After the early years of the industry were dominated by Silicon Graphics, Linux became the natural successor to SGI’s IRIX. Over 20 years later, Linux is the primary operating system used on artist workstations at many studios. Two of the goals of the VFX Reference Platform specifically relate to Linux:
August 2023
Recording of the 2023 VFX Reference Platform User Group from August 1st, 2023:
August 2022
Recording of the "The Future of Linux for Professional Artist Workstations" talk from ASWF Open Source Days 2022:
Download the VFX Linux Distribution Recommendation Report (pdf).
January 2022
2021 Studio Platform Survey Report published (pdf).
August 2021
Recording of the annual VFX Reference Platform "Birds of a Feather" meeting:
Linux topics start at 14:48.
Slide deck can be downloaded here (pdf).