Good God. What a horrible combination. Whatever ****bag ever thought to take a program designed for a Windows platform and install it on an OS as ****ty as RedHat must've been smoking some coke-laced MJ because it is the most unstable, most unusable combination of **** that I have ever had the misfortune to use.

Let's not even take into account the fact that loading data from a CD-ROM drive is a complete *****. Let's not even take into account the fact that Maya is incompatible with projects from other same-update copies of itself, doesn't calculate clips correctly, and constantly breaks links and destroys geometry.

I would have thought that it costing $1000+ retail would have made this program a valuable tool and accessory. Boy, was I wrong. What a steaming pile of **** it's turned out to be. God damn, I hate RedHat and Maya.

Who the hell uses the RedHat OS?

I have actually heard that Maya runs great of other Linux Distros.

California State University, San Marcos

Theres a Linux port of Maya?

Are there any advantages of using this OS?

Yep.

No. RedHat sucks. Debian kicks RedHat's arse.

Fedora's okay, and Gentoo's better than both.

*runs from the flames to come via GBK*

Actually, there were problems when we had to use it for my OS class. Some libraries we needed were not installed. They ran LETHARGICALLY. Although I'm told that was a misconfiguration and it was (hopefully) rectified.

I believe I can see why my university chose RH. It's not very good to have to scour internet forums and sites to get support when a critical system problem occurs. Red Hat is a publically traded company where Debian et al are not. (debian.org)

University or corporation, system downtime == very bad and the problem must be resolved quickly. IMHO, I would rather call up or e-mail the company's help desk than have to scour the net for some bloke's HOWTOs.

Edit: removed link.

I hear FreeBSD is good.

Aye, RedHat IS at least owned by a company.

Too bad Debian et al. are all better alternatives :\

There are several organizations that sell support for Debian...

But they didn't create debian. I'd rather have someone who worked on the source for the distro than someone who knows about it.

You arent going to get that with RedHat either. The programmers in the back have much more important things to do than answer phones for tech support.

Considering tech support and business licenses are what get their income and living, I think the guys will take a minute off if they need to to answer questions.

Your kidding, right? Tech support is a round-the-clock job. RedHat has dedicated people for that. They dont need to be programmers, they just need to know Linux, specifically, RedHat. Knowing the internal structures of RPM or YUM isnt going to help any when QT is missing dependencies, or Oracle fails to install because the kernel was complied without a required feature.

1) I meant have support technicians, then have the coders to help if they must. Not for the coders to be part-time support technicians, no.

2) There's things a lot more involved than a missing dependency or two.

Red Hat has got to be the crappiest distribution on the face of the planet.

Mandrake.