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
Thanks for the tips. Unfortunately, I got immediately stuck with Ubuntu (8245 timer not connected to IO_APIC, kernal panic). I hesitate risking my main workstation, who knows it ends up unbootable... maybe practice on an older computer first.
-Mark H
