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soundguy10 wrote on 7/4/2004, 5:54 PM
In case nobody has noticed, Vegas5 *requires* the MS .NET framework for some stupid reason. The equivalent feature on *nix is called "Mono" and it's still essentially a work-in-progress.

You might be able to fire up V3 or V4 but 5 and up will take some considerable work to get running.

Of all the apps in the world that NEED to be ported to native Unix/Linux, Photoshop and Vegas are the two most important. (MS Office is irrelevant - OpenOffice works just fine) I hope our new Sony overlords are listening...and can lean over and poke Adobe in the ribs too.
rmack350 wrote on 7/5/2004, 1:50 AM
Oh, Linux is definitely interesting. Just like building a car from a kit is interesting. You learn an awful lot.

The thing in question is whether you can run Vegas on it with Crossover Office. The answer seems to be that, as far as Codeweaver's knows, no one has tried. My own take is that for Vegas to run, a lot of other things need to run as well-Directx, Quicktime, Dot-Net (as has been mentioned). It's all possible, sooner or later.

The next question is, is it worth the trouble? I kind of doubt it. Sure, you save the licensing fees for multiple copies of XP. But as near as I can tell, the things people like least about XP are security features MS has copied from the Unix world. Linux won't fix those gripes.

Also, if you're producing web content, a Linux machine probably isn't a good test machine unless your client is actually running Linux.

Rob Mack
netkoala wrote on 7/11/2004, 8:53 PM

Break thru.
Have your Vegas and linux too.

The best way to do both is install vmware, and run linux inside that.
You have your Vegas on windows and you have your linux to surf the web.
Simply never use IE again, treat linux as a web browser.

It is alot easier to run linux inside windows than windows inside linux.
:')

A windows firewall like zone alarm is good only if it is not compromised by traffic via port80. With vmware you chroot your web browser, effectively because you chroot your OS.




rmack350 wrote on 7/11/2004, 10:22 PM
Unfortunately, that leaves you running windows. If the browser was the issue and you wanted to or had to run Windows then you could just run firefox. It's a heck of a lot more practical than running Linux in an emulator on VMWare on top of windows. Whew!

For most of the users here, Linux would be an educational pursuit. The experience would be much like learning to operate heavy machinery.

Rob Mack