On 3/27/2014 5:33 AM, Larry Colen wrote:
Are there any good LInux Photo Editors out there? I am scanning B&W and need
something that support 16 bit gray scale, which I think excludes Gimp.
You may want to check out bibble, though I see that they are now part of corel:
http://www.bibblelabs.com/
Six years ago the other big stumbling block was monitor calibration, though it
seems to be much better now. I’m afraid that when the dust settles, it’s very
hard to beat lightroom.
Thanks, Larry - another one I will be sure to check out.
Can anyone recommend a primer on Linux? I able to get around DOS pretty well
and the command line interface is similar, but when I try to do things like
install software I am more or less aping what I read with no real comprehension
(well, what else in new….)
Try to find a local Linux users group. They can be very helpful. I think I
may have just tossed out the first several years of the Linux Journal, but
their online presence may be very helpful.
Two commands that you want to learn are
“man” and “apropos”.
man commandname
will give you the manual page for the command “commandname”. So, a good place
to start is
man man
you will also want to try
man apt-get
apropos searchterm
will list all commands that have “searchterm” in their summary. So, try typing
apropos apt
Thanks - those will surely be helpful. The command line structure can be
a little cryptic, to say the least...
What it really does is a command called “grep”, which is a little arcane and
amazingly powerful. It prints out any lines that match the search string you
type in. Actually the “regular expression”.
There were some incredibly helpful tutorials on unix etc dating back to the
70’s. The best suggestion I can make is if you can find someone locally to just
give you a hands on guided tour. For what it’s worth, just about anything that
you learn for the command prompt (bash) on Linux, also works on the Mac command
prompt.
For what it’s worth, I think I just recently hit my 20 year mark of running
Linux.
I have read about grep and will have to give it a try. Good suggestion
about looking for a hands on guide - there might even be a class around
here I could take (actually hadn't thought about that...)
Thanks again -
Mark
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