[mesa-users] Which Linux distribution to run MESA?

[Pablo Marchant]

Aaron,with the windows discussion, do you mean the one asking for a
terminal client to use with pgstar? That does not mean to run MESA in
windows, it is connecting to a computer with MESA and have appropriate X
window support for the pgstar plots to show up.

As far as I know, getting MESA to work on windows would require lots of
work, but I don't remember precisely which are the parts that would require
porting.

But I'd go with either ubuntu or mint. I think the dominance of people that
have ubuntu and run into problems is just a reflection of the popularity of
ubuntu among linux newcomers.
El 11/09/2014 11:00, "Aaron Dotter" <aaron.dotter at gmail.com> escribió:

> Hi Anne,
>
> Does your student have a Windows laptop?  The discussion in the last few
> days on MESA-users makes it sound like running MESA on a windows computer
> is quite doable.  That might be the easiest path.
>
> As far as Linux goes, most anything will do.  Rich's SDK makes the
> compilers and libraries a non-issue most of the time.  For a beginner
> with Linux, I'd recommend one of the popular distros (Ubuntu, Linux Mint,
> Fedora or CentOS 7).  Installation is easier and you'll have a better
> chance that her laptop is supported with one of these.
>
> You'll probably get lots of suggestions, there's no right answer.  I guess
> she should avoid the "expert" distros (Arch comes to mind) because they
> require more knowledge of the user.
>
> Good luck!
> Aaron
>
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