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LinuxBIOS Gains Steam
solferino writes: "LinuxJournal has a good overview article about linuxBIOS and where it's currently at (hint : moving like a sleek penguin under arctic ice). Why linuxBIOS? To quote from the article "Currently two different interest groups are working on LinuxBIOS: one working on embedded systems and one building large-scale computer clusters. For these applications the legacy x86 firmware is suboptimal." Yes, this was a slashdot story in March this year but this article is relevant for updating the project status and for providing indepth information."
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Does this mean that us Linux users will be getting more and more steamy gay sex in the future?
The Slashdot Staff: Editors or Janitors?
Slashdot claims to have several editors on its staff. This is not true. Editors are people who edit. What does it mean to edit? Well, according to 'm-w.com' to edit means: to prepare for publication or public presentation. Does the Slashdot staff do this? Hardly. The readers who submit stories do this; they prepare the stories for slashdot. The staff just cuts and pastes them onto the front page. Editors also check for spelling and grammar. Editors also try to show both sides of a story; the Slashdot staff is some of the most biased people on the net. Just look at the icon for Microsoft posts to see this bias in action.
So, if they are not editors, what are they? They are janitors. Janitors clean up and put things back in place. The Slashdot staff cleans up troll vomit and crap floods. The janitor at my old high school was a big track star 'back in the day' but now he is just an old fool that the kids made fun of. He never really got it. He thought he ran the school just because he had the keys to the front door. It is the same with the Slashdot staff, they used to be important, but now they are just old fools who can't even remember what stories they posted just a few days back. The Slashdot staff also believes that they run the site, but it is OSDN that runs the show. The Slashdot staff doesn't see or hear the kids laughing behind their backs.
Please discuss
Of course, this will lead to the construction of computers whose BIOS is completely GPL'd, making it illegal for any proprietary software to be run on them. At last the dream of Adolf Stallman to produce a purely free computer will become a reality! VE VILL EXPUNGE ALL EVIL NON-FREE SOFTVARE FROM OUR MACHINES, UND REALIZE ZE DREAM OF A MASTER RACE OF PURE FREE SOFTVARE VHICH VILL DOMINATE ZE VORLD!! HEIL LINUX!!!!
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