Linux/OSX/MSW/VMWare et al, was: Re: [FoRK] More iPhone analysis

[Stephen Williams]

CS2 runs pretty well apparently thanks to Google's support, and Google's 
funding more work that should get CS3 there:
http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2008/02/photoshop-works.html

Too bad there isn't more effort toward something like this for OSX Intel 
apps on Intel Linux:
http://www.openlina.org/

Lina seems pretty cool, particularly for Linux Intel apps on Intel OSX.

And of course there is VMWare, which is free and very effective for all 
intents and purposes.  And since we now have an embarrassment of cores 
(I now consider 4-8 standard) and memory (4-8GB is a standard range now 
with 32GB just a moderate bump, at $50/GB on the low end even at 800Mhz 
ECC) and disk space (1TB for $270), what's the excuse not to run it?

Now, oddly, it is more portable to buy Windows apps to run under 
VMWare+Vista over a base of OSX or Linux than it is to buy OSX apps, 
which locks you out of Linux at the moment.  These guys are making 
progress: http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/about.html
And you would think that VMWare would work out something.

It appears that some interesting work has been done, with EFI emulation 
etc.:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSx86

Apparently reasonably recent OSX versions will run in VMWare:
http://asendure.wordpress.com/2006/10/01/osx86-how-to-install-mac-os-x-on-vmware-server-amd-64/
http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Vmware_how_to


sdw



Joe Barrera wrote:
> But does Photoshop CS3 run under Linux/Wine?
>
> Reese wrote:
>> Justin Mason wrote:
>>> Stephen D. Williams writes:
>>>> Just because you know how to get through all of the steps of 
>>>> setting up an XP system doesn't make it easier by comparison.
>>>
>>> +1.  People who are familiar with Windows forget how hard it was to
>>> learn all its little foibles.
>>
>> Horse apples. Windows ships with Paintbrush, Linux with Gimp. Windows95+
>> has Windows Update, under Linux you might have apt-get, Aptitude,
>> portage, urpmi, yast or yum.
>>
>> Enough said.
>>
>> Reese
>>
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