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> claiming early Linux image processing with ImageMagick is irrelevant It is at relevant, because this is about why imageMagick has such prime namespace on lin

> claiming early Linux image processing with ImageMagick is irrelevant It is at relevant, because this is about why imageMagick has such prime namespace on linux. I don't have any idea why you are going in these seeming random directions, I'm not promoting linux, or whatever else your going on about. This is my original statement > Image magick has been around for a pretty long time, and was doing image processing on linux before most had considered it. Surely we can both agree part below is a fair and accurate statement > Image magick has been around for a pretty long time This next part, is the part that seemingly needs clarification > and was doing image processing on linux before most had considered it. When imagemagick was added to linux in the mid 90s (near ImageMagick 4) not a lot of people were doing image processing in the OS. and being that it was the first mature image processor added to the distro, it is why it has the namespaces it does. I'm not sure how you are either not getting that clarifier of "on linux" and seem to be trying to debate something about the history of image processing itself? To be very clear, and to hopefully prevent this continued necro'ing of this post, I was not, talking about this history of image processing, but the specific linux namespace that imagemagick has, and why it has it. Any other points of debate about this are irrelevant.

Maursault 5y ago
Thank you for explaining. I think I see now your observation is that ImageMagick was doing image processing on Linux before most had considered doing image processing on Linux. If so, then I am forced to concede this point. Although I think it is still fair to say, with a market share even now only barely breaching 2%, that most, in fact nearly all, have not considered doing anything at all on Linux since inception and likely not even five or ten years from now. This means those intrepid Linux+ImageMagick users processing images in the mid-1990's are that much more notable as those lucky few doing stuff with Linux before most had considered it, but also that those getting directory listings in Linux right this moment are also somewhat intrepid because most, maybe as much as 97.1%, had never considered even doing anything like that on Linux. I wonder what else most have not even considered doing on Linux. I expect nearly everything.

Maursault 5y ago

Thank you for explaining. I think I see now your observation is that ImageMagick was doing image processing on Linux before most had considered doing image processing on Linux. If so, then I am forced to concede this point. Although I think it is still fair to say, with a market share even now only barely breaching 2%, that most, in fact nearly all, have not considered doing anything at all on Linux since inception and likely not even five or ten years from now. This means those intrepid Linux+ImageMagick users processing images in the mid-1990's are that much more notable as those lucky few doing stuff with Linux before most had considered it, but also that those getting directory listings in Linux right this moment are also somewhat intrepid because most, maybe as much as 97.1%, had never considered even doing anything like that on Linux. I wonder what else most have not even considered doing on Linux. I expect nearly everything.