C. Hosey wrote:

> Try http://www.cheapbytes.com - I picked up the Slackware 3.4 4-CD set
>
> for about $7 plus S&H. I've been running Slackware for just under a
> week
> and I already love it; I have yet to install POV under Linux, so I
> can't
> verify the difference in rendering speed.

Another place is http://www.linuxmall.com/

They have free (+S&H, tho) CDs available, my suggestion is to get RedHat
4.2

Other options are the RedHat 4.2 Powertools 6-CD set for $30, or RedHat
5.0 full version with manual and some commercial apps for $50.

One REALLY awesome thing about POV on Unix machines - PVM.  It's a
message-passing protocol that allows programs written for it to use
multiple networked machines as one machine with a huge amount of power,
and there's a patch for POV that allows you to use PVM.  Of course, you
need access to a whole load of unused machines.  (I'm borrowing this
from my HS...  A roomful of 20 Cyrix 6x86-166 machines that are rarely
used.  :)  It appears that there isn't a POV-PVM port for Crash95, which
is unfortunate because I'd rather not have to install Linux and
reinstall Windoze on 20 machines.  (FIPS doesn't like FAT32...  FAT32
sucks.)

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