Photos: Red Hat's beach party

The studio responsible for Shrek and other animation hits is always a good customer to roll out at a conference that can get pretty dry at the best of times — showing delegates cartoons in the name of work is always going to be winner. Derek Chan, head of digital operations at DreamWorks Animation, was on hand to provide some interesting but relevant diversion and discuss how the studio has been using Red Hat Linux. Although it is still using the previous version of Red Hat's OS — RHEL 4 — it is using it on the server and desktop. "For us, Linux was a vital part of scaling our studio," he claimed. The audience was treated to a sneak peak at the studio's latest movie, Shrek 3 — due to be released in the US next week.