does anybody famous use linux?

[fuscia]

i don't mean people who are famous for using linux, i mean famous people who just happen to use it.

[siimo]

how about mark shuttleworth?

he was famour for going into space i believe before he started ubuntu :mrgreen:

[fuscia]

how about mark shuttleworth?

he was famour for going into space i believe before he started ubuntu :mrgreen:

that's it, huh?

[bluntu]

http://digg.com/linux_unix/WGA_Converts_American_McGee_to_Linux

I'm sure a lot of them are out there they just dont' run around and talk about it.

[gurgle]

i do :p

[PapaWiskas]

I know of 2 cast members from the X-Files who use Linux.
Debian and Slackware.
And that is all I am saying, or allowed to say.

[nalmeth]

I use linux! Ubuntu will make me famous one day.

Cool story about the dev switching after WGA

[simonn]

I heard that Paris Hilton has made a few contributions to xorg.

[hpavilion]

I heard that Paris Hilton has made a few contributions to xorg.

ROFLMAO :p

[fuscia]

I heard that Paris Hilton has made a few contributions to xorg.

isn't she the masturmind behind pink dog linux?

[aysiu]

My wife likes this show on G4 called X-Play, and apparently, according to one fan page (http://www.iheartmorganwebb.com/?file=morganwebb_faq), one of the co-hosts uses Linux:
Morgan does not hate Microsoft Windows, she prefers to use Linux (Red Hat Distribution) as her PC's main OS. Kind of weird she uses Red Hat instead of Fedora or Blag.

[bluntu]

http://more4news.typepad.com/more4_news/2006/08/the_cosmonauts_.html


....even the mighty Google has started using it. It's made its own version of Ubuntu, called, naturally, Goobuntu.....

There you go...

[Christmas]

Maybe me in say 5 years? :D

[TravisNewman]

I think Ben Afleck uses it. He's a major computer geek believe it or not. Saw him on Call For Help on TechTV before it was bought out by the evil evil G4.

OK so they aren't evil, but the channel sucks now.

Why can't you say which X files cast members use it?

[whatrucrazy]

ummm, Linus Torvalds uses linux... i think.:-\"

[slimdog360]

I heard that Paris Hilton has made a few contributions to xorg.

hahahahhahaaa

[SishGupta]

I don't know if it is his main OS of choice but I'd assume that John Carmack has been known to use linux to some degree from the following text:

From wikipedia:

Carmack is a well-known advocate of open source software, and has repeatedly voiced his opposition to software patents, which he likens to "mugging someone"[1]. He has also contributed to open source projects, such as starting the initial port of the X Window System to Mac OS X Server and working to improve the OpenGL drivers for Linux through the Utah GLX project.

I think that most people who are famous and use linux will be famous because of some techy thing they do. Your not likely to find someone who is a rock star or from hollywood using linux. I am sure that type of person does exist, but i am sure it is much easier to find a linux user who is famous, but for something techy (think kevin mitnick and hacking).

For the record I do not know if mitnick uses linux, but I'd guess that he uses some sort of *nix variant. I just can't see him using windows.

[tseliot]

I think Ben Afleck uses it. He's a major computer geek believe it or not. Saw him on Call For Help on TechTV before it was bought out by the evil evil G4.

OK so they aren't evil, but the channel sucks now.

Why can't you say which X files cast members use it?

Because the truth is out there... :p

[23meg]

Any celebrity with a TiVo counts as using Linux, right?

[3rdalbum]

Oh, well if we're counting devices with embedded Linux, then I'm sure tons of celebs with certain mobile phones or a Teac interactive set-top-box use Linux!

[graabein]

We need some famous weirdo to front Ubuntu on the red carpet. Someone like John Travolta or Tom Cruise. One of the weird religion types. Or maybe some space cake like Paris Hilton or Jessica Fletcher, I mean Jessica Simpsons.

Imagine Travolta looking into the camera and screaming Ubuntu! Humanity to otheeeers!! Or Paris playing with her hair and chewing her gum and explaining how the new bling bling eye candy (XGL) outshines the Mac and how all the deep layered modules make it work.

:rolleyes:

[DoctorMO]

Imagen someone with a shred of respect instead?

I'd like to see more well known advicates, but I'm sure that will come with time.

