[K12OSN] Re: Software to do X

[Frank Samuelson]

Robert Arkiletian wrote:

> Don't forget Blender and Povray for 3D modeling. Only problem is most 
> old clients don't have accelerated OpenGL chips. All of mine are Nvidia 
> Riva 128  or S3 Virge cards. BTW anyone try mesa drivers? Do they eat 
> too much cpu cycles? I'd imagine software 3D rendering in a terminal 
> server would be TOO slow if you had a whole class of 30. Even for a dual 
> Xeon.

Blender works fine w/ Mesa, but does chew CPU and X bandwidth
as you say.  You really want that to run locally.  That is true
of any 3D modelling or CAD program.