Hi Zach, El Martes, 3 de Abril de 2007 02:51, Zach Deedler escribió: > REQUIREMENTS > 1) render fast > 2) boot fast > 3) easy to maintain > 4) have minimum barebones utilities (no gizmos I need to disable) > > QUESTIONS > 1) Best distribution for my requirements?
i. I think the speed of rendering depends mostly on the drivers. I haven't experienced a great variation in speed when testing different distributions. ii. Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu boot very fast. iii. Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu is easy to manage (not as easy as Suse) but has a large community. A new version is scheduled about every 6 months. Next version (7.04), containing OSG 1.2 is to be released on April 19th, IIRC. As Suse, it has packages for the nVidia and ATI commercial drivers, so GL setup is easy. iv. Xubuntu is the lighter distro of the family (only XFCE window manager), so it would cause the less overhead possible. > 2) Best windowing toolkit for rendering osg fast, if it matters for full > screen? (ie. kde, gnome, etc.) I use KDE, no problems. Several months ago I read something about the task bar never hiding in fullscreen when using gnome, but I don't know if it is still an issue. > 3) Best compiler version for osg? Is gcc >=4.0 good? > 4) Best kernel version for osg? I didn't hear of any issues lately, so you I think you should try the latest versions available. > 6) For osg development, I'd like to use Suse. Is it risky to mix > distributions? I think you mean to use binaries across distributions. As OSG relies on pretty known and stable libraries, I think that you sholdn't have problems for that. P.S.: Please bear in mind that this post reflects my *personal* preferences, I am not stating in any way that they are the best for every task. Alberto _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://openscenegraph.net/mailman/listinfo/osg-users http://www.openscenegraph.org/
