Op donderdag 14-12-2006 om 11:07 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Alex Faure: > We are planning to make South Africa's first CGI animated feature > film. Our installation will probably result in one of the fastest > super computer sites in Southern Africa, and we are planning to run > our render farm and the 100 seater animation studio on Linux. the > reason for this email is to explore the suitability of using Ubuntu > for the installation - particularly because of the South African angle > which we are trying to promote. Or technical partners are recommending > Red Hat or Suse - but I am exploring the possibility of using Ubuntu. > Would this be viable? Is Ubuntu robust enough for such an > installation?
Of course it is robust enough, why wouldn't it be? A friend of me used Suse in the past, "because technical partners recommended it". The result was that he had to fix the errors made by employees of both Novell/Suse and those technical partners using his Debian/Ubuntu knowledge. This wasn't about a rendering cluster, and it might not be typical for Suse, but at least it shows that a competent admin (team) is more important than a brand name... ;) (About local support I can't answer, but I'm sure other people can.) -- Jan Claeys -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
