Hi,

At A|W's site they state:

Customers wishing to purchase Linux or IRIX versions of Maya should contact a local reseller.

I started thinking is the 4.5 even ported to Linux yet? Does anyone know?

Someone who is expert on this area could enlighten me what is the current situation; Can one get along with just Linux? I mean are there enough good image manipulation, compositing, video editing, audio editing, etc tools for it?

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Maya 4.5 is available for Linux and the free beta of MentalRay for the Linux version of Maya 4.5 is ready too

From what I understand from friends that run Maya in Linux it's much faster and smoother than running in Windows. There are a lot of free graphic apps available for compositing, processing etc. out there. It's got better memory management and requires a lot less to run the same app as in Windows. From what I understand Photoshop will be getting ported over soon

As soon as more apps get ported over and Linux is more compatible with pro audio, I'll be switching!

Darkon

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Originally posted by Darkon
As soon as more apps get ported over and Linux is more compatible with pro audio, I'll be switching!

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That's what I was thinking too. I just haven't been following the evolution of the linux world lately. That's why I asked.

What apps are there for it already besides Maya?

Btw, last time I tried The Gimp looked very promising. Much like Photoshop but free!

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Kari
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yeah, i like the GIMP a lot. no need to port photoshop unless they're (HAHA) making it open-source.

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