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Dreamworks, Sinbad & Linux
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."
That makes about as much sense as putting a screen door on a submarine.
There's a Mercedes gap too. I want one and can't afford one, but it's not government's job to do anything about it.
In other news:
"Making coffee proved a very difficult task for my Ford Explorer."
In this slashdot article it claims that Spirit was the first movie to be created in a 100% linux environment (in April 2002). How can this Sinbad movie be the first one if Spirit was... Over a year ago. Am I missing something here or is this just another PR attempt?
It was created using various applications. Those applications could have been running on FreeBSD, OS X...it doesn't really matter all that much. In fact all of these applications can already be recompiled to run on OS X or whatever. That the name of the kernel providing virtual memory, process switching, device drivers, and some low-level services is "Linux" in this case, well, that's something that really only matters if you're a hardcore geek.
I don't mean this as a flame at all. It's just that this story is misguided advocacy. Generic putdowns of "Windows" are equally as meaningless. People don't use an operating system. People use applications. Being fixated on operating systems is like being fixated on tires instead of cars.
That might be interesting, if it were true.
From IMDB.com [imdb.com]:
The release date for "Antz" was 9-19-1998, two months before "A Bug's Life" on 11-14-1998.
"Road to El Dorado" release on 3-31-2000, while "The Emporer's New Groove" released on 12-10-2000 (and the only thing they had in common is that they took place on the same continent)
"Shrek" released on 4-22-2001, six months earlier than "Monsters, Inc" on 10-28-2001.
The only two Dreamworks movies on your list that actually follow Disney movies are "Sinbad" (following "Treasure Planet") and "Sharkslayer" (following "Nemo"). Seeing as "Treasure Planet" (not a Pixar film, nor was "Emperor's") was a huge failure, as will "Sinbad" be, this Dreamworks copycat theory lacks motive. "Sinbad" is based on the story of Sinbad the Pirate, while "Treasure Planet" is a modernization of "Treasure Island". "Sharkslayer" and "Nemo" both take place under water. I guess you win there.
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Well, Pixar president Ed Catmull said at WWDC last week that the dual 2 GHz G5 Power Mac was the fastest desktop computer for RenderMan.
In addition, Final Cut Pro only runs on Mac, Apple sells Shake for $5000 on Mac OS X and $10000 on Linux and other platforms, 25% Maya sales go to Mac OS X. It looks that Mac OS X on G5 is a far better 3D and video solution than Linux, particularly now that the dual G5 Power Mac is cheaper than the dual Xeon Dell.