:NY Times: Disney Shifting to Linux for Film Animation
NY Times: Disney Shifting to Linux for Film Animation Jun 18, 2002, 19 :00 UTC (16 Talkback[s]) (12317 reads) (Other stories by Steve Lohr)
"The Walt Disney Company, the doyen of animation studios, is joining Hollywood's embrace of a technological upstart--the GNU Linux operating system.
"Disney's animation division is announcing today that it plans to use Hewlett-Packard workstations and data-serving computers running Linux for digital animation work in the future.
"The Disney move is the latest commitment by major studios and special-effects houses--including DreamWorks SKG, Pixar Animation Studios, Industrial Light and Magic and Digital Domain--to Linux, which is a variant of the Unix operating system that is distributed free and under terms that allow programmers to fine-tune the software..."
