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KDE on the NBC Show "Heroes"

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the well-isn't-that-nice-for-them dept.

Vesuv writes "The pilot episode of NBC's flagship drama for the 2006 fall season proudly features a laptop showing a KDE desktop and KDE applications such as Kopete and KMix running on Mandriva Linux. " The show itself looks to have potential for essentially an x-men knockoff. I mean, it ain't written by Sorkin (all hail jesus) so I'll give it a few more episodes to decide if all the angst is gonna kill me or not.

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  1. The show is totally unrealistic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't get me wrong... teleportation, flight, invulnerability, etc... all okay. But a hot girl using linux on the desktop? Yeah, right!

    1. Re:The show is totally unrealistic by dsginter · · Score: 4, Funny

      But a hot girl using linux on the desktop? Yeah, right!

      Because they all know that it isn't ready for the desktop yet! OTOH, most of them use BSD on the server side.

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    2. Re:The show is totally unrealistic by Phu5ion · · Score: 4, Funny

      You have to think in the context of the story, this was not some random product placement. She has a dark mysterious past, she's on the run with almost no money. She can't afford to buy a new license of Windows after updating her system to give internet peep shows.

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    3. Re:The show is totally unrealistic by UnknowingFool · · Score: 5, Funny
      But a hot girl using linux on the desktop?

      As long as the girl, doesn't say "This is GNU/Linux. I KNOW GNU/Linux!" That would ruin the fantasy for me.

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    4. Re:The show is totally unrealistic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      And besides, BDSM is dying.

    5. Re:The show is totally unrealistic by Kozar_The_Malignant · · Score: 4, Funny

      Nice. However, I didn't notice the monitor in the first picture, and it was clearly in the way in the second. :-)

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    6. Re:The show is totally unrealistic by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: 5, Funny

      "Don't get me wrong... teleportation, flight, invulnerability, etc... all okay. But a hot girl using linux on the desktop? Yeah, right!"

      *fap fap fap*

      oo! And there's a hot chick using it!

      *FAP FAP FAP*

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    7. Re:The show is totally unrealistic by robyannetta · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'm glad the girl on the screen didn't say "FSCK ME"

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    8. Re:The show is totally unrealistic by drachenstern · · Score: 4, Funny

      the real question is, does she have a lower slashdot id# than you?

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  2. Ow, my virgin eyes! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny
    BITCH!
    You can't show that on the internet!
  3. Important point to note: by zaren · · Score: 5, Funny

    The scene in question with the KDE stuff involves a hot chick getting naked online.

    And you notice the windowing system and applications on her laptop.

    Slashdot, you never cease to amaze me :)

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  4. Another sighting! by Fx.Dr · · Score: 3, Funny

    And if you squint really hard you can see Elvis in the background.

  5. Camera scene by MobyDisk · · Score: 5, Funny

    The real news here is that someone got a USB camera working with KDE.

  6. Re:Another X-Men Ripoff? by kalirion · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you want to go back, X-men "ripped it off" from Darwin.

    Yup, because Darwin was all about random mutations resulting in awesome super powers.