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Sinbad and Linux brave the high seas

Infoworld

Now Tux, the Linux mascot, is rubbing elbows with Brad Pitt, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michelle Pfeiffer.

These Hollywood stars all give their voices to characters in DreamWorks LLC's "Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas," the studio's first animated film created entirely on Linux-based hardware.

The movie, which opens on Wednesday, was created on Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) workstations and servers running Red Hat Linux operating system software, HP said Tuesday.

DreamWorks began using Linux systems for its animated films several years ago and has progressively increased its use of the open source operating system, because of lower costs and more programming flexibility.