“Over the past year, the information technology elite have started to dismiss Linux as a flash in the pan that tried and failed to dominate in a world owned by Windows. Woebegone Linux and open-source companies are scattered across the landscape like so much shrapnel. The stock prices of IPO high fliers VA Linux and Red Hat currently trade near half of their pre-IPO offering prices. Meanwhile, Windows XP gets the press and the plaudits. But what’s happening behind the scenes?” Does Linux found its place in… Hollywood, being the No 1 choice for a rendering farm? Read the rest of the feature article at Salon.com.
Linux Goes to the Movies
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I haven’t read what’s in the link yet but, I just recently saw ‘Revolution OS’ which is a independent film. It was at a film festival here in Denver, and the movie was awesome. It’s a documentry about GNU, Linux, and the people behind it all. The director was there and answered a lot of questions. Obviously he hopes it gets popular enough to where it will reach commercial theatres. I learned a lot about the whole subject, mainly about people. Very good flick.
Hope it makes it to the big theatres.
Reading that, you’ve gotta wonder about BeOS. They’re trying to get Linux “up to speed” with their requirements and this and that, yet BeOS had most of this stuff ready & waiting.
*sheds a tear*
Instead of building a new Os in BS (oops, Beos), they should have taken linux and modify it to that special FX purpose they wanted to do. It’s a monumental error to always want to re-invent the wheel by thinking you can out-done what’s already made (by hacker-wizard). Modify it to make it better is a better solution.
Linux wasn’t even around when they started writing BeOS, IIRC. I’m glad they didn’t base BeOS on linux… well, mabyr if they threw out X windows, cut a ton of fat from linux it might almost work….