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JackN
<font color=#99FF99>Lightwave Alien</font>
in Zocalo v2.0
Went shopping for useful links for Windows App emulation under Linux and found these:
[url=http://linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/5474/2/]Linux Planet Article on Cedega[/url]
[url=http://digital-conquest.ath.cx/wiki/index.php/Cedega-howto]Cedega How-to Wiki[/url]
[url=http://frankscorner.org/index.php]Frank's Corner[/url]
[url=http://frankscorner.org/index.php?p=lightwave75]WINE and Lightwave 7.5[/url]
[url=http://frankscorner.org/index.php?p=ps6]WINE and Photoshop 6.0[/url]
[url=http://linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/5474/2/]Linux Planet Article on Cedega[/url]
[url=http://digital-conquest.ath.cx/wiki/index.php/Cedega-howto]Cedega How-to Wiki[/url]
[url=http://frankscorner.org/index.php]Frank's Corner[/url]
[url=http://frankscorner.org/index.php?p=lightwave75]WINE and Lightwave 7.5[/url]
[url=http://frankscorner.org/index.php?p=ps6]WINE and Photoshop 6.0[/url]
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For those who really need Lightwave... investigating Wine is a possibility too. I personally need 3D modeling very rarely, and Blender ( [url]http://www.blender3d.org/[/url] ) runs nicely in native Linux environment.
Regarding hardware-related transition troubles... I can contribute one link which might interest notebook users.
[url]http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/[/url]
When a WLAN card manufacturer forgets or refuses to release Linux drivers... NdisWrapper can emulate the Network Driver Interface under Linux, permitting to use Windows drivers.
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On the ever-moving topic of which distribution people prefer... I am currently using Mandrake on the machines which need a nice user interface... and Debian on servers/robots (most notably drone EC3, which is curerntly recompiling its kernel to i586 MMX).
I tried Gentoo as well, but after some doubt, decided I preferred Debian instead. Dselect and similar command-line tools are fairly convenient... and permit doing nearly everything one needs remotely over SSH, without ever firing up a graphical interface.
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by JackN [/i]
[B]Went shopping for useful links for Windows App emulation under Linux and found these:
[url=http://linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/5474/2/]Linux Planet Article on Cedega[/url]
[url=http://digital-conquest.ath.cx/wiki/index.php/Cedega-howto]Cedega How-to Wiki[/url]
[url=http://frankscorner.org/index.php]Frank's Corner[/url]
[url=http://frankscorner.org/index.php?p=lightwave75]WINE and Lightwave 7.5[/url]
[url=http://frankscorner.org/index.php?p=ps6]WINE and Photoshop 6.0[/url] [/B][/QUOTE]
There's also CrossOver Office from codeweavers ([url]www.codeweavers.com[/url]), which is basically a well packaged wine that's purpose is to support "must-have" windows apps under linux. There's a useful plugin feature aswell that will let you install windows plugins and have them work in firefox under linux. However, I can't really see that being THAT useful anymore, what with mplayerplug-in, vlc plugins etc, which work fine for me when viewing quicktime, windows media player files.
[B]For those who really need Photoshop... running it under Wine may indeed be an option. I personally need less -- and GIMP ( [url]http://www.gimp.org/[/url] ) suffices to accomplish what I need.
For those who really need Lightwave... investigating Wine is a possibility too. I personally need 3D modeling very rarely, and Blender ( [url]http://www.blender3d.org/[/url] ) runs nicely in native Linux environment.
Regarding hardware-related transition troubles... I can contribute one link which might interest notebook users.
[url]http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/[/url]
When a WLAN card manufacturer forgets or refuses to release Linux drivers... NdisWrapper can emulate the Network Driver Interface under Linux, permitting to use Windows drivers.
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On the ever-moving topic of which distribution people prefer... I am currently using Mandrake on the machines which need a nice user interface... and Debian on servers/robots (most notably drone EC3, which is curerntly recompiling its kernel to i586 MMX).
I tried Gentoo as well, but after some doubt, decided I preferred Debian instead. Dselect and similar command-line tools are fairly convenient... and permit doing nearly everything one needs remotely over SSH, without ever firing up a graphical interface. [/B][/QUOTE]
Well, my life revolves around the use of Photoshop and Lightwave a lot, so I need the ability to run them somehow. This is the only way I can finally shed M$ OS and still use them. Gnome and KDE are wonderful GUI managers. WINE will also allow me to run Screamer Net II nodes on Linux machines so... :)
I agree with the server setup. I rarely run X on them except for an occasional file system manipulation session. I run Mandrake in Init 3 for regular server use. Had a rock solid Mandrake 9.1 running Apache/ProFTP through Shorewall last year. Only brought it down because I had no more students who needed it,and the school wanted the computer for other use.
I figure over time I will get a lot more comfortable with the non-noob friendly versions, but I can't really afford to be redoing my machines every few months.
Mandrake is an excellent distro for both setups.
I'm not too thrilled with Gimp, but it's not the programs fault. I'm sure if I had learned it before Photoshop I'd feel different maybe.
Also, Lightwave is similar in reason. Blender is good, and I have seen great work done in it, but I work in a circle of Lightwave users who expect lightwave content. I also really can't afford the time for the cross app lurning curve.
To each their own...
;)