[ubuntu] Virtualisation or WINE for Adobe CS4 [Archive]

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birdd

March 26th, 2009, 06:41 AM

Ok, i'm making the move to Linux again... specifically Ubuntu. Now I have a problem... I'm doing a Uni course and several of the Adobe CS3/4 Products are required as part of the course... (also i prefer them), namely Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash. And I'd also like to be able to run Dreamweaver, and also Lightroom (not part of the CS package) as its a great photo management and editor program (I'm getting into photography with my DSLR camera).

Now I've tried to install the Adobe Master Collection CS4 with CrossOver Professional (v7.1.0) and it failed without even installing it.

So i'm wondering if it is even possible to run CS4 in WINE/Crossover/etc or if I'm better to install Virtualbox or VMWare and run WinXP in it and install CS4 on it for uni...

What about Lightroom? is there a decent full replacement for it?

Greenwidth

May 4th, 2009, 06:46 AM

I haven't been able to install CS4 under WINE either, so I went for virtualization with VirtualBox which works well for me. (2Gb RAM assigned to VirtualMachine)

Photoshop CS2 and Flash 8 work in WINE well, if thats any help.

lukeiamyourfather

May 4th, 2009, 01:52 PM

Dual booting would be my first suggestion since Adobe CS4 products are both CPU and memory intensive applications. Virtualization will save you a huge amount of time and headaches compared to Wine but even with hardware virtualization there's still going to be a lot of memory overhead and some performance loss compared to dual booting. Cheers!

ngaio

May 22nd, 2009, 03:05 AM

What about Lightroom? is there a decent full replacement for it?

Bibble 5 is a great replacement. It's not free software however.

isbiyanto

May 6th, 2010, 12:01 PM