Frank and Frank, Thanks for the feedback! I have of course considered CentOS because it's the most frictionless support experience. But I decided to try Mint (xfce) because of recommendations, and because I wanted something more user friendly that was more suited to a small setup rather than something that needs to scale for a large facility.
I'm trying Ubuntu as well, because it's the default install on my new workstation and is quite popular in production - I used it recently at a small shop and it worked fairly decently. Overall, I appreciate that there is some flexibility on the Foundry's part as far as support goes, because I just dropped the cash for my own license! Cheers, Michael On 8 January 2016 at 03:19, Frank Harrison <fr...@thefoundry.co.uk> wrote: > Didn't we fix those Kubuntu/Deadline crashes for you Frank? > > It's not really about what we support, just what we develop and test Nuke > on. Because we use RHEL6, Centos5, Lion, Mavericks, Win 7, Win 10, etc. > *your* experience using Nuke will be better - which, in the end, is what > the team really cares about i.e we're not being lazy ;) . Some of us > regularly use Fedora or Ubuntu, and increasingly more of us are switching > to El cap so support for those should be pretty good, or improving at the > very least. > > But, we want to make Nuke as pleasurable an experience to use as possible > so if you spot oddness with Nuke on "unsupported" OS's please let Support > know. I personally have a suit of machine so the team can investigate such > issues. > > F. > > > On Friday, 8 January 2016, Frank Rueter|OHUfx <fr...@ohufx.com> wrote: > >> Prepare for emails from Foundry support saying "we don't officially >> support that linux flavour" ;) >> And if it is of concern, I had massive issues with Deadline crashes on >> Kubuntu 14.04 and ended up switching to Centos cause I was sick of both the >> above. >> >> >> On 8/01/16 5:05 pm, Deke Kincaid wrote: >> >> nvidia has cuda downloads for ubuntu 14.04 and 15.04 on their developer >> page. If I remember right, Mint 17 is based on ubuntu 14.04. >> >> https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads >> >> On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 7:51 PM, Michael Garrett <michaeld...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Thanks Neil! >>> >>> I'll be hitting you up when I delve a little more into the Mint >>> installation, pretty soon. Ubuntu on the internal spinning HD is my sandbox >>> right now, as I concurrently have my Macbook Pro to ride me through the >>> transition. So far, I've put Mint xfce on a USB3 flash stick booting up the >>> render node (an older Windows PC I borrowed off a friend), and will soon be >>> installing Mint xcfe to a Samsung 950 SSD in the M.2 slot on the main Dell >>> machine as the primary boot OS. I'm not 100% sure if that slot and card are >>> supported in Mint yet, but again it will be a sandbox type of scenario as I >>> will still have Ubuntu and/or the Mac as a fallback. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Michael >>> >>> On 7 January 2016 at 16:11, Neil Scholes <n...@uvfilms.co.uk> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi >>>> >>>> I went through this with mint xfce 17 >>>> >>>> Basically I found that just installing the nvidia drivers using the >>>> mint installation didn't cut it. >>>> >>>> The right thing to do is download and install the Cuda drivers which >>>> are on the nvidia site. This sets up everything perfectly, and installs the >>>> latest driver in the process. >>>> >>>> The Cuda installation works like adding a repository, from which you >>>> just run a simple installation command. The set up an installation >>>> instructions are all very clear and concise. >>>> >>>> From here nuke sees the GPU and runs flawlessly. They have a specific >>>> .deb package for Ubuntu / mint users... >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Check it out..... :) >>>> >>>> >>>> N >>>> >>>> >>>> Sent from my iPad >>>> >>>> On 7 Jan 2016, at 19:48, Michael Garrett <michaeld...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> It comes preinstalled (and, it says, tested) with Nvidia driver 352.63 >>>> which I see is also the latest driver available on the Nvidia website. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Michael >>>> >>>> On 7 January 2016 at 14:27, Elias Ericsson Rydberg < >>>> elias.ericsson.rydb...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Does the machine come with the Nvidia-drivers pre-installed? Or does >>>>> it come with nouveau? >>>>> >>>>> If the latter, install the drivers ;) >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, >>>>> Elias Ericsson >>>>> Den 7 jan 2016 8:16 em skrev "Michael Garrett" <michaeld...@gmail.com >>>>> >: >>>>> >>>>>> Hey all, >>>>>> >>>>>> I just got a new Dell workstation preinstalled with Ubuntu and am >>>>>> running Nuke 9.0v8. I'm finding the UI is not very responsive and the GPU >>>>>> is not recognised by Nuke in the prefs - I'm assuming the UI drag is >>>>>> connected to the GPU. The GPU is a Quadro K1200 and I am running the >>>>>> latest >>>>>> recommended Nvidia drivers at a system level. >>>>>> >>>>>> I'm also testing out Mint Xfce but so far it's just on the render >>>>>> node. I noticed right out of the box I did not need to install any extra >>>>>> packages with Mint to get Nuke running, compared to Ubuntu. So >>>>>> ultimately I >>>>>> will probably go for Mint, but it's a convenience to get up and running >>>>>> with Ubuntu, and I have used it in the past at other facilities with >>>>>> success. >>>>>> >>>>>> Any idea on what may be glitching out here would be appreciated, >>>>>> though. >>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>> Michael (not exactly a Linux admin...) >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Nuke-users mailing list >>>>>> Nuke-users@support.thefoundry.co.uk, http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ >>>>>> http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Nuke-users mailing list >>>>> Nuke-users@support.thefoundry.co.uk, http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ >>>>> http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >>>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Nuke-users mailing list >>>> Nuke-users@support.thefoundry.co.uk, http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ >>>> http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Nuke-users mailing list >>>> Nuke-users@support.thefoundry.co.uk, http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ >>>> http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Nuke-users mailing list >>> Nuke-users@support.thefoundry.co.uk, http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ >>> http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Nuke-users mailing listnuke-us...@support.thefoundry.co.uk, >> http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >> >> >> -- >> [image: ohufxLogo 50x50] <http://www.ohufx.com> *vfx compositing >> <http://ohufx.com/index.php/vfx-compositing> | workflow customisation and >> consulting <http://ohufx.com/index.php/vfx-customising> * >> > > > -- > Frank Harrison > Senior Nuke Software Engineer > The Foundry > Tel: +44 (0)20 7968 6828 - Fax: +44 (0)20 7930 8906 > Web: www.thefoundry.co.uk > Email: frank.harri...@thefoundry.co.uk > > > _______________________________________________ > Nuke-users mailing list > Nuke-users@support.thefoundry.co.uk, http://forums.thefoundry.co.uk/ > http://support.thefoundry.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nuke-users >
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