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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. Antitrust by aspjunkie · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I think Antitrust was one of the first 'hollywood movies' that I saw that had some form of Linux on some of the workstaions.

    Claire Forlanni, and Rachel Leigh Cook..

    What a great movie.

    Poor Teddy.. he just wanted to Open Source his code...is that such a crime!?!

  2. Reason? by twistedcubic · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I guess the tech consultants they hire probably do this for the coolness factor, but maybe they don't display MS Windows because all the other companies pay them millions for product placement. So why advertise MS Windows for free?

  3. Re:Matrix by BrokenHalo · · Score: 2, Interesting
    i thought they were using linux in the matrix on screen... matrix 1 that is.

    Yes, but I seem to remember Neo was using a Microsoft Natural keyboard :-)

    OK, big deal. So am I, and my machines haven't run Windows for 6 years.

  4. In anime... by Crayon+Kid · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ...they feature all kinds of operating systems every now and then. Well, maybe not what you'd expect... :) They either go all to way to fantasy land and make up something like they did in Lain (which in turn inspired a real life OS interface -- LainOS), or they humorously mimick real life OS -- think "Windaws XXXP" (seen on "Happy Lesson Advance") or "Red Hot Linux" (seen on "Chobits").

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    i ate crayons when i was a kid and now i have two braincells and the blue ones taste nicer
  5. Anti-Trust by nege · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The Movie Anti-Trust used Gnome exclusivly throughout the movie. The interfaces that you see that are not the gnome desktop are still running on linux - Miguel de'icaza, credited for have founded the Gnome project, makes a guest appearance in the movie as well, offering some computer science award to Ryan Phillippe.

  6. Wayne's World by Mr+Muppet · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Not a computer, but didn't Garth in Wayne's World (can't remember if it was 1 or 2) have a book titled Unix Administrator's something-or-other? And I think he even talked to a girl about Unix for a brief second.

  7. Re:Matrix by Aeonsfx · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I don't know about what the OS was, but I'm pretty sure that from seeing the terminal prompt that it was the csh or tcsh. ;)

    --Tim

  8. Bit late... by Qwell · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I was just watching the Drew Carey show(an old Episode), where he tries to get a job at what the dept store has become(the .com). They were saying that the only jobs open were tech jobs. Drew said, "I can do tech." They then asked Drew if he could use Linux. He said yes(naturally), and they asked, "Redhat 7.2?" Made me think of this article, thought I'd post it.

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    As of 10/06/03, I hate COBOL developers.