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> Even Pixar has a Linux desktop fleet. And those machines are terrible. Teradici thin clients streaming Red Hat from a closet somewhere. The latency on those
by laserbeams 10y ago
> Even Pixar has a Linux desktop fleet.
And those machines are terrible. Teradici thin clients streaming Red Hat from a closet somewhere. The latency on those things was significant, and the fonts unreadable. The hardware was really buggy, the monitors were really low resolution, and there was some irony on typing on a broken Dell keyboard in the Steve Jobs building. The crappyness of having to sit in front of those machines for 10 hours a day was a significant part of my decision when I left Pixar.
- riffic 10y agoDreamWorks Animation/PDI gave their crew decent HP x86 RHEL boxes. Desktop and farm Linux is a necessity in these fields.
- laserbeams 10y ago> Desktop and farm Linux is a necessity in these fields. Howso? I was working with animation tools developed entirely internally -- last I checked C++ and Qt work fine on OS X.
- riffic 10y agoLinux system engineers and administrators are a bit more common to hire for than OS X engineers, not to mention that the ecosystem is mature and healthy.