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If you want to document Blender 2.5 features please edit pages under Doc:2.5/Manual.
If a "2.5" page doesn't exist please copy the text from 2.4x Manual and edit the new page (i.e. you should paste the wikitext from this 2.4x page to this new 2.5x page and then update the latter with 2.5 features)
[edit] Other supported operating systems
[edit] FreeBSD
Download the file blender-2.##-freebsd-#.#-i386.tar.gz from the downloads section of the Blender Website. Here 2.## is the Blender version currently 2.45, #.# is FreeBSD version and i386 is the machine architecture.
To start blender just open a shell and execute ./blender, of course while running X.
[edit] Irix
Download the file blender-2.##-irix-6.5-mips.tar.gz from the 'Downloads' section of the Blender Website. Here 2.## is the Blender version (currently 2.45), Python version 2.4, 6.5 is the Irix version and mips is the machine architecture.
To start Blender just open a shell and execute ./blender, of course while running X. Blender was originally developed for the IRIX platform, but is currently not actively being maintained for all IRIX workstation versions. For some workstations performance troubles have been reported.
[edit] Solaris
Download the file blender-2.##-solaris-2.8-sparc.tar.gz from the 'Downloads' section of the Blender Website. Here 2.## is the Blender version (currently 2.45), Python version 2.5, 2.8 is the Solaris version and sparc is the machine architecture.
Currently no further instructions for Sun Solaris are available. Please use the Blender Website forums for support.
[edit] Other unsupported operating systems
[edit] MorphOS
Download the unofficial file blender_2.##-mos_bin-yyyymmdd.lha from http://www.yomgui.fr/blender/. Here is 2.## the Blender version (currently 2.45) and yyyymmdd the date stamp. Sources are available on the same link.
Currently no further instructions for MorphOS are available. Please use the Blender Website or MorphOS forums for support.
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