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Linux #1 Operating System in Hollywood
linuxmovies.org — Linux is the most popular operating system for big budget feature film animation and visual effects.
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- japonia18, on 10/12/2007, -12/+3When we published the article http://onestoryeveryday.com/what-does-a-girl-and-ubuntu-have-in-common-aka-my-ubuntu-experience.html We never thought that Linux will grow up so fast. Well we can only give our congrats to the people that are working so hard to bit the competition. Goodbye Window$.
- netdroid9, on 10/12/2007, -13/+3...IE6 on Ubuntu 0.0? I call *****.
- geronimo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11Bzzt on the *****.
http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page - Bleach00, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11IE on Ubuntu?
...Why? - japonia18, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14To test web pages for compatibility maybe ?
- BigBadger, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Isn't the guy who runs "linuxmovies.org" Robin Rowe, who made Cinepaint?
Yeah, "thanks", Robin, for pushing back "Cinepaint Glasgow" for months/years only to ultimatley release a partially working version for *Windows*, of all things. - schestowitz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7What is this? It looks to me like a semi-cooked Web page which makes a statement without properly backing it. One article that I can quickly pull is this:
The unique relationship between Hollywood Movies and Linux
,----[ Quote ]
| Quite often, we speculate about Linux grabbing a major share of the
| desktop PC market. But it seems the film industry are heavy users of
| Linux, and applications that run on Linux which include both open source
| and closed source custom made software.
|
| [...]
|
| And the fact that Linux played a part in the making of this movie is not
| an accident. Rather, it is more becoming the norm. If you do a search on
| the net, you will find many more hollywood movies which are made using
| applications which run on Linux.
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http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2006/10/unique-relationship-between-hollywood.html- RedLion, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13This can't be!!! As Jurassic Park taught me all computers used in movies run unix!
"This is a Unix system. I know this!" - netdroid9, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I still wanna know what shell that was.
- petepete, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@RedLion: the Matrix backs up your theory
- tanglang, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@Jurassic Park: I think it was tdfsb. http://www.determinate.net/webdata/seg/tdfsb.html
- oobuntu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@tanglang
Have you tried this? does it actually work? looks interesting if a bit underdeveloped. - xertys, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@netdroid9: it was 'fsn' on IRIX - http://www.sgi.com/fun/freeware/3d_navigator.html
- Aubec, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0To the guys wondering what they were using in Jurassic park, it was this running under irix on an sgi....
http://www.sgi.com/fun/freeware/3d_navigator.html
I still have a copy of it on my old O2. Interesting, but highly impractical.
- RedLion, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13This can't be!!! As Jurassic Park taught me all computers used in movies run unix!
- m3mn0n, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Impressive if true. From what I always heard, I thought it was Mac.
Go Linux Go! =) - hiddi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3is that a tripod or geocities website? haha as much as i love linux i call bluff.
- samjam, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Linux is not an operating system.
Linux is a kernel.
And yes, they do mean GNU/Linux, as opposed to GNU/Cygwin any other kernel & OS setup
And yes, I do know we can have BSD/Linux and many other variations, GNU/Linux happens to be most popular.
And yes, the GNU part of GNU linux was ready before Linux was released.
And yes, the FSF still don't have a viable kernel.
GNU/Linux rocks, I love it, I also know what it is.- 91degrees, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0We're probably looking at glibc/X/Linux more that GNU/Linux. Most of these systems are going to rely on the GNU stuff to such a tiny extent, that removing 90% of it isn't going to affect the system at all, and could be trivially replaced.
- ECramer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@samjam
Uhh... do you have anything to backup those statements?
Because I know a few people who probably disagree:
http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/info/faq.cfm#I9
http://www.linux.org/info/
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Linux/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux - samjam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0ECramer -
The only item relevant to your statement I can find in those links is:
http://www.linux.org/info/
and it's such a statement that I am disagreeing with. Linux is not an operating system. It just isn't. It's a kernel.
er...
- prehensile, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Vacuous article citing nothing to back up his opinion. Buried.
- JimXugle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Linux is the #1 Operating system in Hollywood, yet we're not allowed to watch DVDs on it?
Hypocrisy I tell you.- ardnut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yes you can, just pay for a licence such as the one from Linspire.
- JimXugle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2But Linspire is what? only x86?
what If I have a Mac G3? or a SPARC machine or an Itanic machine? - Happel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Well my DVDs work fine with my Linux. Xine plays DVDs like a charm and VLC does that too.
- idonthack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@Happel
If you're in a country with DMCA-like laws, that's supposed to be illegal.
- quakenul, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I'm not exactly sure if I really understand how this 95% come together. I am definitely not into Video Editing -- and I assumed that's what Desktop Linux is used in "Hollywood Studios" for -- but last time I checked the major software concerning that wouldn't run on linux. Can someone give me insight into this?
- m3mn0n, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah that was my thoughts. It sounds like BS considering most things I read suggested Mac was best for "industry types" due to the software selection. Windows would be second since it has similar offerings with similar features.
But I've not even heard of Linux offering those types of software let alone being this dominant in the sector.
I totally could believe that number for render farms and such, but workstations? Reception desks? etc? It's very hard to believe. - SpoBo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I doubt this is true. Just yesterday I read that allmost all editing is done with OS X software .; so yeah :/ sure. It's linux. Not!
- aliguana, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Linux is used for renderfarms... thousands of Linux servers rigged together so they can render those CGI Blockbusters faster. afaik Shake, Final-Cut etc are all Mac software (which is linux based, I know....).
- m3mn0n, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah that was my thoughts. It sounds like BS considering most things I read suggested Mac was best for "industry types" due to the software selection. Windows would be second since it has similar offerings with similar features.
- Radan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Hm... I haven't really checked myself, but I have always thought that the Mac was the dominating platform in the movie and music industry. To be honest, I didn't even know that Renderman worked for Linux.
- clmowers, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Linux are used as the servers for rendering. The final cut and editing are done on mac using Linux server
- wedderburn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2this has a grain of truth to it,
back in the day everything to do with special effects in movies came from a company called SGI and their own UNIX called irix and like all UNIX vendors back in the day they had their own hardware (CPU etc) much like sun and the sparc servers.
anyways this was all well and good until Intel systems(x86) became cheep and quite powerful(for the price), so SGI invested into Intel's Itanium processor that was a flop, but more importantly this is when they swapped to Linux (2001) using a emulation layer for irix software.
now most big studio's had a lot of in house software written for irix, so the next logical and easiest path is to port it to Linux, so it comes to no surprise that Linux is heavily ingrained into the movie industry.
SGI still supports Linux and their own extensions to it and they now use intel xeons
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