Linux (Fedora) stars in MS movie. Fedora deployments page?

Greg DeKoenigsberg gdk at redhat.com
Tue Oct 11 14:07:59 UTC 2005


On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Jeff Spaleta wrote:

> On 10/10/05, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3437625a28,00.html
> >
> > "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."
>
> Now that is the sort of thing I love seeing.  

Also an opportunity for Red Hat to upsell these folks, heh.

> Think there is anyway we could get Weta to talk about what they like
> about Fedora?  Now if we could only get Wil Wheaton to use fedora as a
> desktop

He owes us one for coming down with mono when he should have been 
keynoting at the Red Hat Summit.  Thoughtless bastard.  ;-)

--g

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