> Desktop and farm Linux is a necessity in these fields. Howso? I was working with animation tools developed entirely internally -- last I checked C++ and Qt work fine on OS X.
> Even Pixar has a Linux desktop fleet. And those machines are terrible. Teradici thin clients streaming Red Hat from a closet somewhere. The latency on those things was significant, and the fonts unreadable. The…
> Desktop and farm Linux is a necessity in these fields. Howso? I was working with animation tools developed entirely internally -- last I checked C++ and Qt work fine on OS X.
> Even Pixar has a Linux desktop fleet. And those machines are terrible. Teradici thin clients streaming Red Hat from a closet somewhere. The latency on those things was significant, and the fonts unreadable. The…