[Design-team] Running Blender 2.56 on Fedora 13 and 14

[Onyeibo Oku]

On 01/26/2011 01:03 PM, valent.turkovic at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi galls and guys,
> I saw that there are no up to date instuctions for getting Blender
> 2.56 running on Fedora, not even on Blender wiki so I wrote up this
> blog post:
> http://bit.ly/gLQgFS or long version:
> http://kernelreloaded.blog385.com/index.php/archives/blender-2-56-on-fedora-13-and-fedora-14/
>
> I would like to ask you to try out these instructions and post any
> feedback that you have, especially if there are some errors in
> instructions.
>
> Also if there are some Blender artists in Fedora design team please
> test if all Blender functions work correctly.
>
> I saw some Blender 2.56 packages in Koji for F15, does anybody know if
> Blender 2.56 will ship with Fedora 15?
>
> I talked with few Blender artists that I know and asked them which
> version of Blender they used. They all replied that they used 2.56 and
> not 2.49. They all claim that Blender 2.56 is rock solid on both OSX
> and Windows, I don't know Blender artists that use Linux :(
>
> So if Blender 2.56 turns out to be stable could it be made to replace
> aging 2.45 in Fedora 14 and 15?
>
> Cheers,
> Valent.
>
I've been using Blender 2.5x since it was Alpha.  Never liked 2.49b 
because it kept crashing on my F11 box back then.  I build straight from 
svn and update almost every week.  Its a solid Open-source software.

-- 
Oku Onyeibo
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/user:twohot