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
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
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 
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.
Heh, quite a flame that my thread started 
Well, I hope for you (Luxology) to port it, because only then I will consider buying a copy.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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 ?
Yes, enough debate here. Linux is here to stay, and the big-hitters are using it as we chatter on in this forum. Luxology folks, please just add my name to the list of someone who would be very happy to see a Linux version of Modo, as well as the myriad other modules which Nexxus is, and will be giving birth to.
Peter Elias
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you are mistaken. No timeframe was given.
The demo clearly stated on screen that pricing and availability was TBA.
