On Sunday 27 January 2008 23:14, Aniruddha Dasgupta wrote:

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http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Apparently, some people have worked with Maya on Debian and Gentoo before. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5235 for more information.

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http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5235

Maya provides RPM packages for Red Hat based distributions.

My OS of choice for you would be one of Debian or Ubuntu or UbuntuStudio. You can choose any of the abovementioned distributions and figure out for yourself.

For Ubuntu: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-358243.html and http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=66859

I can send you copies of any Linux distribution you'd like to use. Just send me an email and I'll arrange for it.

Regards, Yesudeep. -- येसुदीप मंगलािपल्ली

Thanks a lot for your help. I would be grateful if you could arrange

for a copy of the latest Mandriva. i.e Mandriva One My other question is, how do i convert the Maya RPM package to a Debian based format ?

no need to convert. alien -i xyz.rpm will install an rpm package directly on a debian system. WARNING: while this has worked most of the time dependencies do cause problems with the some packages

On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 17:55 +0530, Raj Mathur wrote:

On Sunday 27 Jan 2008, Sudhir Gandotra wrote:

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On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 12:43 -0800, Aniruddha Dasgupta wrote:

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Hello Folks,

As a new member to your mailing list, i hereby state, that i am a novice at using linux. But i am well aware of the power it bestows upon us. :)) Anyway, i am an _Animator_ and would like to know, which would be the best Distro for running Autodesk Maya ? I stay in Vashi Sector 10. and would be greatly obliged if any of the senior members would have an extra copy of a suitable distro for me.

You can collect a complimentary copy of OpenLX Linux Edge ver 2.0 DVD from mumbai (Atul J @ ) by showing a print of this mail. He is in Vile-Parle.

Does that distribution run Maya?

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On Monday 28 January 2008 10:35:10 pm Aniruddha Dasgupta wrote:

We have zeroed in on Open Suse and Mandriva. Can someone tell us how to convert RPM packages run on Ubuntu. because we really liked the distro.

You need .deb packages to install it on Ubuntu.

Kushal

On Monday 28 January 2008 22:35, Aniruddha Dasgupta wrote:

Thanks folks for all your support and suggestions. For Rony and JTD : guys, i am aware of Blender and what it can do. and i am currently working towards learning that. But i am a professional Animator and i have a registered company with 16 people working with me. and we are all Maya professionals since the last 4 years. We already have Licensed copies of Maya with us which ships with Windows, MAC and Linux versions.

HEHE: here is something that happened a few days ago with us. A pcb design package (which i have talked about off and on) using a stupid dongle for copy protection and running on doze - the last package which required doze (actually dosemu). The dongle konked out and the company (now with new owners) requires us to upgrade and buy new dongles. Never mind that we can crack the dongle and get rid of it. To cut a long story short i am now forced to do what we put off for long - switching over to geda and pcb. Nothing like a real simultaneous pain in the ass and the pocket to make one do things i suppose.

Non FOSS software ALWAYS bites.

Aniruddha Dasgupta wrote:

and we are all Maya professionals since the last 4 years. We already have Licensed copies of Maya with us which ships with Windows, MAC and Linux versions.

So we are now looking for the best platform to run that.

What were the factors that helped the decision of using Maya on Linux? I am curious to know as I have a client who uses licensed Windows and 3D Max and is currently stuck with that platform.

We have zeroed in on Open Suse and Mandriva. Can someone tell us how to convert RPM packages run on Ubuntu. because we really liked the distro.

For production, it is advisable to stick to the 'baap' of *buntu, that is Debian. Debian stable is the ideal one. Debian unstable is what goes into *buntu. It is like a beta software. Install both the desktops ( KDE and Gnome) and their developer tools. That way your system has the advantage of both the environments.

Have a look at the link below for installation notes for Linux.

http://download.autodesk.com/us/maya/2008help/General/Additional_Linux_notes...');