[OS:N:] GIMP vs. Adobe Photoshop

[Larry D <ljd65536 comcast net>]

My daughter has started taking digital photography in high school this year. 
But apparently the digital photography class is at the bottom of the food 
chain as far as computers are concerned. They have an ancient version of 
Adobe photoshop running on 1996 vintage computers. According to my daughter, 
the students find this depressing as many of them have better stuff on their 
home computers.

I occasionally use the GIMP on my Linux machine but I have never used any 
version of Photoshop. Can any one tell me how the latest GIMP compares to 
photoshop? Will it run on 300MHz machines? I will be talking to the teacher 
in a few weeks at open house. Perhaps I can convince her that this is a 
better alternative than spending scarce resources on new versions of 
Photoshop.

Larry


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