Strangelove directed me to the story up on slashdot. The full press release is on Yahoo. This is really big news for Linux and Red Hat.
“Customer demand for a Linux version of Maya has driven this development,” said Bob Bennett, General Manager of the Entertainment Business Unit for Alias/Wavefront. “The Technical Committee of the Visual Effects Society recently hosted a meeting of leading effects professionals to discuss the importance of Linux to their community. The consensus of the participants was that Linux will be a key operating system in visual effects work and urged software companies to be more forthcoming in support of Linux. We are responding to that call to action by announcing that Maya will be available on Linux. Our experience with UNIX® has made this implementation of Maya both highly efficient and productive.”
“Maya is the most complex and powerful 3D graphics application ever to run on Linux,” said Linus Torvalds, the Creator of Linux. “This is a historical day for the Linux community.”
