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From: "Rick Hoppe" <mailing@rickhoppe.nl>
To: "Happy" <kuishin@singnet.com.sg>
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Subject: RE: Is FreeBSD used in the Movie Industry??
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 16:26:14 +0200
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Happy
> Subject: Is FreeBSD used in the Movie Industry??
>
> Hi,
>     I have read on the Internet that FreeBSD is used in making the effects
> of the movie, The Matrix. Is that true?
>
>   Are there any movies whose effects are made using freebsd??
> If so,does that  mean that an ordinary PC can also produce such effects if
> the PC is running freebsd and the apporopiate hard/software?
>
>     Please reply if you can. Thanks!! :)


Yes, it's true. But don't know about other movies.

<QUOTE>
Manex Visual Effects used 32 Dell Precision 410 Dual P-II/450 Processor
systems running FreeBSD as the core CG Render Farm.
</QUOTE>

Check the official FreeBSD Press Release from April 22, 1999.

http://www.freebsd.org/news/press-rel-1.html



Regards,

Rick Hoppe
Network- and Systemspecialist
Xtraxion Internet



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