Linux

[vlado]

May be interesting to some of you



Full-res image here: http://www.spot3d.com/vray/images/linux/linux_vfb.png

Best regards,
Vlado

[trixian]

I am intrigued.

[siliconbauhaus]

oooooooh

whats the speed like compared to xp?

[percydaman]

Drool..... Especially since Ive been learning linux for the last couple weeks.

[jujubee]

What possibilities does this open up besides not relying on Microsoft and a 10 computer limit? Will you also be able to render animations through Linux slaves?

[dbuchhofer]

assuming you dont use any unsupported max plugins.. which sadly might be many many of them, this is a huge development for the non-max club though I'd think

Sweet news though, looking forward to being able to play with vray again at home~

[czoog]

Sweet!

[Dynedain]

I look forward to being able to not pay the microsoft tax on render nodes in the future.

Vlado, if you're building for linux, will you be releasing binaries? or letting people compile themselves. If the former, any chance for a OSX binary?

[ezrhythm]

good news...

[cpnichols]

great... now I have to add a partition to my HD...

[percydaman]

haha. i said screw that and went and bought a new HD and hot swap bay.

[Dschaga]

...poor vlado, you still working and working on the wrong version


drop 1.5 !

[DaForce]

oooo sweeeet.

Maybe I can use some of our Linux mail and web servers here at work for a small linux render farm.
"mmm mail seems slow today"

hehe

[cpnichols]

What possibilities does this open up besides not relying on Microsoft and a 10 computer limit? Will you also be able to render animations through Linux slaves?

One big advantage for large shops of Linux is that it is free. So for example, at my work they have 4000 processors on the farm. Since XP pro costs a lot, using Linux saves a lot of money. Plus Linux seems much better at very large networks. Plus Linux is already 64bits. Plus Linux is not a memory hog like windows can be. Plus Vray for Maya is going out soon and Maya runs great in Linux.

[DaForce]

And dont forget Linux is a hell of a lot easier to remotely administer. And everything is scriptable