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Six Six Six, The kernel of the beast.
Hell and fire was spawned to be released
Boards blazed and reviewed codes were praised
As they start to try, hands held to the sky
In the night, the coffee is burning hot
The commit has begun, Linus work is done
This can't go on, I must inform the Hurd,
Can this monolith be real, or just some crazy dream?
But I feel drawn towards the GPL-2,
Seem to mesmerize, can't avoid Tivoization!
I'm coming back, I will return
And I'll possess your daemons and make your CPU burn
I have ring 0, I have your cores
I have the power to make my evil take its course
omg hahaha this was amazing!
We need a petition to make this LTS.
Missed opportunity to bake Doom into the kernel as an Easter Egg.
"to compile the kernel you must kill me, Linus Romero"
... I thought Lunix was invented by the infamous Soviet computer hacker Linyos Torovoltos.
It's an old meme but it checks out. Older than some of the people in this community haha
For anyone that hasn't seen it, it's a reference to this satirical article from 2001: http://web.archive.org/web/20030128011354/http://www.adequacy.org/stories/2001.12.2.42056.2147.html
Man I've seen derivatives of this stuff, but this must be the OG post - thanks for that!
I thought the whole Lunix thing came from the elite hacker JEFF.K!!!!!!!!!11 so I'm chuffed there's another level to this!
It's funny because the first time I read it, I thought it was serious and was just written by a tech-illiterate parent. Saying that Comet Cursor and Bonzi Buddy are hacker software kinda gives away that it's just satire though.
oh I guess that's also something that younger people may not know about... In the late 1990s / early 2000s, it wasn't uncommon for people to install spyware to get things like custom mouse cursors, emoticons, and purple gorillas that help you navigate the web.
If you see the word "LILO" during your windows startup (just after you turn the machine on), your son has installed lunix.
Wow, that's a blast from the past! Completely forgot that LILO used to be a thing.
I remember dealing with migrating from LILO to GRUB when I was in high school, maybe 2005ish? It's been a while. I remember the migration from ipchains to iptables, too (which is happening again now with the iptables to nftables migration)
I used Ubuntu at the time... It was a great distro back then. I only had dial-up so couldn't download large files easily, and Canonical or one of their local partners would mail you a CD for free regardless of where you lived in the world. I think that helped a LOT of people get into Linux.
Similar experiences here. I remember waiting for the free CDs bundles with monthly magzines, and add then I'd the CD as a mirror in my repos to update my packages lol
Ubuntu was the distribution that had me switch from dual-booting with Windows as default to dual-booting with Linux as default.
I also remember ordering an actual Ubuntu disc, with the extra donation to fund the mailing for free program.
Now years later after lots of distro-hopping I just run Ubuntu LTS, and stay on the very boring LTS branch.
It's a fancy number, but the release only fixes some wifi regressions. Nothing wild.
I had been trying out Linux and finally decided to install it to my ssd. The timing ended up such that I got the wifi issues on the new install but not my old one, and they basically make the OS unusable. I didn't realise any of this and am new so did heaps of reinstalling and searching trying to figure out what had gone wrong since it was all fine when it was installed on my HDD.
I finally found some forum posts and bug reports about this after wasting a day assuming it was something I'd done wrong π.
Gonna stick to lts kernel from now on I think. 6.6.6 seemed pretty fitting to me, even if it was 6.6.5 that actually broke it.
My friend has been complaining about this! Glad to see it fixed
Daemons Unleashed
Can't wait for someone extremely religious question if they should update to this cursed version.
We'll wait until 7.7.7 so all of the religious folk switch to linux
I'm not installing this... Scary. Will wait for 6.6.7 in a few days. :)
Ubuntu Satanic Edition's favourite kernel.
And blacklisted by Ubuntu Christian Edition.
Lol, I really thought that this is satirical π but now it seems so real, Iβm confused.
It kind of makes sense. First I've ever heard about Ubuntu Christian Edition as well, but it seems to mostly be set up with filtering in mind, with the DNS tools and such. Add in productivity software aimed at preaching I guess, and you have a "safe" OS for kids and the laptop hooked up to the projector at a church.
Amen
Wait, crap! I'm already on 6.7.0-rc4 v.v Not gonna accept a lower number just to hail Satan a little extra π€·ββοΈ
Besides, 6.7 might have something neat in it. I'm not weird, you're weird!
~...~ ~I~ ~use~ ~Arch~ ~and/or~ ~Gentoo~ ~bytheway~ <.<
Finally, our time has come
\m/
If this post gets 666 upvotes hell will definitely break loose lol
does this mean steve ballmer was right?
Oh wow I didn't realize he repeated 'developers, developers, ...' 666 times on that event.
now we can merge the bsd source tree
Proof that the Linux kernel is the Debil!
pacman -Sy base-devil βΌοΈβΌοΈ
yay devil π
Edit: For those who don't use Arch ~bytheway~, yay is an "AUR helper:" basically a frontend for our package manager that adds support for building packages from source.
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Does it come with vi (vi vi)?
Going to lock this version with versionlock and keep it permanently
How about just fork it, remove all previous tags and commits, then form a cult around the repo.
They say if you compile it at midnight the caves in Russia that are said to emanate the sound of hell starts sounding like a 56k modem.
The end times have arrived.