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.
In 1999, I bet he was running Gentoo.
The first release was in 2002.
Definitely Gentoo
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.
PC-BSD
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.
Maybe both? BSD for his server, Slackware for his desktop. Or something.
Remember he presses Ctrl+x to try to get rid of the message on his screen. That's Unix, right?
Realistically, Debian, because it existed when the movie was set.
We had tons of Linux distros then. Maybe more than today if you exclude all the Debian clones
Hannah Montana Linux
KDE NEOn
Real image from the really official archived film 👍 👍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..
Slackware.
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.
I don't know the distro, but surely the messenger is based on Matrix protocol
Kali
Initial Release: 2013-03-13
Neo lived in 1999.
In a simulation 1999.
It would have been
BackTrackKnoppix back then. And even that wasn't released until 2000.
There is no distro.
Yeah he doesn't distribute it due to privacy and security. He wrote it himself.
Do not try and hack the distro, that's impossible.
Instead, only try to realize the truth: there is no distro.
Then you will realize it isn't the distro you hack, it is only yourself.
I don't know but he probably has cmatrix installed.
I think we all know the real answer, the matrix runs on windows XP
OpenBSD
UwUntu
He is Assembly, Operating Systems require him to operate.
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.
NixOS - about a year ago it would have been Arch, but the Nix bois seem to have overtaken them
us.nix is just objectively better which sucks because it does a bunch of stuff bad and has a bad wiki
GNU/Hurd
macOS
*hides*
I use Fedora and Debian, btw. I’m just as old and mostly stable even if I’ll never be perfect.
Arch btw
Kali?
Gentoo
Nah LFS
Slackware or Debian testing
Symbian.
Nix 🤣🤣
LFS, he makes his own system.
The Chosen OS
The dude sees all the way through 0 and 1. He is the one OS
Ubuntu LTS
neoOS, an operating system which can be ran inside of a browser.
Seems to be dead, but can probably be hosted locally
