"My goal with this entry is to brush a big picture of where Linux stands as far as photography is concerned. What are the achievements, where improvement are needed and being worked on and which pieces are still missing. I will survey what I consider the 3 main areas that an OS has to cover for serious photography work: color management, printing support and workflow."
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Balzac
17 years 20 weeks 6 days 13 hours ago
"Linux" or GNU/Linux?
The Linux kernel without GNU packages seems pretty useless to me.
fredsambo
17 years 20 weeks 2 days 16 hours ago
Well...
I am pretty sure you can use the Linux kernel with the BSD stuff.
knowing-card
17 years 20 weeks 2 days 14 hours ago
Do people do that?
Do people do that? I don't remember ever hearing about it.
aboutblank
17 years 20 weeks 1 day 13 hours ago
It is theoretically
It is theoretically possible; after all, Linux and BSD are free which means users can hack both systems to make it work as a larger system.
However, I don't know if there is anybody actively maintaining a public BSD/Linux distribution.
spikeb
17 years 20 weeks 16 hours 17 min ago
debian!
they don't do linux + bsd userland, but they do the opposite - freebsd kernel, gnu userland....tis called kfreebsd
knowing-card
17 years 20 weeks 12 hours 21 min ago
And that still doesn't make Linux usable without GNU
And that still doesn't make Linux usable without GNU.