[BALUG-Talk] Progress at the school with Linux

[Christian Einfeldt]

hi,

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:07 AM, Bill Ward <bill at wards.net> wrote:

> What Windows apps did he need?


Power School: http://www.powerschool.com/

Adobe Premier Pro
Booksmart http://www.blurb.com/
iTunes
and one other whose name I have forgotten.

Adobe Premier Pro could kinda sort be replaced by either Cinelerra or the
Open Movie Editor.  Neither are a slick or have as many features.  Plus,
(and most important) Adobe _paid_ him $1,000.00 to got to a training for one
week, PLUS they _gave_ him a 1GB RAM dual core 1.3 GHZ Lenovo notebook PLUS
gave the schoold $5,000.00 to spend on _any_ peripheral equipment that they
wanted, such as digital cameras, etc.  However, I note that Adobe will be
laying off people:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122834329238077143.html?mod=rss_whats_news_us_business

so hopefully Adobe won't be in a position to bribe the teachers again this
year.


> Could he have used WINE?  Or perhaps run windows in a VM?


WINE will not support any of the apps he needs, AFAIK.  And remember, we
have to knock them _all_ out before we can render Microsoft Windows
obsolete.  Plus, he has said that he wants to get comfortable for at least
one year before abandoning Microsoft Windows.

VM is resource intensive, and not suitable IMHO for video editing and
rendering, particularly on this machine.

c u
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