So, the question is if I move to Windows 8, Softimage will perform well?
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Martin Chatterjee Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 1:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: OT: Windows 8 - anyone? 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 -- Martin Chatterjee [ Freelance Technical Director ] [ http://www.chatterjee.de <http://www.chatterjee.de/> ] [ https://vimeo.com/chatterjee <https://vimeo.com/chatterjee> ] 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 -- Sylvain Lebeau // SHED V-P/Visual effects supervisor 1410, RUE STANLEY, 11E ÉTAGE MONTRÉAL (QUÉBEC) H3A 1P8 T 514 849-1555 <tel:514%20849-1555> F 514 849-5025 <tel:514%20849-5025> WWW.SHEDMTL.COM <http://www.shedmtl.com/> <http://WWW.SHEDMTL.COM <http://www.shedmtl.com/> > Paul Griswold <mailto:[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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