Re: Which Linux?

[Tauno ÃÃbik <tauno(at)joonisfilm.ee>]

Thank you for your tips Mikko. I uninstalled XSI and this time installed 
it with tcsh. Everything is working much better now. Problems I had 
earlier are gone. I haven't tested it much but at first sight I like the 
results, XSI is much more responsive and OGL performance is way better! 
Similar experience when I had to move with Maya to linux some years ago. 
Altough there is small tiny thing what disturbs me, quite often if I do 
something in rendertree(ie drag a node) or manipulate object in viewport 
then there is maybe quarter of a second lag once that operation happens. 
It is nothing very bad but with fast modeling it starts to disturb.

Another thing is startup. If I start XSI, nothing happens. I see that it 
starts a process but that process turns to sleep mode. If I start XSI 
again then it adds another XSI process and XSI starts. If I kill the 
older process newer one continues to operate normally. Have you guys 
noticed somehting like that before?

> Linux has
> it's flaws, but the network speed with NFS and the memory managment is
> something which is to die for
I have used Samba & Windows combo so far, security options are really 
welcome but samba performance has caused me also lot of headache time to 
time. As we are getting couple high end linux based grading & mac based 
cutting stations in close future NFS makes much more sense anyway.
Here they talk about "jumbo frames" where packet size has been bumped to 
9000Mbytes.
Can you comment that Stefan or share any tips about what kind of NFS 
configuration makes most sense in post house?
By the way, where are you located in Sweden? I were last week at Chimney 
Pot Stockholm office.


Cheers,
Tauno


Mikko Ronkainen wrote:
> Hello Tauno,
> I'm sorry to hear it is not working for you. Would you list some of 
> your issues, might be helpfull for others? For sure I did have none 
> compared to fc3 as I wrote. It is not only the matter if it not the 
> case CentOS 5.1 being obsolete, but sharing the problems and not 
> stating something without any arguments. Lately there were post 
> regarding using native window managers borders. That I do not 
> recommend, at least not in gnome, KDE and flux/blackbox were better.
>
> Uninstall:
> /usr/Softimage/XSI_6.5/./setup
>
> (I believe you can use yum remove, never did for xsi)
>
> Install:
> su
> yum install tcsh
> tcsh
> --> run the installer from where you keep it
>
> Alan has list of things and issues. One I remember is keeping your 
> nvidia driver below 10.xx. Make sure you have everything installed 
> listed at Softimages site. I do not install any preset in fedoras or 
> centOS installer, rather what is required and what I need.
>
> Mikko
>
>
> On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:02:01 +0200, Tauno ÃÃbik <tauno(at)joonisfilm.ee> 
> wrote:
>
> > Unfortunately not much feedback :)
> >
> > One is sure though, XSI doesnt work on CentOS 5.1 out of the box. Has 
> > lot of issues, installs fine but using it has lot of issues. Although 
> > I am not sure if I ran it under (t)csh.
> > How can I uninstall it and make sure that I am installing it from 
> > (t)csh?
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Tauno
> >
> >
> >
> > Tauno ÃÃbik wrote:
> > > I really like Slack as a desktop OS, it also has very stable 
> > > development and life cycle path. Plus it comes as lightweight as it 
> > > gets.
> > > I am afraid of old fedoras cause of hardware issues and at other 
> > > hand I am afraid of new fedoras since they are spit out before they 
> > > have reasonable time to mature. Multimedia station for workstation 
> > > just doesnt sound right...
> > > Some time ago I deployed Cent OS 5 to two of our servers, so far I 
> > > am very pleased with it, mainly cause of its very good compatibility 
> > > to RH Enterprise. As Nuke has good support for Cent OS then thats 
> > > probably what I am going to try out.
> > >
> > > Thanks Alan, I'll bug you when time gets so far :)
> > >
> > > Thanks all for your replys,
> > > Tauno
> > >
> > >
> > > Alan Jones wrote:
> > > > awwww shucks, now I feel bad.
> > > >
> > > > I haven't tried XSI with many distros at all, but I would say I've
> > > > seen someone post
> > > > about having trouble getting it running on a wide range of them.
> > > >
> > > > I think with Soft's current linux status you're going to need to learn
> > > > a bit about what
> > > > you're doing on linux to have hope with any of them.
> > > >
> > > > Main thing I'd recommend from the postings is to avoid Debian based 
> > > > distros
> > > > (Ubuntu is one of these) as I've still not seen anyone confirm it's
> > > > worked on these.
> > > >
> > > > Tauno, pick the distro you like, be sure to run setup from a (t)csh
> > > > shell then post
> > > > if you hit issues and I'll try help resolve it.
> > > >
> > > > I would advise avoiding FC5 and 6 also because both of these have 
> > > > gone EOL
> > > > (end of life - there is no support for developers for these). You are
> > > > likely to hit
> > > > issues with newer hardware if you use EOL distros because there are 
> > > > occasions
> > > > where new hardware requires a new driver which in some cases only 
> > > > works
> > > > with newer kernels and/or Xorg. These will not be available on EOL 
> > > > distros.
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > >
> > > > Alan.
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Bernard Lebel 
> > > > <3dbernard(at)gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > If you're not already very comfortable with linux engineering, don't
> > > > >  listen to Alan ;-)
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >  On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 8:22 AM, Tauno ÃÃbik 
> > > > > <tauno(at)joonisfilm.ee> wrote:
> > > > >  > What is your opinion, on what distro XSI runs best?
> > > > >  >
> > > > >  >  Thanks!
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