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Photoshop in Linux Thanks to Disney

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the useful-hacks dept.

miladus writes "eWeek reports that Walt Disney's feature animation unit (along with 2 other unnamed studios) are using Adobe's Photoshop in Linux. They use the Wine emulator to run the software and the 3 studios 'not known as team players, all three agreed that a project that would benefit the entire open-source community while delivering a technology they needed--was worth their cooperation'."

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  1. Haha! by mao+che+minh · · Score: 4, Funny
    Take that SCO! What are you gonna do, sue Adobe and Disney now? Awww, poor babies, are you dissapointed?

    Haha, yes!

  2. Disney supporting open-source? by Prince_Ali · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can feel the slashdotters' brains explode with conflict.

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    1. Re:Disney supporting open-source? by syle · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, that exploding sound you hear is thousands of wine fanatics reading the article and going, "Wine is NOT AN EMULATOR!!"

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    2. Re:Disney supporting open-source? by Tsali · · Score: 5, Funny

      You can draw lines in GIMP? I honestly couldn't figure it out...

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  3. ARRGHH!!!! by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why does it takes an EVIL company to do the right thing????

  4. So how long by Keebler71 · · Score: 4, Funny

    ....so how long before we start seeing Tux cameos in Disney toons?

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    1. Re:So how long by Lord_Slepnir · · Score: 4, Funny
      As a representative of the Disney Corporation, I am pleased to announce the creation of Tucks the Penguin(TM). He will be participating along with BSE the blowfish in a series of movies due out this fall.

      Note: Any attempt to use an image similar to Tucks the Penguin (TM) will result in swift legal action. Have a nice day

  5. Cool!! by Space_Nerd · · Score: 4, Funny

    But we still hate 'em right?

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  6. Me too... by ryanvm · · Score: 4, Funny

    I find that wine helps me use a lot of Linux applications too. In fact, I have to be flat out drunk before I'll even start Emacs.

    [Yikes - who threw that?!]

  7. Re:WINE by KillerHamster · · Score: 5, Funny

    Disney Is Not an Open Source Advocate Unless Required.

  8. Confusion by magsymp · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm confused... I thought I was supposed to hate Disney. Have the slashgods turned they back on me, again!?

    SCO is still bad right?

  9. Re:so they have configured wine by flynt · · Score: 5, Funny

    I got Photoshop 5 to run for like 10 minutes once.....

    What about when you tried it on Linux though?

  10. Re:Also ... by Frothy+Walrus · · Score: 4, Funny

    Which means it's not a Linux application, it's a Windows application... So what?

    so it might not suck

  11. Re:performance by mph · · Score: 5, Funny
    has anyone actually tried to run ps on linux?
    Yep.
    How does the performance measure up to say a mac or windose box?
    kronos:~$ uname -sr
    Linux 2.4.18-14
    kronos:~$ time ps
    PID TTY TIME CMD
    4014 pts/6 00:00:00 bash
    4042 pts/6 00:00:00 ps

    real 0m0.041s
    user 0m0.004s
    sys 0m0.025s
  12. Re:Thank goodness by Frothy+Walrus · · Score: 4, Funny

    Added naive RGB CMYK conversion routines [Sven]

    This will go nicely with their naive user interface.

  13. Re:Yay! by Space+Coyote · · Score: 5, Funny

    Graphic designer "So I hear photoshop runs on linux now, wanna show me how to set it up?" Linux guy: "OK, first you'll need to apply this source patch to WINE, to get photoshopp working. Are your glibc libraries up to date? Which version of GCC is installed on your box? Oh, you wanted to print? that's where it will get complicated..." Graphic designer: "go away" *switches Mac on. Starts working*

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