Fedora Spotted Running Maya On Doctor Who Confidential

A keen eyed Redditor has spotted Fedora KDE SC4 running Maya on Doctor Who Confidential. Dr Who's effects are done by an external company, The Mill.

Linux On The Big Bang Theory

Two clips of Linux being mentioned on The Big Bang Theory


Ubuntu, his "favourite Linux-based operating system"





...and another Linux mention:

Criminal Minds

Criminal Minds again, a Linux/UNIX type desktop, this time series 6 episode 20, during a presentation:

Tron Legacy

Linux commandline command using "whoami" and "uname -a" commands spotted in Tron Legacy showing 'SolarOS' with an i386 kernel.









Screenshot: (thanks to Noel Merino Hernández)

Search for Life: The Drake Equation

Spotted an old KDE desktop on a workstation on the "Search for Life: The Drake Equation" (presented by scientific dullard Dallas Cambell) on a multi-monitor workstation searching for extra-terrestrial radio waves (SETI). I'd guess it's most likely Red Hat. Notice the boot-up screen in the last screenshot, KDE panel in the 4th screenshot and the KDE logout/shutdown screen in the 6th screenshot. At the moment the documentary is available to watch on BBC iPlayer here, skip to about 50 mins in to see this.

Behind The Scenes at WETA

ZDNet has a good article on the making of Avatar by WETA showing some KDE 3.x desktops running Maya.

Asteroids - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Shown recently on BBC Four, as usual when they visit NASA Linux/UNIX dominates with a few Macs and an occasional Windows box.


At about 23 minutes there's a simple Dell dual-monitor setup...















...running what looks like Red Hat possibly, judging by the theme...

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At 23 minutes we see what looks to me like a Debian desktop
















Then at 36:56 there's Andy Rivkin's (John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory) nice dual monitor Linux desktop (and a Macbook):





























You can still at the time of writing watch the programme on BBC iPlayer here.