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GIMP Not Enough for Linux Users?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the professionals-still-think-gimp-is-gimped dept.

nursegirl writes "Novell has been running a survey about apps that people need in order to convert their data centers or desktops to Linux. The online survey has been running since Jan 13, and Adobe Photoshop was at the top of the list as of February 1. Desktoplinux.com has an interesting article about why the existence of the GIMP isn't enough for many professionals."

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  1. Re:GUI perhaps? by stubear · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Ctrl-E. Wow, that was so difficult. Either that or you go to the layers palette menu and it's one of the options listed.

  2. Re:I don't agree... by dbIII · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I think there is demand for many other programs for linux that have no real FOSS alternative....
    Autocad
    CAD was the application for the *nix workstation. AutoCAD was the cheap cut down version that runs on PCs on MSDOS and later - do you really think McDonald Douglass use AutoCAD to do design drawings of aircraft? You can use commercial software on linux too.

    Exchange
    After administrating an Exchange box along with a pile of other things at one point I know that I should not take you seriously. There are several mail server programs on a wide range of platforms that are much better in many ways - you can't even do a mailbox backup on Exchange without shutting down the pile of services and I'm very happy that the only disaster recovery I did for it was as an exercise to check the procedure (nasty, finicky piece of software that it is).