Re: Which Linux?

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

FC7 (which xsi can be made run on)

And how precisely can one do that?

Thanks,
Tauno

Raffaele Fragapane wrote:

centOS 5.1 will run XSI, I was just unimpressed with it in general and it moves at an even slower pace than normal RHEL. It's also less supported, documented, and has a smaller comunity.
Personally I'd probably rather go with FC7 (which xsi can be made run on) than with a now fairly dated centOS gen.

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Stefan Andersson <sanders3d(at)gmail.com> wrote:

never mind... permission problems with the folders that were created
during install.

it all works fine now.

over and out


/s

On 4/9/08, Stefan Andersson <sanders3d(at)gmail.com> wrote:
> Work fine with CentOS 5.1 x64, though... 2 things are not working as
>  they should.
>
>  1.) Preferences are never saved... I'm getting the EULA page each time
>  I start xsi
>
>  2.) if you use XSIUIToolkit.PickFolder (which the preferences has with
>  workgroups) and get that Windows(R) like folder window XSI
>  crashes/hangs with a error "Path is to long"
>
>  regards
>
> stefan andersson
>
>
>
>  On 4/9/08, Tauno Ööbik <tauno(at)joonisfilm.ee> wrote:
>  >
>  >
>  >  So next test will be CentOS 5.1,
>  > and I cross my fingers that XSI will work with that one.
>  >  No need doing that, it works just fine. Although I have not yet done
>  > production work on it yet, but as of now I see no restrictions to do so.
>  > Testing went all fine with CentOS 5.1
>  >  Maya 2008, all cool too.
>  >
>  >
>  >  -Tauno
>  >
>  >
>  >  Stefan Andersson wrote:
>  >
>  >  What is your timeline for testing and deployement and what versions of what
>  > softwares will you want to run?
>  >
>  >  XSI 6.5, Maya 2008, python 2.5, python-mysql, wxpython-2.8
>  > timeline: needs to be working within 2 weeks.
>  >
>  > Those are the main ones that we need to be compatible. So far
>  > everything except XSI is working fine with FC8, but we had to ditch
>  > the idea since we need XSI to run. So next test will be CentOS 5.1,
>  > and I cross my fingers that XSI will work with that one. The problem
>  > we run into is that current "supported" linux versions has reached
>  > their EOL a while back and we can't get them to run properly on these
>  > new machines.
>  >
>  > In a perfect world XSI 7.0 would be out now, since we are a new XSI
>  > house and have only one project delivered with 6.5 we could easily
>  > switch over and start the hole thing with 7.0. But who know when that
>  > one will arrive, or in which linux world it will live in.
>  > I have high hopes though and keeping fingers, toes, legs, arms and
>  > eyes crossed that it will be amazing :)
>  >
>  > Haven't heard anything from support yet... something tells me they are
>  > only going to point me towards the softimage page :)
>  >
>  > regards
>  > stefan
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>
>
>
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