PlayOnLinux and Wine 0.9.54 with Adobe Photoshop CS/CS2 support
This is more of a quick news flash than anything else. The Wine developers have just announced the release of the 0.9.54 version which features Adobe Photoshop CS/CS2 support. They have said that it should work now though I’ll wait a bit before I can link you to some feedback. I also just noticed that Photoshop CS2 has jumped to #1 in the list of Platinum applications in Wine. The reviews in AppDB suggest that the earlier 0.9.5x version allowed CS2 to run with performance issues and minor crashes but most features seemed to work. Now hopefully all that is fixed and we’ll get closer to a version 1 of Wine with 91 bugs left to be fixed. The Digg page currently features some humorous comments and I particularly like this one:
< classic > I can’t use linux desktop as I need photoshop < /classic >
You are running out of arguments Johnny boy!
Apparently you can also get Microsoft Office 2007 running in Wine with a little work and that is a great achievement as well.
There is also PlayOnLinux which is a Python-based frontend to install Windows programs in Wine. They have a repository of scripts for different games which should basically make it simpler to install games which is useful. With more support they can expand the repo for better game support and simple installation of games. It even lets you install DirectX for a certain game and it should thus save me some time and I could give Wine another shot with my FIFA 08 DVD. You can assign specific wine versions to run your installed windows program from and this means that Battle.Net in Warcraft III could work with an older version of Wine, allowing you to run other games with later versions at the same time. Simulated reboot and addition of desktop shortcuts are also useful features.
I checked a couple of topics on their forums and it seems to make games work real smoothly. All it needs now is more contributors who know how to configure Wine and the scripts don’t look that long either so if you have some experience do contribute or learn how to because it isn’t that hard from the looks of it.
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