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Daily Archives: 4 November 2008

Torchwood uses Linux! Ubuntu, to be exact…

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Sadly this shot didn’t come out the clearest, but I spotted today that one of the computers on the Torchwood Hub set was running Ubuntu. It had VLC running, so I’m assuming that they use free software to play all the graphics that give you the illusion of a super-advanced OS.

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4 November 2008 by Geoff
Posted in Geeky Tagged BBC, Eee PC, Linux, photos, Torchwood, Ubuntu

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