Sorry, but I have to take one exception to your statement. Speaking of problems with installing Maya under Kurumin and CentOS in the same sentence is quite a sweeping criticism. CentOS is effectively Red Hat Linux, which is the premier distribution for enterprise applications and motion picture production software.
In my experience, the insanity stopped when I found an enterprise Linux. Not saying that enterprise distributions are for everyone; certainly I regret not having better firewire support, nonetheless it runs forever the way UNIX should. I've never even heard of Kurumin.
As for installing truetype fonts in Linux, check out this tutorial:
http://www.linux.org.mt/article/ttfonts
Hi guys,
A testemonial and a problem. I'm using Maya 8 in FC5 and works fine.
The steps of instalation:
- Fedora Core 5
- Install Nvidia drivers to my card 6600 GT
- Adjust xorg.conf to extended monitor (2)
- Maya rpm's
- Adjust keys in KDE setup to work with alt+mouse click
I make many tests with Maya 8 in Windows XP SP2 and Linux FC-5, rendering a hard model with Mental Ray. Linux is the best way on time and use of processor. I try Linux Kurumin and Centos but with many instalations problems related here and in others threads. FC5 is only, in my case, that install with no problems.
The only problem who I have is with Maya: "how to add fonts to change fonts in Creat/Text
Any suggestion?