KDE on the NBC Show "Heroes"

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday September 28, 2006 @02:11AM 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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The show is totally unrealistic by Anonymous Coward · 2006-09-28 02:13 · 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 · 2006-09-28 02:29 · 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 · 2006-09-28 02:32 · 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 · 2006-09-28 02:39 · 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 TubeSteak · 2006-09-28 02:44 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  Allow me to be the first to say:
  This thread is worthless without pictures
  
  http://www.eikehein.com.nyud.net:8090/kde/heroes/k de-on-heroes3-hd.png
  http://www.eikehein.com.nyud.net:8090/kde/heroes/k de-on-heroes6-hd.png
  
  Now that i've provided pics of KDE, you provide pics of your wife ;o)
  
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5. Re:The show is totally unrealistic by Kozar_The_Malignant · 2006-09-28 03:17 · 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 · 2006-09-28 03:38 · 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 · 2006-09-28 04:10 · 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 · 2006-09-28 04:15 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  the real question is, does she have a lower slashdot id# than you?
  
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seems logical, by joe+155 · 2006-09-28 02:14 · Score: 4, Interesting

It does make sense that in TV and films people would use free and open software on computers, they need it to look like people think a computer should look (and KDE does that) and they need to have the right to use it without worrying about being sued because it's proprietry and they like to not have to give thousands of dollars and coppies of the script over to people so the whole show doesn't get pulled for creating a negative image of software.

The only thing that amazes me is that more people aren't doing this

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Ow, my virgin eyes! by Anonymous Coward · 2006-09-28 02:15 · Score: 4, Funny

BITCH!
You can't show that on the internet!
Important point to note: by zaren · 2006-09-28 02:17 · 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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1. Re:Important point to note: by evil+agent · 2006-09-28 02:32 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  Ah, but that's the difference between a nerd and a regular pervert. The pervert's focus will be on "the porn" while the nerd's focus will be on "how is this person getting it so I can get more of it!" Teach a man to fish...
  
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Camera scene by MobyDisk · 2006-09-28 03:50 · Score: 5, Funny

The real news here is that someone got a USB camera working with KDE.
Re:Another X-Men Ripoff? by kalirion · 2006-09-28 05:14 · 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.