what famous people use linux?.

[2ndsign]

I know that Wil Wheaton who played on star trek next generation is a big linux advocate.

but i dont know of any other famous people who use linux.

can anyone think of anyone else?

thx n advance!:D

[myshkin]

umm linus torvalds?

[mdwatts]

Me !!!

[oubipaws]

Bill Gates :p

[mdwatts]

oubipaws = Bill Gates

;)

[Icarus]

Famous people use computers? All the interviews I see of them they barely know what e-mail is, or what an Operating System is for that :)

[oubipaws]

I = bill gates.... :rolleyes:

[Valorin]

oubipaws/BG, please smack yourself for the good of humanity (and computing)!!!

<edited by moderator - replaced with smack>

[oubipaws]

no I'm more of the village idiot....
Bill gates is more of the village 'navy' guy
[somebody out there will get that one :p ]


** no offense to those in the navy**

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by oubipaws
no I'm more of the village idiot....
Bill gates is more of the village 'navy' guy
[somebody out there will get that one :p ]


** no offense to those in the navy**

I didn't.

Does village = JustLinux ?

[serz]

Originally posted by mahdi
Famous people use computers? All the interviews I see of them they barely know what e-mail is, or what an Operating System is for that :)
Yea.. most of the famous people that use comuters is because they check their e-mails or maybe surfing.

[oubipaws]

um... :rolleyes: no... it equals the world.

Bill gates = the village people (the gay band)
oubipaws = the village idiot (the guy that does stupid $h^^);)

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by oubipaws
um... :rolleyes: no... it equals the world.

Bill gates = the village people (the gay band)
oubipaws = the village idiot (the guy that does stupid $h^^);)

Oh... Now I see.

Are you sure? ;)

[mdwatts]

According to our latest new member, Jay Leno also uses Linux.

[oubipaws]

Originally posted by mdwatts
Oh... Now I see.

Are you sure? ;)

Yeah your right, could be the opposite way around :rolleyes:

[Sepero]

Humans are strange creatures.

"I don't use GNU/Linux because it serves me better, I use it because my favorite celebrity endorses it."

Anyway, don't get me started with all the crap that's advertised nowadays...

P.S.
Don't take my comments too seriously. I know how emotionally unstable you mere mortals can be! :D

[dlausevic]

Does anyone know what dist Linus Torvalds uses? Just curious. I'd laugh if it was Lindows.

[myshkin]

Originally posted by dlausevic
Does anyone know what dist Linus Torvalds uses? Just curious. I'd laugh if it was Lindows.

redhat/suse

[dlausevic]

Originally posted by myshkin
redhat/suse

If it's good enough for him, it's good enough for me. RH9 here.

[GhostDawg]

Saptech uses Linux...he's a real kool dude! :cool:

[KeeperChris]

I remember reading somewhere on the 'net that the royal family of England were using Linux for all their computing needs...

And while it's not quite a person, Google is certainly famous enough, AND using Linux! :D

[oubipaws]

they use linux in the matrix (i think) and I know in the movie 'Anti Trust'.... not famous people, but great movies

[ven0m]

Originally posted by KeeperChris
I remember reading somewhere on the 'net that the royal family of England were using Linux for all their computing needs...
I very much doubt that the royal's use linux as they don't even wipe their own ***, so I really can't see them installing a stage 2 gentoo system :rolleyes:

[oubipaws]

Knoppix for the royal ones... that way they can get their *** wiped while linux is booting up :p

[deanrantala]

I believe Thomas Dolby (remember the song "she blinded me with science"?) Uses it. He is a math teacher at some england university or something.

George Lucas (or at least his sidekicks - "the skywalker ranch") uses it if you want to consider OSX "linux". I have heard from comentaries that many individual frames were hand edited by "state of the art graphics software such as the GIMP" (in reference to star wars)

I do:D

[sasKuatch]

yeah, who cares if they use it? I personally don't give a rat's @ss about famous people.

All they are is a bunch of hypocrites. I say this because most are seriously left-wing, yet have no problem with being filthy, filthy rich.

[bones996]

I do remember that Skywalker Ranch was listed as using linux for some of the films in Linux Journal a few issues ago & I'd also have to name mdwatts (as he says), especially since he helps so many people on this forum, unfortunately I don't know how many people outside of here know the person - although after a few visists here you'll probably see his name more than once & I stop frequently :D

[Icarus]

Just got the new Linux Journal today, front cover is the Hulk. the CGI was done by ILM at Skywalker Ranch using what they call the "Death Star" Racksaver Linux render farm with 1500 Athlon 1600 processors...with Star Wars III this will double in size

Oh to be the SysAdmin there...

[Stween]

Originally posted by ven0m
I very much doubt that the royal's use linux as they don't even wipe their own ***, so I really can't see them installing a stage 2 gentoo system :rolleyes:

Well, I too would be surprised if the royals use Linux for whatever personal computing requirements they may have, but in the administration side of things, they might use Linux to help keep costs down.

As it stands, it doesn't cost the taxpayer a lot to keep the royal family going, and they're always reducing expenses, so that might be likely.

[spagnitz]

I wonder what version of the kernel they have on the Enterprise?

[Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379]

Originally posted by spagnitz
I wonder what version of the kernel they have on the Enterprise?

