Linux version

#19

who ever said linux was user friendly, performance and reliability are the real things that linux offers, and you cant really just install it and expect it to be fully optimised, its not a point and click thing really.Yes it can be a pain to setup but it will happily chug along for months at a time, you have better memory management, you dont have to reboot everytime you install/uninstall something, you dont have viruses or 30+ pices of microsoft spyware to deal with.As for the apps it comes with (most distro’s) an office suite, gimp 2d paint program, ftp software and a plethora of other applications that you can optionally install or download them for nothing, granted they may not be as polished as their windows counterparts but then again you dont have to fork out some $800 for an office suite either(I’d much rather spend that on modo, but thats me)Installing something and then saying its slow and puggish is kinda rediculous, you wouldnt install modo play with it for 10 or 15 minutes and say it was no good would you? Well linux does take a little learning, its not point and click and there are some optimisations that need to be done, like compiling your kernel for your system.Theres a good reason a lot of web servers use linux, and why highend graphics apps have a linux port, like maya,houdini,pirahna.Linux users already have a 64bit capable OS, its been around for quite a while and 64bit windows is in beta and wont be available til 2000 and what? I’m pretty certain it will have all the good features as usual, security holes , viruses and spyware. By the way you should try out firefox(browser) and thunderbird (mail) from mozilla.org they’re pretty damned good.

Just my observations

MunCH

#20

Edit: I’m opting out of this “discussion” It’s not doing any good.

#21

:thumbsup: no not terribly constructive :D, I myself dont expect perfect performance, but I have found wrestling with it a great learning experience, and detest microsofts business practices. I’m a linux user and have never thought of it as a windows killer, I cant really compare the two they are just different, and linux is just “an alternative” anyhow for us its the art that matters Aaaaiiigh

Cheers

MunCH

#22

Well, blender was the in-house package for NaN, and they surely did some commercial with it prior to releasing it. It also seems to catch up both in features and user friendliness, especially if you look at the couple of releases that come out this year.
I think if the project continues progressing like that, it can be quite a heavy weight in a couple of years time.

Cheers,
Mike

#23

Originally Posted by Sbowling
W00T! You included blender with profesional 3d apps? Blender, the poster boy for how not to create an interface. Has there even been anything decent done on that program? Ever? Besides, isn’t that program dead? Can’t seem to find anything on it that looks like it was done in the past 5 years.

1st - Let’s all try to disregard this kind of comments because it could apply to Windows versions themselves.

2nd - All you Microsoft lovers should keep your feet outside if this is not your OS, why come in here and say bad things simply because we want a version of this software? Just so that you can then say Microsoft is better because there’s no linux version of Modo? If that’s so then forget it because linux will keep pushing the OS’s forward unlike others.

3rd - THIS THREAD IS NOT ABOUT OS, THIS THREAD IS ABOUT LINUX VERSION OF MODO. PLEASE KEEP ON-TOPIC.

–MayaPT

#24

come to think of it, if modo comes out for linux, it is time to move to linux for me. because i would have all major apps i love running on linux without being worried about being a corporate slave :slight_smile:

#25

If you weren’t happy with RedHat, try either Mandrake 10 or Fedora Core 2. The later is very much like windows, it’s running the latest version of KDE. Alot of corporations, outside of the animation industry are moving to linux for it’s stabilty, security and cost effective nature.

#26

Heh, quite a flame that my thread started :wink:

Well, I hope for you (Luxology) to port it, because only then I will consider buying a copy.

#27

not one expects it to be a windows killer, its proving it could possibly be, i do gfx and music on my linux workstation along with gaming, managing my fininces and some programming/dev work, for people to say it offers nothing more than server apps shows that those same pople have no true standing experience with the OS.

I can do any and everything your avg power user can do on windows. YEa the quality of the app, desktop/workstation class, is going to be lesser quality functionality for the most part “out of the box” so to speak, but thats and issue when you have millions of coders practically doing projects as wide spread as it is, you get a flood of apps some good, most sub and a few really great ones.

And as for preformance, something like redhat is probably not the best distro to judge, as it does try to mimic a windows environment and does assume the users wont know/or care much about the going ons of his OS for the most part, so out of the box its bloated. I get stellar performance out of my installs

#28

Originally posted by Hullbr3ach:
Well, I hope for you (Luxology) to port it, because only then I will consider buying a copy.
Agreed, that makes two of us.

–MayaPT

#29

Edit: I’m opting out of this “discussion” It’s not doing any good.

#30

Actually, it was fedora, and other than being a windowed OS it’s nothing like windows.

Why would you expect it to be like windows? Thats the best part about it, some windows users actually think they have some control over their operating system, I have only found 2 solutions for a windows hickup, ctrl+alt+del and format c

Windows updates arent free, you obviously pay for them when you purchase the OS, and some of those part-time hackers are some of the smartest programmers on the face of the planet.

Bah sorry to get OT again

MunCH

#31

AMEN MunCH!!
Windows is windows and Linux is Linux. Either you like it or you don’t! You don’t expect a ford to be a bmw do you??

I personally optimize my windows os on a regular basis and still have a ton of problems with it. Some of which are driver issues, which really sucks because there are no new drivers for some of my laptops hardware. If i switch over to my linux os though, there are new drivers for it. Go figure. Windows updates have done some good for the machines and some bad. Some of the hot fixes actually break windows. Should be called hot-crashes.

#32

+bump

heya guys any news on whether a linux port will go ahead?:thumbsup:

MunCH

#33

DF already has a linux port.

#34

well now we all know linux sucks and no one uses it professionally.

Places like Sony surely wouldn’t use linux for the production department, or Rythm & Hues, or any of the other studios.

This is obvious based on the fact that none of the big 3d makers have linux versions like XSI, Maya, Houdini etc.

Uh, that was sarcasm in case it wasn’t recognized as such.

To the modo guys, and I mean Luxology employees here, the really large names are on linux. you guy KNOW people use linux at their studios.

think about it.

#35

hold your horses, its coming… :slight_smile:

#36

Seems there was a misread here, but anyway, i’m still waiting for it.

Cheers,

#37

If you want a distro that’s geared towards multimedia creation,checkout ‘Mediainlinux’.

It’s a liveCD with HD install too and comes with ALL graphics,sound editing and other multimedia packages available such as Blender and wings3d.

I don’t use it but I thought it’s worth a mention.

#38

Anyone going to the Lux Siggraph presentation on Aug 2 (2005, in case anyone’s reading this thread in ten years time).

If Brad Peebler has a Q & A session, you might want to ask him about Luxology’s Linux plans. After all, Brad did say he was going to reveal “everything”, didn’t he ?