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I have begun the slow and probably painful (at least short term) process of converting all of my computers back to Linux. I still have to hold onto an XP partition until the movie is finished and I can replace my Q10. But we want to start editing footage so the process of building my very own "Deep Thought" began with adding .4TB of Harddrive space, getting linux to be happy with it all... getting it to see a NTFS partition for "special" transferrs as my CD Burner seems to have died, and downloading all of the linux A/V production software and "stuff" ...still need to get Vegastrike on it :)

I Haven't compiled anything yet...just collecting it all.

There are a few isses I havn't resolved yet (mainly due to lack of time):
1. I've never had sound on a linux computer before so I don't know much about getting my Soundblaster working too be able to start with audio work until I can get a Delta1010 or something.
2. I have to setup EVMS and I've never done "RAID stuff" ...doesn't look too hard though...
3. Need to get my D-Link wireless ethernet card to play nice.
4. Need to buy mounting ears or another harddisk carrage to cram all 8 harddisks in my case that I am currently useing (4 for XP and 4 for linux)...and yes there is plenty of room as I got one of those Antec 4U rack cases... I could probably fit 12...it'd be nice if PCI-IDE cards are cheap and I can get all of them at the same time...maybe...XP may say "WTF?! The EULA allows that?!"


I do have to admit that it seems to be smokin' right along and has plenty of personality :) The first time I did a system halt after installing and the drives spun down, it made the same noise as one would expect a supercomputer to make while powering down in a cheap SCIFI movie ...no not *BOOM* :) but "PHEWWwwwwwwww - *click*" I was like "wow... it's got some kahoonas." I'm assuming that the *click* was not the heads banging against the disk though :)

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Apr 25, 2005 10:40 am

ive never messed around with linux, what are the advantages? if any?

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Since: Apr 03, 2002

Apr 25, 2005 11:29 am

It's free and it easily runs in grids, thats about it, for workstation use like we do, there really isn't much more...Using Linux for a server has many more advantages such as being more secure.

Some time ago Linux used much less resources from the system and it ran much more stable, but thats really not so much true any more. Now people typically want to use it cuz it's free and it's not Windows.

Just FYI, a "grid" is simply a set of computers linked together sharing computing power.

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Since: May 11, 2002

Apr 25, 2005 09:34 pm

The renderfarm/grid ability was a major factor as I'm going to be doing an awful lot of video editing. Bugs are "usually" fixed faster... and of course it's free. GPL hardware drivers was the last straw for me as I have an Aardvark Q10 soundcard and aardvark went belly up and is currently Antelope and is currently being very ungraceful about past products. If I bought a Delt1010, M-Audio could go out of business and the drivers could still be developed as they are GPL. So basically I lost $800 in recording hardware for no good reason.

renderfarm/grid licenses don't apply. If I used an NT or Mac renderfarm I would have to buy a full license for each node which would really add up. Linux can also be bootable to different kernels which as far as I know Mac cant and Windows requires a complete seperate installation and still violates the EULA. So I could have a kernel setup for networking, one for audio and video, one for gaming, etc... without wasting 3GB each using the exact same files. It apparently has better RAID ability (never used RAID before though) as apparently normally if one disk fails the entire array fails where in EVMS it will adapt and continue to save data on the remaining drives.

The main problem is that my favorite distrobution (Slackware) isn't 64bit yet which I need (but I can switch to a different free 64bit distrobution - probably Gentoo) and it can be an absolutle pain in the *** to configure if you don't know what you're doing... :) As such I can't get my wireless ethernet card to work I'll probably just give up and lay wire as it's faster anyway.



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