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A Loki Timeline
Al "Alkini" Koskelin writes: "Matt Matthews, with the help of the LinuxGames staff and some ex-employees of Loki, has put together a Loki timeline. The timeline is an attempt to document every major event in Loki's past, starting with the announcement of SDL and the Launch of the Loki Website through today, when Loki is officially ceasing operations." They're also looking for more information to make the timeline more complete.
Because of Linux. But not in the way you expect it to be.
Many people on slashdot are from the US and therefore not familiar with European mythology. The penguin is the traditional bird on death. These pre-cristian traditions are very strong, especially in the nordic countries Norway, Sweden and Finland. You can very often find pictures even in churches showing a penguin with a scythe as a symbol for death and destructions. Just take the next medivial arts book and look for the picture of "Riders of the apocalypse" by Alrecht Duerer. If you look hard enough you see that one of the riders is in fact a penguin.
Most of you US guys will associate a skeleton with a agricultural tool as the grim reaper. That's because the climate in the regions where the first settlers landed is rather warm and there are no penguins. So this old European tradition did out in the US.
I always wondered why Linus selected the bird of death as a mascot for linux. Perhaps he did feel unconsciously that most commercial free software attempts will die a cruel death - just take a look at Loki or all the BSD troubles. So with the morbid mascot I suppose that most commercial Linux activities will die. Nobody in Europe will buy products from morbid companies. And above all a black bird with a scythe will stand and smile.
BTW: Why are so many penguin pictures on some of the stories ? Are these about dead people ?
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> SDL is platform agnostic.
WTF? It doesn't know on which platform it runs? That sounds really fucking great to me!
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