P: Provide support for Linux

73 persons like this idea... What about Adobe?

Me too. I have used LR since the 1.0 Beta. I would pay for a Linux version to get rid of my cursed VirtualBox XP setup.

It would be great, if Adobe finally would recognize and respect the demand of many Linux users. I'm using Linux (Ubuntu) at work and at home. It would be so nice, if I have not to reboot my dual boot machine to Windows 7 for sorting and editing my raw files. Please, Adobe please! For me it would be a big step to remove windows completely.

Lightroom user and liking it a lot, but would love to use with Linux and get rid of old Windows.

Is there any chance this will happen ?
Either direct or through Wine or similar ?

I actually originally meant "find some personal time", so I wouldn't be able to release the source to anybody outside (or get funding for help, etc), but that's an interesting offer I hadn't expected...

Dan, do you need a bright young intern willing to work for peanuts to help with this? It would kind of be a dream job for me.

Great news, Dan!

Keep us informed about the progress!

It would be a wonderful first step!

I tried to look into getting Lightroom running via Wine at one point and ran into enough bugs (both cosmetic and functional) that I haven't gone back to revisit that effort.

That said, while I'm not on the Lightroom team directly anymore, I am the maintainer of a Lua development environment (used by the Lightroom team) that is built on the same core frameworks as Lightroom itself and I've been sorely tempted to port that to Linux, which could provide a decent toehold for bootstrapping a native port of Lightroom itself... here's hoping I can find some time to throw at it.