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Fujitsu releases its first Linux App 16

Posted by sengan from the haven't-seen-this-before dept.
Jean-Paul Smets wrote in to tell us that Fujistu has released its first Linux software: AVS5 is a visualization and computer graphics program that includes advanced features such as volume rendering. Apparently Fujitsu has a strong Linux tradition, with Linux already running on its AP1000/AP3000 series of parallel computers. Update: 02/25 11:22 by S : Can someone who reads Japanese confirm this story because...
maynard writes "Dudes: I notified /. of AVS-5.4 for Linux back in spetember. Also, you might note that AVS is produced by Advanced Visual Systems in Waltham MA, not Fujitsu. See this freshmeat app index entry."

So: do we have a mix up, or 2 pieces of software with the same name?
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  • Wow, they are committed.

    I wonder when/if AP/Linuz is going into the main tree.

    *sigh*, somebodies got to say it. A Beowolf cluster of these things could be interesting:):)
  • Posted by Assmodeus:

    that page is all gibberish to me...
  • This app has been available for Linux for awhile directly from Advanced Visual Systems. It has a freshmeat entry at:

    http://ny.us.mirrors.freshmeat.net/appindex/1998/0 9/25/906704695.html

    and run directly on Linux. It outputs OpenGL and takes about any data type you want to input. Yes it's expensive... that's because it's commercial software.

  • This is one of many news articles I keep running into more and more frequently. I personally have converted two people to Linux at work ( unnamed MS partner ) and I keep grinning ear to ear.

    Now for the MP3 bit. There was an article about a band putting an MP3 up not sure what would happen etc. Well, my band has done it too. The MP3 is at:

    http://www.mp3.com/robertrude

    Slashdot me please!

    We are at like 938 or something... :-(


    It don't work quite as well as the other band said it did.

    Then again we might just suck......

    Ken Broadfoot

  • I'm a bit rusty at Japanese, but here's what I can make out from the articles:

    There are two personal pages linked. The Japanese sections are just translations of the other sections that are in English.

    On the announcement page, there's not really much information. I picked out the following details:

    licence is for a single user (458000 yen)
    requires X and Mesa 3D drivers: no native
    graphics support
    Redhat 4.2 won't work. You need to upgrade
    to 5.0 or higher.

    Hope this helps,
    dec
  • The key folks on the AP/Linux project for Fujitsu's supercomputers have also been central contributors to the Linux-on-PowerPC effort. It's nice to see these excellent folks getting some recognition. Congratulations to Paul Mackerras, Andrew Tridgell, et. al.!

  • Enjoyed your article on installing Linux on a Vaio in Linux Japan last month.

    (Apologies if I'm mistaken...)
  • well, not me atleast, tho I won't claim to be the be all end off of knowledge. But I do know this brings us back to the 3d issue that was brought up pretty recently...to use most visualization software you want atleast some form of 3d hardware acceleration. Anyone have any idea when this is making its way into XFree86?
  • Their page doesn't say much about what this piece of software actually is, but a single-user licence costs 458,000 Yen, which is about $4000. BTW, for Japanese Linux Info, I write a weekly e-mail newsletter called "Linux Japan Express [linuxjapan.com]". Mail and Web edition, both are in Japanese.

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