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ofalkaedyesterday at 10:58 AM5 repliesview on HN

When this got released I really expected someone in the opensource community to run with it, but as far as I know no one has. Back around 1990 a Graphic designer that had his office n the same building as my mom worked in let me copy his Photoshop 1.x disks and nothing has ever compared to it for me. When will we get the linux port of Photoshop 1.0? I would love to see how it develops.


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delaminatoryesterday at 11:04 AM

If they did, they can only send you screenshots

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msk-lywennyesterday at 11:05 AM

The source is now readable but it’s not open source at all.

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LollipopYakuzayesterday at 2:15 PM

I understand it was a very unique and powerful piece of software in 1990 but why would it be such a game changer to have the 1.0 running on Linux today?

gwbas1cyesterday at 2:19 PM

What about GIMP or any of the other open source image editors?

Just supporting a modern OS's graphical API (The pre-OSX APIs are long dead and unsupported) is a major effort.

ofrzetayesterday at 12:36 PM

You could try having an LLM port it to Linux :) As an aside I was always (well, no longer) hoping that Photoshop gets ported to Linux because at least an IRIX port existed, so there has to be some source code with X11 or whatever library code.

https://fsck.technology/software/Silicon%20Graphics/Software...