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Sex, Drugs & Linux Rules

-- MaDsen Wikholm, mwikholm@at8.abo.fi

win-nt from the people who invented edlin.

-- MaDsen Wikholm, mwikholm@at8.abo.fi

Apples have meant trouble since eden.

-- MaDsen Wikholm, mwikholm@at8.abo.fi

Linux, the way to get rid of boot viruses

-- MaDsen Wikholm, mwikholm@at8.abo.fi

Once upon a time there was a DOS user who saw Unix, and saw that it was good. After typing cp on his DOS machine at home, he downloaded GNU's Unix tools ported to DOS and installed them. He rm'd, cp'd, and mv'd happily for many days, and upon finding elvis, he vi'd and was happy. After a long day at work (on a Unix box) he came home, started editing a file, and couldn't figure out why he couldn't suspend vi (w/ ctrl-z) to do a compile.

-- Erik Troan, ewt@tipper.oit.unc.edu

We are MicroSoft. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.

-- Attributed to B.G., Gill Bates

Avoid the Gates of Hell. Use Linux

-- unknown source

Intel engineering seem to have misheard Intel marketing strategy. The phrase was "Divide and conquer" not "Divide and cock up"

-- Alan Cox, iialan@www.linux.org.uk

Linux! Guerrilla UNIX Development Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus.

-- Mark A. Horton KA4YBR, mah@ka4ybr.com

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-- CHaley (HAC), haley@unm.edu, ch008cth@pi.lanl.gov)

"Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk?" Microsoft spel chekar vor sail, worgs grate!!

-- Felix von Leitner, leitner@inf.fu-berlin.de

Personally, I think my choice in the mostest-superlative-computer wars has to be the HP-48 series of calculators. They'll run almost anything. And if they can't, while I'll just plug a Linux box into the serial port and load up the HP-48 VT-100 emulator.

-- Jeff Dege, jdege@winternet.com

There are no threads in a.b.p.erotica, so there's no gain in using a threaded news reader.

-- unknown source

/*
* Oops. The kernel tried to access some bad page. We'll have to
* terminate things with extreme prejudice. */ die_if_kernel("Oops", regs, error_code);

-- From linux/arch/i386/mm/fault.c

Linux: because a PC is a terrible thing to waste

-- ksh@cis.ufl.edu put this on Tshirts in '93

Linux: the choice of a GNU generation

-- ksh@cis.ufl.edu put this on Tshirts in '93

There are two types of Linux developers - those who can spell, and those who can't. There is a constant pitched battle between the two.

-- From one of the post-1.1.54 kernel update messages posted to c.o.l.a
> > Other than the fact Linux has a cool name, could someone explain why I
> > should use Linux over BSD?
>
> No.  That's it.  The cool name, that is.  We worked very hard on
> creating a name that would appeal to the majority of people, and it
> certainly paid off: thousands of people are using linux just to be able
> to say "OS/2? Hah.  I've got Linux.  What a cool name".  386BSD made the
> mistake of putting a lot of numbers and weird abbreviations into the
> name, and is scaring away a lot of people just because it sounds too
> technical.
-- Linus Torvalds' follow-up to a question about Linux
> The day people think linux would be better served by somebody else (FSF
> being the natural alternative), I'll "abdicate".  I don't think that
> it's something people have to worry about right now - I don't see it
> happening in the near future.  I enjoy doing linux, even though it does
> mean some work, and I haven't gotten any complaints (some almost timid
> reminders about a patch I have forgotten or ignored, but nothing
> negative so far).
>
> Don't take the above to mean that I'll stop the day somebody complains:
> I'm thick-skinned (Lasu, who is reading this over my shoulder commented
> that "thick-HEADED is closer to the truth") enough to take some abuse.
> If I weren't, I'd have stopped developing linux the day ast ridiculed me
> on c.o.minix.  What I mean is just that while linux has been my baby so
> far, I don't want to stand in the way if people want to make something
> better of it (*).
>
>                 Linus
>
> (*) Hey, maybe I could apply for a saint-hood from the Pope.  Does
> somebody know what his email-address is? I'm so nice it makes you puke.
-- Taken from Linus's reply to someone worried about the future of Linux
> : Any porters out there should feel happier knowing that DEC is shipping
> : me an AlphaPC that I intend to try getting linux running on: this will
> : definitely help flush out some of the most flagrant unportable stuff.
> : The Alpha is much more different from the i386 than the 68k stuff is, so
> : it's likely to get most of the stuff fixed.
>
> It's posts like this that almost convince us non-believers that there
> really is a god.
-- Anthony Lovell, to Linus's remarks about porting