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Linux at Industrial Light and Magic

Posted by chrisd on from the mad-props-to-rmann-and-his-ilm-homies dept.

Nicholas DePetrillo writes "Linux Journal has a big story about how LINUX is being used in hollywood, specificly at Industrial Light and Magic with some GREAT screenshots and a very descriptive article with configuration details." Word has it that their rendering farms have gotten even bigger since this article was published.

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  1. Re:And soon... by saden1 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Dull Troll.

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  2. Re:mod parent as offtopic! by saden1 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Zero...i just felt like asking this question! Is that OK with you Sir?

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  3. These guys can't do a 405 ?? by serutan · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Gimme a break!

    Remember the short film "The 405" that was all over the net a year or two ago, about the airliner landing on an empty freeway? If two guys working nights and weekends for 3 months with a PC can make one of the busiest freeways in LA look empty, it doesn't make sense that a professional effects crew with a multimillion dollar budget can't simulate Sydney deserted. This has to be either a publicity thing or some unbelievable ego trip.

  4. Re:Support Linux Journal QWZX by Chris+Burke · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Amen.

    I don't give a crap if any company goes under. They're companies, and if they don't sell me something that I think is worth it, screw them. I don't care what market it is, I'm not going to be providing corporate welfare. It's not like if some Linux company fails, then /Linux/ fails. Companies fail, Linux companies being no different. Except Linux companies have tended to be .com companies, and .com companies tend to have stupid unworkable business plans. Like, say, trying to annoy your customer into paying you to stop annoying them.

    Though this doesn't necessarily have anything to do with Linux Journal, since I don't think that guy represents them in any way.

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  5. in every joke there is a grain of truth by awful · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    ...so there really is a beowulf cluster of natalia portmans...


    hee

  6. Re:Article Text by Sivar · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Which asshole moderated this guy as redundant? Do YOU see the content of the text before this message? There is a slow mirror link which is also down, but redundant? Nice thankyou for him bothering to post the text. Sheesh.

    Somebody mod this guy up at least back to two, please.

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  7. Qai Gon by DiSKiLLeR · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    In the original SW movies (Ep4-6) when a jedi died, their body disappeared. (Yoda, Obi Wan).

    They also turned into a ghost. (Yoda, Obi Wan, Anakin)

    How come this didn't happen to Qai gon jinn in episode 1? And they burnt his body at the end of the movie? Apparently this was meant to be made clear in Episode 2, but i didn't see how or where.

    Just curious.

    D.

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    1. Re:Qai Gon by XoXus · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      I'd guess because in the first case (Yoda, Obi Wan, Anakin) they were prepared (in a sense) for their death. They could probably prepare themselves for the end. For poor old Qai Gon, however, he died pretty quickly after Darth Maul impaled him, and so I guess that's why his body needed to be burned.

    2. Re:Qai Gon by 10Ghz · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      Anakin, Yoda and Obi-Wan (not sure about the last one though) were jedi Masters. Qui-Gon was Jedi Knight. That might explain it

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  8. Re:Support Linux Journal by Grape+Shasta · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    So, did you email them and ask them to double check your address, and to send another copy? Or did you think the best approach was just a random complaint on /. ?

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  9. Qui-Gon Lives! by LMCBoy · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    It was "explained" in Ep II, you just missed it. As Anikan begins to slaughter the Tusken raiders, you hear a disembodied voice saying "Anikan, Anikan No!"...That voice was Qui-Gon's.

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