On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Fred Heitkamp wrote: >> >If the server market is the biggest (and for Linux it is) then >> >only 2D support if that is required. I'd bet even the big >> >film studios don't use Linux to view the final rendering. They >> >probably use a Mac (Apple OS of some kind) or a PC running >> >Windows. >> >> Search google for Dreamworks SKG stories involving Linux. You'll >> be surprised. > >I will do that. But even if you count every cluster node >running Linux rendering movie and TV frames as a separate >machine, I'd still bet it's only a fraction of the total >Linux server market.
I'm not sure how "Linux server market" got into the discussion, or how it's relevant. The only thing I can assume is that one person in the thread misunderstood another person in the thread. I'd be astonished if the movie industry were using more machines running _any_ OS on them than the entire Linux server market. But again, that is another topic entirely. My comment was specifically in response to: >> >I'd bet even the big >> >film studios don't use Linux to view the final rendering. They >> >probably use a Mac (Apple OS of some kind) or a PC running >> >Windows. I would take you up on that bet in other words. Nothing to do with Linux server market vs. movie studio Linux market. Just pointing out that Linux not only thrives in the movie studio market, but that it is basically taking over that market entirely. Not overnight, but very increasingly every day. I provided Dreamworks as just a single example of a movie studio that uses Linux extremely heavily for practically everything, and press releases online locatable via google can back that up should someone think otherwise. ;o) -- Mike A. Harris _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
