New Zealand (South Island)
Seth Kenlon is a UNIX geek, free culture advocate, independent multimedia artist, and D&D nerd. He has worked in the film and computing industry, often at the same time. He is one of the maintainers of the Slackware-based multimedia production project Slackermedia.
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Depends on the industry. Linux pops up in the loveliest places for artists, and after all, part of being an artist is to forge a new path. I know I'm personally quite happy to be the weird indie artist in my neighbourhood who uses that weird computer-with-all-the-stickers-on-it. And you'd be suprised what happens once you start using Linux; you tend to find other artists doing the same sort of thing.
For the record, the easiest method I have found to produce really nice epubs is to use RST or Markdown as an input format, then run that through pandoc to convert to epub. Really easy and the learning curves are really small.