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From: Daniel James <daniel@64studio.com>
To: Reagan Thomas <thomasraz@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-rt-users <linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: preempt rt in commercial use
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 11:39:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C91F3E6.6000604@64studio.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C91025C.6050503@gmail.com>

Hi Reagan,

> It may be the case where
> Linux or *BSD have been used in render farms because of license cost,
> not for any particular technical merit!

No, the effects houses that adopted GNU/Linux en masse in the mid to
late 1990's have plenty of budget for OS licences. If you can afford to
build a scale model of the Titanic in an aircraft hangar, then the cost
of Windows for 200 render farm nodes is hardly noticeable.

The reason was that the studios were migrating from SGI Irix onto higher
performance, lower cost x86 hardware. GNU/Linux was familiar to the Irix
application developers and sysadmins, who did not want to migrate to
Windows.

It was about the best tools for the job, not some bogus perception that
Free Software is 'cheap' because it is given freely (which upsets the
developers I know).

There's an old interview here that provides some background:

http://tuxdeluxe.org/node/126

Cheers!

Daniel

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-16 10:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-14  8:10 preempt rt in commercial use Raz
2010-09-14  9:04 ` Rolando Martins
2010-09-14  9:10   ` Raz
2010-09-14  9:20     ` Rolando Martins
2010-09-14  9:17 ` Nikita V. Youshchenko
2010-09-14  9:24   ` Raz
2010-09-14  9:44     ` Robert Schwebel
2010-09-14 12:16       ` Armin Steinhoff
2010-09-14 13:04         ` Daniel James
2010-09-14 13:08         ` Pradyumna Sampath
2010-09-14 22:11           ` Nivedita Singhvi
2010-09-14 13:09         ` Klaas van Gend
2010-09-14 13:17         ` David Kastrup
2010-09-14 13:37           ` Darcy Watkins
2010-09-14 13:58         ` Patrice Kadionik
2010-09-14 14:21       ` Jeff Angielski
2010-09-14 14:30         ` Nikita V. Youshchenko
2010-09-14 14:49           ` Jeff Angielski
2010-09-14 22:20             ` Nivedita Singhvi
2010-09-15  7:48               ` Armin Steinhoff
2010-09-15 14:09                 ` Nivedita Singhvi
2010-09-15 14:45                   ` Pradyumna Sampath
2010-09-16 10:17                     ` Daniel James
2010-09-16 10:35                       ` Pradyumna Sampath
2010-09-16 15:19                       ` Raz
2010-09-15 15:38                   ` David Kastrup
2010-09-15 16:02                     ` Nivedita Singhvi
2010-09-15 16:20                       ` David Kastrup
2010-09-16  0:44                         ` Steven Rostedt
2010-09-16 15:27                           ` Nivedita Singhvi
2010-09-16 17:30                             ` Steven Rostedt
2010-09-16 19:27                               ` Armin Steinhoff
2010-09-16 19:38                                 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-09-15 13:33             ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-09-14 14:44         ` Pradyumna Sampath
2010-09-15 12:48           ` Sergio Ruocco
2010-09-15 12:53             ` Pradyumna Sampath
2010-09-15 14:58             ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-09-15 16:27             ` Sven-Thorsten Dietrich
2010-09-16  0:49               ` Steven Rostedt
2010-09-16  5:06                 ` David Kastrup
2010-09-14 14:56         ` Armin Steinhoff
2010-09-14 15:42         ` Patrice Kadionik
2010-09-14 17:38         ` Gregory Haskins
2010-09-14 22:09           ` Nivedita Singhvi
2010-09-15  6:22             ` Patrice Kadionik
     [not found]               ` <4C90CF71.2050205@us.ibm.com>
2010-09-15 13:56                 ` Patrice Kadionik
2010-09-15 14:08               ` Steven Rostedt
2010-09-14 10:06   ` Klaas van Gend
2010-09-14 11:00     ` David Kastrup
2010-09-14  9:28 ` Pradyumna Sampath
2010-09-14 14:13 ` Reagan Thomas
2010-09-15  7:09   ` AW: " Lukas Redlinger
2010-09-15  3:38 ` jordan
2010-09-15  8:59   ` Klaas van Gend
2010-09-15 11:03     ` TinxCore and PREEMPT_RT Armin Steinhoff
2010-09-16  9:38       ` Armin Steinhoff
2010-09-16 10:18         ` David Kastrup
2010-09-16 11:25           ` Mike Galbraith
2010-09-16 11:51           ` Armin Steinhoff
2010-09-15 14:03     ` preempt rt in commercial use Nivedita Singhvi
2010-09-15 17:29       ` Reagan Thomas
2010-09-16 10:39         ` Daniel James [this message]
2010-09-16 20:47           ` jordan
2010-09-16 10:07   ` Daniel James
2010-09-16 20:37     ` jordan

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