>From: dolphans1@xxxxxxx
>
>have any of you ever played with the "new" Linux computer operating
>software system?
>
>I was wondering if you had any opinions about it (pro-cons) and if you know if
>you can run adobe photoshop on it?
Big "con": you can't run ANY Windows applications, including Photoshop. But
there's GIMP, an X-Windows free Photoshop wanna-be, and a lot of free GNU
software. It tends to be much less sophisticated than Windows apps, though.
The only "pro" I know of would be if you want to play with or learn Unix. But
it gets tedious, booting back and forth from Linux (for playing and learning)
and Windows (to do "real" work). The only other reason to use it is if you want
to run a server. If you run Apache/PHP/MySQL/Postfix on Linux, you will be
immune from all the viruses that infect Windows email and webservers. True,
there are Windows versions of some of those packahes, but they just install and
operate smoother on Unix.
But if you want to run popular applications (Word, Excel, Internet Explorer,
Photoshop, etc.) AND Unix at the same time, without re-booting, you'll have to
get a Mac. It works beautifully. I've got 20 applications open, and had them
open for over a week, including a Unix terminal window and numerous Unix
servers. It never crashes:
www:/Users/jan: uptime
11:57AM up 115 days, 20:16, 3 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
The last time my server was down was to install an OS update.
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