Hi friends, We are currently in talks with some of the Big Movie house about making 3d Animated TV serials in India. We would be starting from January. Now we would be having a studio with a team of around 50 people and 30 Workstations, Servers, Render farms, Storage solutions etc. Now we want to utilize the full potential of our Hardware. Windows does not have this ability. We want the entire Setup in Linux. We would like to know, if there is a group or people in this List who can undertake This kind of work. If yes, we would like to talk immediately. Next, we shall work on Maya, Adobe software's etc. So the Linux Flavor should support that. Please suggest a Distro which also has a large hardware compatibility. If any Positive response, please contact Aniruddha on: 09324696842, 09860931588
Aniruddha Dasgupta Director-Animation & Technical E-dutainment Unlimited Nerul, Navi Mumbai
Aniruddha,
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Aniruddha Dasgupta anicomp78@gmail.com wrote:
Hi friends, We are currently in talks with some of the Big Movie house about making 3d Animated TV serials in India. We would be starting from January. Now we would be having a studio with a team of around 50 people and 30 Workstations, Servers, Render farms, Storage solutions etc. Now we want to utilize the full potential of our Hardware. Windows does not have this ability. We want the entire Setup in Linux. We would like to know, if there is a group or people in this List who can undertake This kind of work. If yes, we would like to talk immediately. Next, we shall work on Maya, Adobe software's etc. So the Linux Flavor should support that. Please suggest a Distro which also has a large hardware compatibility. If any Positive response, please contact Aniruddha on: 09324696842, 09860931588
We had a very good session on Graphics and Animation on GNU/Linux @ Rhythm & Hues in last LUG meet. You just missed that by few week.
Aditya and Sam from R&H on the list. May be they will through more light on this.
However, as per the presentation given by Aditya - Maya and Adobe Products are not available on GNU/Linux platform.
Wish you all the best in your quest for Freedom!
Aniruddha Dasgupta Director-Animation & Technical E-dutainment Unlimited Nerul, Navi Mumbai
With regards,
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 9:48 AM, aditya awasudeo@gmail.com wrote:
Just to clarify, Maya has a Linux version. However Adobe products (Photoshop, Illustrator etc) do not ship for Linux.
Photoshop CS2 has reached Platinum level support with wine 1.1.10, which
means it works out of the box (or with very few tricks). Versions of Photoshop lower than CS2 are known to work pretty well with wine on Linux.
Adobe CS3 support is in the works. You can get Photoshop, Flash, and Dreamweaver working with wine 1.1.10 with some additional tweaking. Give it a couple months and these will work as well. The installers are almost working now. CS4 doesn't work yet.
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Please suggest a Distro which also has a large hardware compatibility.
Distros don't differ much on account of hardware compatibility because they use the same kernel,what may differ is the version of the kernel and any of their own minor patches/hacks.
Regards, Easwar Registered Linux user #442065
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Easwar Hariharan meindian523@gmail.comwrote:
<snip> > > Please suggest a Distro which also has a large hardware > compatibility.
Distros don't differ much on account of hardware compatibility because they use the same kernel,what may differ is the version of the kernel and any of their own minor patches/hacks.
Not true. There are distros which support a wider array of drivers. For example Redhat / Fedora kernels seem to have better support for DRI on most graphics cards while the same doesn't hold true for Debian though Ubuntu goes a step ahead with support for restricted drivers.
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 5:10 AM, Dinesh Joshi dinesh.a.joshi@gmail.com wrote:
Not true. There are distros which support a wider array of drivers. For example Redhat / Fedora kernels seem to have better support for DRI on most graphics cards while the same doesn't hold true for Debian though Ubuntu goes a step ahead with support for restricted drivers.
I don't think this is true. Debian supports most hardwares than any distro is supporting (or can support).
On Sunday 07 December 2008 05:10, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Easwar Hariharan
meindian523@gmail.comwrote:
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Please suggest a Distro which also has a large hardware compatibility.
Distros don't differ much on account of hardware compatibility because they use the same kernel,what may differ is the version of the kernel and any of their own minor patches/hacks.
Not true. There are distros which support a wider array of drivers. For example Redhat / Fedora kernels seem to have better support for DRI on most graphics cards while the same doesn't hold true for Debian though Ubuntu goes a step ahead with support for restricted drivers.
Incorrect. Support may be out of the box in case of RH / Fedora. But a simple download and recompile will provide support for ANY distro including home brew. I really is very simple.
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