[TriLUG] OT: movie outing?

[Cristobal Palmer]

Happy Feet came to us from Warner Bros, but they outsourced the
animation to Animal Logic[0], and at some point, "The company decided
to migrate from a Windows 2000 Pro environment to a Linux Red Hat
environment," according to an HP press release[1].

-CMP

[0] http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&article_no=3084
[1] http://h20271.www2.hp.com/SMB-AP/cache/252082-0-0-14-121.html


On 11/18/06, Brian McCullough <bdmc at bdmcc-us.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 08:34:35AM -0500, Brian Henning wrote:
> > Well!  Let me be the first in the certain flood of responses!  I'm
> > interested.  I am curious, though, if anything in particular makes this
> > a prime LUG-related activity aside from the fact that it's penguins?
> > Was the movie designed or rendered on Linux-powered machines?
> >
> > Or, I guess to paraphrase a /. favorite... "Sure, but did they run Linux?"
>
>
> I haven't checked, but if it is a Pixar film, then, if I remember
> correctly, they do a LOT with Linux.
>
>
> B-)
>
>
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Cristobal M. Palmer
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