[aeiah]

the other year i believe zmag (http://zmag.org) changed to run linux (or it was planning to and there was essays on why etc) in its offices and on its staff hardware. i wouldnt be suprised if a lot of the activists and writers that contribute use linux, although i cant check up right now.

[fuscia]

ummm, Linus Torvalds uses linux... i think.:-\"


i don't mean people who are famous for using linux

sorry to single you out. i was just making an example of you. otherwise, you're a fine, fine human being.

i wonder if karlheinz stockhausen uses linux. hm...i wonder if he's still alive.

[PapaWiskas]

Because the truth is out there... :p

Thank you for explaining that tseliot...:D

[Wolki]

Your not likely to find someone who is a rock star or from hollywood using linux.

I guess at least someone in Hollywood must use it:
http://mysterion.org/~danw/blog/2006/06/baleeted

:)

[BWF89]

Cindy Margolis uses Debian

http://blog.schmehl.info/Debian/events/cebit-2005/2005/03/14

[DoctorMO]

Well we know there are a lot of studios that use Linux. Disney, Dreamworks ect, mainly for rendering because buying half a million windows liences for your windows cluster would hurt your moview budget.

[plb]

hmm surprised no one has mentioned chuck norris yet. =)

[Yossarian]

Neal Stephenson, a pretty hot author these days, wrote an essay about computers in which he mentioned linux. He also said he used BeOS.

It's called "In the Beginning was the Command Line".

[whatrucrazy]

Quote:
Originally Posted by whatrucrazy View Post
ummm, Linus Torvalds uses linux... i think.

Quote:
Originally Posted by fuscia
i don't mean people who are famous for using linux

sorry to single you out. i was just making an example of you. otherwise, you're a fine, fine human being.


well if you,re going to be that picky i'd say torvalds isn't famous for using linux, he's famous for creating linux.
hmmmm?
oh, and apart from that i imagine you're probably a "fine, fine human being" too.

[fuscia]

well if you,re going to be that picky i'd say torvalds isn't famous for using linux, he's famous for creating linux.
hmmmm?

huh! never heard of him.


oh, and apart from that i imagine you're probably a "fine, fine human being" too.

after me, it's all downhill.

[siacs]

nevermind

[daniel of sarnia]

Cindy Margolis uses Debian (http://www.linuxforum.com/linux_wallpapers_full/104.php)

\\:D/

:cool:

There's something about that women that is just so unattractive to me, she looks so unnatural like plastic or something.

Anyhow it's not cool to post junk like that on here...

[Lord Illidan]

Does it really matter whether someone famous uses Linux or not?

[geckomind]

Don't know if he counts as "famous" exactly, but Cory Doctorow of boingboing who is also a recognised scifi writer switched to Ubuntu recently.

http://boingboing.net
http://www.craphound.com

[daniel of sarnia]

Don't know if he counts as "famous" exactly, but Cory Doctorow of boingboing who is also a recognised scifi writer switched to Ubuntu recently.

http://boingboing.net
http://www.craphound.com

Ahh I heard that too, I think it was on twit.tv

[siacs]

nevermind

[Blondie]

Wil Wheaton (http://imdb.com/name/nm0000696/) (Wesley Crusher from Star Trek Next Gen).

John Carmack.

[geckomind]

Ahh I heard that too, I think it was on twit.tv

Exactly! Another member of the TWiT army? ;)

[Wallakoala]

linus torvalds uses linux

...

[fuscia]

linus torvalds uses linux

...

hey look, a swan!

[Wallakoala]

hey look, a swan!

?
I don't get it...

[fuscia]

?
I don't get it...

indeed.

[zxee]

Some days I get my daily quota of laughter right here.

[Raistlin355]

I heard that Paris Hilton has made a few contributions to xorg.
HAHAHAHAHA
Hiltonux or
Parisux or
SlutLinux or
Uglinux
The future of Linux!!!!

[fuscia]

simplelinux

[kop316]

If Unix is close enough, Maddox uses that.



This page was made using vi in unix. Anything else is for failures.
http://maddox.xmission.com/

[MikeDK]

isn't she the masturmind behind pink dog linux?

look at this http://osdir.com/Article9267.phtml Kind Regards MikeDK