Photoshop in Linux
CAN you run Adobe Photoshop on Linux?
Many Web designers, graphic artists and bloggers might consider the answer to this question crucial when considering a shift from Windows.
Years of speculation and wishful thinking have not yielded a Linux version from Adobe, nor does one look likely to come anytime soon.
As they are often wont to do, users have taken matters into their own hands, using free and open-source software called Wine to run Windows programs—including Photoshop—in Linux.
A group of hackers began the Wine project in 1993 as a way to run Windows 3.1 programs on Linux. Over the years, Wine has been expanded to include programs running under later versions of Windows, including 95, 98, 2000 and XP.
Intrigued by the possibilities, I did some research and found a 2003 article in eWeek about how Walt Disney’s animation unit and two other competing studios jointly funded a project with CodeWeavers, the leading corporate backer of Wine, to develop a solution that would allow them to run Photoshop on Linux.
A quick check with the Wine Web site showed that Photoshop was indeed among the 4,398 Windows applications that would run under Wine.
Setting up Wine and using it isn’t rocket science, but it’s probably complicated enough to intimidate the typical Windows user.
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