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Linux in Movies?

Posted by Cliff on from the penguins-in-the-media dept.

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?"

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  1. You're not going to like this reference by NanoGator · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.)

    --
    "Derp de derp."
  2. Chappelle's Show by JAYOYAYOYAYO · · Score: 4, Funny

    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."

  3. Re:Antitrust by kurosawdust · · Score: 4, Funny
    What a great movie.

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