I agree. Sunflow renders look fantastic, but is it also dead in the water? Last build is from 2007. Yikes.

Maybe with all of the hubbub over GPU ray-tracing at SIGGRAPH this year it's time to see development re-ignited?

There are packages for Ubuntu 10.04 and for the upcoming 10.10, yes - the last SS version is from 2009 - now spankin new, but not outdated, and the packages are always kept fresh.

Please see my other post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1681697

Thanks, I figured it out the installation in Ubuntu (it has both SS and Sunflow packages, I only had to give Sunflow parameter to use more memory in the launcher/Java heap)