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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. Why? by saskwach · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Obviously they're doing this because it makes business sense, but does it make performance sense? Does the added overhead from Wine actually make it faster than running Windows? Can Wine work with OpenMosix/other clusters? I'm sure they can afford the computers to handle this, but it seems kinda crazy if there's no real benefit. Yes, I know that OSS and FS have advantages, but is Disney actually seeing that? If so, good for them. Otherwise, why?

  2. Re:speed by Zaiff+Urgulbunger · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Wine
    Is
    Not an
    Emulator!

    So no, it should run just fine!

  3. Re:Also ... by johnnyb · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Wine is not an emulator. It is a Win32 API implementation. Just like KDE is a toolkit implementation, and so is GNOME. There is nothing less Linux-ish about Win32 than GNOME or KDE, other than the API was written by masochists (probably the same people who named the system call creat).

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  4. Re:Also ... by GweeDo · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Emulator? WINE Is Not an Emulator :P WINE is a reimplementation of the win32 API on another platform. Please people, get it right....

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