As I have said to the computer illiterate vista fanboys in here linux is a
fantastic platform, far better than windows.
All that's missing are the great apps to be ported on to it.
Just so thay you morons will know, all other solutions were tried.. ONLY
linux could crunch the numbers in a cost effective way and in such quality
to be used for 3d animations! That's some of the most cpu intensive tasks
out there! And they use clusers of linux boxes working together....
Vista? it's a toy OS!
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-9865829-16.html
Linux (and principally Red Hat Enterprise Linux) has become the primary
production platform for the animation industry, largely due to the
engineering efforts of DreamWorks. Behind that effort sits Ed Leonard, chief
technology officer at DreamWorks, who has been recognized for his work with
an Annie Award for "promoting the Linux open system for animation in
animation studios and gaming software development."
I first met Ed back in 2004 while still at Novell. I was trying to dislodge
Red Hat within DreamWorks. Needless to say, I failed. 
Ed was a director back then. He's since become DreamWorks' CTO, largely due
to the innovative work he has done with HP and Red Hat to make Linux a star
in the animation industry. In turn, this work has made Linux better for all
of us, wherever we sit in the computing industry.
I, too, want to thank Ed Leonard for his contributions to Linux. Ed
demonstrates the power and value of open-source software. He doesn't have to
write code to have a tremendous impact on Linux and open source. Sometimes
it's how customers choose to deploy open source and drive its creators to
improve upon it that make the best contributions of all.