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Google's got 'em beatGoogle's got 'em beatPosted Jun 5, 2007 20:04 UTC (Tue) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)In reply to: Google's got 'em beat by flewellyn Parent article: DreamWorks Animation 'Shrek the Third': Linux Feeds an Ogre (Linux Journal) For servers there may be no contest, but for desktops? Does anyone know if Google uses Linux on the desktop too?
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Google's got 'em beat Posted Jun 5, 2007 20:36 UTC (Tue) by aseigo (guest, #18394) [Link] 1000 desktops is not even close to being largest. even if we restrictourselves to commercial deployments (e.g. not education, which tend to often be huge, or gov) there are deployments in the >10k range out there.
Google's got 'em beat Posted Jun 6, 2007 4:38 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link] I think that the article was saying that this is the largest deployment of Linux boxes dedicated for graphics _workstations_ in the movie industry, not the largest ever. The writer didn't realy do a very good job of getting that point across.
A lot of people who hear about Linux being used for high-end graphics they automaticly assume stuff like "Oh well of course they are using it in the servers/rendering, everybody knows that for film stuff {OS X, Windows XP} is standard."
When in relatity it's actually the Linux desktop is the one that dominates in this sort of arena.
Google's got 'em beat Posted Jun 6, 2007 10:25 UTC (Wed) by hawk (subscriber, #3195) [Link] I recall reading that the engineers at Google get to choose if they want a Mac, Windows or Linux machine. (See http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2007/02/g...)
Considering the extreme ratio of really techie people at Google, I would think that they must have a decent share of Linux desktops.
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