Maya and RedHat

[FreeQ]

IMO, Redhat is going to RED!
Fedora allready not supported by Redhate!

I've heard some rumor about Alias to drop developing Maya for linux (support cont.) and start to Sun Linux 64 for Opteronz. There is anyone positive with that?

Why SGI build a distro with 2.6 to CG workstations?
WHY???

[JLV]

Does anyone know if SUSE will be supported?

[LordGolem]

So if, let's say, I'll purchase the next (or so) Maya for linux release I'll have to upgrade to Opteron?

[beaker]

Alias will probably just support Red Hat Enterprise version of linux. The WS(Work Station) version of it is only $179, which is cheap for 1 year of support. At the linux movies conference last year, most of the visualfx studios said that they would be moving over to RH Enterprise in the next year or so. This was Disney, Dreamworks, ILM and a few others all talking.

I don't see why Alias wouldn't follow suit.

http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/

FreeQ: what are you smoking?

[beaker]

Originally posted by LordGolem
So if, let's say, I'll purchase the next (or so) Maya for linux release I'll have to upgrade to Opteron?
LordGolem, just ignore FreeQ, I don't think he knows what he is talking about.

[Mazer]

Maya works on any tipical recent linux distro, Alias just oficialy support's red hat for reference. As long as the Kernel and drivers are compatible and the sistem as Rpm capability all the rest doesn't matter.

[JLV]

Thanks Mazer.
Is anyone running Maya on anything other than RedHat? If so, how is it? Any distro recommendations based on personal experience?

[fr3drik]

I know we're gonna use it at school on SuSe (http://www.suse.com) next autumn.

[LordGolem]

Originally posted by Mazer
Maya works on any tipical recent linux distro, Alias just oficialy support's red hat for reference. As long as the Kernel and drivers are compatible and the sistem as Rpm capability all the rest doesn't matter.

Ies of course, Linux is always Linux doesn't matter what distro.
I used Maya on Mandrake for a while.

I asked that just to know what's the Alias position and because if you want to get Alias support you have to use the system the recommend.

[LordGolem]

Originally posted by beaker
Alias will probably just support Red Hat Enterprise version of linux. The WS(Work Station) version of it is only $179, which is cheap for 1 year of support. At the linux movies conference last year, most of the visualfx studios said that they would be moving over to RH Enterprise in the next year or so. This was Disney, Dreamworks, ILM and a few others all talking.


I was thinking to switch to Enterprise WS and for sure I'll do that after earing you. :D

FreeQ's answer is a little strange... I think of a studio with a renderfarm based on Xeon or Athlon XP witch has to upgrade maybe 20 rendernodes to Opteron :D

[Apoclypse]

Does anyone know why redhat is noyt supporting rh9 and stuff. Afterall it is one of the most well known distro of linux, and even though they may not be the leader paying $179 for something that was $69.99. I don't know too much about linux ( i'm pretty new at it with only a few months of experience using it). So does that mean that their will no longer be any new Redhat personal editions or what?

[JLV]

Fedora is the personal project, it's already available.
RedHat's recent decision to end support for its end user distributions and concentrate on its Enterprise product is not a popular one in the Linux community, or so it seems.

fr3drick, you say your school will be using SUSE for their OS?
Maybe Alias is already willing to support another leading distro.:)

[matty429]

Simple....Money....plus..Aol/Timewarner owns them

[beaker]

Originally posted by JLV
Thanks Mazer.
Is anyone running Maya on anything other than RedHat? If so, how is it? Any distro recommendations based on personal experience?
Yes, I run it on gentoo, also I know of companies that run it on SuSe, mandrake and debian.

[fr3drik]

Originally posted by JLV
fr3drick, you say your school will be using SUSE for their OS?
Maybe Alias is already willing to support another leading distro.:)

I don't know. Maya runs on virtually any Linux distro. But which distro they will actually have official support for in the future ... I don't know.

[JLV]

Gentoo at work, or personal?

Apt-get, rpm, portage,..take your pick. Good to hear.
I don't read to much about other distros used with 3D apps.

Are you as impressed with Gentoo as everyone else that's tried it (successfully)?

[LordGolem]

The only issue using a different distribution than the supported one is library locations and versions and folder tree. Distros sometimes use different version of system libraries and sometimes the dynamic linked lib paths are not always the same. As I know Maya runs on almost every distro out there (both glibc 2.2 and 2.3), not the same XSI...

[beaker]

Originally posted by JLV
Gentoo at work, or personal?

Apt-get, rpm, portage,..take your pick. Good to hear.
I don't read to much about other distros used with 3D apps.

Are you as impressed with Gentoo as everyone else that's tried it (successfully)?
I run it at home and also one of the places I freelance for is using it. I personally love it, it is much faster in the gui for kde/gnome. It takes a little work to get it going, but you learn alot along the way.

[lvinay]

Personally... I love suse, but I've try to make it run on it with no success...
if anyone can helpme on what to do... :thumbsup:

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