Try: http://web.archive.org/web/20080503125859/http://studio-linux.org/index.html

I think it's a worthwhile effort, however I suspect that Autodesk has
mostly made the decision for us. As far as I'm aware the only Linux
distro Autodesk will officially support is RHEL (which may or may not
officially include CentOS). That combined with how much easier it is
to deal with hardware drivers on big servers with RHEL/CentOS,

Currently we're almost entirely Ubuntu but ?

Adam.

On 22/10/2009, at 3:59 AM, David Laur wrote: > On Oct 21, 2009, at 7:48 AM, David Laur wrote: >> there was this effort, which was quite concerted at the time, >> and you can see how much progress has been made since ;) >> >> http://studiolinux/ > > heh. or not. > sorry! > apparently I hit an internal mirror of the old website from 2005, > I should have studied the url more closely. Basically the > idea was to get a consortium of studios and vendors together to > settle on a few key distro components and high quality drivers. > The Red Hat business model changes were one of the motivating > influences here. There was a lot of talk at about it in the > siggraph 2005 timeframe, but it never really got off the ground. > It does seem like a worthwhile conversation to be having. > > David > > >> >> >> On Oct 21, 2009, at 6:33 AM, john.hickson@studiosysadmins.com wrote: >>> I came across this today and after a conversation I had last night
>>> thought it would be good to share with the group... We really need
>>> to help this effort and standardize on a Linux distro in order to
>>> get better support from all the hardware and software vendors. The
>>> sooner we get buy in and all parties can agree, I beleive, the
>>> benefits and improvements for all studios would dramatically
>>> improve. Who wants to help getting a plan started? Please read the
>>> article - Fighting about it is one of the biggest issues :) -John >>> >>> Five ways the Linux desktop shoots itself in the foot >>> by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols >>> I love the Linux desktop, but facts are facts. Linux only holds a
>>> niche of the greater desktop market. Part of the reason is
>>> Microsoft's monopoly, but it's not just the Evil Empire that's
>>> kept Linux down -- Linux has done a lot of self-damage.

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