Martyn Drake writes:
CinePaint? I'm trying to persuade the texture artists at work to try and move over to it rather than use Photoshop under Windows - we're seeing more Windows boxen creep in because of ruddy Photoshop.
You could take a look at the Mac under MacOS X. Not Linux but a rock solid Unix with:
most of the bsd features fink, a Debian-like package system for lots of common freeware, including filmgimp a reasonable X11 port, soon to be integrated into XFree86
as well as the traditional Mac tools and native M$ utilities. :-(
I've been using a 12" powerbook for about two months now and have been impressed by the build quality, range of familiar software, and impressive battery life: for the first time ever, I really can get 3.5 hours on the road without having to scramble around for a mains socket.
Sorry if people think this is off-topic, but if you take Linux to mean "free unix and gnu utilities" than this email at least half-qualifies. ;-)
..Adrian