All About Linux: The Unique Relationship between Hollywood Movies and Linux

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 11, 2006

[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]

“Quite often, we speculate about Linux grabbing a major share of
the desktop PC market. But it seems the film industry are heavy
users of Linux, and applications that run on Linux which include
both open source and closed source custom made software. Take the
popular hollywood movie ‘Scooby Doo’ for instance. It was created
at Rhythm and Hues studio and the whole movie was rendered and
touched up using custom made software which ran on Linux.

“And the fact that Linux played a part in the making of this
movie is not an accident…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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