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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. 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").

    --
    i ate crayons when i was a kid and now i have two braincells and the blue ones taste nicer