Adobe + Linux

[roryhinds]

Please oh please Adobe, bring out CS6 on Linux.

[Liana]

Please oh please Adobe, bring out CS6 on Linux.

+1.

Adobe should target a popular distrobustion like, say, Xubuntu, and make sure that users can use all latest Adobe products on that, not just CS6. Anyone who has used a modern distro like Xubuntu 12.04 will attest that all the small, niggling issues stopping a linux system from replacing a Windows or Mac are all but gone.

In fact, with the direction Microsoft is taking with Windows 8 -and how they are trying to rip off developers by charging fees through their software store- linux has never looked more attractive.

I think the market for linux workstations is ripe and we are quickly reaching a tipping point. The first software company to sell high-end workstation software on linux will reap huge rewards in the long term. Not only Adobe, others like Autodesk should begin to accomodate linux. Linux is the future of all serious workstation and professional software, not Windows. Microsoft has made that amply clear with their recent decisions.

Would be nice if Red would give us a Redcine-X for linux. How nice it would be to install RedCine-X from the Synaptic Package Manager (or the Ubuntu Software Center)!

[paulherrin]

autodesk already has linux releases...

[M Most]

+1.

Not only Adobe, others like Autodesk should begin to accomodate linux. Linux is the future of all serious workstation and professional software, not Windows.!

Every major Autodesk systems product runs on Linux, including all of Flame Premium (which includes Smoke, Flame, and Lustre). Other major products that already run on Linux are DaVinci Resolve, Baselight, and Piranha, not to mention a soon-to-arrive version of Lightworks. Personally, as the two major consumer OSs - namely Windows and Mac OS X - both seem to be migrating towards more consumer oriented usage and mobile devices, I would love to see Linux be adopted as the primary OS in our industry, for applications as well as storage and networking infrastructures (for which it already is the major OS in many, if not most, major facilities). I don't expect it, but I would love to see it.

[L. Langer]

Please oh please Adobe, bring out CS6 on Linux.

Adobe is exploring the possibilties of a Linux software package, but as their rep here will tell you, they will not comment directly on anything relating to future product releases. Frankly, I do see it happening in the next four years as there's going to be a big boom in Linux development now that Intel, Nvidia, and AMD are all on-board and actively working to bring their proprietary hardware to Linux users. Intel in particular has certainly been making huge leaps and bounds in pushing their latest products as viable hardware purchases for Linux users. Adobe is going to lose the war against Apple on Apple's platform simply because Apple is developing their own products for their own platforms and many Apple users have ditched Adobe for what Apple is offering, so a jump to Linux would make a lot of sense since much of the code done for Apple already works on Linux by design.

[roryhinds]

That is just the point. With the direction both Apple and Microsoft are going with their OS's being more iOS / iToy friendly, its doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out where the future lies for the Professional with Apple and Microsoft.

Forget about new Mac Pro's just look at the OS.

Linux is the only way forward for professionals and the heavy iron has been Linux for years which says it all.
If Adobe came to Linux (RHEL & others distro's) it would send a very clear message to the Pro market and Adobe would dominate that platform as all the heavy iron tools are way over priced so there is no reasonably affordable tools on Linux.

Four years is too long to wait for Adobe on Linux.
Red need to bring out RedCineXPro"ProX" on Linux (please rebrand the name)

HPz820, Nvidia, Linux, RedCineXPro "ProX", Adobe = Professional tool.... none of this consumer itoy crap!

[james revast]

I have now running redcinex-pro in wine. I have proprietary linux drivers from nvidia installed and run wine 1.3.36. Build14 from may12th works quite well, but still also a bit buggy. I can do pretty anything, it loads and plays files well, timeline also works. (not tested everything..). Only when closing the app, it hangs and has to be killed. If red would build and test redcinex-pro against wine, there would be a fully working linux version with very little effort.

[Dave Blackham]

Every major Autodesk systems product runs on Linux, including all of Flame Premium (which includes Smoke, Flame, and Lustre). Other major products that already run on Linux are DaVinci Resolve, Baselight, and Piranha, not to mention a soon-to-arrive version of Lightworks. Personally, as the two major consumer OSs - namely Windows and Mac OS X - both seem to be migrating towards more consumer oriented usage and mobile devices, I would love to see Linux be adopted as the primary OS in our industry, for applications as well as storage and networking infrastructures (for which it already is the major OS in many, if not most, major facilities). I don't expect it, but I would love to see it.

Completely agree

[M Most]

all the heavy iron tools are way over priced so there is no reasonably affordable tools on Linux.

Really? You don't consider Lightworks and Resolve to be "affordable"? Not to mention open source programs like Gimp?

I think what you really mean is that the tools you happen to own or use aren't on Linux. That doesn't make what is on Linux unaffordable or inferior.

[roryhinds]

Lightworks I haven't played with yet.
Resolve on Linux is still a $90k setup the last time I checked as BlackMagic insist on a Reseller selling you a configured Linux box so you can't just purchase the $19k Resolve and be good.

But yeah I guess what I am saying is it would be nice to have Adobe CS6 on Linux which cost around $2500. It seems that there is a huge gap in Linux offerings which is either free or +$80k.... quite the jump.