Dan, cool - have you actually done any production work on this install?
Does opening/saving/merging scenes work for you? And can you read/write
icecaches?
I personally haven't spent any time trying to get it to work because I've
read all these reports about these show stopper type problems regarding
Softimage on Ubuntu...
Cheers, Martin
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On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Dan Yargici <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've made Soft work on 12.04, but if you were to now ask me how.... the
> bottom line is that if you go through all the Linux related posts on
> Stephen's blog you'll get it running totally fine in the end.
>
> As an aside, I have to say that I love Gnome Shell (just called Gnome now
> in 12.04). Unity sucks utter balls IMO but Gnome Shell feels quite nice.
>
> DAN
>
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Stefan Andersson <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Maybe I spoke too soon :) I felt a bit lost, so I'm back into Linux now.
>> Trying a bit newer distro (Ubuntu 12.04). I know it can't run Softimage,
>> but I don't use Softimage at home that much anyhow.
>> It was a nice try, but it felt there were too many gremlins under the
>> hood that I had no idea of what they were up to.
>> Too many reboots and too many processes that started working for no
>> apparent reason, and popups, my god.... it felt like using firefox without
>> a adblocker. But besides that it was a better experience that my last
>> attempt which was with Vista.
>>
>> I'm back home now. Hell did not freeze over, it's still warm and cozy.
>>
>> regards
>> stefan
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Andreas Bystrom <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> ". So... I've installed Windows7 on my workstation at home. And so far
>>> I'm really impressed with the speed and the response from the system.
>>> Softimage works a lot smoother on Windows7 than on CentOS 6.3."
>>>
>>> hmm, it's not april.... did hell just freeze over? actually the day alan
>>> jones writes something like that will be the day hell truly freezes over..
>>>
>>> on a serious note, for every single windows release that's about to come
>>> out since win2k I've heard the same exact thing "this will be terrible, I'm
>>> staying with win xxxx forever" yet those same people somehow upgraded
>>> throughout the years and found themselves quite happy...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Stefan Andersson
>>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>
>>>> It's not any better in the Linux Camp. Everyone is moving towards
>>>> tablet use. But what boggles me is that... how can the
>>>> developers themselves stand it?
>>>>
>>>> On a side note.
>>>>
>>>> I've been using Linux for a long time now, but got fed up with crappy
>>>> wacom drivers and the crippled paint applications. So... I've installed
>>>> Windows7 on my workstation at home. And so far I'm really impressed with
>>>> the speed and the response from the system. Softimage works a lot smoother
>>>> on Windows7 than on CentOS 6.3.
>>>>
>>>> Anyhow, going to take a shower now since I feel quite dirty.
>>>>
>>>> And I think Windows 8 will be as Vista, a "side-note". They are already
>>>> talking about Windows9.
>>>>
>>>> regards
>>>> stefan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Sylvain Lebeau <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> this makes me think about Apple rumour to let go the dev on the mac
>>>>> pros...
>>>>>
>>>>> Seem's everybody is going nuts on the mobile thing. And all
>>>>> professional market get's ignored!!
>>>>>
>>>>> i wont be able to do Arnold render regions on my f-ing iphone!!!!!
>>>>> wtf is going on with these guys!?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> sly
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Paul Griswold <[email protected]>
>>>>> Friday, August 17, 2012 12:18 PM
>>>>> My main Win 7 workstation has been really acting flaky lately.
>>>>> Microsoft has just release Windows 8 RTM, so I was wondering if anyone
>>>>> had
>>>>> tested it out yet?
>>>>>
>>>>> I realize there are plenty of opinions on the whole Metro interface,
>>>>> but I'm just wondering if it's stable and if Softimage will run under it.
>>>>>
>>>>> I need to take a weekend and reformat this machine & start over anyway.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> Paul
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> stefan andersson - digital janitor - http://sanders3d.wordpress.com
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Andreas Byström
>>> Lighting TD - Weta Digital
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> stefan andersson - digital janitor - http://sanders3d.wordpress.com
>>
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