Linux on TV shows

[WayStar]

A few years ago, I was totally obsessed with a TV show called La Femme Nikita. Now that I have the first season DVD from that show, I'm rewatching the episodes in order.

Lot's of computer stuff shown, never Windows, only very rarely Mac. I've really been enjoying picking out different widget sets, and seeing % prompts.

My favorite La Femme Nikita Linux moment so far was an episode I was watching last night, where the main character was trying to stop a program that was sending two airplanes on a midair collision course. The tech guy at headquarters had her find the PID and use "kill -9" to stop it.

That was so cool!

-Waylena

[DjTeriyake]

I wanna find the complete DVD sets for the following shows:

MacGuyver
Quantum Leap
Northern Exposure
The Wonder Years
Wings
Who's the Boss
Family Ties
Growing Pains

Can you tell I grew up in the 80's? Anyhow, due to the timeframe I don't think I'll be seeing very many computers at all in those shows - except for Quantum Leap, when Al always shows up with Ziggy, his multicolored crystalline flourescent AI handheld - probably ran NetBSD.

[WayStar]

Heh. You're probably right.

Still, I bet MacGuyver could install Linux (or a BSD) on anything. :D

-Waylena

[JamminJoeyB]

I can see the episode now. MacGuyver pulls out a nintendo game boy, modifies it using a paper clip and a ball point pen and loads linux on it.

LOL

[mrBen]

Alias has included Linux shots in the past, and apparently the new series of 24 also includes Linux, albeit with KDE 1........

Matrix Reloaded famously included a scene with Trinity using *nix; Antitrust had loads of Gnome shots.

Lots of 'techy' TV shows are starting to use Linux, because it's free to use, and very adaptable graphically; hell, they could probably make it look so different we wouldn't recognise it as Linux.......

[Icarus]

Originally posted by mrBen
Antitrust had loads of Gnome shots. Mostly Red Hat 6.2 default screens (Gnome 1.x) and I saw a couple Enlightenment desktops

TV shows? What are those? Smallville's been repeats for the last month...I think that was the last time I watched a "TV" show :D
I do see my wife watching things, but never anything that keeps my interest for more then 2 minutes...

[voidinit]

The show "Screen Savers" on Tech TV is usally all about the evil empire. However every once in a while they have a Linux or BSD plug. Usually those plugs are about high availability clusters or high-end servers. Wonder why. :)

[soda_popstar]

Jake 2.0's nanites run on Linux, surprisingly enough. Here's a screenshot from the episode where the doctor had to reboot his nanites. It's a fake command though. But I'm sure you all knew that anyways. :p

http://not-shaken.net/images/jake-linux.png

[tecknophreak]

voidinit - This is my rifle, this is my gun, this is for fighting , this is for fun! - Stewie(Family Guy)


Mostly off-topic, but it does contain TV stuff.

[questionasker]

pat and leo (screen savers) always talk about thier mac and linux computers at home.


i believe they do some much windows stuff because, like 80% of the population still uses it!

they had a feature on RH9 anf Fedora a couple a weeks ago.

[thmnetwork]

well the 90% thing, and the being owned by steve...probably a combination of the two MR. way

[voidinit]

Originally posted by questionasker

they had a feature on RH9 anf Fedora a couple a weeks ago.

They also had an awesome plug on BSD clusters. That was pretty cool.

[keyshawn]

Originally posted by voidinit
The show "Screen Savers" on Tech TV is usally all about the evil empire. However every once in a while they have a Linux or BSD plug. Usually those plugs are about high availability clusters or high-end servers. Wonder why. :)


most of the tech support is windows: wonder why :D