Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I am also a Linux desktop guy--fedora is my flavor since i've run through a long list of redhats since 2001. ubuntu seems to be all the rage, and at some point i'll have to give it a try. I'm amazed at how well the open source stuff works these days and how much progress has been made in the past 5-6 years, gphoto2 grabs photos from my fuji f30 and m8, digikam is fine indexing software which understands the dng and canon (and other) raw formats. xsane does my scans. cinepaint and gimp are fine photo manipulation software, cinepaint can do 16 bit images and raw formats. we also have an imac and powerbook and ancient mac g3 (running osx 10.3) plus a couple of thinkpads (dual boots--i had to have an xp machine when i went back to school). also sharing my subnet are 2 Tivos (embedded linux computers), a WII and a PS3. i guess the home media thing is happening when you have as many entertainment systems on your subnet as general-purpose computers. BTW, and OT, i've recently discovered by accident that the PS3 and a flat panel TV makes for a GREAT DIGITAL SLIDESHOW PROJECTOR, put in a CD or DVD with a filesystem and jpgs and you get very nicely-rendered images on a 46" 1920x1080 resolution screen. you can entertain (or bore the life out of) your whole family for hours. -rei On Aug07 11:30, Michael Eric Berube wrote: > We've got two Dell desktops both running XP Home SP2 and one of those > dual booted with the latest version of Ubuntu Linux (8.04), we have a > Dell Laptop with XP Home SP2 and a MacMini with OSX (Tiger). > > I don't see what all the fuss is about from any camp. Macs are wonderful > machines and their ads are funny, but their marketing strategy is mostly > based on FUD. All three OS's work just fine for us in creative or > business (or creative business) pursuits. Firefox, Thunderbird and Open > Office work very well on all three cross platform. I've used the Ubuntu > for over a month now for everything but actual PhotoShop (CS2 works in > Linux now, but CS3 and my monitor calibration setup is still not > supported yet). My Thunderbird on both Linux and Windows share the same > Profile folder so any changes in one OS version are also represented on > the other OS when I'm working there. Having to resort to using a Command > Line in a terminal interface (rather than a Graphical User Interface) is > usually the biggest fear that most folks have of Linux and it is simply > no longer an issue. Since putting the latest distribution of Ubuntu on > my Dell, I've not had to resort to command line once. Because of this > new user friendliness, the fact that Linux is Open Source (no cost to > DL, Install or use) and largely as viri free and secure as Mac's OS, I'd > suggest that both of the closed OS's have more to worry about from Linux > than from each other. Linux will work wonderfully on either a Mac or > most any standard PC hardware. > > Carpe lumen, > Michael Eric Berube > GoodPhotos.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Rei Shinozuka shino@panix.com Ridgewood, New Jersey