Re: Animation for Television

> one good reason i see for using a mac, beyond the codec being available
> and easy to install, is that Autodesk will more easily support your
> hardware on the mac (ie: on windows, you have to have a very specific
> card, with OpenGL support, etc...). from what i understand, all the MACs
> out there support GL out of the box. support, if you are paying for it,
> would be useless if you didn't use "supported hardware". getting that
> hardware to work is extremely easy on a mac, not so much on a linux box
> (have to have a very specific distro, version, etc)

Autodesk/Alias only "officially" support quadro cards because there
are a limited number of them.  Otherwise they would have to test the
500 different consumer cards that come out every 6 months which isn't
practical.

In reality Maya and all the other pro software work just fine with
generic geforce consumer cards and the proper driver.  I hae worked
for many companies with them under both linux and windows and haven't
had any support issues.  Same with the linux distro.  Current company
I work for uses Debian, others used Ubuntu, Gentoo, Mandrake, etc...
Again no issues not using the "officially supported" distribution.

-deke

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