I believe OSX is actually based on BSD, not Linux. But it's not too
different from a functional perspective.
A lot of graphics software from companies such as Discreet and Alias was
originally for SGI systems. SGI ran their own version of Unix, and their OS
was architecturally similar in many ways to modern Linux and Mac OS X. When
PCs got faster and SGI started to have business problems, software written
for SGI moved first to Linux and later to OS X. These included Discreet (now
Autodesk), Alias, and others.
There are lots of reasons to like Linux. Because it is completely
open-source, you can download and read the source code and figure out
exactly how things work. There are tons of free and open-source libraries /
toolkits / compilers, etc. for programming Linux in any language you like.
And the OS is extremely customizable, so it can be built to scale up in
interesting ways (massively parallel computing, for example). I think it's
safe to say that all of these capabilities have been leveraged in some way
by the companies creating software for color grading, animation, etc.
Ed.
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 5:48 PM, ripvanmarlowe2000 <kwikpasta@hotmail.com>wrote:
> As a young chap, I'm still exploring options career-wise. I love my job
> as a post supervisor in our mostly Avid shop but I'm getting quite
> interested in colour correction and colour finishing, Nucoda Film
> Master, Filmlight Baselight, this kind of thing.
>
> One thing I always notice about these and other high-end products is
> that they tend to favour Linux and Mac OS's (OSi?!) over Windows. Can
> anyone point me in a direction as to why this is?
>
> I realise that Davinci have just anounced support for Windows but it
> seems Linux tends to get first dibs followed by Mac and Windows seems
> like a bit of an afterthought? I could be wrong but it just seems this
> way.
>
> Googling tends to bring up a bunch of "you don't get viruses on linux"
> type answers but I'm talking about the fundamental reasons why you would
> code a program to operate on linux or OSX instead of Windows?
>
> People say stability is an issue but honestly our Macs beachball as much
> as our Windows machines hang. Bit of a random question but it bugs me
> that I've never really found a good answer to what must be a pretty
> stupid question. Any prods in the right direction appreciated!
>
> Andi
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