matEvil Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 Hi there, I read a lot a discussion, but I didn't found a good answer for my doubt. In the past I used CentOS (but a lot of setting and "to do") for a shot time and Kubuntu, but I want pass to rpm distro, for that reason I started to evaluate Fedora respect CentOS. Someone use it? (Fedora) what do you think? thanks for your help and have a nice day Matteo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukeiamyourfather Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 Fedora will have more modern features. CentOS will have many years of support and more stable but older features. If you don't want to be updating your operating system every six months then use CentOS. If you don't mind the tinkering every six months and want the latest features then use Fedora. Why does RPM matter? Autodesk software? If that's the case then CentOS 7 will be your only option for now. Maya 2020 which just came out doesn't support CentOS 8 and they dropped support for Fedora entirely. I'm amazed that people still use Maya. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matEvil Posted December 17, 2019 Author Share Posted December 17, 2019 Ok, Thanks. No Autodesk, the reason is DaVinci. I read it works on rpm and not on deb (or I'm wrong?). Essentially I want use Blender, Houdini and DaVinci and I'm looking for a good distro for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vsuvarna Posted December 19, 2019 Share Posted December 19, 2019 Correct. DaVinci Resolve and Fusion only support CentOS and RHEL as per their configuration guide. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matEvil Posted December 19, 2019 Author Share Posted December 19, 2019 3 hours ago, vsuvarna said: Correct. DaVinci Resolve and Fusion only support CentOS and RHEL as per their configuration guide. Ok, thanks... so no Fedora? in the meantime I found some one install DaVinci on deb distro. https://www.linuxuprising.com/2018/06/how-to-install-davinci-resolve-15-in.html So if it's work I can moved also on DEB distro like mint or kubuntu? thanks Matteo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asmartkid Posted December 20, 2019 Share Posted December 20, 2019 On 17/12/2019 at 10:42 PM, matEvil said: Ok, Thanks. No Autodesk, the reason is DaVinci. I read it works on rpm and not on deb (or I'm wrong?). Essentially I want use Blender, Houdini and DaVinci and I'm looking for a good distro for that. I (and others I know) have Resolve working fine on Mint (Ubuntu based). I use Houdini on a daily basis too. To install Resolve on Ubuntu you have to - first: adapt the rpm to .deb by using the alien utility. It's an automatic process, don´t be afraid of it. - second: launch the installer process which will finish without issues. But launching the app won´t work or will get stuck when loading. I remember you have to create a dynamic link for Resolve to find the libraries in the expected location, which differs between Debian and RedHat based distributions. I was foolish enough not to write down the steps I followed, but it was not specially hard and all is documented in the Davinci forums. I mean, I'm not in any way a Linux specialist and managed to get it running in a very short time, totally doable. Good luck if you try! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matEvil Posted December 20, 2019 Author Share Posted December 20, 2019 10 hours ago, asmartkid said: I (and others I know) have Resolve working fine on Mint (Ubuntu based). I use Houdini on a daily basis too. To install Resolve on Ubuntu you have to - first: adapt the rpm to .deb by using the alien utility. It's an automatic process, don´t be afraid of it. - second: launch the installer process which will finish without issues. But launching the app won´t work or will get stuck when loading. I remember you have to create a dynamic link for Resolve to find the libraries in the expected location, which differs between Debian and RedHat based distributions. I was foolish enough not to write down the steps I followed, but it was not specially hard and all is documented in the Davinci forums. I mean, I'm not in any way a Linux specialist and managed to get it running in a very short time, totally doable. Good luck if you try! thanks for your information I try in January Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matEvil Posted January 21, 2020 Author Share Posted January 21, 2020 FYI I bought another SSD and try Fedora and find good for now, but I think to test also a deb based soon. Matteo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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