Can Puppy Linux be used as an operating system for Adobe CS4?

[bwz]

Hi,

I'm a newbie.

Thanks for Linux Forums.

I discovered the existence of Linux for the first time a few days ago when I was trying to resurrect an old computer with no hard disk drive, and needed to know whether the mouse port functioned or not, and then followed someone on a forum's suggestion to download Linux Puppy and burn it on a CD, and then boot the computer to it.

So I downloaded it, burnt it to a CD, inserted the CD into the computer that I was trying to resurrect, with no hard disk drive, booted to the CD, and it was as easy as that - Puppy operating system appeared on the screen, with my mouse cursor.

I clicked here and there to have a quick look around and I felt at home. I then tried to connect to the net and it did it for me by prompting me exactly what to do next, without any hassle - it took me a few seconds only.

So I was instantly grabbed by curiosity about Linux.

My first question then is the following :

Can Puppy Linux be used as an operating system for Adobe CS4?

[Manko10]

Perhaps.
See here: Installing Adobe CS4 in Wine | 2009-08-04 02:10:03 |
and here: wine adobe cs4 - Google-Suche

The first link is not Puppy specific, but the steps should be reproducible on all Linux systems.
However, Puppy Linux is not a very good distribution to work with. It is very easy to use, but more optimized for running on old computers or directly as a live system from CDs or USB sticks. If you want to work with Linux permanently, I'd suggest using another distribution such as Mint, Fedora or Ubuntu. Those are also good for beginners, but not so puristic.

Another thing: could you please stop using Comic Sans for your postings? That's really hard to read and very ugly. I don't want to say that my eyes are bleeding, but it's visually offending. Thank you!

[TheAxis]

Adobe programs such as after effects and photoshop aren't available on linux for some reason. You can dualboot or use a virtual machine, but you should probably have a harddrive for that. Google it for linux though because I know an employee of adobe has a vote or something

[bwz]

Manko10

Another thing: could you please stop using Comic Sans for your postings? That's really hard to read and very ugly. I don't want to say that my eyes are bleeding, but it's visually offending. Thank you!

I'm sorry if I offended your eyes. Now that I looked at my post I discovered that I had muscles I didn't know I had - my eyes feel strained.

I liked the Comic though. Maybe if I changed the size ?

Thanks for the links - I want to go to them to see what it's about.

However, Puppy Linux is not a very good distribution to work with. It is very easy to use, but more optimized for running on old computers or directly as a live system from CDs or USB sticks.

I have an old computer.

If you want to work with Linux permanently, I'd suggest using another distribution such as Mint, Fedora or Ubuntu. Those are also good for beginners

QUESTION 1 : How would I know which one to choose?

... but not so puristic.

QUESTION 2 : What do you mean by "not so puristic"?

QUESTION 3 : To confirm whether I understood you correctly, did you mean that Puppy can be used as an operating system for Adobe CS4, but not as user friendly as other distributions?

[Manko10]

I liked the Comic though. Maybe if I changed the size ?

Please… no! Comic Sans Criminal - There's help available for people like you!

I have an old computer.

But if it's new and fast enough for CS4, you don't need such a small distributions such as Puppy Linux.

QUESTION 1 : How would I know which one to choose?

Choose which you like. For absolute beginners I would recommend Mint. But there are many other threads on these forums and on the Internet out there about which distro to choose.

QUESTION 2 : What do you mean by "not so puristic"?

Puppy Linux is very minimalist. If you've tried another one, you know what I mean.

QUESTION 3 : To confirm whether I understood you correctly, did you mean that Puppy can be used as an operating system for Adobe CS4, but not as user friendly as other distributions?

I said "perhaps". I've never tried CS4 on Puppy, but overall, CS4 is able to run with Wine (see the websites I linked).
But you understood correctly: I find Puppy Linux is not as user friendly as most other distributions. First of all I don't like Puppy's package manager.

[bwz]

TheAxis,

Adobe programs such as after effects and photoshop aren't available on linux for some reason. You can dualboot or use a virtual machine, but you should probably have a harddrive for that. Google it for linux though because I know an employee of adobe has a vote or something

That's interesting! Thanks.

[bwz]

Manko10,

Please… no! Comic Sans Criminal - There's help available for people like you!

I never thought of it that way - good point. I found help - things will never be the same again.

Thanks for all the other info you shared. It all makes sense to me now. I think I'll forget about Puppy and move on to explore other distributions.

[MASONTX]

If you have an older computer (less than 512 MB ram) try Lubuntu or Mint LXDE.

[Rubberman]

Perhaps.
See here: Installing Adobe CS4 in Wine | 2009-08-04 02:10:03 |
and here: wine adobe cs4 - Google-Suche

The first link is not Puppy specific, but the steps should be reproducible on all Linux systems.
However, Puppy Linux is not a very good distribution to work with. It is very easy to use, but more optimized for running on old computers or directly as a live system from CDs or USB sticks. If you want to work with Linux permanently, I'd suggest using another distribution such as Mint, Fedora or Ubuntu. Those are also good for beginners, but not so puristic.

Another thing: could you please stop using Comic Sans for your postings? That's really hard to read and very ugly. I don't want to say that my eyes are bleeding, but it's visually offending. Thank you!

Thanks for the links. I run Photoshop 7 in Wine, but not CS4, which would be preferable from some perspectives. Right now I run it in a Windows virtual machine on CentOS.

[Manko10]

Currently I run CS5 in a virtual Windows 7 machine because it is very rough for the time being (and very ugly too).
I can't say which is better for CS4: Wine or VM, you have to try it yourself. It also depends much on the performance of your VM, how fast your computer is (so, e.g., how much memory you can allocate to your VM) etc.
I use VMware and have allocated 4 CPU cores, 3D graphics acceleration and 4GB of RAM (physical machine has 8). That runs pretty smooth, the only problem is that the emulated graphics driver is not good enough to provide OpenGL to Photoshop et. al.
I don't know how Wine would manage that. For CS5 it's said to be working (see WineHQ - Adobe Photoshop CS5 (12.0)), so for CS4 it should work as well.