How Pixar moved its entire pipeline to Linux by 2003

Pixar, whose early animation pipeline ran on Silicon Graphics Unix workstations, avoided a move to Windows NT and instead ported millions of lines of in-house code to Linux. The port was done by 2001, and by 2003 a new render farm on Xenon processors moved the studio to Linux and x86.

• Pixar's early pipeline ran on Silicon Graphics Unix workstations
• The studio had written about two million lines of internal code
• The port to Linux was completed by 2001
• By 2003 a Xenon-based render farm moved the studio to Linux and x86