Linux Goes to the Movies

摘要

In case you haven't met him yet, Gol-lum is one of the stars of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. He's a sickly, pale creature on a quest to find the Ring. But he's not played by a human actor. He's a computer-generated image created on the hottest server platform to hit mainstream corporate computing: Linux. That's right. The most incredible special effects in recent movie history were not created on high-end Silicon Graphics workstations running Unix. They were built on farms of industry-standard servers and workstations with Intel. processors and running Red Hat Linux.