An awful lot of FOSS should thank the Academy
Quoting: An awful lot of FOSS should thank the Academy —
One of the things we didn't expect to see at this year's Ubuntu get-together was a chart showing Rocky Linux's dominance. Another was demos of whizz-bang special movie effects with open source componentry at their heart.
The Ubuntu Summit 2024 was in the Hague this year, and the Reg FOSS desk was invited along. One of the first full-length sessions was presented by David Morin, executive director of the Academy Software Foundation, introducing his organization in a talk about Open Source Software for Motion Pictures.
It struck us in several different ways. One was that right at the start, Morin linked to the Visual Effects Society's Studio Workstation 2024 Linux Report, highlighting the market share pie-chart, showing Rocky Linux 9 with at some 58 percent and the RHELatives in general at 90 percent of the market. Ubuntu 22 and 24 – the report's nomenclature, not this vulture's – got just 10.5 percent. We certainly didn't expect to see that at an Ubuntu event.