[Radiance-general] desktop vs compile?

[Gregory J. Ward]

Hi Chris,

As Vangelis pointed out in an earlier post, Desktop Radiance is out  
of date -- about 7 years and counting.  Unfortunately, there's no way  
to bring it up to date, and the current effort is to put out a  
Windows edition of the current version.  Large parts of the system  
compile, but there appear to be some problems remaining with the  
parallel processing bits and rvu, which needs a user interface or a  
working X11 server.  This is why some people are using the Cygwin  
binaries, which run in a subenvironment to Windows.

Personally, I think you're 10 times better off with FreeBSD, Linux,  
or OS X if you want to run Radiance.  The latest iMac's and MacBook  
Pro are basically as fast as the PC's, if a little more expensive.   
They're also better built, unless you're willing to spend the time  
building your own machine, as some people like to do.

-Greg

> From: Chris Jessee <chris.jessee at kingmill.com>
> Date: April 20, 2006 2:10:54 PM PDT
>
> Hi,
>
> Are there any advantages or disadvantages to running Desktop  
> Radiance as opposed to a compiling it on OSX (or other OS)?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris Jessee