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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. Re:So? by GmAz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Its interesing because all the linux fanboys can say that Linux is taking over hollywood. Its quite sad really. Maybe they used Linux because they aren't sure if the show will make it so they didn't wanna put money into a version of Windows. May as well get a grip or a gapher to download something at home and make it so they wont' get sued. If the show makes it, they will buy Windows, or the Linux computer will never show up again. Do you remember the 'hoopla' when the second Matrix movie showed Trinity using a Unix command prompt at the power prompt. Half the *unix community jizzed at that sight.

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  2. Hey, what's with the Aaron Sorkin hate? by robson · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I always thought Sports Night and West Wing were pretty well-written.

    1. Re:Hey, what's with the Aaron Sorkin hate? by DubiousCustomer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I agree, early West Wing episodes are class writing.

    2. Re:Hey, what's with the Aaron Sorkin hate? by tommertron · · Score: 0, Offtopic
      And Studio 60 is awesome!

      Oh well, I guess everyone has their tastes.

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