Wow - that's a lot of text with one specific ;-) Though the problem is
we're both right. Linux has benefits if you want to put in the effort.
I'd say in production it provides more advantages then disadvantages.
Because I can customize all those little pieces they you don't feel
are well enough integrated.
There's very few things in XSI which don't work identically across
both platforms - kudos to Softimage on that one.
The smaller the house, the less worthwhile considering linux is for
them. For me being able to put across a solid image to all the
workstations and renderfarm from my chair is a big plus. Remotely
administering from home is another one. It's very easy for me to check
everything's ok without coming in.
If you rely on the 3d community then yes, the support is limited. If
you can handle putting together tools yourself then you're fine.
Though if you blame the lack of community for things not being there
and therefore don't contribute, you can't really complain that it's
not there. I know linux isn't an effortless option, but it is a
stable, flexible one. I'm doing my bit to improve it rather than just
saying it's not worth using because no one else does.
If people were more willing to share their efforts instead of thinking
everything you do has to make a buck then we'd all be getting what we
want out of it without as much effort.
On 8/29/06, kim aldis <kim(at)aldis.org.uk> wrote:
Oh come on Alan, you know as well as I do that pretty much every day there's
something that needs your attention. Something someone needs, that you take
for granted on Windows that doesn't exist on Linux. How many things that
work on XSI or Maya on Windows that don't work on Linux, all the little X11
tweaks you have to make on Maya before it behaves even remotely the same as
you're used to. That nice little tool that animator uses all the time that
takes an hour of buggering about before it works on Linux. That massive
repository of tools that the community has built, only a percentage of which
work under Linux. And how long it takes to figure out that it's one of those
tools that's breaking something completely in that scene you're trying to
render.
This isn't about Linux, zealotry, whatever, it's about lack of support, lack
of a full range of tools and general exercising of the work environment.
It's about how things break when you move off the centre ground and when you
change something even slightly. And it's about trying something new and
finding out it's not quite what you expected or what you want. Like afs, for
example.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On
> Behalf Of Alan Jones
> Sent: 29 August 2006 10:34
> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: Re: OS/platform advice
>
> *yawn* yeah - I hate not having to worry about the workstation and
> renderfarm falling over.
>
> I have nothing else to say because it'll all be disregarded as zealotry
> anyway :D
>
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