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

[Willie Strickland]

There seems to be a disturbance in the force.  The email from jwschwab is signed Rob and the email from rjfarmer is signed Josiah.

:-0

Willie


On Sep 11, 2014, at 12:25 PM, Josiah Schwab <jwschwab at berkeley.edu> wrote:

> I have mesa running on windows 8 working with cygwin. However there is quite a bit of patching still to be done, not to mention testing and writing documentation before it can be released. So don't expect a windows release any time soon. Also you need a 64bit windows installation which isn't the default yet (i think?)
> 
> Rob



On Sep 11, 2014, at 12:43 PM, Robert FARMER <rjfarmer at asu.edu> wrote:

> Hi Anne,
> 
>> She has never used Unix and never had an astronomy class…
>> 
>> In order to avoid having unnecessary problems and hassles, my question
>> is the following:
>> 
>> Since she still has to install a distribution of Linux on her laptop,
>> do you have any recommendation on which one she should install, or
>> which one she should NOT install?
> 
> She will have Linux problems -- likely both MESA-related and
> non-MESA-related -- because all first-time Linux users have problems.
> It can be a big transition if you've only used Windows.
> 
> Identify a local Linux user who is willing to be on-call to answer her
> questions.  Have her run the same distro that this person is using.
> 
> That's a less direct answer, but IMO the most efficient one in terms of
> getting her up and running.
> 
> Best,
> Josiah