GNOME on 24
Even Jack Bauer of the TV show 24 needs the GNOME desktop, as soon as he plugs in the backup drive of the suspects computer he’s able to read the file system it.
Someone sent me this screenshot showing GNOME in use in episode 7 of season 4
You can download the window boarder used which is called microGUI and the icons look like they’re from Snow-Apple.
This isn’t the first time we’ve seen Linux being used in TV shows in an older season of 24 we see them using the KDE desktop, OpenSource software gives the Movie makers an easy platform to quickly create mockups using existing source code and graphics withtout the problems of high software costs, licences, copyrights and patents.
March 23rd, 2007 at 1:12 am
Heh very cool indeed.
nmap was also used in a matrix scene
March 24th, 2007 at 3:23 pm
Cool! I remember seing gnome used on The Real Hustle in “The WiFi Scam”. Infact its even on youtube (http://youtube.com/watch?v=ScEaD-SikrM) you can see clearly around 1:28 and 2:10 :), funny that both marks are also seem to be using gnome. I think the whole scam seemed abit staged to me…