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A bit of googling:
Main Workstation OS: Fedora 7 Media Pre-Production/Screenwriting - Celtx
http://www.celtx.com/overview.html
3D Modeling/Animation/Rendering - Softimage XSI
http://www.softimage.com/products/xsi/features.aspx
2D Animation - Anime Studio (native Linux version)
http://www.e-frontier.com/article/articleview/1915/1/795?sbss=795 http://www.e-frontier.com/filemanager/download/1825/82e36802071af8aa3d80981d...
Image Editing - GIMP
Vector Art - Inkscape
NLE/Compositor - Blender Sequencer
Audio Editing/Sequencing - Ardour
MPEG2/H264 Encoding - FFMPEG and a front end i'm currently writing for it
DVD Authoring - DVD Styler
http://www.dvdstyler.de/shots.html
You could easily turn XSI into Blender/Wings 3D, and Anime Studio into Synfig/Ktoon (however none of those projects are anywhere near useable my my standards)
blender: http://blender.org wings3D: http://www.wings3D.com Ktoon: http://ktoon.toonka.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13...