Desktop Environment or OS used in TV series or Movies

[hydraconsole]

Does anybody know what kind of OS or desktop environment the tv shows such as CSI, NCIS, or other cool shows are using?

[joshdudeha]

They are probably just designed for effect, not actually usable.
Maybe a flash file that they open and it looks liek a desktop. i dunno

[bigo72]

AhAh, I'm curious too :D It looks like an unix or unix-like system, but interface is gorgeous! Can't understand why they have to use sound in scrolling also, but that sound is pretty-geek :D

[CharmyBee]

24 has various and is my favorite in dramatically zooming into the screens. I've seen OS X used in a framed innocent's house, Vista all over FBI computers and Windows 95 on a mainframe computer, if I remember right (!?!? This is scary since Win9x/NT4 doesn't have 48-bit LBA support for such computers with large data capacity)

Also iirc, Mac OS 7 was used in the bat cave in Batman & Robin...

Metal Gear Solid 2 (I don't even want to call it a game since it's minimal in that area) had a Unix-like with the worst window manager ever.

[benj1]

theres unix in Jurassic park.
i believe theres a file manager hanging around that copies the one in the film.

EDIT: more info here (http://everything2.com/title/this%2520is%2520UNIX%2521%2520I%2520know%2520this% 2521)

[monsterstack]

Who would want to use the insane desktop setups from films and television shows? Here is what you can look forward to:


the computer makes a beep every time you press a button on the keyboard;
what's more, the computer beeps every time a character appears on the screen;
every single application has swooshy sound effects;
random terminals spewing output are everywhere;
no one uses the mouse... EVER;
some shows appear to have a sentient OS which can talk, but it only does that to tell you something it can't do.

[Joeb454]

Metal Gear Solid 2 (I don't even want to call it a game since it's minimal in that area) had a Unix-like with the worst window manager ever.

In Metal Gear Solid 4 Otacon has a Mac Pro with dual Cinema Displays.

There's quite a lot of Apple stuff in MGS 4, it's quite amusing really :p

[Sealbhach]

theres unix in Jurassic park.
i believe theres a file manager hanging around that copies the one in the film.

EDIT: more info here (http://everything2.com/title/this%2520is%2520UNIX%2521%2520I%2520know%2520this% 2521)

I don't think fsn is being maintained anymore but there's tdfsb which is really good fun to play with.

sudo aptitude install tdfsb

then run it with

tdfsb

press h for help once in screen so you see what buttons do what.

f brings it to full screen.

Navigate with mouse or arrow buttons. If you fly into one of the white spheres you go into the subfolder and see all the stuff there.

Looks like this:

http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&q=tdfsb&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

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[chucky chuckaluck]

i think rosebud was using openbox in "citizen kane".

[justjoshingyou]

Vista is used in the Terminator: Sarah Conor Chronicles

[joey-elijah]

in 'Dollhouse' the OS used is BeOS! (or a beos theme, however it's very authentic if it is a theme!)

[etnlIcarus]

I remember Tony Stark's office computer seemed to be using something very BeOS-ish.

Also notable is Dexter: S1 & S2 was OSX through-and-through. In S3, all the Macbooks, mobile phones, etc, switched to what looked like an early 2.x version of Gnome, in an obnoxious BSOD-esque theme (white text on monotone blue everything else). I'm guessing someone from Apple objected to Dexter using OSX to research his to-be victims.

OSX: the sociopath's choice.

[Name change]

i think rosebud was using openbox in "citizen kane".

And Battleship Potemkin ran on Unix like system with CDE :D

On more serious note:
I know that Heroes use Mandriva with KDE (I still remember seeing kopete in pilot :D)

And there's Ubuntu7.10 vs MAC OS X comparison from Veronica Mars:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS9wdD-9EYU#

[init1]

It looked like the hackers in Live Free or Die Hard were using Unix.

[monsterstack]

It looked like the hackers in Live Free or Die Hard were using Unix.

There's a Compiz theme (http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Die+Hard+4.0+-+Matthew+Farrel%27s+theme+(E?content=66714) [gnome-look.org] that looks just like it, too.