Google Funds Work for Photoshop on Linux

S point 2 writes "Google has announced that they have hired Codeweavers, maker of the popular Wine software to make Photoshop run better on Linux. 'Photoshop is one of those applications that desktop Linux users are constantly clamoring for, and we're happy to say they work pretty well now...We look forward to further improvements in this area.' It is unknown whether or not the entire Creative Suite will be funded for support, but for the time being it seems Photoshop-on-Linux development is getting a new priority under Google."

Re:They are fixing Wine, not Photoshop

[croddy]

Why, the GIMP Toolkit, of course... or would that just be too confusing?

Cue piracy on linux

[Cryophallion]

Finally, linux users can join in on the piracy of adobe products that the Mac and Windows people have been able to do. See, linux IS getting more like the other OS's every day! :^)

Re:Wine

[icydog]

My life will be complete the day that WINE embraces, extends, and extinguishes the Windows API... ahhh, one can dream!

Re:minor nicks in the armor

[PhxBlue]

Yes. It makes the sound of a chair being thrown through a window.

Re:We already have Photoshop!

[plague3106]

Which is why many developers will steer clear of it... you pretty much can't make OTS software with that view.

Re:Wine support for 99% win programs should be foc

[garett_spencley]

Allow me to introduce you to the Paragraph [wikipedia.org] and the Full Stop [wikipedia.org].

That is all. Carry on.

Linux is too commercial now man!

[Cathoderoytube]

I predict if they get Photoshop running properly on Linux, Linux users will abandon the OS in favor of something even more obscure and difficult to use. Then they'll tote that operating system as superior to Windows and piss about how nobody adopts it.

Re:We already have Photoshop!

[Anonymous Coward]

Damn right, f'n a'holes. May as well fire up the crematoriums the way Google is headed, buncha goose-stepping cock bags. How dare they, ya know?

Re:We already have Photoshop!

[mweather]

"Sooner or later he's going to realize he's just Bill's bitch on his own." Yep. Any decade now they'll wise up. It's just a matter of time.

Re:Let's get it out of the way...

[hotdiggitydawg]

The GIMP sucks!

Only if you open the zip on his leather hood...

Re:We already have Photoshop!

[Curtman]

Yep. Any decade now they'll wise up. It's just a matter of time.

Makes no difference if they don't. They'll just be stuck with Vista, and that won't bother me at all.

Re:Linux is too commercial now man!

[Quiet_Desperation]

I predict if they get Photoshop running properly on Linux, Linux users will abandon the OS in favor of something even more obscure and difficult to use.

There is another theory that states that this has already happened.

Re:We already have Photoshop!

[CajunArson]

I'm professional and i get lots of feedback how talent i'm and i dont use Photoshop. I use Gimp and Krita.

What kind feedback get do you? English speak bad?

Re:Wine

[Unoti]

Yeah. Just use Mono, and System.Windows.Forms, and always run it under Linux. You can even use the same executable on both platforms without recompilation. Plus, unlike most other cross platform solutions, it won't look and feel non-native under Windows.

Re:We already have Photoshop!

[rhenley]

That's nothing. Try keeping a straight face as you tell your boss that you use ACID with snort.

Re:We already have Photoshop!

[Curtman]

Looking at Gimp and Photoshop, that sure hasn't worked out very well yet.

Thanks for sharing your opinion. I feel better just knowing it, even if I do think its wrong.

Re:Cue piracy on linux

[the_real_valaki]

The question that immediately springs into my mind is : Will wine fully support the keygen kindly provided by those nifty "adobe partner" "download sites" scattered around the net.

But will it run....

[AnomaliesAndrew]

Will Wine run the cra--, er... unlimited demo version as well?

Re:We already have Photoshop!

[Curtman]

Rule of thumb: If it runs in userland and not in kernel space, it's not part of the operating system.

Good show. Glad you're on the team. Now make us a list of all the projects that make up the operating system of each distribution, and all the ones you figure are userland. We'll contact each contributor to those projects, and organize some kind of understand with each of them that the userland people are to do their own thing, but the operating system people will be hell bent on destruction of the proprietary software world.

WTF?

Re:We already have Photoshop!

[paeanblack]

"Notepad" is not a part of the "operating system" just because it came on your XP disc.

Rule of thumb: If it runs in userland and not in kernel space, it's not part of the operating system.

Wouldn't surprise me if Notepad did run in kernel space.

Re:We already have Freedom!

[tomatensaft]

It does have a price! But it was fair trade anyway.