Kinda new to the suse world, but we’re moving our windows servers and workstations over to linux but there’s namely 1 app that we need to use and it’s Photoshop(please don’t reply if you’re going to recommend gimp) we recently purchased CS6 and we know some of the brush strokes aren’t perfect but we don’t use the brushes that often and are okay with some bugs.
I’ve seen videos on youtube with suse and cs6 so I know it can be installed on suse problem is it was probably the 32bit version and our systems are 64bit.
> I’ve seen videos on youtube with suse and cs6 so I know it can be
> installed on suse problem is it was probably the 32bit version and our
> systems are 64bit.
There are only two methods to run a Windows application in Linux: wine
(Wine Is Not an Emulator), or virtualization. You choose your poison
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
Am 03.07.2012 13:38, schrieb Carlos E. R.:
> There are only two methods to run a Windows application in Linux: wine
> (Wine Is Not an Emulator), or virtualization. You choose your poison
>
Virtualbox has this nice feature that you can run it in seamless mode so
that the windows application behaves almost as if it is really running
on the linux desktop. I used that for some time when I had to use
outlook (which simply does not work with wine) for exchange calendar and
exchange tasks.
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PC: oS 12.1 x86_64 | i7-2600@3.40GHz | 16GB | KDE 4.8.4 | GeForce GT 420
ThinkPad E320: oS 12.1 x86_64 | i3@2.30GHz | 8GB | KDE 4.8.4 | HD 3000
eCAFE 800: oS 12.1 i586 | AMD Geode LX 800@500MHz | 512MB | KDE 3.5.10
Rukiri wrote:
> I’ve seen videos on youtube with suse and cs6 so I know it can be
> installed on suse problem is it was probably the 32bit version and our
> systems are 64bit.
That’s not a problem. 64-bit systems run 32-bit applications perfectly well.
Carlos wrote:
> There are only two methods to run a Windows application in Linux: wine
> (Wine Is Not an Emulator)
> Virtualbox has this nice feature that you can run it in seamless mode so
> that the windows application behaves almost as if it is really running
> on the linux desktop. I used that for some time when I had to use
> outlook (which simply does not work with wine) for exchange calendar and
> exchange tasks.
vmware has it too. I have not tried.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
Am 03.07.2012 14:38, schrieb Carlos E. R.:
> vmware has it too. I have not tried.
>
I have not found it in vmware player (the gratis version), probably it
is only in the payed versions (vmware workstation)?
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PC: oS 12.1 x86_64 | i7-2600@3.40GHz | 16GB | KDE 4.8.4 | GeForce GT 420
ThinkPad E320: oS 12.1 x86_64 | i3@2.30GHz | 8GB | KDE 4.8.4 | HD 3000
eCAFE 800: oS 12.1 i586 | AMD Geode LX 800@500MHz | 512MB | KDE 3.5.10
On 2012-07-03 15:08, Martin Helm wrote:
> Am 03.07.2012 14:38, schrieb Carlos E. R.:
>> vmware has it too. I have not tried.
>>
> I have not found it in vmware player (the gratis version), probably it
> is only in the payed versions (vmware workstation)?
No no, player version. I can not try it now and tell the exact name because
it would taint the kernel and I’m running some tests.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 13:08:00 +0000, Martin Helm wrote:
> Am 03.07.2012 14:38, schrieb Carlos E. R.:
>> vmware has it too. I have not tried.
>>
> I have not found it in vmware player (the gratis version), probably it
> is only in the payed versions (vmware workstation)?
IIRC, it is in player, but you have to have the VMware tools installed in
the VM, and it only works with certain OSes IIRC.
Am 03.07.2012 18:50, schrieb Jim Henderson:
> IIRC, it is in player, but you have to have the VMware tools installed in
> the VM, and it only works with certain OSes IIRC.
Found it, it is called Unity in vmware player.
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PC: oS 12.1 x86_64 | i7-2600@3.40GHz | 16GB | KDE 4.8.4 | GeForce GT 420
ThinkPad E320: oS 12.1 x86_64 | i3@2.30GHz | 8GB | KDE 4.8.4 | HD 3000
eCAFE 800: oS 12.1 i586 | AMD Geode LX 800@500MHz | 512MB | KDE 3.5.10
On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 17:03:19 +0000, Martin Helm wrote:
> Am 03.07.2012 18:50, schrieb Jim Henderson:
>> IIRC, it is in player, but you have to have the VMware tools installed
>> in the VM, and it only works with certain OSes IIRC.
>
> Found it, it is called Unity in vmware player.
Yep, that’s the one. Sorry, should have mentioned the name.
Virtualbox (or VMware). You can comfortably run all the latest Adobe CS stuff at (near) native speeds, with no problems. And as others have mentioned, even make it appear to run as a native app on the Linux desktop. I’ve recently typeset a whole book (for a commercial academic publisher, including the cover design and the index) using InDesign running in Virtualbox, with two or more screens you can have Windows on one and your normal Linux desktop on the other. Don’t even attempt to run recent Adobe stuff or any other “serious” software in Wine: it might (occasionally) appear to work but you’re heading for trouble and headaches. Nothing against Wine, but IMHO it’s mainly for playing (old) Windows games in Linux.
>
>Rukiri;2472683 Wrote:
>> We’re using both opensuse 12.1 and suse enterprise 11, they’re all using
>> the KDE desktop.
>
>Virtualbox (or VMware). You can comfortably run all the latest Adobe CS
>stuff at (near) native speeds, with no problems. And as others have
>mentioned, even make it appear to run as a native app on the Linux
>desktop. I’ve recently typeset a whole book (for a commercial academic
>publisher, including the cover design and the index) using InDesign
>running in Virtualbox, with two or more screens you can have Windows on
>one and your normal Linux desktop on the other. Don’t even attempt to
>run recent Adobe stuff or any other “serious” software in Wine: it might
>(occasionally) appear to work but you’re heading for trouble and
>headaches. Nothing against Wine, but IMHO it’s mainly for playing (old)
>Windows games in Linux.
Yep, it does work; and the fast boots are impressive. But there is still
a lot of stuff that runs fine in wine. Since have recently upgraded to a
series of reasonable powerful machines WMs are now a good choice for me.
For individuals that have to live with rather old machines, wine and older
software may be a better choice.
I would not suggest the virtualization solution if you are going to use Photoshop CS on all your workstations mainly due to the licensing and administration costs, except if you also need software available on linux and not available on windows…
Of course it really works, but then again you still have to use windows.
I use crossover office on my work laptop (OpenSuse 12.1 KDE 64bit) to run outlook (2003) and it plays very nicely. It is definitively worth a try, even though I think photoshop CS5+ support is not production ready Compatibility - Search - CodeWeavers. License costs are fair, even though I don’t like the update policy.
Depends on what you need. Word 2010, Excel 2010 and even the wonderfull Dragon Naturally Speaking 11.0 are running very well under wine. Each of them make my work easier.