Re: STANDARD SOFTWARE COMPATABILITY
Hello,
> Dear Debra & Ian Murdock,
You do realise you e-mailed a discussion list? It's the correct place for your
questions, just that the answers you get may not be exactly in the style you
expected...
> Are standard programs like Adoble Graphics Studio, QuakXpress,
> LightWave, ...etc., which are available for Microsoft and Mac OS, also
> compatible with Linux?
Some are, some aren't. Ask the vendors of those programs...
Note that sometimes, there are similar programs available for Linux; for
example, while Adobe Photoshop is not available for Linux (AFAIK), there is a
program called "Gimp" which provides similar functions.
There is an MS DOS emulator for Linux. An MS Windows emulator is under
development, but is not expected any time soon.
> Are Linux developers working to make the different
> packages (Debian, Red Hat and Caldera) transparent to each other?
Not sure what you mean here... how do you mean "transparent"? In general, it
is fairly simple to take a program destined for a different Linux (or even
different Unix) and install it. YMMV depending on what you are trying to do...
HTH
Jiri <jiri@baum.com.au>
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