> I can almost guarantee you that this won't work as a permanent solution. 
>  You will either stop using Linux or stop using Windows after some time 

	Life isn't so black or white, is it?

	I've been constantly using both environments for about 10 years now
(but started with DOS 5.0/Windows 2.1).  My equations system is pretty
simple actually:

Windows == multimedia* and games**
Linux   == work and development

	I know the first equation is becoming less relevant though.

	- NC

  * basically DVD and photographic stuffs.
** well in fact, not even, as I stopped playing games before win95 showed up.

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Nicolas Calimet <pov### [at] freefr> wrote:
> Windows == multimedia* and games**

>   * basically DVD and photographic stuffs.

  I am often too lazy to boot to windows in order to watch a DVD, so
I just watch it in linux with mplayer. Mplayer does not support
anything else than watching the specified track (eg. it doesn't
support the DVD menu system nor any interactive functionality that
the DVD may have), but it has been enough...

-- 
                                                          - Warp

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Nicolas Calimet wrote:
> 
>     Life isn't so black or white, is it?
> 
>     I've been constantly using both environments for about 10 years now
> (but started with DOS 5.0/Windows 2.1).  My equations system is pretty
> simple actually:

Switching between on a single system?

> Windows == multimedia* and games**
> Linux   == work and development
> 
>     I know the first equation is becoming less relevant though.

Well if one is used very rarely (i'd say less than 5% of the time) this 
might work.  It appears to me that this might be so in your case.

But i agree that i should be more careful with saying "this won't work". 
  You can observe much stranger computer use habits out there than 
routinely rebooting to switch between operating systems several times 
per day...

Chritoph

-- 
POV-Ray tutorials, include files, Landscape of the week:
http://www.imagico.de/ (Last updated 31 Oct. 2005)
MegaPOV with mechanics simulation: http://megapov.inetart.net/

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Warp wrote:
> 
>   I am often too lazy to boot to windows in order to watch a DVD, so
> I just watch it in linux with mplayer. Mplayer does not support
> anything else than watching the specified track (eg. it doesn't
> support the DVD menu system nor any interactive functionality that
> the DVD may have), but it has been enough...
> 

Ever tried Xine? DVD Menus, DXR3 -support (demands em8300 -drivers,
naturally), playlists etc...

But yes, MPlayer is a nice player. I also usually use it.

-- 
Eero "Aero" Ahonen
   http://www.zbxt.net
      aer### [at] removethiszbxtnetinvalid

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> Switching between on a single system?

	Yes (home computer*) especially since I finally got to install
a second hard drive for linux only.  Booting either system is a matter
of ~15 (Windows) and 20** (Linux) seconds on my not-so-fast computer...
I can afford doing that every once in a while per day  :-)

> Well if one is used very rarely (i'd say less than 5% of the time) this 
> might work.  It appears to me that this might be so in your case.

	Not really -- it's amazing how much I like to watch DVDs  ;-)
	In fact it's nowadays pretty close to fifty-fifty.

	- NC

  * at work: 100% Linux without dual boot;
    laptop : 100% Windows (for "safety" wrt drivers) with Cygwin/Mingw.
** to the Linux console on a Knoppix-derived distro with self-compiled
    kernel and modules; X/KDE takes almost 10 seconds more to start up.

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Nicolas Calimet wrote:
> 
>     Not really -- it's amazing how much I like to watch DVDs  ;-)
>     In fact it's nowadays pretty close to fifty-fifty.

So you are spending half of your time watching DVDs and gaming?

SCNR.

And you have my sympathy for not being able to check your EMail while 
watching a movie. ;-)

Christoph

-- 
POV-Ray tutorials, include files, Landscape of the week:
http://www.imagico.de/ (Last updated 31 Oct. 2005)
MegaPOV with mechanics simulation: http://megapov.inetart.net/

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Eero Ahonen wrote:
> 
> Ever tried Xine? DVD Menus, DXR3 -support (demands em8300 -drivers,
> naturally), playlists etc...
> 
> But yes, MPlayer is a nice player. I also usually use it.
> 

Right after writing this my Xine crashed :o. That's life, Lucky for me
MPlayer still worked...


-- 
Eero "Aero" Ahonen
   http://www.zbxt.net
      aer### [at] removethiszbxtnetinvalid

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"Tek" <tek### [at] evilsuperbraincom> wrote in message
news:439155ee$1@news.povray.org...
> 1/ what version of linux should I get?

As other have said, SuSE is pretty good. I prefer Ubuntu though. Ubuntu
however, didn't install all the necessary development tools by default,
however it's update program "Synaptic" is very easy to use and very easy to
select what you need. development tools would be needed to build POV-Ray
from source.

both SuSE and Ubuntu have 64 bit versions

> 2/ how much better is 64-bit pov compared to 32-bit on the same system?
> (i.e. is it worth the effort?)

I got about 21% speed increase on benchmark.ini going from 32 bit to
self-compiled 64 bit POV-Ray. See povray.benchmarking for details.

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Eero Ahonen nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2005-12-04 03:55:
> Alain wrote:
> 
>>I did a render that exeeded 20 000 000 rad samples for a 1208*960
>>render. It was aproching the million around 150 lines, maybe less... and
>>the radiosity settings where not very high, default with 60 samples and
>>recursion_limit 2.
>>
> 
> 
> Uuh, nice. How long did it take and how much memory did it consume? And
> on what hardware?
> 
I had some intermitent swapping, I don't remember exactly how much memory was used,
maybe around 700 
to 800 Mb. It rendered in about 40 hours.
AMD 1400 with 512 Mb. (time to upgrade)

-- 
Alain
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Warp wrote:
> Nicolas Calimet <pov### [at] freefr> wrote:
> 
>>Windows == multimedia* and games**
> 
> 
>>  * basically DVD and photographic stuffs.
> 
> 
>   I am often too lazy to boot to windows in order to watch a DVD, so
> I just watch it in linux with mplayer. Mplayer does not support
> anything else than watching the specified track (eg. it doesn't
> support the DVD menu system nor any interactive functionality that
> the DVD may have), but it has been enough...
> 
For DVDs, I've been using xine with Fedora 3 -- works fine.  I even 
reboot to Linux from Windows just to play a DVD...   :-)  (Yes, I have 
DVD players for Windows (2 of them), but I actually tend to prefer xine.)

      -=- Larry -=-

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