Photoshop in Linux Thanks to Disney

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'."

Comments

Disney supporting open-source?

[Prince_Ali]

I can feel the slashdotters' brains explode with conflict.

Re:Disney supporting open-source?

[syle]

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

Re:Disney supporting open-source?

[Tsali]

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

ARRGHH!!!!

[Pig Hogger]

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

Re:WINE

[KillerHamster]

Disney Is Not an Open Source Advocate Unless Required.

Confusion

[magsymp]

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?

Re:so they have configured wine

[flynt]

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

What about when you tried it on Linux though?

Re:performance

[mph]

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

Re:Yay!

[Space Coyote]

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*