On 06 Sep 2003 08:25:37 -0400 ed tharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > gee,, George Lucas, and Industrial Light and Magic choose Linux. AMD > and NVidia just for that. > the August Linux Journal has a great writeup about the Rackspace built > linux powered ILM 'deathstar' render-farm. some 1500 AMD athlon 1600, > on 750 MoBos, each with 2 gigs ram. > ahhh to dream of such power... just wait a few years (like 20),, I > swear I will have that much power.
that's comparing apples and oranges. they are using Linux for the raw power, not too support an advanced flat panel display. there's a difference between computing power and hardware support, no? I betcha they still use Mac's at the end-user level, the Linux rendering farms are just for nuclear-powered computing at the level of drawing huge amounts of polygons in a short time (and without crashing, LOL!). -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: nodex.sytes.net ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. -- Gandhi
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