I don't know much about Linux (that's why I was asking) but it is hard to believe that you can have system as gmg, cgs or efi in Linux for free even if it will take a week to install it and configure it. I would think that it is easy to replace $500 photoshop but not a dedicated $5000 color rip. ------ Best Regards, Derek Lambert On Jan 28, 2012, at 4:04 PM, edmund ronald <edmundronald@gmail.com> wrote:
All systems have advantages.
Linux offers a way around license issues; it is not that the sample you have is free; frankly, just the time spent installing it costs more than a PC, and in many cases trying to install it will turn your hair gray. But the real advantage is that any clone of the software you may need to make can be made, and given away. For software development that is useful.
For printing, running Linux in a VM is a guarantee that your drivers will always print the same whatever the behavior of the host OS. When you have seen colors change every time a new Mac OS is released, you get the point.
Edmund
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Iliah Borg <ib@pochtar.com> wrote:
On Jan 28, 2012, at 2:06 PM, Derek Lambert wrote:
Remind me again what is the reason to use Linux over OS X or Windows besides that is free?
Automation, for one. I have colour management for all my printers running on a PandaBoard, you can look up the size of it and the price. A lot of (future) printer intellect (RIPs included) is based on some sort of embedded Linux.
Hobby does not count.
Hobby does count as most of the users are hobbyists, and most of the money comes from amateurs.
I have one already.
How counter-intuitive.
-- Iliah Borg ib@pochtar.com
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