Heres a good linux Distro for you guy to try. It cost but its coming a Good Company.
The Way Sun is dealing with AMD64 and Opterons expect some serious 64bit Support to come through. At work we dropping a a few Sun Opterons servers in racks to be tested for performance. This distro might need to be tweak to work with some hardware. I’m going to get a copy for myself. Pllus comes with Star Office 7.
Future release of Java Desktop most likely will be solaris based. Newer versions of Solaris for Intel is serious. Its no way like solaris 8 and older which suck and was only good for teaching. Sun made Solaris for Intel production ready, hopefully it will be Solaris for AMD64.
Well give your thoughts on Distro.
http://wwws.sun.com/software/javadesktopsystem/
I am sorry, but as moderator I am wondering how this topic is related to Blender or CG, please try to be more on topic.
cheers…
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I’m sorry, I totally forgot to mention I was goning to try it with Blender at work.
I know better than to post a non related CG topic.
There are lot of Blender heads that use Linux (I myself one). With recent changes with Redhat. I figure this would have been something the Blender folks who use Linux or even Solaris would look at.
Next time I would re-read before submit.
Ah I didn’t notice the
“Chat about anything related to Computer Graphics or elYsiun”
Can you either lock, remove it or move to Off-Topic.
Sorry for the miss topic Post.
thanks for the reply!
well I can move it to Off-topic, so you can continue the debate there…
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now moved… :Z
happy debate…
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ps. for those who wants to continue with Red Hat part, there’s now Fedora project: http://fedora.redhat.com/
http://caosity.org
http://taolinux.org
http://whiteboxlinux.org
The above are all INDEPENDANT spinoffs of the red hat distro. I am very bummed aboout rh’s decision and I am getting ready to jump ship ----- debian maybe, I don’t know yet.
I am just now trying to transfer totally to linux, but more as dualboot if in need of windows…but I use Fedora Linux Core 1 and are VERY satisfied with it so far…I also get lots of help from basse who is a old Red Hat user, but I am also learning fast now
…which makes me happy 
and I even like the GUI handling more now than ever in Linux (Gnome mostly, trying to feel what I like) than Windows XP…easier to move windows as with Alt-key and MMB, but in Windows you must grab the headerbar to move it…heh
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but also, the feeling of the GUI feels more solid in Linux as well…
I have got most stuff working; 100% OpenGL, Dualmonitor (21"+19" , 19" is main monitor) , Wacom Graphire2, my Kodak EZ200 webcam and my scanner…but only partly supported…
but as I said, I am happy…have been wanted to transfer for long…and this new ‘yum’ command to download and install to update system are also very easy
cheers!
I’ve set my comp up with a removable hard disk thing in one of the front panels, I keep windows on one, and red hat (or whatever other distro I feel like at the time) on the other. I love it. I don’t like the feel of duel boot systems. I get to play all my old games on windows, and have some serious terminal control over linux. I love linux for programing and web developement too… and blender… and gimp… and open office. Hell windows is my play toy, linux does all the real work.
I got all my hardware working (unreal tournament 2003 runs better on linux for me).
I going to give Sun Java Desktop a try. I’m more a Mac Person but when It comes to 3D I’m mostly PC/SGI base. I think Sun is going to put alot But not sure how OpenGL is supported in it.
My first version of linux was rh 5.2 I’m really sorry they went hard core and in some ways shafted the open source community. They throttled their servers so far down that a user on a pay/time 56k hookup was just tough lucked. I use the gnome desktop but have quite a few kde apps that i use. I’m going to watch what happens and go from there but I am leaning real hard toward debian
if you’re willing to put up with an install like debian, have you looked into gentoo? imho portage is even better than apt-get, plus gentoo is streamlined and up to date - not knocking debian-testing’s stabiltity.
I’ve heard that gentoo was good but have not looked into it. How’s development coming along with it? Any good forums to go to?
gentoo development is moving very quickly, seem to be moving fast with amd64 and g5 too, excellent forums at:
todah
Since you are just comming from a “thing” such as Windows XP I usually wouldn’t recomend this to you, but you look very enthusiast so here it goes: If you think that Gnome is cool wait untill you try KDE.
GNOME is like the sugar-coated desktop enviroment, while KDE caters more for the power/experienced users… they both unofficially agree on this. (They are both very powerfull desktops enviroments and on 99.9% of the situations can run the same graphical apps).
So, when you are confortable enough in Gnome, consider taking a walk into KDE, you’ll never look back.
Since you are just comming from a “thing” such as Windows XP I usually wouldn’t recomend this to you, but you look very enthusiast so here it goes: If you think that Gnome is cool wait untill you try KDE.
GNOME is like the sugar-coated desktop enviroment, while KDE caters more for the power/experienced users… they both unofficially agree on this. (They are both very powerfull desktops enviroments and on 99.9% of the situations can run the same graphical apps).
So, when you are confortable enough in Gnome, consider taking a walk into KDE, you’ll never look back.[/quote]
I already used KDE several times before…but there’s something about KDE that doesn’t look that nice…like the panel at bottom…doesn’t feel to pro in my point of view…but I might run it
If you didn’t like it… why you didn’t customized it to your needs. Customization is the stronghold of KDE… the people on Red Hat showed to the whole world that KDE can (sadly) be customised to look virtually the same as GNOME… now that’s the default look on KDE when you install from a Red-Hat disk. 
aha
thanks for the tip
Being an antique GIMP user is why I went with the gnome desktop. The same technology runs gnome. I hear there is a powerful integration in the wings. I currently use kde apps in gnome without too much trouble.
I’ve used Red Hat, Suse and Gentoo a bit myself. Gentoo was a good learning experience and the community is great.