Hello!
How can I use CentOS as a complete desktop OS? I want to run Autodesk products on it like AutoCAD,Revit,3D Max,etc. Does Wine (winehq) support running such software? Can I use (KVM,Xen) virtualization to run Windows XP and all commercial software on it? Does running XP in virtualization requires a license?
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Rahul Tidke
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010, Rahul Tidke wrote:
Hello!
How can I use CentOS as a complete desktop OS? I want to run Autodesk products on it like AutoCAD,Revit,3D Max,etc. Does Wine (winehq) support running such software?
No.
Can I use (KVM,Xen) virtualization to run Windows XP and all commercial software on it? Does running XP in virtualization requires a license?
KVM runs Windows just fine for me.
Virtualization does not change anything about licensing. You still need a license for all the software, but, for Windows there might be different licensing models available to you when running in a virtualized environment.
3D software packages are often limited by the fact that under a virtual environment they are doing software based rendering. It will likely be the performance killer aspect of virtualization in your environment.
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010, Rahul Tidke wrote:
Hello!
How can I use CentOS as a complete desktop OS? I want to run Autodesk products on it like AutoCAD,Revit,3D Max,etc. Does Wine (winehq) support running such software?
No.
Can I use (KVM,Xen) virtualization to run Windows XP and all commercial software on it? Does running XP in virtualization requires a
license?
KVM runs Windows just fine for me.
Virtualization does not change anything about licensing. You still need
a license for all the software, but, for Windows there might be different licensing models available to you when
running in a virtualized environment.
3D software packages are often limited by the fact that under a virtual
environment they are doing software based rendering. It will likely be the performance killer aspect of
virtualization in your environment.
I agree with above facts. But, how do Red Hat provides interoperability in its desktop edition http://www.redhat.com/rhel/desktop/ ? It says that it supports third party apps and MS apps/environment. What software and technologies are used in RHEL for this? I just want to explore the possibilities for using CentOS as a full fledged desktop OS. I have been using CentOS as a server since very long time.
Rahul.
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010, Rahul Tidke wrote:
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I agree with above facts. But, how do Red Hat provides interoperability in its desktop edition http://www.redhat.com/rhel/desktop/ ? It says that it supports third party apps and MS apps/environment. What software and technologies are used in RHEL for this? I just want to explore the possibilities for using CentOS as a full fledged desktop OS. I have been using CentOS as a server since very long time.
Rahul.
Red Hat uses Wine, but only to support the most commonly used Windows applications like Office, Photoshop, etc. Engineering applications like AutoCAD are not your "typical" application set and are not but a single blip on the radar.
Install Windows on KVM and try your apps. That's the best answer I have for you or that you are likely to get. I tried it before, a bit over a year ago and it completely sucked (due to reasons stated before).
I have been using UNIX, BSD and GNU/Linux as a desktop OS for over 10 years. I don't do CAD/Visualization frequently, but when I do I use Windows on hardware.
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thus James A. Peltier spake:
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010, Rahul Tidke wrote:
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I agree with above facts. But, how do Red Hat provides interoperability in its desktop edition http://www.redhat.com/rhel/desktop/ ? It says that it supports third party apps and MS apps/environment. What software and technologies are used in RHEL for this? I just want to explore the possibilities for using CentOS as a full fledged desktop OS. I have been using CentOS as a server since very long time.
Rahul.
Red Hat uses Wine, but only to support the most commonly used Windows applications like Office, Photoshop, etc. Engineering applications like AutoCAD are not your "typical" application set and are not but a single blip on the radar.
Install Windows on KVM and try your apps. That's the best answer I have for you or that you are likely to get. I tried it before, a bit over a year ago and it completely sucked (due to reasons stated before).
I have been using UNIX, BSD and GNU/Linux as a desktop OS for over 10 years. I don't do CAD/Visualization frequently, but when I do I use Windows on hardware.
Ten years ago the last stanza would have been different; remember Sun, SGI, and HP hardware. (Well, some people still use Solaris and HP-UX for such purposes today, I recently saw a TV documentary about glaciers where on of the scientists show some technical stuff on an C8000 :).
Timo
Rahul Tidke wrote:
I agree with above facts. But, how do Red Hat provides interoperability in its desktop edition http://www.redhat.com/rhel/desktop/ ? It says that it supports third party apps and MS apps/environment. What software and technologies are used in RHEL for this? I just want to explore the possibilities for using CentOS as a full fledged desktop OS. I have been using CentOS as a server since very long time.
that article's mostly references Office document compatibility which presumably is via OpenOffice.
the passing reference to cad/cam software is probably referring to native (l)Unix cad/cam
From: Rahul Tidke rahul@excelize.com
I want to run Autodesk products on it like AutoCAD,Revit,3D Max,etc. Does Wine (winehq) supportrunning such software?
Maybe check Wine database... http://appdb.winehq.org/
JD
On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 04:16 -0700, John Doe wrote:
From: Rahul Tidke rahul@excelize.com
I want to run Autodesk products on it like AutoCAD,Revit,3D Max,etc. Does Wine (winehq) supportrunning such software?
Maybe check Wine database... http://appdb.winehq.org/
---- I'm sure there not talking about wine. Try utilizing windows terminal services from RH/Cos. That is what they mean. That will work.
Be aware Wine does not support every Win App there is.
JS
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