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This is a screen shot of my running Nikon raw processor ViewNX. That's the gray background area. You can see on the right side, slider controls for common Raw file functions like adjusting Exposure, White Balance, Picture Control, and a collapsed Metadata interface. ViewNX is offered only for Windows and Mac users, plus it's free. Now in this shot you see it running very well inside neither of those, sort of. Here, everything seen is run on an open source Debian Gnu/Linux "host" operating system (OS) by installing the Windows 8 Consumer Preview "guest" OS into a free program called VirtualBox which in turn runs on the host OS mentioned. The Windows version of the Nikon Raw file processor gets installed by the running "guest" virtual OS.
Now look back up at the picture. You can see the familiar Windows folder tree appear on the left side gray background explore panel in ViewNX even though on the screen top, bottom and along the left is the Linux interface with its mostly blue background and tan panels here. Not much evidence of VirtualBox controls are shown except the strip sandwiched along the bottom right which ends where it says "Right Ctrl". Right Ctrl means keyboard right side Control key and is called the "Host key". One important use for the Host key is to toggle the mouse and keyboard usage in a captured or uncaptured mode by the Virtual Machine integration software.
So why would anyone do this? There are decent open source Linux Raw file processors, why not use those? Because a camera's proprietary software reads all the data on your raw pictures, so back home on the computer you can immediately see it the way it appears on the camera when you shot it, which is the way it would appear if you shot a Jpg file instead. Also the camera's software is needed if you want to save a Raw customization in the camera's native file format. Or to convert into lossless Tiff files with one click. So it's like my basic entry level DSLR camera can effortlessly output Tiffs with this software. Unfortunately that convenience straps the user only to Microsoft or Apple, until now! Well this stuff has been around a while but I just caught on.
WARNING! Every piece of software used in this is available to you right now at zero $ cost. But do not install Windows 8 Consumer Preview over your current OS, it will destroy everything you have, irreversibly. Links to these are given in the first comment box below.
My Short Review of Windows 8 Consumer Preview:
Stick with Windows 7 unless you have a touch screen and use your desktop like you use your phone. Windows 8 has a non-desirable GUI (graphical user interface) slapped on top, called Metro UI. I do not like it. Metro UI is fairly ugly, and better for touch screen tablets and phones. In an attempt to take a novel approach with the desktop, in the Consumer Preview, the OS has become cumbersome to navigate and several things about it make no sense. This would not be as much of a problem if it were highly customizable, but the award for endless power to customize goes to GNU\Linux. We know big software companies resist this in order to get rich and maybe to pump their ego to the size of the moon but then it eclipses the light for your next photograph.
About the photo used for this demo. It is a train and moon. It's shown in full view in the adjacent Photo Here.
Last of all, an important computing term is explained,
[QUOTE to end]
proprietary
1. In {marketroid}-speak, superior; implies a product imbued
with exclusive magic by the unmatched brilliance of the
company's own hardware or software designers.
2. In the language of hackers and users, inferior; implies a
product not conforming to {open-systems} {standard}s, and thus
one that puts the customer at the mercy of a vendor who can
inflate service and upgrade charges after the initial sale has
locked the customer in.
[{Jargon File}]
from GoldenDict Dictionary Lookup Program version debian 0.9.1
Licensed under GNU GPLv3 or later
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