Quote - Hey Peng, you old Tux lover - what's your take on Win 7? I've just started using RealBasic so I may have to install Ubuntu to see if I can get an app running on it.

Believe it or not, I've been using it at work for awhile now (my PHB's at the new Post-Intel job drank the koolaid and asked for seconds... heh.)

It is more merciful on system resources than Vista, looks and smells a lot like a blend of OSX and KDE, but it does have some fairly neat little features. If you're doing Windows-only, it would be a toss-up between it and XP, IMHO (most the tools in CG/3D land are still quite happy with XP, and XP is still easier on resources, so...)

Quote - "The calls to the engine are close enough though so that you can actually use D|S with a stock 3Delight render engine."  Yeah, someone has an app for DS that supposedly will allow transparent rendering on stock 3DL, one or two of the free engines and PRMan.

Cool! I'll have to hunt that down... been doing it the hard way for quite awhile now.

Quote - The main stumbling block for Poser users is indeed the UI. It's not arcane or difficult (try ZBrush or Blender), just different to what people are used to.

Yep. Personally, though I don't have it, I like that Poser is moving in the same direction - but I've always harbored a massive disgust for the works of Mr. Krause (his heart was in the right place, but his code is a nightmare...)