Re: Talk to your frTalk your friend into switching to Linux(Re:)

[clee2@envirolink.org (Chris Lee)]

In article <gmgraves-2505981235030001@sf-usr1-57-185.dialup.slip.net>, 
gmgraves@slip.net says...
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>In article <6kc91c$58e$1@winter.news.erols.com>, clee2@envirolink.org
>(Chris Lee) wrote:
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>> In article <gmgraves-2405982126010001@sf-usr1-11-139.dialup.slip.net>, 
>> gmgraves@slip.net says...
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>> >OK, then just WHAT do they use Linux for? They don't do image editing, 
>> >because a good Photoshop-like program isn't available (don't come back
>> >with GIMP either, it not only doesn't have th power of PS, but in its
>> >present iterations, it isn't even stable. You can't do Mechanical or
>> >electronic CAD because there aren't any AutoCAD-like apps available.
>> >You can't do technical illustration, no Illustrator-like apps, can't do 
>> >non-linear video editing, no apps. So far, it looks as if youy are 
saying 
>> >that Linux users don't do anything but "play" with their computers. 
>> >Hardly a compelling reason to switch.
>> >> 
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>> Image editing software for Linux, eh? Here's a new package that was just 
>> announced that run under Linux, and get this,Solaris, Irix, ConvexOS, and 
>> MS-DOS as well.
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>> This is the kind of multiplatform software support that really doesn't 
exist 
>> in the windows world.
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><description of totally irrelevant (to this discussion) image ANALYSIS
>tool deleted>
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>I'm sure that this is a fine tool for scientific types who need to ANALYZE
>graphic elements for statistical content. On the other hand, it wouldn't
>be much good for compositing a number of bitmap images or for cleaning
>up and repairing tha priceless old photo of Grandma, now would it?
>Analyzing images and editing them are two different things!

With this program, you can do both. Read what it actually says:

 Tnimage is a powerful and flexible scientific image analysis 
 program for Unix. It has been extensively used and tested by 
 molecular biologists, forensic pathologists, biochemists, physicists, 
 and others to obtain quantitative data from images.  It is also 
 useful for general image acquisition, image viewing, conversion, and 
 editing. The program has an easy to use, menu-driven interface based 
 on Motif. Precompiled binaries are also available for several Unix 
 platforms and MS-DOS.