I have used houdini under Fedora and Red hat linux 8. how about it performs under other linux?
And, can anyone give me some advices, which one is better to run CG softwares, xp or w2k?

I'm using Houdini 6.1 Apprentice on Red Hat Linux 9 and it's great. All you need to do is use a c-shell to set the following environment variable:

LD_ASSUME_KERNEL 2.4.1

Other than that, everything is fine.

I hope this helps.

how about other type of linux?

I'm using Houdini with Gentoo linux and it works pretty good. I have some problems with dual monitors (one day I'll search for a solution) but otherwise it's just fine.

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gentoo and mandrake, rock solid! houdini crashes for me occasionally in windows which is annoying but at least it has a good file recovery.

Hey,

I have it on Mandrake Red Hat and Windows 2000. I prefer Mandrake over redhat few problems and red hat also locks you out from using certain types of sound files which might conflict with your production method. So … I would say go with Mandrake and you don't have to do that Special shell thing you have to do for red hat.

Cheers,
Nate Nesler

Its funny this topic came up, because I was just downloading redhat 9 to setup on my box at home.



What is the difference between mandrake and redhat?

I am trying 2000 and mandrake 9.2. But it seems that houdini can't be installed under mandrake9.2, I don't know why…

I started up an od page for this if people want to write down tricks to getting each variant of linux to work with Houdini.

http://www.odforce.net/odwiki/index.php/PlatformIssues [odforce.net]

off:
http://www.odforce.net/odwiki [odforce.net]

This would be valuable information to keep up to date and shared with people trying out their own setups.

Cheers,
Jason. [wikipedia.com]

I'm using houdini with Debian/testing with kernel 2.4.24 and it works fine

That's good to hear, lisux. Maybe you can visit the odwiki link and add your knowledge to it?

just wanted to put another vote in for gentoo. setting it up is a little more complicated than Fedora/Red Hat but the responsiveness is worth it (was for me anyway, your mileage may vary). There's some good articles in the gentoo forums [forums.gentoo.org] about getting houdini runnning on gentoo.

I'm using RedHat 7.3 with FireGL2. Great! Performance. If you have Nvidia's VGA, redhat9 is good choice.

Anyone using houdini(for 64bit) with IA64(AMD hammer?) system? I wanna about that performance.

Houdini6.1.335 for linux_ia64_rh2.1AW
http://www.sidefx.com/download/license.php?version=6.1&build=335&platform=linux_ia64_rh2.1AW [sidefx.com]

does the IA64 version work with AMD64 cpu's and/or AMD64 linux?