The movie came out in 1999. In the movie, they state that it’s 1999 (in the Matrix anyway). Neo is pretty tech savvy and a renowned hacker.
My assumption is he would’ve used FreeBSD. Or, maybe, Slackware. But I’m leaning more towards BSD.
Nah. It is DOS with Norton Commander.
I just can’t believe I just read the words Norton Commander.
It’s like the Proust story where he smells a macaroon and all of a sudden he’s remembering an avalanche of things long forgotten.
My brain defragging
Bwahahahahah
Man I wish FreeBSD hadn’t fallen to the wayside. It’s really cohesive and feels put together in a way not Linux distro ever has.
You know, I’ve never used it. Maybe I’ll install it in a VM tonight and give it a whirl.
Is it still worth using? Say, for a web dev? Or is it less supported?
Honestly it isn’t. Support for anything front-end related is way more sparse compared to Linux.
That’s a shame. I’d love a new exotic OS to try.
I mean, it’s decades older with a history of being used in business critical applications…
I’d argue that he’d use OpenBSD and be running his own firewall, web server, email server, and ftp server.
Or SuSE Linux, the non-slackware or jurix version was bleeding edge at the time.
Realistically, Debian, because it existed when the movie was set.
And also because realistically there’s no need for any other distro. :P
Other distros exist to teach people that Debian is better.
Hannah Montana Linux
This, but maybe slackware with the hannah montana ui.
no sane hacker would choose slackware over hannah montana
Real image from the really official archived film 👍 👍KDE NEOn
I wanna know what the newsreader he uses is
Looks a bit like the Arachne browser for DOS.
These icons don’t make no sense.
Well, since the movies where one big trans allegory, the answer can only be Arch.
With a lot of shots, scenery, and concepts stolen right from the movie Dark City.
I have to rewatch that gem…
I think we all know the real answer, the matrix runs on windows XP
I don’t know but he probably has cmatrix installed.
There is no distro.
Yeah he doesn’t distribute it due to privacy and security. He wrote it himself.
OpenBSD
Pretty sure he was using DOS in at least one scene.
Debian, the cool guy distro in 1999. The machine overlords run on Red Hat.
In the low budget parody version, Neo ran Slackware, and the climatic battle was basically about Agent Smith somehow fucking up his libc.so.6 but then Trinity got him a copy of the file on 3.5" floppy from another system. Or something.
i’m sure he runs his own, custom distro he spun himself
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