Daidalos opened this issue on Jun 29, 2009 · 19 posts
Daidalos posted Mon, 29 June 2009 at 2:24 AM
Hi everyone is it possible to run Poser, Photoshop, etc... on Linux?
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Lucifer_The_Dark posted Mon, 29 June 2009 at 2:42 AM
Linux on it's own no, but if you include Wine you'll have varying degrees of success, Poser I can confirm will work as well as it does in Windows, depending on your hardware of course.
Windows 7 64Bit
Poser Pro 2010 SR1
lisarichie posted Mon, 29 June 2009 at 7:10 AM
Have you thought about installing a Windows OS to a Virtual Machine under Linux and running your Windows apps that way?
Take a look at this www.virtualbox.org/
You can purchase legal versions of XP for a reasonable amount from places like NewEgg, TigerDirect, etc.
pakled posted Mon, 29 June 2009 at 11:20 AM
Poser I doubt, but if you want something like Photoshop, the Gimp ia already set up for Linux. In fact, it's ported to Windows (been using it for years).
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WandW posted Mon, 29 June 2009 at 12:07 PM
Check here for application information under Wine.
http://appdb.winehq.org/
Poser 7 runs quite well under Linux using a patched wine.:
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13066
It runs slightly less well unpatched, but it is usable-run in a virtual desktop mode, and when Poser starts resize the main Poser background window to be a bar at the top of the screen-otherwise the viewport will vanish behind the background when you move the figure or camera.
I didn't install it under Wine, but copied my Poser directory to a DVD and transfered it to my Linux partition, and linked the directory to the .wine/drive_c/Program Files directory.
If you have a Windows license lying about, Poser 7 runs well except for slow video in the viewport using Windows 2000 in Virtualbox ( www.virtualbox.org ).
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Lucifer_The_Dark posted Mon, 29 June 2009 at 12:08 PM
Up until a few days ago I had Poser 7 Pro running with the lastest version of Wine in Ubuntu 9.04.
Windows 7 64Bit
Poser Pro 2010 SR1
JenX posted Mon, 29 June 2009 at 12:13 PM
I've found that, for me, running Poser/Photoshop in Linux under WINE is a complete pain. I couldn't get virtual machine to work for me, at all. And this is with a husband who specializes in networking in a linux environment. I finally gave up and went back to Windows (and not happily).
If you can get it to run, more power to you, lol, but I had horrible luck.
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CauriBlackthorne posted Mon, 29 June 2009 at 5:57 PM
Poser Pro works pretty good with wine, so do Hexagon, DAZ Studio and Carrara 6 and 7 pro. Photoshop Elements 5 runs but shows a weird behavior after some time of use. PSP XI won´t work at all. I also wen´t back to Windows because you spent to much time getting things to work. I now use a dual-boot system to still be able to use the advantages linux has.
Khai-J-Bach posted Mon, 29 June 2009 at 6:04 PM
I ran into so many problems running linux at all - video card driver issues, sound issues, networking issues, I spent more time fixing it than actually running anything.
in the end I gave up and reformated the partition and installed Windows 7 RC 1. which works perfectly.
be warned. Linux is no cure all or an easy OS to trouble shoot. (c'mon. if the graphics driver is bad, did it never occur to have a default graphics mode to fall back to?)
WandW posted Mon, 29 June 2009 at 7:31 PM
Keep in mind that there are various distributions of Linux, each with its own advantages and shortfalls. I use openSUSE, which installed on my desktop and laptop without issues, installing the proper video and wireless drivers automagically.
As Kaibach notes, Linux, is based on UNIX, which is traditionally a full-employment scheme for gurus-gurus would day there is a defailt graphics mode; the command prompt. Apple makes it work (OSX is BSD UNIX underneath the pretty face) by controlling the hardware-it is possible to run OSX on a non-Apple computer, although technically it is a EULA violation.
Wine runs on OSX as well-it's version is called Darwine.
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Khai-J-Bach posted Mon, 29 June 2009 at 7:41 PM
"As Kaibach notes, Linux, is based on UNIX," nope. never said that.
12rounds posted Tue, 30 June 2009 at 1:00 PM
@Daidalos: Been running P7 in Ubuntu (from 7.04 to 9.04 64-bit and all the versions between) happily for over 2 years. The success of running it seems to be related mostly to graphics drivers. My good personal experiences are with nVidia cards and quite many users with issues are apparently using ATI cards or some integrated low quality chips (like is the case usually with laptops). Getting Poser to run is not hard - mostly just installing the proper stuff - but running Photoshop would be a totally different matter. If you have CS2 or newer ... it's very possible you will not get it even to install. There are several very complicated issues surrounding Photoshop CS versions under Wine, but earlier versions apparently run well or so I've read from various Linux forums over the years.
Linux's command tools open up wondrous options to Runtime maintenance that are literally impossibe in Windows without specifically written applications for those tasks.
stewer posted Tue, 30 June 2009 at 1:38 PM
Quote - Linux's command tools open up wondrous options to Runtime maintenance that are literally impossibe in Windows without specifically written applications for those tasks.
If you like the Unix command line tools, you should check out cygwin. It gives Windows a bash shell, all of the usual tools and even X11 if you want it. The Windows Power Shell ain't too shabby either.
pakled posted Tue, 30 June 2009 at 1:55 PM
uh....I'm trying to use Cygwin, and half the things in Linux don't seem to work (trying to teach myself Linux without having to reformat. Poser would have to go, and I'm up to 20 gig (it's not the size, it's the hundred thousand files and thousands of directories that's a pain to transfer to the new system...;) Heck, even the clear command doesn't work in the emulation mode (had to write my own...;)
I've heard that Knoppix can run off a CD without having to format, just haven't gotten around to testing it. Between that, Ubuntu, Fedora (there's more flavors of Linux than Howard Johnson's Ice Cream...;)
Still, there may be a different way to install cygwin...I'm not smart...;)
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12rounds posted Tue, 30 June 2009 at 1:55 PM
Yeah I know Cygwin. Maybe 5 years ago I actually wrote three tutorials for Runtime maintenance and reporting that used Windows ports of common Unix tools like grep, sed, awk et al.
However, my choice of OS is no longer Windows.
12rounds posted Tue, 30 June 2009 at 1:59 PM
Quote -
I've heard that Knoppix can run off a CD without having to format, just haven't gotten around to testing it.
Actually pretty much all the major distributions have "Live" CDs and "Live" USB sticks. Knoppix is just one of the most widely known.
WandW posted Tue, 30 June 2009 at 2:35 PM
Quote - "As Kaibach notes, Linux, is based on UNIX," nope. never said that.
Indeed you didn't-badly phrased; you were noting the outcome of that fact, namely that if something goes awry it can be a PITA if you don't know your way around a bash shell.
Apologies for my sloppy English.
Mepis and openSUSE have good live CDs : Mepis.org and opensuse.org
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stewer posted Tue, 30 June 2009 at 5:04 PM
Quote - uh....I'm trying to use Cygwin, and half the things in Linux don't seem to work (trying to teach myself Linux without having to reformat.
Try Ubuntu's Wubi. That's what I have on my MacBook right now, it installs without repartitioning.
pakled posted Tue, 30 June 2009 at 9:16 PM
yup...this is something I'm boring two forums with at the moment...;) Just have to back off Poser from the (future) linux machine, so I have enough room to load linux on. Give me a chance to delete about 300 folders with nothing in them, installations that 'missed' Runtime, etc...;)
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anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)