> It's an interesting choice for a game like that. I didn't realize NVIDIA had workable > Linux drivers as early as 2002.
It's much cheaper than an XP license, and the Voyager game doesn't exactly scream "high budget" aside from the license fees to Paramount Anyway, Hollywood and the VFX industry were starting to use Linux as early as 1997 to replace SGI machines so the market was there and Nvidia grabbed it.