Maya is available on Linux. Actually both Complete and Unlimited are available. Alias|Wavefront will only support Maya on Red Hat Linux. If you want to use it on any other flavor of Linux, you may not be able to get support from A|W.

And if I am not mistaken, Red Hat Linux isn't a free distribution software.

One thing I am curious of however, is if there will be hardware chips on MB's, wouldn't that make running Linux on a PC box pretty much pointless? The hardware isn't affected by the OS. It's the other way around actually. The OS has to conform to hardware. So, anyone in the know know if this chip is software ran or is it something that is hardwired, and self contained on the Mother Board?

Also, IBM has already came out with these chips in their Thinkpad line of computers. They call them the truth chip. If these so called truth chips actually do what that article says it does, shouldn't they call it the "Untruth" chip? LOL

Makes that Apple ad from 1984 seem pretty acurate huh?