DreamWorks Switches to Linux

tal-home writes "Newsforge has a story about the decision Dreamworks made to port ALL of their front-end servers and workstations to Linux. Their new movie, called 'Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron' which will hit the theaters in late May, was created in a 100% Linux enviroment, unlike older movies like Shrek and Lord of the Rings that used IRIX servers as a rendering farm. It's a good time to mention that this move by DreamWorks also includes porting the artists workstations to Linux, in addition to the servers. Redhat and HP helped out in the switch." Word has it that Adobe may be pursuing unix versions of it's toolset as DreamWorks isn't the only shop switching.

Comments

When the SSSCA turns into a reality...

[Karpe]

and Linux becomes illegal (you can't have efective copy prevention with source code), what will the movie studios (the same who pushed the SSSCA in the first place) use then?

Re:When the SSSCA turns into a reality...

[flink]

You mean some kind of Contenet Scrambling System? Yeah, then we'd really be screwed. ;-)

Re:What are they thinking?

[Chris Pimlott]

I want to know, why on earth would Dreamworks want to switch to Linux.

Yeah, too bad there's not some sort of article about it to explain why they switched.

They were using BD

[Anonymous Coward]

Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!

Photoshop

[skroz]

I'd sell my soul for photoshop in linux. OK, well maybe not my soul. My conscience, maybe.

GIMP is great, but it's no photoshop.

Re:Photoshop

[j09824]

GIMP is great, but it's no photoshop.

Thank goodness it isn't; I find Photoshop awful.

Re:Photoshop

[DA-MAN]

> I'd sell my soul for photoshop in linux. OK, well maybe not my soul. My conscience, maybe

Hey, I'm just curious....but what is the bluebook for a soul these days? It's probably not nearly as much as the licensing fee for photoshop. Soul's can't be that expensive these days, just look at all the morons in congress!

Re:Photoshop

[ArsonSmith]

I think you are mistaking. GTK is an X11 widget tool kit. It has nothing to do with rodent feces. but I can uderstand how you would not lick it in that instance.

So..

[realdpk]

We're pro-MPAA today? I thought that was Tuesdays.

Microsoft should take the hint...

[Rareul]

with all of the pressure coming down from the top of the computing power food-chain. Perhaps its time to write a version of MSWindows for linux?

Re:I need a better solution than boycotting Adobe.

[NanoGator]

"I currently boycott Nike because of their labor policies. As an active sports enthusiast, I wish I could in good concience buy nike products, as often they have the best or most available products. But I find alternatives. Then I save the receipts, and mail them to nike with a letter explaining why I bought the competitors products."

Nike once offered a web service where you could have shoes made with words printed on them. Somebody wanted the words 'child labor', or something like that. Heh NIke wouldn't let him do it, but I sure liked his idea.

That goes a hell of a lot farther than not buying their products.

I do like your suggestion of sending the reciepts.

Re:Then what is Disney using nowadays?

[Jeffrey Baker]

Personally I hope Disney continue to piss their money away buying the most overpriced and useless machine SGI sells. I also hope the movies produced thereby fail horribly at the box office. Finally, I hope Disney then goes out of business.

What is it about slashdot, where disease corporations like Disney and other MPAA members are alternately booed and cheered?

Imagine...

[realdpk]

A beowulf cluster of Dreamworks rendering farms!

how's that. Old or not, it's still pretty amusing watching /. go back and forth.

Re:Adobe Lost Me at Hello

[techstar25]

Who said anything about *purchasing* Adobe software?