In a message dated: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 23:55:03 EDT
"Derek D. Martin" said:

>I thought this was interesting, and some of you might too...
>
>For all who might not have caught it last night, the spy show "Alias"
>uses Linux.

I actually noticed this the first time this episode was aired some 
months ago, but didn't get close enough of a look to determine the 
distro.

Over the last couple years I've been playing particular attention to 
shows and movies to see which OS they use.  Surprisingly, a lot of 
them do use Linux, or at least something that is very UNIX based.

This trend seems particularly prevalent in shows which are technical 
in nature, Alias, 24, etc.  My guess is that it's trivial to make a 
system look like it's doing a lot more "computer" stuff with linux, 
since you only need 2 or 3 terminal windows open doing things like 
running top, ps, netstat -a, etc. vs. Windows and Macs which everyone 
knows, and don't look all the technical to most people anymore.
-- 

Seeya,
Paul



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