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  • duvjones - Thursday, March 3, 2022 - link

    Just Ubuntu... Are they serious?
  • kgardas - Thursday, March 3, 2022 - link

    I think Ubuntu is expected and good option indeed. RHEL/SuSE are more server oriented and here you'd like to benchmark CAD stations -> Ubuntu.
  • Kangal - Thursday, March 3, 2022 - link

    They are probably targeting the Stable Debian build.
    Mentioning the specific Ubuntu version is probably a way to simplify it for people. Although I traditionally favoured Suse, in the last decade I've somewhat swung the opposite way, and actually not a fan of Linux as I used to be (iOS, OS X, Windows, and even iOS has come very far).
  • tuxRoller - Tuesday, March 8, 2022 - link

    RH has an awfully large desktop subscriber base. Obviously the vast majority are used for traditional workstation tasks, and in those cases nearly all of the clients are running apps certified for rhel. You'll often see rhel & suse being supported while Ubuntu trails by a pretty significant margin. It's all pretty niche, and, I'd imagine, Ubuntu fares much better when looking at the unsupported business desktop market.
  • AdrianBc - Thursday, March 3, 2022 - link

    On any other distribution one might need to waste some time to find and install some shared libraries with versions matching those of Ubuntu, but in any case the benchmark will run eventually.

    The advantage of Linux is precisely that with more or less effort anything can be done, while on Windows there are cases when you are stuck with problems that are impossible to solve.
  • AdrianBc - Friday, March 4, 2022 - link

    After writing the reply above, I have downloaded SPECviewperf for Linux and I have tried it on a Gentoo Linux, instead of the Ubuntu Linux.

    For some reason, the Chrome-based user interface could not download the benchmark data sets, due to some certificate problem. Maybe it searches for certificates in a certain place, which is not the same for Ubuntu and Gentoo.

    To work around this issue, I have found in their download script the directory with the "viewsets", I have downloaded manually from there the archive files with the suffix ".ux.3.0.7z", which are meant for Linux and I have extracted them into the directory "/opt/SPEC/SPECviewperf2020/viewsets".

    After this, I was able to run all the benchmarks flawlessly, without any other problems.
  • Soulkeeper - Saturday, March 5, 2022 - link

    I agree, I'm tired of this distro favoratism.
    Just release tarballs and let the package maintainers handle the rest for their distros.
    We need distro agnostic approaches. I get that they want to guarantee/certify that a certain distro works, but it hurts others.
  • ballsystemlord - Sunday, March 6, 2022 - link

    I 2nd the motion. Tar balls would be best here.
  • brucethemoose - Tuesday, March 8, 2022 - link

    It already exist. They're called appimages, and they're more-ore-less the analogue to portable Windows .exes.

    TBH, releasing an app as a .deb only makes it seem like the dev is stuck in the previous decade. Debian based systems aren't as standard as they used to be.
  • TheinsanegamerN - Tuesday, April 5, 2022 - link

    the linux community cant agree on any standardization, and nobody is going to release software with no way to guarantee that it works without third party maintainers.
  • PeachNCream - Sunday, March 6, 2022 - link

    .deb implies any Debian branch distro will work as well though I have not tested this personally.
  • TheinsanegamerN - Tuesday, April 5, 2022 - link

    Ubuntu is the primary target for most linux software as it is the most common distro used by normal people and is the only distro sold on consumer devices by large OEMs, and is also the basis fo rmany othe rpopular distros.

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