By Brian Krusic -
Why switch?
I like Centos front and backend.
Some one here asked about services, the Centos/RHEL directory server is cool, LDAP/Java based.
Personally I think its silly to be biast as in the end they're all a POS. The choice depends on both desired sw and management tools being/to be used.
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Brian
From: Anthony Hoit <anthony.hoit@artificepictures.com>
Sent: Fri Jan 27 18:17:03 PST 2012
To: studiosysadmins-discuss@studiosysadmins.com
Subject: [SSA-Discuss] Thread Jack! Linux for Desktops in studio environments.You guys brushed on this a little already so....
We are evaluating switching from windows 7 to Centos/Fedora/Ubuntu for
our artist machines.
Main Software packages.
Maya 2012
Nuke
Mari
We do have some photoshop/AE but I'll just keep around some windows
machines for that. I have a windows 2008 R2 data/ADDS/DHCP/DNS server
and a CentOS 5.5 data server. I will eventually just end up switching
everything to some version of linux, I just don't know what yet.
Pipeline guys yell at me for having a windows server anywhere near the
building. So what are people here using for there artist machine OS for
similar software usage?
Anthony