will lack of corporate support kill off Linux?

Brian Densmore DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com
Tue Jul 17 14:19:39 CDT 2001


Shrek isn't the only movie either. Titanic was partially rendered on Linux,
as well as Castaway, and several others.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gene Dascher [mailto:gedascher at multiservice.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 8:57 AM
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: Re: will lack of corporate support kill off Linux?
> 
> 
> OOps, I realized I didn't finish my sentence there:
> 
> They are building a new Linux based render farm that will 
> house 41 dual
> 1GHz P3 2GB RAM machines in a refrigerator sized housing.  It 
> says that
> one unit will replace computers that currently take up 40-50 feet of
> data rack space!  They are also adding another CG production pipeline
> based entirely on Linux using Intel IA-64 and P4 processors.  There is
> no end in sight!
> 
> 
> > 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
> 
> Gene
> 
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