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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. GUI proof? by __aafkqj3628 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Can we really accept a GNOME/KDE/whatever GUI as proof that they are running Linux?
    AFAIK, the movies which people are claiming to be featuring Linux don't show off any proof (a uname would be helpful) that it's actually Linux, and now *BSD, IRIX, Solaris or even UNIXWare...

  2. Re:Antitrust by (trb001) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Hey, compared to Hackers, Swordfish and Sneakers, it was conceivable. That, to me, made it a pretty decent movie.

    --trb