Comments on: How Can Webdesigners On Linux Survive Without Adobe?

By: Jean-Marc

Jean-Marc — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 06:19:53 +0000

Not only you can survive without Adobe, but you can achieve really high level graphic design with Open Source software (We are preaching this in our course and our students are proving it every day!
For web development, I recommend Eclipse (or one of it’s branded flavors, such as Aptana)

By: mao

mao — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:09:31 +0000

Wine is great :) also on mac to install some windows apps

By: abhishek

abhishek — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:03:53 +0000

linux is awesome and if u miss appl like photoshop install wine in linux and use photoshop v 7 it works gr8 on linux.. used it on suse and ubuntu

By: minanube

minanube — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:52:25 +0000

I use 3 operating system. Mac OS X Leopard, fedora and ubuntu. The true linux power is in networking, that’s why linux is commonly use text based for daily operation especially for admin, but when we talk about desktop application, Now, linux is easy.

The answer for your question is YES!. linux have a lot of great application for doing design, this my favorite : NVU, Eclipse, GIMP, Inkscape.

I love to use Gimp,and easyeclipse to replace photoshop, and dreamweaver on Machintosh just beause to make me familiar whit this program when I switch to Linux. But you have trouble when you try use Wacom

By: The Bastard

The Bastard — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:14:05 +0000

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By: ghostshadow

ghostshadow — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:42:43 +0000

I know this was posted in November, but there is a new Ubuntu project called : Ubuntu Studio. You can see it here.

http://ubuntustudio.org/

It has lots of the packages all in one distro, it makes it nice for those that really want to jump into linux and play around with the apps you listed above. I haven’t really been a fan of Ubuntu myself, but the studio version does look pretty nice, I might try it.

By: Edwin

Edwin — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:00:35 +0000

In our particular case, we have a stand alone PC we use for windows testing; as some people has mentioned, testing IE on Linux is not always effective. I understand that not everybody can have a PC for testing purposes only, particularly independent freelancers, but at today prices, I think it shouldn’t be that expensive chip in a few hundreds to have a small PC computer. You don’t even need to have a monitor, you can access it with VNC, as we do, and obviously it doesn’t have direct internet connection to avoid viruz/trojanz/dialerz/warez/appz and everything ending with a z…

By: Lars Pohlmann

Lars Pohlmann — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:41:04 +0000

Please don’t feed the troll.

By: The Answer

The Answer — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 02:49:42 +0000

The whole Linux and open source religion is like the DOS and Windows thing revisited. Some people thought they deserved some kind of trophy because they were able to do anything from a command prompt. If you’re one of those people, hey, good for you, but I’m busy getting real work done.

By: Oscar Merida

Oscar Merida — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:42:40 +0000

I still hold out hope that eventually web designers will design in the raw material of the web – HTML + CSS