Re: Linux distro ?

2015-04-07 Thread Alan Fregtman
/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/System-requirements-for-Autodesk-Softimage-2015.html From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Martin Yara Sent: Monday, April 06, 2015 4:38 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Linux

Re: Linux distro ?

2015-04-06 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
go for a certified system if licensing is a priority. CentOS or RH, or FC On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 9:02 AM, Henry Katz hk-v...@iscs-i.com wrote: Currently serving on Centos 6.5. On 04/05/2015 03:00 PM, Martin wrote: I'm considering using an old machine I have, put some Linux in it and use

RE: Linux distro ?

2015-04-06 Thread Ivan Tay
...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Martin Yara Sent: Monday, April 06, 2015 4:38 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Linux distro ? I though that RH was the only certified one, and I was looking for a cheap option. I'll try with CentOS. Thanks. On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 5:29 PM

Re: Linux distro ?

2015-04-06 Thread Martin Yara
.html From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Martin Yara Sent: Monday, April 06, 2015 4:38 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Linux distro ? I though that RH was the only certified one, and I was looking

Re: Linux distro ?

2015-04-06 Thread Martin Yara
I though that RH was the only certified one, and I was looking for a cheap option. I'll try with CentOS. Thanks. On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 5:29 PM, Raffaele Fragapane raffsxsil...@googlemail.com wrote: go for a certified system if licensing is a priority. CentOS or RH, or FC On Mon, Apr 6,

Re: Linux distro ?

2015-04-06 Thread Tim Leydecker
: Linux distro ? I though that RH was the only certified one, and I was looking for a cheap option. I'll try with CentOS. Thanks. On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 5:29 PM, Raffaele Fragapane raffsxsil...@googlemail.com mailto:raffsxsil...@googlemail.commailto:raffsxsil

Re: Linux distro ?

2015-04-06 Thread Francisco Criado
...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Martin Yara Sent: Monday, April 06, 2015 4:38 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: Linux distro ? I though that RH was the only certified one, and I was looking for a cheap option. I'll try with CentOS. Thanks. On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 5

Re: Linux distro ?

2015-04-05 Thread Henry Katz
Currently serving on Centos 6.5. On 04/05/2015 03:00 PM, Martin wrote: I'm considering using an old machine I have, put some Linux in it and use it as a server for my Autodesk licenses. What distro would you recommend ? My main objective is just the licenses at first, and using it as a

Linux distro ?

2015-04-05 Thread Martin
I'm considering using an old machine I have, put some Linux in it and use it as a server for my Autodesk licenses. What distro would you recommend ? My main objective is just the licenses at first, and using it as a rendering server and some other services later. Thanks. Martin Sent from my

OT: good simple linux distro for laptop?

2014-04-01 Thread Paul Griswold
I figure there are some linux fans here, so hopefully someone has a suggestion. My 70+ year old dad has a very old laptop that's still running XP. It's not worth paying money to update, but he still wants to use it. I figure linux was the way to go normally would go right to Ubuntu. But I

RE: good simple linux distro for laptop?

2014-04-01 Thread Angus Davidson
: Paul Griswold [pgrisw...@fusiondigitalproductions.com] Sent: 01 April 2014 08:54 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: OT: good simple linux distro for laptop? I figure there are some linux fans here, so hopefully someone has a suggestion. My 70+ year old dad has a very old laptop

Re: good simple linux distro for laptop?

2014-04-01 Thread Jon Swindells
] Sent: 01 April 2014 08:54 PM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: OT: good simple linux distro for laptop? I figure there are some linux fans here, so hopefully someone has a suggestion. My 70+ year old dad has a very old laptop that's still running XP. It's not worth paying money

Re: good simple linux distro for laptop?

2014-04-01 Thread Jon Swindells
and by 'this Island' i mean Zakynthos. apologies to the non-psychics out there ;) -- Jon Swindells jon_swinde...@fastmail.fm On Tue, Apr 1, 2014, at 10:09 PM, Jon Swindells wrote: I have a good portion of this islands retired population on mint15/16 (most from xp). once people get over

Re: good simple linux distro for laptop?

2014-04-01 Thread Paul Griswold
Thanks! I've been reading more about Mint it might do the trick here. The laptop is a Dell Vostro running a Core 2 Duo (not sure the speed). As long as it'll run Chrome he can listen to his 1950's streaming radio station, I think he'll be in good shape. ᐧ On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Jon

Re: OT: good simple linux distro for laptop?

2014-04-01 Thread Ognjen Vukovic
mint /thread. On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 8:54 PM, Paul Griswold pgrisw...@fusiondigitalproductions.com wrote: I figure there are some linux fans here, so hopefully someone has a suggestion. My 70+ year old dad has a very old laptop that's still running XP. It's not worth paying money to

Re: OT: good simple linux distro for laptop?

2014-04-01 Thread Raffaele Fragapane
Mint is like Ubuntu with a lot of the suck removed, and, IME, better media handling out of the box by far. It's worth at least considering, and it can definitely be made a lot less twitchy and resource hungry than Ubuntu straight out of the install. If you're ok with Deb based distros (and if