Luckily I have Ati 4870 HD. Now Ati catalyst 9.3 drivers support direct rendering so I can use Compiz and 3d effects with my desktop. Real timesaver when making big projects. I have 4 desktops and different RS-window in them. There are still some errors with linux version. GTK windows tend to crash sometimes, but all in all newer going back to Windows. Noticed that if I have a larger project than I have memory, I can just make a new swap partition and size that for my project. Now I have over 10gigs of swap and physical memory 8 gigs. Also I have another machine in my network which is a slave render node. Its nice when you are making several projects at the same time.
And for installation problems. I have installed it on Ubuntu and Opensuse. Some things like Openmotif and installation location needed some tuning. But I think you'll get hang off it quite easily. Ubuntu is an really good option, but wait till the new 9.04 version comes out. Ville Mark wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> I know that this is not a linux list, but I was just rendering with >> Opensuse 11.1 (64bit) box and it was allmost double speed compared to >> Windows XP (32bit). >> >> Scene I rendered in linux took 3:26 minutes and with Windows XP it >> took 6:05 minutes. Nicest thing with linux is that I can make >> different swap partitions so I can >> make infinited space for my rendering scene. >> > > > Man that does it, I'm having a go at 64bit Linux and RS 64bit! Why not > take advantage of the hardware. I think I'll try Ubuntu. > > -Mark H > >
