Dreamworks, Sinbad & Linux

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday July 1, 2003 @03:26AM from the well-isn't-that-special dept.

Ex-MislTech writes "Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, an animated movie from DreamWorks Animation Technology that hits theaters July 2, is the first Hollywood production created entirely on Linux. More than 250 Hewlett-Packard workstations running Red Hat Linux make up the core of DreamWorks' graphics platform."

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Problems... by jeffy210 · 2003-07-01 03:30 · Score: 5, Funny

"The biggest problems were the women and the water."

Isn't that the problem that most men have to deal with anyway?

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the women by metallikop · 2003-07-01 03:30 · Score: 5, Funny

The biggest problems were the women and the water.
Strange, being a Linux user women are my biggest problem too.
1. Re:the women by Dr+Tall · 2003-07-01 03:31 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  It's no better for Windows users *sigh*.
Ironic... by metz2000 · 2003-07-01 03:32 · Score: 4, Funny

I find it highly amusing that the only place I could find clips for this new movie was on WindowsMedia.com!

"Created using Linux, advertised by Microsoft."
yarr by huntz0r · 2003-07-01 03:37 · Score: 5, Funny

More proof that Linux users are a bunch of pirates

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1. Re:yarr by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-01 03:48 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  So, will this movie be rated AARRRRGH?
Trouble with the pre-screening... by pb · 2003-07-01 03:41 · Score: 4, Funny

Apparently they're having trouble getting this deployed because the theatres are having a tough time with their new digital video systems; it quits immediately with this error:

- MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen. It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read DOCS/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We can't and won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible bug.

(and, yes, that was a joke, folks...)

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Re:How is it different then this: by Veranix · 2003-07-01 03:51 · Score: 3, Funny

Well, you've never been married.

Or maybe you have...no paycheck, AND no sex!
Re:Ironic... Give me a break folks. by Surak · 2003-07-01 04:09 · Score: 5, Funny

Most TV producers are not computer scientists and don't see the irony and/or don't care.

Can you imagine how awful TV would be if it WERE produced by computer scientists?

Channel 45: The Slashdot channel! Geeks rant and rave about Microsoft, SCO, and RIAA! Then they geek out over Linux, *BSD (which they always seem to point is dying), and Mac OS X!!!

Channel 52: The Microsoft Channel! Bill Gates discusses his plans for world domination!

Channel 54: The Linux channel! Kernel hacker Alan Cox takes you line-by-line through the Linux source code!

Channel 58: The Apple Channel! Steve Jobs demonsrates his famous "Reality Distortion Field" and exaggerates a lot about Apple's latest G5 computers!

Channel 62: The FSF Channel! RMS talks about how Channel 54 should be called the GNU/Linux channel!

Channel 69: The SCO Channel! *** programming unavailable ***

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Re:Ironic... Give me a break folks. by finkployd · 2003-07-01 07:30 · Score: 4, Funny

Channel 54: The Linux channel! Kernel hacker Alan Cox takes you line-by-line through the Linux source code!

Hot Damn! I would LOVE to see that :)

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