Yes opensuse works well. I use it exclusively. They have CinCV in their packman repo, however take some time to install & configure all those codex & stuff. :-)
Georg On Monday 31 January 2011 18:48:46 Edouard Chalaron wrote: > Kurt (and all) > > Should we mention Suse as an alternative to Ubuntu ? > 2 screens are a must and don't hesitate to use a CRT as your compositor > display, they are often quite good for the black point or a good plasma TV > via HDMI, but you need to be in relatively dark~ish environment and the > all setting will probably be all but inexpensive. I also tried a SLI > system and could not see much difference in performance. However the > drivers may have improved since. If anything get yourself a Raid 0 or 5 > for your data and a disk for your OS.. As for the filesystem on the RAID > I tend to use a non journalised XFS as my data are often not to stay long. > > Don't use XFS on your OS disk though it may not boot. > Moreover Suse has a very good disk management system. > Cheers > E > > > Go for two screens with reasonable high resolution, e.g. 2 x 1920x1200. > You will need the desktop space. Does not need to be expensive. > I have good experience with NVIDIA graphics cards in "twinview" setting. > > Georg > > On Tuesday 25 January 2011 00:28:09 Gerrit de Jong wrote: > > Hello > > > > I want a low-budget desktop computer optimized for cinelerra. Say up to > > 500 dollar. What should I buy? Do I need a fast graffic card or should I > > better spend the money on a faster CPU? What CPU performs the best for > > the money? If I need a graffic card which one gives the best value for > > money? How much memory is optimal? > > My expectation is I will often have to stabilize shaky footage, and > > sometimes I want to overlay a shot onto another one. If I got it right > > these two things are done much faster by a graffic card, but some say to > > me that rendering relays heavily on the CPU, and a graffic card won't > > speed up that process. What is true? > > My idea is to use an SSD for the swap partition (amongst others) Is that > > a good idea? Or are there some pitfalls? And which distribution will be > > the best performing. At this time I am using Ubuntu 8.04. I like it but I > > did never get cinelerra to work with that. Besides that cinelerra has > > been removed from the ubuntu repository two months ago, so no updates. > > Arch linux may be to archaic for me. How is Gentoo? > > Any comments are welcome. > > > > Gerrit > -- kurts film / schoepfung & wandel c/o dr. hooss bäckergang 15 d 23617 stockelsdorf tel +49-(0)170-5890122 www.kurts-film.net _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
