> Does anyone on this list has experience with graphics software
> running under Linux?

I've been using the Gimp for years. It's great and does more than I generally 
need.

For 3D there's a lot of choice but probably either Blender 
http://www.blender.nl/index_community.php (free) RealSoft 
http://www.realsoft.fi/ (commercial) or Maya 
http://www.aliaswavefront.com/en/WhatWeDo/maya/see/solutions/soln_intro.shtml 
(commercial, very good, very expensive). POV-Ray http://www.povray.org/ 
(free) makes beautiful pictures but is so hard to drive ...

Video editing I have no recent experience with but a quick search on google 
yielded heaps of results - MainActor from Main Concept 
(http://www.mainconcept.com/mainactor.shtml) looks interesting and 
inexpensive.More links to products here: 
http://www.softlandindia.com/Linux/VideoEditing.htm

There's a lot of high-end stuff in video/animation and render farms that's 
moving to Linux if not already there. Unfortunately the price bracket is 
usually out of my reach <.sigh>.

Then for multimedia authoring there's things like Metacard 
http://www.metacard.com/ and Runtime Revolution 
http://www.runrev.com/revolution/index.html depending on what you want to do 
they might suit.

Good luck!
KathyW.

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