APPLE... Here we go.

[chad vachter]

hi jarred
i have a idea about a piece of gear .
that i think you guys would like to build/ sell.
it goes well with your guys' wanting to put high production value into the hands
of working class camera heros.
i tried to send it via pm to you . but it kicked back as your box is full.
can you let me know a way to get this message to you ?

[Jarred Land]

Please check out Linux. It's such a better system that runs on PC's and you don't have to deal with Window's.
RHEL is great but if you can't get around Linux code to mount drives and do simply things you take for granted on the Mac or Windows then check out Linux Mint, its very user friendly in a Window's/Mac way.

http://linuxmint.com/

Having RedCinePro X and Rocket drivers for Linux from RED would be a dream.

There is a reason why the heavy iron runs on Linux... Autodesk Flame, Mistika, BaseLight...

We love Linux.. Redline is coming for Linux. We would love to make RCXpro for Linux, but RCXpro is free remember... those packages above are 4, 5, 6 digits...

[Jarred Land]

Weird the Z820 Tekserve post got deleted who'd would have thought.

i think a mod nuked that as it looked like advertising ( nobody from RED started it ) ill start a new one soon.

[M Most]

Having RedCinePro X and Rocket drivers for Linux from RED would be a dream.

There has been a Linux driver for the Red Rocket for at least 2 years now. It has been supported in Baselight and Resolve for quite some time.

[PatrickW]

We love Linux.. Redline is coming for Linux. We would love to make RCXpro for Linux, but RCXpro is free remember...

would you like money for RCXPro on Linux?

[Rob Lohman]

would you like money for RCXPro on Linux?

How much woud something like this be worth to you?

What desktop manager is everybody using?

It's fun reading reduser in bumper to bumper traffic on the I-5 at 9pm on a Sunday. Gotta love LA :)

[Richard Goodwin]

One possibility that would be more flexible would be to have REDCineX be able to pass off "renders" to a simple distributed server running on Linux (it could even run REDLine for the actual processing). That arrangement would allow taking advantage of the Mac/Win GUIs and put heavy loads onto bigger metal for processing - but in a seamless way. It would mean users could simply add more power on demand (by adding more nodes) without having to change there core setup.

It also means you can avoid the mess that is the Linux GUI development (and end user software management) process for the large matrix of Desktop Managers and OS Flavors.

Because I have to wonder if it would make financial sense from a development or user perspective to have it all running on Linux. From a development perspective between dev and QA you are talking a significant amount of engineering time to maintain the port(s). Will a large number RED users really benefit from RED expending engineering resources on a GUI port vs having real distributed processing at the back end?

For users, how practical is it to really run only linux workstation for all post work? Likely you will have to split time between Mac/Win and Linux anyways. Unless you are on a thin budget it will be far more cost effective in that case to just buy the RED Rocket for real-time (because we are not just talking the expense of an additional machine but the movement and management of data between the hosts). If you need to do batch rendering then you'd be at the command line anyways and require the technical expertise and $$ to set up a decent distributed render setup.

[roryhinds]

We love Linux.. Redline is coming for Linux. We would love to make RCXpro for Linux, but RCXpro is free remember... those packages above are 4, 5, 6 digits...

Yes the heavy iron packages are crazy money, but they are coming down in price to more realistic figures... there was a time when Inferno was $1million :-)

If you guys brought out a Linux RedCineX Pro, how much would you have to charge to make it viable for development? Wouldn't it be made a little easier to port to Linux as the OSX has a Unix underpinning?

BTW congrats on the HP announcement, that is freaking amazing!!!!

[PatrickW]

How much woud something like this be worth to you?

What desktop manager is everybody using?

It's fun reading reduser in bumper to bumper traffic on the I-5 at 9pm on a Sunday. Gotta love LA :)

For a simple user license? $99 would be an easy annual investment. I use OS X now, but would love to be able to go back to a PC, but don't want to deal with Windows. Linux offers power, and stability, the lack of usability is less of a problem with computer/programming skills (may even be more efficient than pretty GUIs), but support and compatibility are series issues.

My advice is provide a simple cheap option to get people to use RCXP on linux with limited web/community support. If Professional users want to use it they can buy commercial support for approved vendor/part builds.

The new HP you are bringing out is a perfect candidate for a Linux box. Build a linux distro, put on some cool media pro apps, and work with some vendors to ensure some hardware support for your config.

[Chris Nuzzaco]

I have to say I'm totally in the "please move stuff to Linux" camp. With Mac essentially being a non-option moving forward, and windows being... windows... I bet you could organize some kind of foundation for a Linux distro for media professionals. All the major players would have an incentive to help fund the foundation and keep the distro maintained simply because media pros prefer a more unix like power user system and windows just isn't that. At the very least, red could spin its own distro.