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Blender’s Cycles Will Be Production-Ready Sooner Than You Think

Tyson O'Ham — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 15:48:42 +0000

Blender has one of the most active, enthusiastic communities of any piece of 3d software out there. There is a lot to love about Blender, especially recently, with the increased pace of development and industry investment. That said, the free and open 3d suite's biggest weakness has always been viability in professional environments. This site [...]

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Meet Olive: The First Open Source Video Editor Worth Talking About

Tyson O'Ham — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 02:43:39 +0000

We've talked at length about building a creative Linux workstation before. We've also discussed what viable alternatives to subscription-only Adobe and Autodesk products exist out there. You may have noticed that open source projects tend to be sparse in both pieces. There's a very good reason for that -- but it's one that may not [...]

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Painless Linux Video Production Part 3: Organization and Workflow

Tyson O'Ham — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 19:49:24 +0000

So far, you should have a working CentOS creative workstation, and know the pros and cons of building one. Maybe you're not sure how to get started with it, though. That's fine. It's a new environment and things are going to work differently here. In this installment of the Linux video production guide, we'll be [...]

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The Definitive (and Painless) Linux Video Production Guide: Getting Started

Tyson O'Ham — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 00:38:51 +0000

Let's be frank: Linux has never been a leading environment for creative work. It's just fine for render farm nodes on high end productions, or A/V appliances that the user never has to interact with in the same way they would a desktop, but it's hard to justify as a primary workstation OS outside of [...]

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HOWTO: Patch Fedora Kernel (feat. AGESA 0.0.7.2+ Fix)

Blake Lee — Sun, 30 Jun 2019 17:14:22 +0000

There are many reasons you might want to patch your kernel. You might need extra security patches. Maybe you need the ACS Override patch to use VFIO, or you have an AMD board with a broken UEFI that you can't downgrade. Consider supporting us if you value independent tech news and research. This site will [...]

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Prepping OSX VM for Apple ID

Tyson O'Ham — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 09:00:28 +0000

Just like any hackintosh installation, Mac OS VMs will have trouble logging into existing Apple accounts without some adjustment. If you jump the gun and attempt to log in without tweaking some things, you risk a temporary Apple ID ban. Consider supporting us if you value independent tech news and research. This site will always [...]

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The Ultimate Adobe CC & Autodesk Replacement Guide

Tyson O'Ham — Sat, 18 May 2019 01:06:46 +0000

Adobe Inc. has been taking more liberties with their install base since switching to a subscription-only model back in 2013. Whether you disagree with their price increases, service restrictions, or more recently their legal posturing toward users of their older, perpetually licensed CS tools, reasons to switch are adding up fast. This article attempts to [...]

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GPU Passthrough Reported Working on Bhyve

Tyson O'Ham — Sun, 12 May 2019 03:53:57 +0000

Normally we cover news focused on KVM and sometimes Xen, but something very special has happened with their younger cousin in the BSD world, Bhyve. Like to see BSD virtualization? Check out our OSX VM Tutorial For those that don't know, Bhyve (pronounced bee-hive) is the native hypervisor in FreeBSD. It has many powerful features, [...]

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Indie Game Review: Donut County

Tyson O'Ham — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 21:11:50 +0000

We’re experiencing a glut of fast-paced action adventure titles in the indie genre at present. Each new release presents iterative takes on games like Castelvania, The Souls franchise, and stylish action games like DMC. While it’s nice to see a revival of a genre I adore, I’ve been spoilt for choice and wandered into the [...]

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Hackintosh-KVM Guide: High Sierra+ Using QEMU’s i440fx Chipset

D Hanson — Tue, 14 Aug 2018 19:47:42 +0000

THIS GUIDE IS OLD AND OUT OF DATE. It is here for historical purposes only. If you want to make an OSX VM please follow our new guide here. It's much more simple and straightforward. For a few years now, thanks to the hard work of others in the QEMU/KVM community, the ability to [...]

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