Linux stars in MS movie

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

Thay just CAN'T get away from those open-source commies! :evilgrin:

Linux stars in MS movie
10 October 2005
By REUBEN SCHWARZ
In a stroke of irony, Microsoft's Halo movie will be produced in Wellington by servers running the open-source Linux operating system.

Universal Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox announced last week that Peter Jackson and his partner Fran Walsh will act as executive producers for the film, based on the best-selling game for Microsoft's Xbox gaming console.

Bungie, the Microsoft-owned development firm which created the game, confirmed that Peter Jackson's post-production firm Weta Digital would be involved in the movie.

Weta Digital uses more than 1000 dual-processor IBM blade servers running the Fedora version of the Red Hat distribution of the Linux to produce special effects for movies that have so far included Lord of the Rings and King Kong.

About half the processors are rented out by the New Zealand Supercomputing Centre – a joint venture between Telecom and Weta – when they are not needed for film-making. (...)

[aePrime]

1. Yeah

Well, rendering is serious business. You've got to use what works!

/me checks server uptime --- a little over a month. It was more than a year, but I had to take it down to vacuum out the dust!