Problems Linux Enthusiasts Refuse to Address

[Michael Haney]

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Jan Claeys <lists at janc.be> wrote:
> Samuel Thurston schreef op di 05-04-2011 om 14:40 [-0500]:
>> > Movie
>> > makers do not use anything that is cheap, much less free how do you mark up
>> > a free item to make 30% a third of nothing is nothing.
>>
>> Last I checked almost every major CGI production house (pixar,
>> dreamworks, etc.) use Linux render farms.
>
> Not only for the render farms, most of their desktops are linux too
> (Fedora at Pixar, Ubuntu at the company that made Avatar, ...).
>
> Don't forget that most of their in-house software started on Silicon
> Graphics machines which ran on Irix/Unix (and later on Linux).
>

The 3D software Pixar uses is called Renderman.  It was developed by
ILM and was used for Jurassic Park, was used to animate Golem in LOTR,
and later King Kong in Peter Jackson's remake of the classic.  Avatar
used SpeedTree quite heavily, the cinema version of course.  Its a
render package for making realistic looking trees and plants.  A lite
version is included in the Unreal Development Kit.  The cost of the
license to use it commercially is rolled into the $99 fee for the UDK
if you sell a game developed using Epic's tools.

Epic really did indie developers a huge favor by reducing the licence
fee for the UDK to $99 for commercial use and no royalties owed until
you make over $50,000.  The UDK is only available for Windows and I
think Mac, but you can develop games for Android using it.  My friend
has a Motorola Xoom and a game called Dungeons Defenders which was
developed using the UDK.

A dedicated server for UT2k4 is still available for download for
Linux.  Not sure about UT3 though, but I think they did make a
dedicated server for that game that runs on Linux.

It doesn't use the Linux kernel, but I recently saw a review of the
latest version of ReactOS.  ReactOS is an open source Windows clone
with its own kernel and uses Wine.  Its still in early stages of
development, has limited driver support, but it can ready run most
applications and games that work on Windows 2000 and XP.

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