Hi there.

I am a huge fan of Linux, and have been using it, on and off, for about 8 years now. About 6 months ago I installed ubuntu, for the nth time on my laptop, this time version 8.04, and it immediately recognised my wireless adapter. Since then linux has become more and more a part of my life. Especially loving the new Gnome.

However, I have become much more involved in design and graphics, and have recently started a web hosting company - and my wife just bought me Adobe Master Collection CS4. Try as I might, the open source options for design and web do not match up to Dreamweaver's integrated site management and graphics with Fireworks. And Premiere has no equal.

So is there any hope? WINE is not working for me; would some kind of virtual pc running within ubuntu do the trick? Without this, I can never let go of the Windows hands around my neck (and my productivity).

Bless,
Chris

Well, you could search if it is supported at http://appdb.winehq.org/

However, as much as you would like to run it on Linux, my advice would be to stick with Windows for your professional work in the current scenario.

It appears to work fine but it may be a bit of chore to set up:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=944034

I have to agree with Hitboxx on this one. I work as a web developer and designer for a newspaper. As much as I'd like to do it all in linux I have found that I am forced to either use Bluefish or Quanta on linux. I have one Win x64 box I do all my web work on.

That said I'm going to thank Jay73 for his link. Working through wine is often clunky, but I may give it a try. Until linux comes up with something on the order of Dreamweaver I am forced to work in windows.

I am using Ubuntu 8.10 on a relatively old laptop (Compaq nx7010, with 1.5GB ram and a pentium M (centrino) 1600Mhz processor.
I have installed Abode CS4 into a virtual machine using Virtualbox. So far (I've only tested InDesign) it runs fine and at an acceptable pace.
Perhaps this helps.
Regards,
Jonathan

Nice.

Any chance you just want to give the other bits a little go, just to check if they load

specifically fireworks and dreamweaver...

Bless,
Chris Lowry

I'm working on getting CS4 running on a VirtualBox VM but I have issues meeting the 2gb memory requirement. That said, VirtualBox is a great piece of software and has saved me a lot of trouble many times.

Alternately, if you need a 'quick fix' for web development on Ubuntu, download Eclipse and the GIMP. I use CS4 for front-end heavy projects but for anything involving lots of server side PHP Eclipse is highly preferable because you can set up debugging. The configuration is a task, setting up Apache and the debugger and the Eclipse PHP development tools but I have found the set up to be utterly without peer for PHP development. Then, you have the GIMP for your images, and while the interface is confusing as hell at first for people who are used to Illustrator/Photoshop, it will get you by in a pinch (like when you're on site with a client and they want a couple simple images changes on a live site).

Hope that helps. If it makes you feel any better, dreaming about CS4 on Ubuntu keeps me up at night - it would truly be the ultimate machine for web development.

[andy]

You are exhuming a very old thread, but that's another story....

I see people here talking about running CS4 in a VM----Not possible!! Perhaps you mean on a VM with Windows installed?

Note that CS-X also runs on WINE and/or CrossOver.

Hi,

I also work as a web developer together with other things.
So I need to use CS4, especially Photoshop.
I wanted to avoid using win and stick to my linux box, so I tried installing VirtualBox and putting a win7 installation on it.

With version 3.0.12 of VirtualBox, I could not find photopshop to be usable. It runs, and doesn't crash.
Every piece of functionality works, but moving layers around or typing text lags a lot.
I stronlgy believe that this is because Photoshop makes use of 3D acceleration when doing that, but 3D is still experimental in VirtualBox.

If I were you I would still give it a try, but only with the latest stable version of VBox.

Hope this helps!

This isn't the link I was thinking of but looks similar.

http://maketecheasier.com/how-to-ins...rdy/2008/06/20

Basically you have to install on some windows and activate. Then you copy the app and dll's and registry entries for CS to your wine install.

If you want you could run VMplayer 3 or VirtualBox and a xp or above system for CS. A modern processor runs VM's just fine.

It would still just be rather nice for Adobe just to support Linux in CS5, eh?

Still can't believe how buggy Fireworks CS4 is!