On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 21:00, Jonathan I. Nori wrote: > Hi! > > Sounds like you want an SGI or Sun Solaris workstation. > > The kinds of tools you seem to be looking for really aren't in a mature (if they >even exist yet) stage on the linux platform. > > If you want to do professional, high-end audio/video/animation editing (which you >seem to be hinting at) you need to look at something other than Linux. > > Jon 8^)
Thats not quite true anymore. A lot of Big Name production houses are moving toward Linux as a viable graphics/animation/film-video platform. Sure many of the high end programs they use are not "FREE as in speech or beer"(and quite expensive for an individual) but they are top notch and many were ported directly from their SUN/SGI/MS platforms.Others are even GPL'd programs, so there is a mix of stuff used professionally. Hey they use what works to get the job done like they need it done. As for stuff we can afford: Broadcast2000 was a good video editing suite but that is no longer available. Instead there is now Cinelerra at: http://heroines.sourceforge.net/bcast2000.php3 as for 3D modeling take your pick, but my favorite is no longer available either and that was Blender (but there are others too). As far as your Video card is concerned, IIRC Nvidia's proprietary drivers were more mature than the open source drivers for ati or nvidia(although things may have changed since I last heard, it has been a year or two) for HW acceleration. BTW always keep fairly current with the distro/packages. Especially with graphics/web apps since they are a rapidly maturing part of Linux. +_Kiran_+ > > > ----- > > "I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I >intended to be." - Douglas Adams > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/13/02 03:55AM >>> > hi, > am looking for a really good and special graphicsworkstation, running linux > with OpenGL, a very good graphiccard with OpenGL and sound-abilities. > > Has anyone an idea, which equipment is commendable. > > what I should do with it : > making animations, making pictures (combine together) and sound > > which software do I need for that purpose and is that software available on > mandrake ? > > The reason asking this is, I have downloaded some graphicspackages, but a lot > of them needs some requirements, which I have not found yet or does not run > on my "testenvironment", which is a 350 MHZ AMD, mdk 8.0, about 50 Gigs HD, > an ATI Rage Card and a USB-connection. > > USB does NOT run, ATI Rage have a lot of problems with 3D-Accelerating and > have damaged 3 ATI's right now with the hardware-accelerator of mdk's 8.0 > 4.0.3-version of XFree86. > > Hope to get some experiences and advicements > thanks for helping and ideas > bye hans > > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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