I think it's 4800.4.75 Being that it's the flagship, it of course would have the latest 24th century kernel, straight from Linus Torvalds VIII.

Did you know that if you turn a Star Trek:TNG badge over, there's a silhouette of Tux on the other side? :D

OMG... They're going to find me out... They're gonna realize I'm a closet Trekkie!!! :eek:

[psi42]

Originally posted by 2ndsign
I know that Wil Wheaton who played on star trek next generation is a big linux advocate.


I can see why. After all the trouble the Enterprise had with their windoze Computer.:D


~psi42

[Icarus]

Originally posted by psi42
I can see why. After all the trouble the Enterprise had with their windoze Computer.:D


~psi42 Ya, but Wil was the one that caused most of their problems thinking he was some 1337 h@X0r...it was good to see him go to Starfleet Acadamy...got him off the show! :D

[bs_texas]

Elvis is into slackware.



Or, no, wait... that's - elvis is in slackware.

:cool:

[KeeperChris]

A few years back there was an article on Tim Berners-Lee in Times magazine ( as part of their 100 most influential people of the millenium )

While there was no mention of OS there was a picture of him sitting in front of his computer, showing a view of the browser he had created, and his desktop was a dead-ringer for WindowMaker. Wonder if he's a Linux user ?....

And bs_2003.... I thought Elvis WAS Slackware... :D

[bs_texas]

[slacker@bsslack /usr/share/locale] $ cd /usr/bin
[slacker@bsslack /usr/bin] $ ls -l vi
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 May 12 11:41 vi -> elvis
[slacker@bsslack /usr/bin] $ ls -l elvis
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 301288 Feb 18 2002 elvis

;)

[sasKuatch]

The site www.royal.gov.uk is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000

...according to netcraft.com

[roamingnomad]

Well, LucasArts uses Python:
"Python plays a key role in our production pipeline. Without it a project the size of Star Wars: Episode II would have been very difficult to pull off. From crowd rendering to batch processing to compositing, Python binds all things together"
Tommy Burnette, Senior Technical Director, Industrial Light & Magic

I think that's good enough for me :)

[Trogdor]

In the movie "Anti-trust", the name of one of N.U.R.V (mircrosoft)'s henchmen is REDMOND Schmeichel. No lie! See it at Title 1, Chapter 16 on the DVD, 1:41:17 into the movie.

Also, when Milo is in the daycare center, one of the programmers being spied on is wearing a bright red fedora (red hat), and even looks like the red hat guy.

[ozdream]

G'day mate, Well what about "Infamous"?

That would be me then ;)

Wonder why my Tux avitar has a AK-47:D

[BaVinic]

If I had to GUESS these are the distro that these famous people are using, it is only a guess though, so I am not really sure. I do know, that at least the ones listed actually do use Linux (or BSD) just not really sure what Distro's :D


Weird Al ---- Gentoo
Gallagher --- Debian
Jim Carry --- Red Hat 9.0
Linus (I think) Uses Slackware
Bill Murray – Mandrake
Tom Hanks – SuSe
Randy Quade uses Red hat 8
Paul Rueben (pee wee Herman) uses Lindows 3.0
Tom Dolby uses BSD not Linux
Mat Freuer (Max Headroom) uses Slackware


But it's just a guess :D

BaVinic

[Trogdor]

Nope. Linus uses SuSE at home, and RedHat at work, according to his autobiography "Just for Fun."

[hard candy]

Here at the North Georgia Center For The Criminally Insane my friends Horatio Hornblower, Spock, Babe Ruth and I all use Linux to write our appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court for our freedom from four point restraints. Right now we only have 30 minutes a day freedom to work on our appeal and we really appreciate being able the tools of linux. So there is 3 more famous people using linux. Got to go take my medicine now (or else they give me a shot). :confused: :confused:

[dboyer]

Ernie Ball, the guitar string manufacturer uses linux...

just another great reason to by their strings...

[Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379]

Originally posted by dboyer
Ernie Ball, the guitar string manufacturer uses linux...

just another great reason to by their strings...

Yeah, except for the fact that you can't detune them at all, being they're so "slinky" anyways... :p

I never could use them. The metal bands I played with tuned their instruments two whole steps down, and that turned an Ernie Ball string into a rubber band. At least, it did on my bass.

But, now that I'm not really doing metal anymore, that's not an issue. I read an interview with the CIO of Ernie Ball, and he seemed to really get it, about users not all needing web browsers, and other things like media players, all default Windows equipment. Maybe other companies will follow their lead...

[ozdream]

Originally posted by sasKuatch
yeah, who cares if they use it? I personally don't give a rat's @ss about famous people.

All they are is a bunch of hypocrites. I say this because most are seriously left-wing, yet have no problem with being filthy, filthy rich.


Spot on mate:cool: I like the way you think!

[ozdream]

Originally posted by Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379
I think it's 4800.4.75 Being that it's the flagship, it of course would have the latest 24th century kernel, straight from Linus Torvalds VIII.

Did you know that if you turn a Star Trek:TNG badge over, there's a silhouette of Tux on the other side? :D

OMG... They're going to find me out... They're gonna realize I'm a closet Trekkie!!! :eek:

TNG Badge? the comms Badge Hmm..........How can they adorn them self’s with such a "Precious metal"?:D