VFX Linux recommendations published

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Nick Cannon

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Aug 15, 2022, 9:16:29 AM8/15/22

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In case you missed it, last week the VFX Linux Task Force presented their findings at ASWF Open Source Days and published the full report at https://bit.ly/VFXlinux22. A recording of the presentation will be posted on the ASWF YouTube channel in the next week or so.

The core recommendations are:

For artist workstations running Linux, it is strongly recommended that all VFX and Animation studios deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.x or one of its binary compatible rebuild distributions such as AlmaLinux 9.x or Rocky Linux 9.x in 2023, and no later than June 2024 for those still running CentOS Linux 7.

Digital content creation (DCC) software vendors are encouraged to build their products on at least RHEL 8.x (or downstream equivalent) and qualify all minor releases of RHEL 9 as being officially supported for their customers in 2023.

These recommendations are important for all studios and software providers to take note of, and studios are going to be dependent on the major DCCs acting on these recommendations to support RHEL/Rocky/Alma 9.x. Some of the major software vendors were involved in the process of coming up with these recommendations, and feedback since publishing last week has been very encouraging.

It will certainly help our collective cause if software vendors are hearing from their customers that these recommendations are important to them...