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Will Blender work on my system?
Why is Blender free?
Can I use Blender commercially?
GPL for artists
Can I sell plug-ins for Blender?
Can I sell my own version of Blender?
In a few sentences, what is the GPL?
Can my organization use Blender internally without giving up our valuable changes to our competitors?
Can I sell my Blender creations?
Can I change Blender and give it to my co-workers or employees?
Can I give Blender to my co-workers or employees?
Can I distribute the official blender.org releases under my own branding and name?
How does the GPL and Blender benefit me?
What about the splash-screen and icons?
So I own the copyright to all output?
What if I take screen shots of the Blender interface?
So I can make games without having to worry about the GPL, right?
What about my Python scripts?
Can I license .blend files myself?
Technical
Why does Blender not start/display strange colours/show a blank screen?
The Blender screen is blurred and unreadable. What can I do?
Blender is running slowly. What hardware can I upgrade for better performance?
Blender gets slower and slower, I have an ATI video card?
Generic 3D
What is Ray Tracing?
What is Radiosity?
Mac OS X
Blender crashes immediate
How can I get Blender running faster?
Known issues with G5 NVidia 6800
Mac Mini and Intel gfx problems
How do I use Blender with a one button mouse?
How do I configure my 3 button mouse?
What is different between the Mac OS X version of Blender and other versions?
Why doesn't Blender use Aqua?
Using Blender
Which book should I buy?
How do I do [some specific Blender function]?
Windows
Blender crashes immediate
Why does Blender start with a DOS command line window?
What does the warning "Import site failed..." mean?
How do I set Python Home?
Linux
What is different in Blender for Linux, compared to Blender for other platforms?
Is there any advantage of running Blender on Linux?
Blender is running way to slow on Linux, why?
Do I need any particular window manager or graphic desktop to run Blender?
How do I find out if I'm using acceleration for my graphic card?
Why are they 2 versions of Blender for Linux? What does the static/dynamic mean?
How will my graphic card behave with Blender and Linux?
How can I solve drawing errors in the interface?
I have a ATI driver crash on opening window
How can I make Blender running from a Desktop shortcut?
What does the error "Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0" mean?
If I make a .blend file in Linux, can it be opened in other platforms?
Sound in sequencer is not working
What about binaries plug-ins? Can they be used cross platform?
Do I need root access to install Blender?
Why there isn't an automated installer?
How do I install Blender on my Linux system?
Why are Hot-Keys not working the way they should?
What do these error messages mean?
What does the error about a missing libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 mean?
What does "ERROR: File .blanguages not found" mean?
Animating an empty scene crashes Blender
Where do I find more information?
What about scaling up?
I have some contributions for this document, how do contact the FAQ maintainer?
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