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Ubuntu In Popular Culture
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| Yesterday we watched “Berlin am Meer” - not a world-changing, but nice movie
| filmed in Berlin. As in all other modern movies which happen to be shot in
| Berlin, I enjoy the sensation of recognising where the scene happened (”Nice,
| that’s like 5 minutes from here.” or “We’ve been at that spot last weekend.”)
| The movie did not disappoint us in that regard, lots of scenes were shot in
| Kreuzberg, Friedrichshain and Treptow.
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| In addition to that, I was pleased to see they used Ubuntu in a short scene.
| (The supposed best friend of the leading character copies files from his
| laptop without him knowing.)
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http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/?p=239
Recent:
If it's animation or special effects, it's Linux
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| Rowe's not just being a Linux booster. It's the Gospel truth. The animation
| and FX for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull; Star Wars: The
| Clone Wars; WALL-E; 300; The Golden Compass; Harry Potter and the Order of
| the Phoenix; and I Am Legend, to name but a few recent movies, were all
| created using Pixar's RenderMan and Autodesk Maya running on Linux clusters.
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http://blogs.computerworld.com/if_its_animation_or_special_effects_its_linux
Ubuntu on NBC
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| Jane Silber posted on the ubuntu-news-team list that Ubuntu could get plugged
| on US TV Wednesday during a discussion of new notebooks.
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http://boredandblogging.com/2008/08/26/possible-ubuntu-mention-on-nbc/
Italian TV talks about Ubuntu
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| In this video an Italian TV program, NeaPòlis, talks about ubuntu as a very
| stable, high performance and easy to install operative system.
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http://www.fsdaily.com/Community/Italian_TV_talks_about_Ubuntu
Ubuntu in Vermist
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| In today’s episode of spot the operating system we present to you the Belgian
| movie Vermist where police detectives apparently use Ubuntu as their
| operating system of choice.
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http://n00.be/archives/697/
Red Hat on Mad Money
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| Jim Whitehurst does a good job of publicly dismissing Microsoft while
| claiming not to compete with Windows. My favourite comment though has to
| be “I don’t see Oracle as really assaulting us”.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2008/07/31/red-hat-on-mad-money/
Related:
Hollywood, Linux, and CinePaint at FOSDEM 2008
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| At first, studios had no choice but to develop Linux applications in house.
| The film industry has millions of lines of Linux code, both desktop
| applications and server pipelines. Studio Linux programmers write code in
| C++, Python, Perl, and Java. What does all this secret proprietary Linux code
| do? And, why do they do parallel programming with grid computing? How does
| the film industry use renderfarms with thousands of CPUs?
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http://linuxgazette.net/147/rowe.html
DreamWorks wins an award for its innovative use of Linux
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| Behind that effort sits Ed Leonard, chief technology officer at DreamWorks,
| who has been recognized for his work with an Annie Award for "promoting the
| Linux open system for animation in animation studios and gaming software
| development."
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9865829-16.html
Linux Goes Hollywood With New Terra Soft Film Rendering Tool
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| Y-Film is a product formed from two separate applications. The first is a
| cluster construction suite supported by Terra Soft's Y-HPC platform. The
| second is the Artist Productivity and Asset Management Tools developed by
| Scott Frankel, president and VFX supervisor at Circle-S Studios and the lead
| developer of Y-Film. The tool set runs on x86 Linux, Power Linux and Mac OS
| X.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/60254.html
Linux in Hollywood
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=636VZ_R-NVs
Studios Using Linux
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| * Digital Domain
| * Disney
| * Double Negative
| * DreamWorks Animation
| * Flash Film Works
| * Hammerhead
| * Industrial Light & Magic
| * Moving Picture Company
| * Pixar
| * Rhythm & Hues
| * Sony Pictures
| * Tippett
| * Weta Digital
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http://linuxmovies.org/studios.html
Open Source: Ready for Its Closeup
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| "Linux is the default operating [system] on desktops and servers at major
| animation and visual effects studios, with maybe 98 percent [or more]
| penetration," CinePaint Project Manager Robin Rowe told LinuxInsider.
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http://www.ecommercetimes.com/rsstory/57300.html
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