Ken wrote:
> 
> The TAG and The POV-Team are trying to get a better picture of how many
> people here use POV-Ray on a Linux/Unix based machine. If you do have it
> installed please respond to this message telling us on what version of
> Linux/Unix, how long you have been using it and what version of POV-Ray
> you are currently running. This information will be used to help better
> support this platform.

Gentoo 1.4 with POV-Ray 3.5 (own compilation). I'm using Gentoo for 7
month now, switching from SuSE Linux (6.4 up to 7.3). Before that I used 
POV-Ray on Sun Solaris.

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"Ken" <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message
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>
> Hi,
>
> The TAG and The POV-Team are trying to get a better picture of how many
> people here use POV-Ray on a Linux/Unix based machine. If you do have it
> installed please respond to this message telling us on what version of
> Linux/Unix, how long you have been using it and what version of POV-Ray
> you are currently running. This information will be used to help better
> support this platform.
>
>
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> --
> Ken Tyler - POV-Ray Technical Assistance Group

I do most of my file generation in the Windows environment.

I use linux for the actual rendering of my scene.  I have compiled Povray
3.5 on Mandrake 9.1.  Except for a couple of sputters that were not Pov's
fault it compiled flawlessly.

I render under linux as the compiled from source linux version is much
faster than the Windows version (at least on my system).  I create on
Windows because I like the built-in editor.  The speed issue in linux's
favor has been present through the development and release of Pov 3.5.  Pov
3.1 was always faster on Windows (for me).

I have used Pov under Mandrake 8.1, 9.0, and 9.1.  Also under Redhat 6.1,
6.2, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, and 8.0.

-->Jeff


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In article <3e9d6c4c$1@news.povray.org>,
 "earthdog" <ear### [at] NOSPAMevil3dnet> wrote:

> I render under linux as the compiled from source linux version is much
> faster than the Windows version (at least on my system).  I create on
> Windows because I like the built-in editor.  The speed issue in linux's
> favor has been present through the development and release of Pov 3.5.  Pov
> 3.1 was always faster on Windows (for me).

You might be interested in jEdit...it is a *much* better editor than the 
one built into the Windows version, and comes with a POV-Ray edit mode. 
It's also highly customizeable, you could probably set things up to run 
POV from within jEdit, though I just keep a terminal window open for 
that. (Actually, it's a bit more complex: I boot my PC in Linux, mount 
its hard disk on my Mac with Samba, edit files on my Mac with jEdit, and 
render on my PC through SSH. It works nicely, including the POV-Ray X11 
preview.)

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"Christopher James Huff" <cja### [at] earthlinknet> wrote in message
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> You might be interested in jEdit...it is a *much* better editor than the
> one built into the Windows version, and comes with a POV-Ray edit mode.
> It's also highly customizeable, you could probably set things up to run
> POV from within jEdit, though I just keep a terminal window open for
> that. (Actually, it's a bit more complex: I boot my PC in Linux, mount
> its hard disk on my Mac with Samba, edit files on my Mac with jEdit, and
> render on my PC through SSH. It works nicely, including the POV-Ray X11
> preview.)
>
> --
> Christopher James Huff <cja### [at] earthlinknet>
> http://home.earthlink.net/~cjameshuff/
> POV-Ray TAG: chr### [at] tagpovrayorg
> http://tag.povray.org/

This jEdit sounds like something I'd like to have a go at.  Thanks for the
heads up.  I've heard something about the program but never knew it had a
Pov mode.

Should I google?  Or is it on freshmeat?  Or is there a link?

Thanks,
-->Jeff


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In article <3e9d7f02$1@news.povray.org>,
 "earthdog" <ear### [at] NOSPAMevil3dnet> wrote:

> This jEdit sounds like something I'd like to have a go at.  Thanks for the
> heads up.  I've heard something about the program but never knew it had a
> Pov mode.
> 
> Should I google?  Or is it on freshmeat?  Or is there a link?

http://www.jedit.org/

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> If you do have it
> installed please respond to this message telling us on what version of
> Linux/Unix, how long you have been using it and what version of POV-Ray
> you are currently running. This information will be used to help better
> support this platform.
> 
I am currently running POVRay-3.5c on Linux. For actual film rendering, 
I have access to a number of Linux boxes (>20 actually). 

I am NOT using POVRay on any other platform than Linux. 
(I don't have a Windows box at home...)

First version: 3.1g; I've been using POVRay for several years now. 

Wolfgang

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On Sat, 12 Apr 2003 12:31:52 -0400, Ken wrote:

POV-Ray since 1997
Curent version 3.50c and Megapov 1.0

Linux since 1998

RedHat 7.3

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earthdog wrote:
> "Ken" <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message
> news:3E983F78.51A4D6FD@pacbell.net...
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>The TAG and The POV-Team are trying to get a better picture of how many
>>people here use POV-Ray on a Linux/Unix based machine. If you do have it
>>installed please respond to this message telling us on what version of
>>Linux/Unix, how long you have been using it and what version of POV-Ray
>>you are currently running. This information will be used to help better
>>support this platform.
>>
>>
>>
>>Thanks for your help,
>>
>>--
>>Ken Tyler - POV-Ray Technical Assistance Group
> 
> 
> I do most of my file generation in the Windows environment.
> 
> I use linux for the actual rendering of my scene.  I have compiled Povray
> 3.5 on Mandrake 9.1.  Except for a couple of sputters that were not Pov's
> fault it compiled flawlessly.
> 
> I render under linux as the compiled from source linux version is much
> faster than the Windows version (at least on my system).  I create on
> Windows because I like the built-in editor.  The speed issue in linux's
> favor has been present through the development and release of Pov 3.5.  Pov
> 3.1 was always faster on Windows (for me).
> 
> I have used Pov under Mandrake 8.1, 9.0, and 9.1.  Also under Redhat 6.1,
> 6.2, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, and 8.0.
> 
> -->Jeff
> 
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> 
Try this :

http://pyvon.sourceforge.net

Fabien H

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Ken wrote:
AltLinux Master 2.2
kernel 2.4.20
POV-Ray 3.5 (from source)
1.5 years


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Ken wrote:

> The TAG and The POV-Team are trying to get a better picture of how many
> people here use POV-Ray on a Linux/Unix based machine. If you do have it
> installed please respond to this message telling us on what version of
> Linux/Unix, how long you have been using it and what version of POV-Ray
> you are currently running.

FreeBSD 4.7, pov 3.5, in use since last fall (2002).

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