LOTR and Linux?

[Emir]

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On 22/11/2003 22:53, Paul King wrote:

> Hmm...
>
> Just bought the DVD of The Two Towers. I finisned watching the movie and was
> making my way through one of the feature DVDs (about the making of Gollum, I
> believe), and I was pretty sure I could make out that one of the animators was
> using a KDE desktop, especially after they had quite a few full-screen shots of
> the same running program. Could WETA be a Linux house? We could only hope.

Pretty much all 3D design studios in Holywood run Linux on their workstations,
and have been for years now.  Heck, even Disney uses Linux for their animated
movies.  The reason is that they usually have highly skilled programmers and
in-house expertise in system programming, and SGI (their vendor #1) was quick
to support the drive.  Furthermore, all their specialty tools were written for
UNIX and porting them to Linux was much easier than porting to Windows.
Benefit to us all was that Linux kernel matured much more quickly than any
other OS in history - something SCO rightly observed, but misinterpreted in
the most moronic of ways.

Another benefit I hope to see from this trend is high-quality drivers for 3D
cards, as purveyors of which figure out and embrace the movement.  Once that
is in place, and with mature OpenGL, gaming and other off-the-shelf
graphics-intensive applications will become a de facto standard on Linux.

Combine this with an accelerating push for Linux in enterprise server room,
and you have a battlefront so wide no organization, with or without $40bn in
bank, can fight.

And *that* is how Microsoft will become irrelevant.
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Emir.

"Politicians, like diapers, have to be changed frequently.
 And for the very same reason."               -- Anonymous
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