Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove it
In The Matrix 2, Trinity uses nmap to check for an ssh exploit, then cracks it using a cli tool, all from Linux.
Edit: The ssh exploit was a real, known vulnerability at the time.
I didn’t even remember that. I recently re-watched the first one and it still holds pretty well.
I recently rewatched all three, and they all hold up as I remember. The first one is great, the second could be great if there was a bit more editing to trim down some overly long monologues, and the third one is a bit meh.
Teacher of main character uses linux “TONIKAWA: Over the Moon for You” first episode 04:55 time
Since you say media and not specifically show or movie.
There’s a manga based on ubuntu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubunchu!
The story follows the activities of the three members of the Ichinomiya Prefectural High School’s system administration club (part of the wider IT club). Each chapter is focused on a certain aspect of the Ubuntu operating system or a related topic, such as command-line interfaces, input methods, Linux Mint, or software licensing.
mr. robot
I think it’s in the Rick and Morty episode where Rick is guarding his special toilet that shows his underground hideout computer booting Debian 3 or something.
Jurassic Park. Though at the time I suppose it could have been a more direct Unix descendant.
Wayne’s World 2 (yes there’s a 2) Garth talks to a girl about the Unix book she’s carrying.
Antitrust, but that’s kind of cheating
In the Iron Man movies his server cluster is a couple of Oracle racks, so probably running either Solaris or Oracle Linux.
I mean, you see it a lot in local or low to mid budget network TV. They dress up the laptop to make it look like apple hardware (usually a pear logo instead of an Apple), but when you get a glimpse of the DE, it is clearly neither windows nor apple.
Tv writers and other liberal arts types tend to be cult-like in their devotion to apple, but I guess network TV prop departments have decided apple is too expensive, and installing windows is too much of a hassle.
Probably Windows kept updating while they were shooting
