Linux in Movies?

chicagoan asks: "Last weekend I, like many other people across the US, saw Scary Movie 3. During the movie an actress gets on the web to help her in her quest. Looking closer I noticed that the Desktop environment she was using was GNOME and the Web Browser was Mozilla's Firebird. Where have you spotted actor's using Linux in movies or on TV shows?"

Comments

Re:Matrix

[RzUpAnmsCwrds]

Yes, it was nmap, if by "Matrix 1" he meant "Matrix 2".

You're not going to like this reference

[NanoGator]

I spotted one. I was watching a commercial for Earthlink. It featured two dudes trying outbid each other on Ebay on an item with only 30 seconds left. The guy with Earthlink won because his connection was faster. The guy who lost, his page was still loading. If you look carefully, he's running KDE as his desktop. I found that quite amusing. ;)

(Note: I couldn't tell you what OS the 'winner' was using.)

Chappelle's Show

[JAYOYAYOYAYO]

Its a skit based show on comedy central.. one of the skits was a spoof of a company policy video shown to employees at a copy store (think kinkos) "if a customer brings in a windows disk, tell them we only use macintosh. if they bring in a mac disk, tell them we only use windows... if they bring in a linux disk, tell them the computers are down."

that's nothing...

[standsolid]

You all talk about a hacker nuking ssh and some lady browsing the web with FireBird. That's all small 'taters. If you really want to see Linux in a movie check this out. Oh yes.

Re:Antitrust

[kurosawdust]

What a great movie.

Thanks - I never weeped for my generation before 10am prior to reading that. Congrats.

Re:Antitrust

[bhtooefr]

Errm, a full-screen telnet to SDF would take care of that REALLY quick in Winders. So would a fullscreen Cygwin-bash session.

Also, what are you doing posting to /. if you have a life? You should know (having a sub-2000 UID) that none of us have lives by now!

Re:Antitrust

[vsync64]

weeped

And thank you: I hadn't wept for mine until reading that.