<!--quoteo(post=1617383:date=Mar 27 2007, 07:14 PM:name=Caboose)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Caboose @ Mar 27 2007, 07:14 PM) [snapback]1617383[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> What's your video card? Most ATI and NVIDIA can get dual display with the Natit kexts.
<!--quoteo(post=1617385:date=Mar 27 2007, 09:22 PM:name=Black_Mage)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Black_Mage @ Mar 27 2007, 09:22 PM) [snapback]1617385[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> <a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4803" target="_blank">dreamworks seems to enjoy linux.</a> and the <a href="http://www.ballergoods.com/home/2007/3/12/300-creating-the-visual-effects.html" target="_blank">300 visual effects teams</a> enjoyed their mac and linux boxes/farms.
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I get this feeling you aren't understanding what Im saying here. Dreamworks uses 200 linux desktops? Okay... That's not really that many when dealing with an international company. Alot of the functions it talks about are 2D as well, which isn't what Im talking about. Same with the 300 article, they used Macs to edit the movie? Shocker. They use Linux to run renderfarms? Another shocker there.
Once again, the majority of the time you look for somebody doing 3d work, it will be on a Windows based machine. Note that Im not saying "Everytime".
``Microsoft software continues to play a key role in our overall business, but Linux is particularly well suited to animation production pipelines.'' Taken from the Dreamworks article.
Anyone that does serious computer effects work (ILM, for instance) has a good deal of different machines, running everything from Linux to Windows to possibly even OSX. They don't just have one computer that they use.
Oh yeah, print to PDF being built into OSX by default is nice. Trying to do that for free on Windows is a pain; after lots of searching I was able to find software that had a 30 day trial period, and there were others that did that, or put their watermark into the document, or both.
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What's your video card? Most ATI and NVIDIA can get dual display with the Natit kexts.
<a href="http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Natit" target="_blank">http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Natit</a>
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I'm actually in the process of installing that. I should have known to search their forum.
<a href="http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4803" target="_blank">dreamworks seems to enjoy linux.</a> and the <a href="http://www.ballergoods.com/home/2007/3/12/300-creating-the-visual-effects.html" target="_blank">300 visual effects teams</a> enjoyed their mac and linux boxes/farms.
every dedicated render server or dedicated graphics workstation i can find also runs a non-windows operating system (*nix variants including irix and solaris)
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I get this feeling you aren't understanding what Im saying here. Dreamworks uses 200 linux desktops? Okay... That's not really that many when dealing with an international company. Alot of the functions it talks about are 2D as well, which isn't what Im talking about. Same with the 300 article, they used Macs to edit the movie? Shocker. They use Linux to run renderfarms? Another shocker there.
Once again, the majority of the time you look for somebody doing 3d work, it will be on a Windows based machine. Note that Im not saying "Everytime".
``Microsoft software continues to play a key role in our overall business, but Linux is particularly well suited to animation production pipelines.''
Taken from the Dreamworks article.
I use Windows for gaming, Linux for server and development type things and my Mac for music and general ######ing around.
They all have their perks, and they all have their cons.
Remember, kids. Arguing on the internet is like playing in the special Olympics.