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Digikam has this function

https://launchpad.net/~matthaeus123/+archive/mrw-gimp-svn
read the instructions on this page - you need to add two more repositories

Can somebody who has the serval professional laptop run me lspci and dump the output here.

there is a ppa for current versions of ubuntu...
https://launchpad.net/~matthaeus123/+archive/mrw-gimp-svn/+packages

I would imagine you are more likely to find info at the WineHQ site.

I have to admit 3dsmax 7 seems a little old to me to be much use in any studio, The studio I work at was using max 8 when I...

also good to see that there are some descent usb2 based linux cards out there....

also which chipset does the expresscard slot - does it and the firewire share interupts with other devices, if so...

Is there any chance you could borrow a firewire based card and test it?

What kind of latency are you getting with the USB card, which model is it?

ok but keep in mind the following...

I am not aware of any pro-audio company doing thunderbolt or USB3 interfaces...

Almost no USB2 interfaces work under Linux and none with comparable...

If anybody from System76 reads this....

There are a number of people in the Linux Audio community are looking for a laptop that will work well with pro-audio firewire soundcards. Texas Instruments...

ok looks like that chipset might be problematic -- sigh
finding a laptop with a good firewire chipset is such a chore.

Do any of the system76 laptops have a express card slot?

Does anybody know which this is?
Has anybody tried this laptop for pro audio?

Could somebody post the output of lspci here?

It rather depends on whether you understand what you are doing from first principle or you are memorizing proceedures.

Generally the unlimited canvas is a desirable feature (you don't need to figure out how large an image you need up front) but it can be a liability with some workflows (texturing for 3d Models for...

I quite like KDevelop. I like the editor better than anything else I have used (http://userbase.kde.org/KDevelop4/TipsAndTricks).
I am also really enjoying the git and subversion integration (though...

off the top of my head
VRay
Mental Ray
PRMan (+ 3Delight & nearly all renderman compliant renderers)
Yafaray
Octane
LuxRender
Blender (+ Cycles)

What is available
of the top of my head
2D - Synfig
Pencil
KToon
older versions of moho and plastic animation paper

3D - Blender
Maya
Houdini

Yoshimi is a version of ZynAddSubFx specifically tailored towards low latency usage. Running jackd is probably a requirement to get this to work correctly and you will want to have your system set up...

are you running jack with realtime privileges?

guvcview supports the same hardware and has a much friendlier interface. Unless you have a specific reason not to I would reccomend trying that in place of luvcview.

Ardour likes lots of memory. I am reasonably certain you can ignore that warning message. Otherwise check the file /etc/security/limits or perhaps /etc/security/limits.d/audio
and change the line...

Yes wacom tablets are supported (out of the box for most models).

www.blendercookie.com
www.blenderguru.com
www.blendernation.com

You should be able to find pointers at one of these sites.
also makehuman may be of help.
www.makehuman.org

Your Maya License (assuming you have one) should be good for the Linux version as well.
Softimage and Houdini also have native linux clients.

If your budget doesn't stretch that far then there...

Ok - is sculptris still being worked on at all.
As everybody else said blender is your other option.

and if you have money to spend.
3DCoat and Mudbox are both available for Linux natively
and...

There are a few photo retouch based programs worth looking at.
I generally use Digikam for this 2.0 will be out soon and looks really promising. The other option I quite like is DarkTable.