Just out of curiousity I was wondreing how well or if poser 7 would run on linux?

with a Linux-Implementation one can make no money...

Various versions of Poser have been tried in various versions of Wine, but none have been usable so far. There's a petition to have DAZ|Studio available in a Linux version over at the DAZ forums, if you're interested...

Heh. Things have changed some.(finally) With the latest version of Wine there are people who are now having success at running Poser on Linux. Check this other thread out at DAZ. Woooooot.

forum.daz3d.com/viewtopic.php

Ok thanks guys I just am having a frustration with the fact that microsoft is trying to push everyone out of xp and into vista so quicly its just redicoulous. I was just thinking about linux.

"with a Linux-Implementation one can make no money..."

FUD and Lies.

There is NO reason what so ever that Poser could not be sold for linux, and even less reason to think it wouldn't sell.

It would sell but the problem would be what version of Linux should they program Poser to work with?

There is very little compatablity between the differnet versions of Linux.  So there would have to be multiple versions. Far to expensive for the amount of profit they could get out of it.  

Or they would have to pick just one or two versions to make Poser compatible with. Then all of the other versions of Linux users would be upset about being left out.

At this point, I think that Linux is to volital.  It still needs to mature a bit more. 

I'm not sure what you mean by different versions of Linux. Virtually all distributions conform to the Linux Standard Base (LSB), so that's what you program to.

Maybe you're referring to whether KDE or Gnome should be used (because obviously Poser would be a GUI app). But again, I can't think of a distro that doesn't have both sets of libs available for it.

Or maybe you mean using RPM or Deb for packaging. (But many commercial apps use custom installers anyway).

Thanks J_G. Perfect answer.

There is really almost no difference in coding for Linux than coding for an Intel based Mac except maybe the graphics front end where the UI is from the PC would make a good framework.

It's even more infuriating on the DAZ Studio front where the UI was written using QT libraries that basically originated on Linux, and were designed to be crossplatform.

With Daz it's either a case of extreme laziness, or a backroom deal NOT to support Linux.

I expect som,e blurring between Linus and Mac/Intel--in some important ways they're closer to each other than Linux and Windows, and I understand that there's a very good Mac-specific Windows emulator. And in the world of low-cost software, Windows is the big market. Still, I hear good things about WINE: it might not be quite the solution I could use, but i could see there being an all-in-one Linux/WINE/Poser package. But do enough people want a dedicated Poser machine, or would that be what you'd see for software such as Maya?

Essentially my WINDOWS machine is my machine dedicated to Poser and Lightwave. For OpenOffice, web and E-mail I'm really using Linux now. I would take a version of Poser or D|S that worked under Wine. Unfortunatly no one at E-Frontier of DAZ thinks it's worth the time to even do that.