Take a look at the latest issue of Linux Journal and you'll see how
Linux is wending its way into the entertainment industry.  For those of
you who don't get that mag, the cover story profiles Dreamworks and how
it used Linux for the majority (80%!) of its animation render farm for
the movie 'Shrek'.  It talks about the future plans for adding more dual
GHz.  It also goes into a lot of the applications that they use for the
graphics workstations that run Linux as well.  Two of the major 3D
Modeling/Animation packages, Houdini and Maya, have been ported to
Linux, so there is more incentive for Animation studios who use (or are
considering using) those packages to save on OS Licensing Fees and move
to Linux.

Gene