wispygalaxy <wispygalaxy@xxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Peter Köhlmann wrote:
>
>> wispygalaxy wrote:
>>>
>>> Companies are cutting costs and getting a good deal at the same time.
>>> It's
>>> a win-win situation. Star Wars was made with Linux? That's awesome.
>>>
>>
>> Not just Star Wars.
>> Basically all special effects in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy were made
>> by linux. They were conceived on linux workstations and rendered on linux
>> clusters.
>> The incredible amounts of warriors in those movies were created by
>> "Massive", again running on linux
>>
>> < snip >
>
> I would have never thought that Linux made special effects. I used to
> believe that Linux only performed mundane tasks, such as running a server.
> The average person does not realize how versatile Linux is.
>
> I always wondered how movies could coordinate all of those warriors
> successfully. Thanks for telling me. :)
Linux is in use, and has been for years, in all manner of areas, here
are some examples:
1. Tomtom sat navigation devices
2. Motorola smartphones
3. LiMo smartphones
4. Google Android smartphones
5. Nokia N770/N800/N810 web tablets
6. Netbooks generally (Asus eee, AA1, dell, etc. etc.)
7. Bubba excito home servers
8. Linksys WRT54GL wireless access points/routers/ADSL modems
9. Sony PS3/PS2 (options)
10. Several types of Sony TV
11. Triple-dragon satellite receiver(s)
12. D-link ADSL modems
13. Google search etc. clusters
14. Alcatel telco servers
15. Nortel SIP servers
16. Several film graphical rendering farms
17. Over 80 of the top 100 supercomputers on the planet
18. Chumby consumer device
19. Openmoko smartphone
20. Archos media players (various)
... and so on. There are many examples of miniature machines, such
as plug-top sized servers, and fascinating projects such as the gnu
radio project.
Linux has more or less completely dominated the internet, and is making
huge inroads into new areas, such as Asterisk and OpenSER into the
telephony space, various router projects, and many more. Apache's own
success is, in many respects, even more visible, as it is absolutely the
dominant web server, in spite of numerous efforts by MS to fudge the
statistics by buying into "parked" domains, ie., getting "counts" for
sites which didn't, in reality, exist.
The best selling processor architecture on the planet is the ARM
architecture, which has sold billions, mostly into mobile devices of one
kind or another. As mobility is becoming critical for most people, ARM
devices look like being the x86 of the noughties and the teens, and
linux appears to be the windows of the noughties and the teens.
This is great news for the next generation, as the previous ones were
unlucky enough to be launched into the world of work just as the
Microsoft machine was coming to the fore, building its global monopoly,
and stagnating technical development. That stagnation has come to and
end, and we're once again seeing amazing designs and ideas appearing,
most of which probably will be unsuccessful, but many will be wildly so.
It seems unlikely that these new inventions will be based on Windows
Vista or its progeny.
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