>>>> I'm a total n00b at Unix. I've installed Pov-Ray 3.6 on Linux via
>>>> the software manager, but I obviously can't get the beta there.
>
> I forgot to say that you probably will prefer to go by the Wine route
> for the beta. Just install wine, the double click on the msi you
> downloaded from the POV-Ray site. Nicely, all your POV files will get
> associated on nautilus.
>
> It's slow to start, but then it works pretty well if you don't have the
> desktop effects enabled. There is a little problem with the tool buttons
>  not showing at times, but if you re-size the window they will appear.
>
> For me it works like a charm under Fedora 11. In fact, the scene I'm
> rendering in this very moment is almost 6 times faster than 3.6 or
> MegaPOV, when it should be only 2 times faster at most... this might be a
> very rare case.
>

  Oh... and don't forget to turn off auto-reload, or it will hang when you
switch to other app.


-- 
Jaime Vives Piqueres

http://www.ignorancia.org

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