[plug][link] Linux Lessons: PIxar

Chris Caston caston at arach.net.au
Thu Jun 12 11:12:26 WST 2003


Let's hope the studio that brought us toy story starts using the Distro
that names it's releases after its characters.

regards,

Chris

On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 10:45, John Knight wrote:
> I was thinking of making an article out of this but I'm too afraid to touch 
> it, check the links out too, intereswting reading.... :-)
> 
> http://linux.bryanconsulting.com/stories/storyReader$107
> 
> "
> Pixar Animation Studios, which brought the world 'Monsters Inc.' and 'Toy 
> Story,' is switching from Sun Microsystems to Intel, as the melodrama in the 
> server market heats up.
> 
> The Emeryville, Calif.-based film studio is replacing servers from Sun in 
> its 'render farm'--a bank of servers that fuses artists' images into 
> finished film frames--with eight new blade servers from RackSaver. In all, 
> the blade system contains 1,024 Intel 2.8GHz Xeon processors, and it runs 
> the open-source Linux operating system.
> 
> "
> 
> Make lunch, not war.
> 
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