The Secret Diary of Linus Torvalds

February 20, 2008

Mark Shuttleworth Announces Next Crazy Name: Intrepid Ibex

Filed under: Ubuntu — Fake Linus Torvalds @ 8:46 pm

See here. The Obi-Wan Kenobi of the Linux realm has just announced the next version of Ubuntu (8.10, released, duh, 10/08).

You know, I think there’s a pattern here. Dapper Drake, Edgy Eft, Feisty Fawn, Gutsy Gibbon, Hardy Heron, Intrepid Ibex… hey, they’re all alphabetical! Amazing!

Adobe idiots wants DRM for Flash. There goes Gnash.

Filed under: Uncategorized — Fake Linus Torvalds @ 3:18 pm

See here. I guess Gnash will either die or reverse engineer then.

Better start downloading those YouTube vids while you can…

February 19, 2008

My favorite desktop environment just got upgraded to 3.5.9

Filed under: Uncategorized — Fake Linus Torvalds @ 2:38 pm

See here. Go KDE!

Microsoft tries to get hip with free student developer software. They just made it free cause no one uses it anyway.

Filed under: Federation — Fake Linus Torvalds @ 1:56 pm

See https://downloads.channel8.msdn.com/

Seriously, no one USES Windows Server. We all use Apache. Same with SQL Server. Maybe some use Visual Studio, but they’re just afraid to use gcc. Geez. Makes me sick.

EU promotes OSS

Filed under: Politics — Fake Linus Torvalds @ 12:13 pm

See here. Very cool.

Dell converts the Inspiron 1525 to the light side

Filed under: Dell — Fake Linus Torvalds @ 9:39 am

See http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2008/02/18/46379.aspx

It starts at $499. Good job Dell. We are so proud of you.

February 18, 2008

The word on the street is that Mac owners are snobs. It took them that long to figure it out?

Filed under: Empire — Fake Linus Torvalds @ 5:45 pm

See here.

According to the report, Mac users are rich snobbish fat cats who “need recognition”. No duh.

February 17, 2008

Apple ain’t the good guy here. We’re the good guy.

Filed under: Cheesy Analogies, Empire, Federation — Fake Linus Torvalds @ 5:31 pm

See, it’s kinda like in Star Wars. We’ve got the evil bad guys, the Microsoft people (did I just classify the Microsoftans as human?). They’re a wealthy organization that wants to rule the galaxy. Then there’s the Apple… individuals. They’re a bunch of people obsessed with being perfect and with white cases. They’re the Empire, and they’re even worse than the Federation. Why? They’ve got some psycho emperor person who makes them do whatever he wants them to do. Oh, and they don’t like the Federation. Lastly, there’s us. The good guys. The wonderful Jedi Knights of open source free software. The people who stand between the evil Empire and Federation and the world.

Just one question. Why isn’t the world supporting us?

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