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.
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.
Or SuSE Linux, the non-slackware or jurix version was bleeding edge at the time.
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And also because realistically there’s no need for any other distro. :P
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Hannah Montana Linux
KDE NEOn
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…
Real image from the really official archived film 👍 👍I think we all know the real answer, the matrix runs on windows XP
I wanna know what the newsreader he uses is
Looks a bit like the Arachne browser for DOS.
Pretty sure he was using DOS in at least one scene.
I don’t know but he probably has cmatrix installed.
GNU/Hurd
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.
Slackware or Debian testing
UwUntu
LFS, he makes his own system.
