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Linux, Unix ,Windows or Mac?
Which os do the developers like the most?
Thank you.
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Difkvol hadani wrote:
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> Linux, Unix ,Windows or Mac?
Assuming you mean "for working with POVRay", nobody can answer this for
you. Which are you most comfortable using? In which can you attend to the
task at hand without having to jump through hoops? Will you be doing
anything besides POVRay (animation, post-processing, etc.) with the output?
If so, for which platforms do apps to handle these tasks exist? Are there
other tools available (such as Perl) for a given platform that you might
need/want?
Personally, I use Windows for raytracing, because while I can create and
edit scenes much faster in unix (vim and perl), seeing the output would take
me quite a bit longer, and seeing it before it finishes would not be an
option. Plus, my unix (okay, OpenBSD) box is in storage, and I don't
officially have root on my friend's (Linux) machine where I could install
it.
Deaken
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On Sat, 16 Mar 2002 09:16:01 +0000, Difkvol hadani wrote:
> Linux, Unix ,Windows or Mac?
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> Which os do the developers like the most?
Developers usually like to work on the same system their developing for...
--
Rick
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Difkvol hadani wrote:
> Linux, Unix ,Windows or Mac?
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> Which os do the developers like the most?
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> Thank you.
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Windows is more comfortable I think but with linux you can crunch
everythig together the way you need it.
So I prefer linux
(Indeed Im not a developer at all)
Sebastian H.
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> and I
> don't officially have root on my friend's (Linux) machine where I could
> install it.
meaning you have root, but he dosen't know :)
--
Rick
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POV-Ray News & Resources - http://Povray.co.uk
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In article <3c930d54@news.povray.org>,
"Difkvol hadani" <Dif### [at] dwom com> wrote:
> Linux, Unix ,Windows or Mac?
The Mac and Windows versions have GUIs which display the image as it is
being rendered and provide editors for the scene code. The Mac version
of MegaPOV also has a lot of GUI tools for things like lathe objects and
textures.
Unix-like systems (Linux, Unix, Mac OS X) are good if you are doing
complex stuff with your rendering output, it is easier to automate
things, the available tools are extremely powerful. If you just want to
render an image, it doesn't really matter.
It is also possible to render from the command-line, without the
overhead of a GUI on these systems, and they probably use the processor
more efficiently, but that would only gain a couple percentage points
over Windows on equivalent hardware.
However, current PC hardware will render faster. POV can't take
advantage of the multiple processors of top of the line Macs, it will
run faster on an Athlon XP 2000 then on dual 1GHz G4s, where it will
only use one processor. It will still run pretty fast though, and you
could run two copies of POV, rendering different images or different
parts of the same image, and take advantage of both processors in this
way. Macs also have a really nice operating system and lots of good
graphics software.
Really, I would suggest you buy the one you like the most, unless you
have more specific needs. Your question isn't "Which system is the
best", there is no such thing, it should be "Which system is the best
*for me*".
> Which os do the developers like the most?
As Rick said, the one they are developing for...I'm a developer, though
not one of "the developers", and I prefer Macs, specifically Mac OS X
(which is based on BSD Unix). Some people like other versions of Unix or
Linux. Some people prefer Windows for some reason. ;-)
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Christopher James Huff <chr### [at] maccom>
POV-Ray TAG e-mail: chr### [at] tagpovrayorg
TAG web site: http://tag.povray.org/
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Christopher James Huff <chr### [at] maccom> wrote:
> The Mac and Windows versions have GUIs which display the image as it is
> being rendered
The unix version does this as well.
--
#macro M(A,N,D,L)plane{-z,-9pigment{mandel L*9translate N color_map{[0rgb x]
[1rgb 9]}scale<D,D*3D>*1e3}rotate y*A*8}#end M(-3<1.206434.28623>70,7)M(
-1<.7438.1795>1,20)M(1<.77595.13699>30,20)M(3<.75923.07145>80,99)// - Warp -
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"Rick [Kitty5]" wrote:
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> > and I
> > don't officially have root on my friend's (Linux) machine where I could
> > install it.
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> meaning you have root, but he dosen't know :)
Nonono! I'm whitehat now. Those days are long past. :)
Perhaps I should have said that I "officially don't have root"? <cough>
Deaken
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In article <3c939c85@news.povray.org>, Warp wrote:
> Christopher James Huff <chr### [at] maccom> wrote:
>> The Mac and Windows versions have GUIs which display the image as it is
>> being rendered
>
> The unix version does this as well.
>
Only if you run them with a X server launched. Personnally, I run POV through
a ssh connexion, or direct from bash, so I haven't (no X mode at home :-)
-- Bruce
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Thank you All.
I'm a developer and naieve researcher, And what I love most is Freedom/Free
software.
So I throw away Windows, bmrt(because of no source), MS Office ....
And Brace povray, linux, GNU ....
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