Re: [OS:N:] GIMP vs. Adobe Photoshop

[Gary Frederick <gary frederick jsoft com>]

Howdy,

and you should consider getting GIMP for Windows and seeing if it runs
on the machines in the class.

and bring KNOPPIX and see if that runs. If it does, explain it will be
SSLLOOWW because it is running in memory. That tests if the machines
will load k12ltsp without problems and shows GIMP.

Gary

Karl Sarnow wrote:
> Larry D wrote:
>
> > My daughter has started taking digital photography in high school this 
> > year. But apparently the digital photography class is at the bottom of 
> > the food chain as far as computers are concerned. They have an ancient 
> > version of Adobe photoshop running on 1996 vintage computers. 
> > According to my daughter, the students find this depressing as many of 
> > them have better stuff on their home computers.
> >
> > I occasionally use the GIMP on my Linux machine but I have never used 
> > any version of Photoshop. Can any one tell me how the latest GIMP 
> > compares to photoshop? Will it run on 300MHz machines? I will be 
> > talking to the teacher in a few weeks at open house. Perhaps I can 
> > convince her that this is a better alternative than spending scarce 
> > resources on new versions of Photoshop.
> >
> > Larry
>
> Larry,
>     the latest versiojn of GIMP is like all newer software fatter than 
> the older ones. You will have problems running later KDE versions 
> running on old machines. I have an old 400MHz AMD machine with 128MByte 
> RAM and it runs SuSE 9.2 _ssllooowww_. As graphics operations are always 
> CPU demanding, photo manipulation on these machines is no fun. This 
> holds for Photoshop as well as GIMP.
>
> Anyway I propose your students think of moving to GIMP, saving money for 
> licenses and invest that in new hardware, which is necessary anyway.
>
> Karl