Hi Reagan, > It may be the case where > Linux or *BSD have been used in render farms because of license cost, > not for any particular technical merit! No, the effects houses that adopted GNU/Linux en masse in the mid to late 1990's have plenty of budget for OS licences. If you can afford to build a scale model of the Titanic in an aircraft hangar, then the cost of Windows for 200 render farm nodes is hardly noticeable. The reason was that the studios were migrating from SGI Irix onto higher performance, lower cost x86 hardware. GNU/Linux was familiar to the Irix application developers and sysadmins, who did not want to migrate to Windows. It was about the best tools for the job, not some bogus perception that Free Software is 'cheap' because it is given freely (which upsets the developers I know). There's an old interview here that provides some background: http://tuxdeluxe.org/node/126 Cheers! Daniel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
