centos, mint, manjaro, fedora, ubuntu.. couple versions of each of them ᐧ
On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Angus Davidson <[email protected]> wrote: > Which Linux distros have you tried. Some are significantly easier than > others. > > > > *From: *Mirko Jankovic <[email protected]> > *Reply-To: *"[email protected]" < > [email protected]> > *Date: *Wednesday, 07 June 2017 at 2:27 PM > > *To: *"[email protected]" <[email protected]> > *Subject: *Re: New iMac Pro? Yay or Nay? > > > > Until they create linux that you can just insatll, get all drivers updated > and all up and running and working in same day it will be nightmare. > > Windows just recently crushed 3 of my machines with it's retarded upgrades > policy and for some stupid reason I didn't blok all that crap.. But tried > Linux road couple times and I couldn't even get a single version up and > running on any of my machines. If a fairly advanced user with 20+ years of > experience have to struggle to get OS up and running then it surely > something wrong with that OS :) But yes mac is even rose. simply makes no > point in wasting so much money on something that > > ᐧ > > > > On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 2:24 PM, Angus Davidson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I will be honest. I loved my g5 mac pro, and I have loved OSX. There are > so many things is does in a far more elegant manner than Windows. Even to > the point of hackintoshing and putting the OS on decent hardware (where it > really shines). However even with that. These days I go directly to linux. > Centos if I need to run Maya, or Mint if not. Its just so much easier. The > new desktops like Mate make it a total pleasure to work in and its > exceptionally quick. Octane , Photoscan, Fusion all running like a Ferrari. > > > > I am going have to get used to windows 10 as I will have 250 student > machines running it next year, but doesn’t mean I have to like it. > > > > Kind regards > > > > Angus > > > > *From: *Jonathan Moore <[email protected]> > *Reply-To: *"[email protected]" < > [email protected]> > *Date: *Wednesday, 07 June 2017 at 1:45 PM > *To: *"[email protected]" <[email protected]> > > > *Subject: *Re: New iMac Pro? Yay or Nay? > > > > Now more than ever I think of OS X and Apple hardware as the luxury end of > the consumer PC market. There’s so much about OS X that I prefer to Windows > but I’m also aware that I’m paying an extreme premium for the experience. > > > > However, It’s been a long time since I’ve considered Apple hardware to be > an optimal choice for creative professionals per se, never mind 3d > professionals. The iMac Pro is a lustful piece of consumer electronics for > sure but it would be a exceptionally odd choice for a 3d professional. > > > > On 7 Jun 2017, at 12:17, Christopher Crouzet < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > Something to consider beyond the hardware is the software. > > > > During the years that I've been using MacOS, Apple often shined at only > supporting outdated OpenGL versions in their OS, or poorly implementing it. > To make things worse, they decided to go their own way with their Metal API > without providing any support for Vulkan (unless I missed something). I > don't think many developers are willing to write their software using the > Metal API to boost rendering performances when the 3D market is fairly > small on Mac. > > > > Surely it's a bit cocky from them to be boasting their graphics marketing > when they seem to be hated by graphics developers. > > > > > > On 7 June 2017 at 17:37, Rob Wuijster <[email protected]> wrote: > > One of the first reviews, and it's not really a glowing one: > > https://www.slashgear.com/imac-pro-still-doesnt-give- > the-one-thing-pros-want-06487652/ > > Rob > > > > \/-------------\/----------------\/ > > On 6-6-2017 21:50, Angus Davidson wrote: > > Unfortunately Apple has defined pro market to mean , FCP X and a little > bit of after effects. Its the only reason I can think of for some of the > dumb decisions made in the last two years. Up to and including today. > > At least dell gives decent EDU discounts. Going to make the move from > apple far less painful for us > > > > -- > ICT Project Manager > Digital Arts > Wits School of the Arts > [email protected] > 011 717 4683 > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > *From:* Stanley Mpofu > *Sent:* 31 May 2017 03:14 PM > *To:* Collen Rasalanavho; Angus Davidson; Brian Maistry; Shunmuga Pillay; > Andrew Sam; Tumishi Madihlaba; Donald Dandawa; Bekir Genc; Arinavho > Tshifularo; Simon Mofokeng; Charl Roberts; Mark Allen; James Mokoka; Ernest > Maluleke; Shereen Jacobs > *Subject:* Wits ICT Strategy.pptx > > Colleagues > > As discussed this morning, Please note the attached strategic direction as > well intended service catalogue that will talk to the SLAs between ICT and > the University. Please respond with comments and more ideas around what I > have proposed for Wits going forward. > > > > > > Many thanks > > > > Dr Mpofu Mgobansimbi SB > > *Chief Information Officer (Wits)* > > +27117171662 <+27%2011%20717%201662> > > +27733779947 <+27%2073%20377%209947> > > [email protected] > > "Lions Don’t Worry About The Opinion Of Sheep" > > > > *PA* > > Celesse-Ann Brandt-Jacobs > > Tel : +2711 717 1602 <+27%2011%20717%201602> > > Email : [email protected] > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > *From:* Marc-Andre Carbonneau [[email protected]] > *Sent:* 06 June 2017 09:38 PM > *To:* Official Softimage Users Mailing List. https://groups.google.com/ > forum/#!forum/xsi_list > *Subject:* RE: New iMac Pro? Yay or Nay? > > Heheheh thanks everyone. I’m not so much using powerful pcs anymore but > was interested in getting the low down on these “new” contenders. > > MAC > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:softimage-bounces@ > listproc.autodesk.com <[email protected]>] *On > Behalf Of *Jonathan Moore > *Sent:* June-06-17 3:36 PM > *To:* Official Softimage Users Mailing List. https://groups.google. > com/forum/#!forum/xsi_list <[email protected]> > <[email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: New iMac Pro? Yay or Nay? > > > > Apologies for this slight digression into the benefits of 2012-2014 > generation Zseries workstations but the final good points about them is > that they're built like tanks with top drawer components so they’re less > risk than many other second hand purchases. The total cost for my three > Zseries workstations was under £2k (GPU’s on top) so that’s a heap of > processing power for the budget (96 threads running at 3.1 Ghz). And > E5-6670’s are incredibly efficient too so running costs are very favourable > for typical Houdini/ICE CPU simulations. Although running 9 GPU’s across > three workstations for rendering chews through the juice. > > > > So back to the original point of the iMac Pro. There are far better ways > to spend your cash! :) > > > > On 6 Jun 2017, at 20:21, Jonathan Moore <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > <PastedGraphic-1.tiff> > > As you can see plenty of PCIe Gen3 x16 and x8’s as long as you go for a > dual processes build. > > > > Dual E5-2670 based systems won’t best a latest & greatest i7 for GPU > rendering but if you pick up a system (or preferably multiple systems) at > the right price, you’re get something that performs well both on CPU > simulations and on GPU rendering duties. > > > > http://www8.hp.com/h20195/v2/GetPDF.aspx/c04400043.pdf > > > > > > On 6 Jun 2017, at 20:05, Ognjen Vukovic <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I thought those z workstations had pretty old mobos. They only had pcie 2 > slots. And at 8x or somthing like that which seems quite unremarkable for > gpu rendering. ------ > Softimage Mailing List. > To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] > with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm. > > > > > > This communication is intended for the addressee only. It is confidential. > If you have received this communication in error, please notify us > immediately and destroy the original message. You may not copy or > disseminate this communication without the permission of the University. > Only authorised signatories are competent to enter into agreements on > behalf of the University and recipients are thus advised that the content > of this message may not be legally binding on the University and may > contain the personal views and opinions of the author, which are not > necessarily the views and opinions of The University of the Witwatersrand, > Johannesburg. 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