nassosy Posted October 5, 2006 Share Posted October 5, 2006 Although i haven't tested it with Houdini SimplyMEPIS installs and works like a charm (even where Ubuntu fails miserably) http://www.mepis.org/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisux Posted October 6, 2006 Share Posted October 6, 2006 Although i haven't tested it with HoudiniSimplyMEPIS installs and works like a charm (even where Ubuntu fails miserably) http://www.mepis.org/ Yes MEPIS is great, specially in harware detection. But I have to say that Ubuntu is the best designed and user friendly linux distro for my opinion. This is the reason because MEPIS has moved to Ubuntu instead of Debian based: http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS6045116609.html Anyway Mepis is a great option of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kumpa Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 btw, houdini doesnt seem to work on ubuntu 6.10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisux Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 btw, houdini doesnt seem to work on ubuntu 6.10 Nop you have to use the long term support distro, 6.06, Dapper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jens Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 I'm a fan of Gentoo and Houdini works just fine. I don't know if things have improved in the past two years, but trying to install anything from source used to be rather scary using Fedora or Suse. Trying to resolve dependencies drove me nuts at times . This is where Gentoo shines and if you're happy to have just a 'fairly' optimised linux, installing Gentoo isn't any more difficult then other distributions. Besides they have a very good community and documentation: this is what convinced me most. Well, as long as you can do you work it doesn't really matter which linux flavour you choose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaJuice Posted November 22, 2006 Share Posted November 22, 2006 Nop you have to use the long term support distro, 6.06, Dapper. I have Houdini running on Kubuntu 6.10. Someone was asking about running it on Edgy the other day: http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com...opic&t=6465 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickW3D Posted November 26, 2006 Share Posted November 26, 2006 Well heck I might as well join in on the fun! I have been using gentoo for a while now but I just bought a macbook pro and wanted to try something that was quick to setup. I ended up dual-booting osx and ubuntu dapper and it works just fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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