@Misha
Save for web doesn’t work for me neither

Congratulations on such a fine article and site I have found it very helpful and informative – I only wish that there were more out there like this one.

I never leave empty handed, sometimes I may even be a little disappointed that I may not agree with a post or reply that has been made. But hey! that is life and if every one agreed on the same thing what a boring old world we would live in.

Keep up the good work and cheers.

Dude, quit being so ignorant, really…

Codeweavers supports Wine with each copy they sell of crossover, they employ Wine developers and everything they add to crossover is also added to Wine.. they are not proxies, they are directly involved with Wine

They sell support and satisfy the specific needs of their clients, by making the apps they need from windows run in crossover.

Their final objective is making Wine perfect. Refer to their latest blog post about this:
” I’d like to explain how we decide what to work on next and share our plans for 2008.
First, the big picture: the goal is to finish Wine so that it is a perfect reimplementation of the Windows API, thereby runing nearly all Windows applications flawlessly.”

If you are going to bitch about somebody taking Wine and not giving anything back, you missed the target… you should be talking about Transgaming and their Cedega/Cider products… next time take the time to investigate before making a fool out of yourself…

@everyone talking about parallels/vmware

first, as has been said, Wine is a different approach to the problem, so they are not comparable. no windows is needed with wine.

with that said, linux users can use Virtualbox to do the same parallels and vmware do, so it’s not something only mac can do…

There is a big difference between Wine and the other methods to run Win apps.
Wine doesn’t require Windows!
You don’t need boot-camp (aka dual boot or triple boot.)
You don’t need to run a virtualizer like parallels, qemu, vmware, etc (these require a copy of Windows and have more overhead due to emulating parts of the hardware.)

So when Windows is gone, folks can run their Windows apps (especially if it was custom or no longer supported)
For example, Vista has no 16-bit support. But I can still play Castle of the Winds I & II with Wine!

Ultimately, if Wine can run Windows apps without the Windows… Why bother with it? The biggest reason I’ve heard for not switching (to anything else people. Whether it’s BSD, OS X, Linux, Amiga OS, etc.) is that Windows has the largest amount of 3rd party apps.
Now if these companies actually release native versions, it’d be a done deal.

Just to upset the fanboys/girls:

If you have Vista you have this
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html

Here is a fun example with Hollywood using Linux to replace some OS X and Windows boxes.
http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/1350000/1344214/9951.html?key1=1344214&key2=2488623021&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&CFID=15151515&CFTOKEN=6184618

Linux can run on any platform. It is open to modification. It is not virus infested (do I need to say which OS is?). It has professional support if you want it, or you can roll your own. If the hardware works, and you’ve got the app. No reason not to, unless you have money to burn. :P There is a reason it’s in routers, super computers, phones, servers, desktops, etc.

Adobe knows what’s coming, Silverlight integration for software development. the suit is called Microsoft Expression Blend and it comes to try to take on Adobe’s design reign. (good luck with that)

I think google should have paid to make the gimp better imho.

thanks for the nice report

Oh, Apple fanboys are stupid. I own/run quite a few Macs, Windows, and Linux machines. They all have their advantages/disadvantages. But these statements like “will Linux run iLife” are stupid arguments because I could do the same with “will OSX run Zune Software/Hardware, Outlook, Paint.net, Other OSX unsupported device or software here” or any other stupid argument that has nothing to do with anything…

The article is about Wine running Photoshop CS3. That’s it. No fanboyism please.

You obviously didn’t do any research at all. This is from the Wine homepage:

Wine provides both a development toolkit for porting Windows source code to Unix as well as a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows programs to run on x86-based Unixes, including Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, and Solaris.

Thanks

I’ve not been following WINE, and the Adobe products. Thanks for the post.

I remember back in the days when M$ users would need to run Photoshop, and they could not switch to Linux. Or, that was what they said.

Given Google’s help, it looks like they might just be trying another way of getting on M$’s nerves. LOL!

Regards,

JJMacey
Phoenix, Arizona

As for the comment regarding time better spent making GIMP an Adobe-killer: Again, this team chooses to work on another product, not GIMP. Although this article may focus on making Photoshop work on Wine, as a whole, Wine is an implementation of Windows API on Linux so that eventually ALL Windows applications will work cross-platform.

As for the comment regarding time better spent making GIMP an Adobe-killer: Again, this team chooses to work on another product, not GIMP. Although this article may focus on making Photoshop work on Wine, as a whole, Wine is an implementation of Windows API on Linux so that eventually ALL Windows applications will work cross-platform.

And to your question about HL2. Yes. Runs fine in both Crossover and Cider.

Oh, and can Linux run Final Cut Pro, iLife, Aperture, TextMate, Logic or ProTools? Uh, no, it can’t.

\r\nWine is one of the fastest developed open source applications. A new Wine version is released ev

VMware & Parallels = Virtualization (You have to own a copy of Windows)

Wine = An implementation of the Windows API (You don’t need to own a copy of Windows)

Seriously, be familiar with what you are arguing about.

Windows has its purpose.
Mac has its purpose.
Linux has its purpose.

Who cares which is better!

Oh and tone the Linux vs OSX stuff down a notch. Wine is useful, but certainly no substitute for native support. The real solution is for Adobe to release a Linux version, which can’t be too hard if it runs on OSX. Or, of course, the Gimp could implement 16bit image support.

Have you not heard of Parallels and VMware? Both of these allow Windows applications to be run in OS X.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m an avid Linux user, but I think it’s important for the open source community to acknowledge what the other platforms are offering.

Guess which one is faster, your Wine implementation or my native Intel binary? Thought so.

and have you ever heard of darwine? os x is unix after all.