[ Thanks to kurgan for
this link. ]
“Alias/Wavefront, an SGI (NYSE:SGI) company, today announced
plans to port the entire Maya 3D software product line to the Linux
platform. Responding to demand from leading studios worldwide,
Alias/Wavefront will deliver Maya on Red Hat(R) Linux in early
2001.”
“Customer demand for a Linux version of Maya has driven this
development,” said Bob Bennett, General Manager of the
Entertainment Business Unit for Alias/Wavefront. “The Technical
Committee of the Visual Effects Society recently hosted a meeting
of leading effects professionals to discuss the importance of Linux
to their community. The consensus of the participants was that
Linux will be a key operating system in visual effects work and
urged software companies to be more forthcoming in support of
Linux. We are responding to that call to action by announcing that
Maya will be available on Linux. Our experience with UNIX(R) has
made this implementation of Maya both highly efficient and
productive.”
“Recent advancements in the graphics libraries available for
Linux are enabling Alias/Wavefront to deploy Maya software on an
operating system that is known for reliability and scalability.
These are all requirements that are critical to meeting the
rigorous production demands of the digital content creation market.
“Maya is the most complex and powerful 3D graphics application
ever to run on Linux,” said Linus Torvalds, the Creator of Linux.
“This is a historical day for the Linux community.”