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
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.
Except it uses push over licensing
That's a GPL point of view. Most BSD users I've talked to prefer a more permissive license. Theo said: "GPL fans said the great problem we would face is that companies would take our BSD code, modify it, and not give back. Nope -- the great problem we face is that people would wrap the GPL around our code, and lock us out in the same way that these supposed companies would lock us out. Just like the Linux community, we have many companies giving us code back, all the time. But once the code is GPL'd, we cannot get it back. Ironic."
i guess this might be why a lot of processing and storage clusters use it behind closed doors with proprietary code we will never see.
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.
KDE NEOn
Real image from the really official archived film 👍 👍
Slackware.
Well, since the movies where one big trans allegory, the answer can only be Arch.
I don't know the distro, but surely the messenger is based on Matrix protocol
I think we all know the real answer, the matrix runs on windows XP
Kali
Initial Release: 2013-03-13
Neo lived in 1999.
In a simulation 1999.
It would have been ~~BackTrack~~ Knoppix back then. And even that wasn't released until 2000.
OpenBSD
He is Assembly, Operating Systems require him to operate.
Pretty sure he was using DOS in at least one scene.
UwUntu
i'm sure he runs his own, custom distro he spun himself
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.
GNU/Hurd
NixOS - about a year ago it would have been Arch, but the Nix bois seem to have overtaken them ~~us~~.
LFS of course.
Slackware or Debian testing
Symbian.
Arch btw
Kali?
LFS, he makes his own system.
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