Carol Spears wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 11:23:32AM +1000, David Burren wrote: > > > Using Photoshop 7 on my wife's XP machine which is a 1.8GHz version > > of my System A seems OK, but I haven't done a lot of work with it > > as she keeps wanting to use it... > > i am curious. do you think that if the adobe geniuses could make their > software compile on linux, if it would slow it down.
No. In fact they've got it to compile on a Unix (ie. MacOS X) and it runs great. I don't believe it's inherent in the OS that the application is running on. I do think that Photoshop currently does a better job at managing its memory resources, but that's at the appliction level. > i am not sure where gimp is losing this "race" of yours but the fact > that i can run gimp on linux and can not run photoshop (any flavor or > version) to compare gives photoshop some weird edge. Interesting. I'm sure you and I have different requirements so we'll come to different conclusions. As an opensource developer (primarily on BSD platforms - both in the OS/kernel and at the application level) I would love it if the Gimp was able to do all the tasks I need of it. But as a photographer trying to earn a living (I currently supplement this with short-term Perl and SQL development contracts) I can't afford to be without the tools that Photoshop provides me (the most high-profile of which are complete ICC support and 16-bit files). Now that I'm happy that OSX has progressed to a point that I'm happy to use it, the fact that Photoshop is available for it is reason enough for me to move to OSX instead of BSD or Linux. I look forward to the day when the Gimp or CinePaint come up to speed on the features I need, but I can't afford to wait. My observations about memory consumption behaviour between the Gimp and Photoshop have been coincidental to that. It's not the reason I started using Photoshop, but it's a pleasant side-benefit. > is the very fact that the linux community shared with YOU part of what > slows gimp down? Now this sounds like you getting all "snooty" for no good reason (these snide comments have never been good for your image Carol). In fact I wasn't aware that the LINUX community shared with me. The GIMP community that I have been a part of for years (as a Unix user, even if using NetBSD/FreeBSD instead of Linux) has shared the Gimp with me, and I've been grateful for being part of that community. But that's completely irrelevant to the discussion at hand... Cheers __ David _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
