It's nice to say "oh we're all linux here", but I don't think that particular achievement of PDI/Dreamworks is something worth striving for. When you are a vfx house which is not also producing the films it's impossible to base decisions around the OS you want to run.
Linux has been around at Digital Domain for a long time. Within the last year it's shown up on the desktop, and some people, meaning artists, prefer it. All in house code runs on irix, linux (alpha, intel), and NT. We got rid of NT alpha about a year ago. And we are moving NT to Win2K.
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It's nice to say "oh we're all linux here", but I don't think that particular achievement of PDI/Dreamworks is something worth striving for. When you are a vfx house which is not also producing the films it's impossible to base decisions around the OS you want to run.
Linux has been around at Digital Domain for a long time. Within the last year it's shown up on the desktop, and some people, meaning artists, prefer it. All in house code runs on irix, linux (alpha, intel), and NT. We got rid of NT alpha about a year ago. And we are moving NT to Win2K.
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