Marc Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 Anybody tried this piece of s.... er... spectacular software on CentOS? In theory it should work fine, especially since their only recommended distro is Fedora Core 5 , but it runs slower on 64bit CentOS than it does on 32bit windows... which seems wrong somehow. Thanks Marc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
symek Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 Anybody tried this piece of s.... er... spectacular software on CentOS? In theory it should work fine, especially since their only recommended distro is Fedora Core 5 , but it runs slower on 64bit CentOS than it does on 32bit windows... which seems wrong somehow.Thanks Marc At least it works. Try to repeat that trick under Ubuntu... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vmuriel Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 Nothing important, but the last time I executed XSI under linux, some years ago, Wine was there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
symek Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 Nothing important, but the last time I executed XSI under linux, some years ago, Wine was there. They recently have droped SUSE support and I think they are about to stop supporting Linux at all. It seems like no one wants XSI on Linux. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted November 27, 2008 Author Share Posted November 27, 2008 If I'm forced to have a dual OS pipeline just because Softimage is too lazy, I'm going to be pretty grumpy. Come to think of it I'm pretty annoyed right now just thinking about it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old school Posted November 27, 2008 Share Posted November 27, 2008 That really sucks. Dual booting can chew up a good half hour a day if you have to switch a couple times. I wonder how long before it doesn't run on any platform... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted November 27, 2008 Author Share Posted November 27, 2008 I wonder how long before it doesn't run on any platform... I one way, that would be a blessing 'cause then we wouldn't have to worry about dealing with them anymore . M Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitallysane Posted November 30, 2008 Share Posted November 30, 2008 but it runs slower on 64bit CentOS than it does on 32bit windows... which seems wrong somehow. As far as I know they are dependent on MainWin (I think) libraries which implement some Windows functionality under Linux. Basically, XSI is quite a "Windows-native" application which is made Linux-compatible by some tricks. Something quite similar happens with Fusion I think, which uses a tweaked Wine for it's interface on Linux. I think not being truly platform-independent was one of the biggest mistakes of Softimage, but on the other hand they had no choice as their owner (Microsoft) at the time they started development on XSI forced them to be as Windows native as possible. For Houdini is easy to behave on Linux as their ancestry was Unix (which sometime is painfully obvious on Windows -- but fortunately lots of studios don't care). Dragos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted November 30, 2008 Author Share Posted November 30, 2008 Well I do have some good news, they've released 701 (7.01? weird versioning) and it now runs at least as fast as 32bit windows. So we're ok with that . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marvelaugusts Posted April 6, 2010 Share Posted April 6, 2010 (edited) ... Edited August 27, 2010 by Marc spam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted April 6, 2010 Author Share Posted April 6, 2010 haha.... what? oh right, you're that spammer guy. Boom, gone! M Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisadam Posted August 27, 2010 Share Posted August 27, 2010 (edited) .... Edited August 27, 2010 by Marc spam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted August 27, 2010 Author Share Posted August 27, 2010 Is it me or does the word 'XSI' seem to attract more spammers? weird... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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