On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 09:56:53 -0500, Reuben Martin wrote > >I'm probably showing off my inexperience here, but what about SGI? I > >thought all the Silicon Graphics stuff had been ported to Linux and > >Linux was becoming the OS of choice for Hollywood DM people who used > >to rely on SGI because it's Unix-based, and all that. Is that not > >true? > > It is true that lots of the major pipelines, especially ones heavily > into CGI work, are turning to Linux systems. However, most or them > are the huge industry powerhouses (Pixar, Dreamworks etc) who have > their own in house software and developement. They are just simply > porting their software over to Linux. So even though they are > proving that Linux works as an excellent OS for media production, > very little of the apps they use are available to the public. And > of course they are willing to get their hands dirty... :o) Most of the major cg companies in London are now using linux in day to day production. It's the main desktop OS for everybody except office staff. This said, a lot (if not all) of the users (animators/modellers/r&d programmers etc) come from a unix (SGI) background and arent scared of the odd commandline task. :) dave
