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Rutine 16 Apr 2021

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On the Big Bang Theory, they talk a few times about Linux.
I loved this quote from Sheldon "Oh, Ubuntu, you are my favourite Linux-based operating system"

[https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/c5j3f/sheldon_from_the_big_bang_theory_uses_ubuntu/
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Last edited by Rutine on 16 Apr 2021 at 5:26 pm UTC

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slaapliedje 23 Apr 2021

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Was just watching a video about Dark Angel (yup that series from 2000 that had Jessica Alba in it and was made by James Cameron.) and it looked like the dude 'Eyes Only' was using Linux with Enlightenment for hacking the broadcasts! I'll have to go back through my DVDs and take screenshots, as I don't see them online anywhere.

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dubigrasu 24 Aug 2021

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Just watched a short video about Boston Dynamics's Atlas, and seems that the meat of the development is happening on Ubuntu.

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There are some Windows instances, but throughout the video, Linux seems to dominate on BD.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EezdinoG4mk&ab_channel=BostonDynamics
Not surprised, but still nice to see it.

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damarrin 25 Aug 2021

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Their machines are properly scary. That’s our extinction right there.

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slaapliedje 26 Aug 2021

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Quoting: damarrinTheir machines are properly scary. That’s our extinction right there.

I personally look forward to our robot overlords.

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slaapliedje 7 Sep 2021

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I still think my favorite Linux on screen was on the extras of Lord of the Rings movies, Weta used a Lot of Linux desktops to make those movies.

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dubigrasu 7 Sep 2021

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I just saw a video from Tom Scott, about tracking satellites with lasers, and you can see several instances of KDE being used.
I'm not sure what OS is though, you can zoom and make out the logo of what seems to be KDE neon, maybe?

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https://youtu.be/vdvIY0CJaXw

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damarrin 7 Sep 2021

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It looks like the KDE Plasma logo, so not much of a hint as to what distro it may be.

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Hamish 7 Sep 2021

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Quoting: slaapliedjeI still think my favorite Linux on screen was on the extras of Lord of the Rings movies, Weta used a Lot of Linux desktops to make those movies.

Same thing with the Dreamworks Animation special features, lots of nice shots of computers running Red Hat with Bluecurve included with the Shrek movies. Basically all off the big 3D animation studios have used Linux.

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slaapliedje 9 Sep 2021

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Quoting: Hamish
Quoting: slaapliedjeI still think my favorite Linux on screen was on the extras of Lord of the Rings movies, Weta used a Lot of Linux desktops to make those movies.
Same thing with the Dreamworks Animation special features, lots of nice shots of computers running Red Hat with Bluecurve included with the Shrek movies. Basically all off the big 3D animation studios have used Linux.

I still recall articles about when most movie studios ended up following Industrial Light and Magic, and swapping out their expensive SGIs and others for Linux systems because all the tools had been ported.

https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6011 Ha, that was to 20 years ago.

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dubigrasu 7 Mar 2022

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Very interesting video about the possible future of computing, and the usual Ubuntu Linux sightings:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVsUOuSjvcg

(seriously, interesting video)

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