I use PCLOS on my personal system! 

I also know that Ubuntu Studio is a version of Ubuntu... so all the Repos and software that's available for Ubuntu is available and will work with Studio. 

So with that in mind, if the componants for Beryl aren't already included with studio, you should be able to get them and install them fairly easily.

Karlie

Nope - it's working on just about everything these days.

Some are coming with Beryl ready to go like Sabayon.  Others like Knoppix you'll have to grab it from the repos. 

Sabayon is a really sweet system based on Gentoo  and you can run beryl in live disc mode*
~Karlie

*Live disc - the entire OS runs from the CD/DVD.  Pop the disc in the drive.  Turn your computer on.  The OS will begin to boot.  Do what you like.  When you re-boot your computer without the Live disc in the drive you'll be right back to what you were using before - no changes will have been made and nothing installed.  Sort of like taking a new car out for a test drive to see if you like it. 

The one thing that has come a long way with Linux is accelerated Drivers and major graphic improvements overall. 

You can get Beryl (check out a neat little vid at Youtube) on almost every new release and it will skyrocket your desktop, so I'd assume that it shouldn't be a problem tapping those for your 3D art. 

~Karlie

Well here's some good news...

I checked my PCLinuxOS software download tool (Synaptic) and blender is just a couple clicks away. 

And you know, I almost forgot how plagued Windows is.  There just aren't any threats to Linux right now so I don't even think about it. 

I could go on and on about the software you can get for Linux (like OpenOffice, The GIMP, Inkscape...) so feel free to PM me if you want to chat about it.  I hate to take an OT thread even farther off topic. 

Karlie

Hello everyone. 

I saw this link in our stats, so I hop you don't mind me poping over to see what's going on. 

Yes, On-Disk.com sells discs, but what most people don't realize is that for every Ubuntu CD ordered the Ubuntu Project receives 1.5 euros and 5.5 euros for the DVD version. 

For other indie Software Developers and indie artists, we're also putting their works on CD/DVD and they also earn cash to fund their projects.  See our Developers Portal for more info on how we do that. 

Because the one thing that's a universal truth is that nothing is truly free.  (think bandwidth to offer the free download) and we're doing as much as we can for Free and Open Source software to keep it as free as possible. 

Karlie Robinson
Owner, Webpath Technologies
http://On-Disk.com