On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 13:48:44 +0200, Tim Orford wrote > > 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 > > i'm not in that area myself but am quite interested. I wonder if > you could comment on the answer below from a softimage friend of > mine.... > > --------------------------quote---------------------------------------- > > [....] IT's true that there is a lot of Linus use in the CG > companies in Soho, but it's definately not all or even most. at best > I would say it's 50/50 and a lot of those linux boxes are in render > farm (the mill for instance has a very heavy linux pipeline, but > most of the desktops stations are 2k I believe) > > to whoever said this... > > Whilst *many& of the magor CG apps run on Linux, *many* of them > don't. *all* of them run on 2K. So whilst a lot of people would > prefer to use it, that doesn't mean that they can. > Well, the company I work for currently runs all 3D (maya and renderman) and 2D (shake) on linux, that covers most of the desktop use (>300 boxes) plus the renderfarm (another couple of hundred dedicated machines). There are a few people with additonal NT boxes really only for running photoshop. A few macs here and there, but not many. The main reason for the heavy linux use is that the majority of the pipeline tools are written in shellscript, and the whole culture is very unix - and of course it can cope with being put under a lot more stress than the competition when throwing around huge amounts of data. This means that for most people here, linux is the main desktop OS, for email, web, listening to mp3s etc etc. dave ................................. www.pawfal.org/nebogeo
