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Subject: Poser on a Linux Box

Mercytoo opened this issue on Jan 28, 2004 ยท 10 posts
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Mercytoo ( ) posted Wed, 28 January 2004 at 12:10 AM ยท edited Thu, 28 November 2024 at 11:33 AM

I hope this is the correct forum to post this, if not, I'm sorry :- Has anyone had any luck running Poser on a Linux box? I used linux a few years ago and liked it, I just couldn't get any of my doze software to work on it. I suspect linux has improved in that aspect over the years and that WINE has as well. I use Photoshop7, Paint Shop Pro 7 & Cinema 4D 7 (7 must be my lucky number) as well as Poser 4 Pro Pack. It would be great if I could get all of these programs (and others as well) to run properly on Linux. I'd be interested in hearing if anyone else has had luck with this and also what distributions of Linux you use and what emulators (even though "Wine is not an emulator" hahaha). Thanks :-)

ynsaen ( ) posted Wed, 28 January 2004 at 12:21 AM

I'd hit up Penguinisto, hon -- I might be wrong, but he's an old red cap at Linux and just might have a few specific ideas.

thou and I, my friend, can, in the most flunkey world, make, each of us, one non-flunkey, one hero, if we like: that will be two heroes to begin with. (Carlyle)

Mercytoo ( ) posted Wed, 28 January 2004 at 12:28 AM

Hey Ynsaen :-) waves Yes, I heard that he was the one to ask about these sort of things, so I posted about it on... well, somewhere else :o) I just don't want to seem like a bother or a leech, just want his or anyone's advice about this who knows about it. Thanks hon!

TygerCub ( ) posted Wed, 28 January 2004 at 4:49 AM

Hmm... this looks interesting. (sits quietly in the corner)

sebastel ( ) posted Wed, 28 January 2004 at 5:25 AM

for image work, i use GIMP. (anyway, also on w98) and poser yet won't run in WINE as far as i know (and tried - but not too hard)

Mercytoo ( ) posted Wed, 28 January 2004 at 1:59 PM

Well, Penguisto replied to my message on another site and said I basically needed win98 & Lin4Win 4.0 or higher. I'm going to do some digging into this and when I do build the linux box, I'll see if I can get it to run on RH or SuSe... I have RH 7, probably need a newer distro and I know they're getting out of the personal-home user market. So, Might have to go with SuSe. (A very good friend of mine uses SuSe and he likes it even better than RH, gasp. I trust his judgement). I'd like to see if I can get it to work on a full linux distro instead of Lin4Win. I tried Lin4Win a few years ago and didn't like it. And I really don't like win98, bleh. When I find the time, I'll build the box & start experimenting ;-) I'll let you guys know if I come up with anything that works (if you're interested?).

daverj ( ) posted Wed, 28 January 2004 at 7:01 PM

I don't remember what it's called but somebody told me there was something loosly based on WINE that is much better for Windows programs. They were able to get a couple of Adobe programs working correctly that way. I just wish I could remember where I read it.

Mercytoo ( ) posted Wed, 28 January 2004 at 7:26 PM

daverj, if you remember, let me know, please? :-) Thank you.

daverj ( ) posted Wed, 28 January 2004 at 11:26 PM

Attached Link: http://www.codeweavers.com/

Found it. Looking at their compatability testing it looks kind of mixed. For example Photoshop works but PaintShop Pro doesn't. They don't mention Poser.

Mercytoo ( ) posted Thu, 29 January 2004 at 1:21 AM

Thank you for the link daverj! I apprecieate it :-)

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