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Linux in the Movies

Sun, 08/01/2010 - 02:14 — John Eddie Kerr

In the  the movie "Blood Work"  there is a scene where actor Clint Eastwood is interviewing a witness to a murder.
Prominently displayed behind this person is a Redhat Linux 6.1 book;  and the entire bookshelf has Linux books.

 

There could be lots of reasons for this to happen. I guess it takes a librarian type like myself to be reading the titles on the bookshelf in a movie in the first place -- I asked a librarian friend if he does it and he does so this could be a common disease. But I supposed it would take a Linuxy geek to notice and get somewhat excited about a row of Linux books in a movie.

So far the only other person to comment on this particular siting can be located here:

br-linux.org/noticias/000314.html


Question: Did anyone else notice this?
Another Q: Do you know of any other Linux appearances in a movie or TV show.

Anyway, seeing a Linux manual prominently displayed in a movie "Made My Day".

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Clint Eastwood
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Comments

Links 2/8/2010:... (not verified) - Mon, 08/02/2010 - 11:33.
[...] Linux in the Movies In the the movie “Blood Work” there is a scene where actor Clint Eastwood is interviewing a witness to a murder. [...]

embedded - Mon, 08/02/2010 - 20:56.
Last season in "The Library" the Ubuntu Screen was seen.

wftl - Wed, 08/11/2010 - 14:23.
<p class="rteleft">Thanks for the post, John. You're reminding me that I have promised myself countless times that I would make a blog entry on this very topic. I have, on more than one occasion, seen Linux or free software of one form or another in the movies or on television. Sadly, I'm having trouble coming up with specific examples other than one (and no, it's not &quot;Hey, this is a Unix system&quot; from Jurassic Park).&nbsp;</p> <p class="rteleft">In the movie, the Matrix (can't remember which part), Trinity hacks her way into the Matrix using nmap, one of the oldest and most used security tools in the FOSS world.&nbsp;</p> <object width="640" height="385"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Zy5_gYu_isg&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1" /> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Zy5_gYu_isg&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object> <p class="rteleft">Oh, and SSH, the secure shell, is prominent as well.</p> <p class="rteleft">-- Marcel (Writer and Free Thinker at Large) Gagn&eacute;&nbsp;</p>


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