KDE on the NBC Show "Heroes"

Vesuv writes "The pilot episode of NBC's flagship drama for the 2006 fall season proudly features a laptop showing a KDE desktop and KDE applications such as Kopete and KMix running on Mandriva Linux. " The show itself looks to have potential for essentially an x-men knockoff. I mean, it ain't written by Sorkin (all hail jesus) so I'll give it a few more episodes to decide if all the angst is gonna kill me or not.

The show is totally unrealistic

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't get me wrong... teleportation, flight, invulnerability, etc... all okay. But a hot girl using linux on the desktop? Yeah, right!

Ow, my virgin eyes!

[Anonymous Coward]

BITCH!

You can't show that on the internet!

Important point to note:

[zaren]

The scene in question with the KDE stuff involves a hot chick getting naked online.

And you notice the windowing system and applications on her laptop.

Slashdot, you never cease to amaze me :)

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Re:The show is totally unrealistic

[dsginter]

But a hot girl using linux on the desktop? Yeah, right!

Because they all know that it isn't ready for the desktop yet! OTOH, most of them use BSD on the server side.

Re:The show is totally unrealistic

[Phu5ion]

You have to think in the context of the story, this was not some random product placement. She has a dark mysterious past, she's on the run with almost no money. She can't afford to buy a new license of Windows after updating her system to give internet peep shows.

Noticed something from last season of Deadwood

[Anonymous Coward]

Did you notice that Hearst's abacus was running an early build of Slackware?

Re:The show is totally unrealistic

[mbadolato]

Same here! My wife ran Fedora for a long time, then FreeBSD when I sold her laptop and gave her my server. She now is on OS X.

She hasn't had a Windows desktop in 3 or 4 years now. For what she needs (Email, browser, and IM) the other systems are just fine for her.

And she's hot, so there :p

Re:The show is totally unrealistic

[UnknowingFool]

But a hot girl using linux on the desktop?

As long as the girl, doesn't say "This is GNU/Linux. I KNOW GNU/Linux!" That would ruin the fantasy for me.

And in several months...

[Anonymous Coward]

... we'll see the news:

"Last night's episode of NBC's drama 'Heroes' scored surprisingly high in the Hopeless Geeks demographic, according to Nielsen Media Research."

Re:The show is totally unrealistic

[Anonymous Coward]

And besides, BDSM is dying.

Re:The show is totally unrealistic

[Elm Tree]

I think you're using hot in a different way. Putting her in the oven doesn't count.

Re:The show is totally unrealistic

[Kozar_The_Malignant]

Nice. However, I didn't notice the monitor in the first picture, and it was clearly in the way in the second. :-)

Re:KDE - Another reason ..

[NinjaFarmer]

By making it look "techy", it gets featured on Slashdot! Seriously,it has helped spread the show.

I know, I downloaded it on Bit Torrent ad free already!

Re:The show is totally unrealistic

[MobileTatsu-NJG]

"Don't get me wrong... teleportation, flight, invulnerability, etc... all okay. But a hot girl using linux on the desktop? Yeah, right!"

*fap fap fap*

oo! And there's a hot chick using it!

*FAP FAP FAP*

Camera scene

[MobyDisk]

The real news here is that someone got a USB camera working with KDE.

Re:The show is totally unrealistic

[robyannetta]

I'm glad the girl on the screen didn't say "FSCK ME"

Re:The show is totally unrealistic

[drachenstern]

the real question is, does she have a lower slashdot id# than you?

Re:The show is totally unrealistic

[acwork2]

Wow I thought I had a twisted mind but you took OS perversion to the next level. Kudos, you owe me a new keyboard.

Re:Another X-Men Ripoff?

[kalirion]

If you want to go back, X-men "ripped it off" from Darwin.

Yup, because Darwin was all about random mutations resulting in awesome super powers.

Re:Important point to note:

[Tank]

An engineer is outside his office one day, when another engineer rides up on a fancy new mountain bike.

"Where did you get that bike?" he asked.

"You'll never believe it. I'm walking to work through the park this morning, and this girl rides up to me on this bicycle. She jumps off the bike, takes all her clothes off, and says 'You can take anything you want!'"

After regarding his friend for a moment, the 1st engineer replied.....

"Good call, her clothes never would have fit you..."

Who says it's a new computer

[gdesignrr]

Maybe his computer is an Apple II