A ZDNet article explains that while Linux has been widely touted as having an integral role in the production of Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, digital effects studio Weta Digital discovered that a high-end Power Mac G4 was the ideal solution for delivering hi-definition uncompressed frames in the production of the film.
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Read MoreThe Omni Group Releases Oni for Mac OS X!
December 19, 2001 — Seattle, Washington — Play Oni, the exciting
anime-styled action adventure game, on Mac OS X! Today, The Omni Group
released Oni for Mac OS X. If you currently own a copy of Oni for Mac OS 9,
visit http://www.omnigroup.com/games/oni/ to get this great game up and
running on Mac OS X.
Omni is dedicated to supporting the Mac OS X platform, and porting popular
games to Apple’s new platform is an essential part of Omni’s efforts. Wil
Shipley, Omni President states, “Oni is one of my four favorite games of
all time.
Subject: Opera for Mac
We have just released two new versions of Opera for Mac.
New Opera for Mac 5.0 Beta 5 for systems 7.5.3-9.2 and Beta 3
for Mac OS X introduces 30 day banner-free period, cookie
editor and several bugfixes.
Enjoy PNGs with alpha channel support for the toolbars
as well as a new status bar and a new default button set.
Drag and drop has been improved and now the versions
support dragging urls to the transfer window to download.
Read more about the changes from the last release and download here:
(http://www.opera.com/mac/)