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Marc

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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 :rolleyes: , but it runs slower on 64bit CentOS than it does on 32bit windows... which seems wrong somehow.

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Marc

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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 :rolleyes: , but it runs slower on 64bit CentOS than it does on 32bit windows... which seems wrong somehow.

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Marc

At least it works. Try to repeat that trick under Ubuntu... :(

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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.

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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

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