copeland will be here soon enough, and as an mis director for a prepress 

"Soon enough?"  I thought the deadlines keep going back and back?
Of course this is no different than M$ with w95 or IBM with 
OS/2 for PowerPC.

>house with 16 macs and 10 pcs to choose from, i can tell you that the 
>photoshop work will for now stay on the macintosh.

And I would hope so considering that it is impossible to run PS
on Linux to start with unless you consider displaying it from
a Sun or SGI to be "running on it."

Ravi
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