Here’s a little story about Dreamworks. They use Linux but I like these little snippets:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6103
So how does DreamWorks use Photoshop with Linux desktops? “We’re running Photoshop in VMware”
Hmmm, so they use Linux for speed but run Photoshop in virtualization software.
With Red Hat it seems like every day you get errata. You don’t know what those changes may break.
They use a commercial Linux distro.
“On the front end we still use Windows and Macintosh for some preproduction”, notes Leonard. “But, we don’t see OS X as a core platform for us. We’re very committed to Linux.” Leonard says a key feature of Linux is that being open source allows it to be tuned for performance.
Against all odds, they are fanboys.
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-825967.html
“There are some giant missing pieces in Linux,” Leonard said. The biggest one remains the lack of a paint program… consequently, some of the Photoshop work was done on Apple Macintoshes
They also use Shake so that puts Windows out a bit. They also use old battered PCs so that kind of puts Macs out a bit.
They have teams of people to write specialized software (Windows not so good for development) and optimize the system (Windows or Mac not so good) for them. Heard of any of these packages:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4803
So I can see why they’d use Linux but I’d still like to see what NLE they use.
“Linux is the future, and it has had a big win in the motion picture industry,” says Film Gimp release manager Robin Rowe. “But video is much more immature in Linux. There is nothing comparable to Final Cut Pro, for instance.”
To understand why, it helps to think from the manufacturer’s point of view: faced with thin profit margins in the highly competitive NLE market, there’s no compelling reason to devote critical staff resources to developing complex software aimed at a relatively small, diffuse group of hacker enthusiasts who also happen to work in video production.
“Avid supports Linux in areas where we have had significant customer demand,” says Matt Allard, product-marketing manager for Avid. “It’s really a matter of customer demand and the creative environment in which our customers work.”
http://digitalcontentproducer.com/dcc/video_video_penguins/
Y’know, you non-Mac users are all the same. You say one little thing about your precious systems and then you go off over reacting. So anti-Social. 