10 Oct
2003
10 Oct
'03
10:24 a.m.
Most of the major cg companies in London are now using
linux in day to day
production. It's the main desktop OS for everybody except office staff.
This said, a lot (if not all) of the users (animators/modellers/r&d
programmers etc) come from a unix (SGI) background and arent scared of the odd
commandline task. :)
dave
i'm not in that area myself but am quite interested. I wonder if
you could comment on the answer below from a softimage friend of
mine....
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[....] IT's true that there is a lot of Linus use in the CG companies in
Soho, but it's definately not all or even most. at best I would say it's
50/50 and a lot of those linux boxes are in render farm (the mill for
instance has a very heavy linux pipeline, but most of the desktops
stations are 2k I believe)
to whoever said this...
Whilst *many& of the magor CG apps run on Linux, *many* of them don't.
*all* of them run on 2K. So whilst a lot of people would prefer to use
it, that doesn't mean that they can.
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groetz
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Tim Orford