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Red Flag Linux: Real, and Reviewed

Over at NewsForge (NewsForge is part of OSDN, as is Slashdot), Roblimo has posted his impressions of the long-awaited, much-ridiculed Red Flag Linux (English version). It may not be a big seller outside of the Chinese-speaking world (despite the available English-language install), but it's not a hoax, and it's available as an ISO for download. Update from Roblimo: I did not write the NewsForge Red Flag review. Matt Michie deserves all credit for this excellent work.

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  1. Fist Sport by Max+the+Merciless · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Begin the Long March to Microsoft's destruction

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    * * Always question "the National Interest" - 9 times out of 10 it is a cover for evil
  2. Slashdot in the future! by Serial+Troller · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    • 2002. Slashdot publishes 1,000,000th rumor passed off as actual story. The story generates 480 comments, 263 of which agree with the article, and 107 of which point out it's a rumor and are modded down as redundant. The remaining comments are all "first posts."
    • 2002. CmdrTaco married.
    • 2002. Slashdot parent corporation VA Research^W Linux^W Software stock worth 35 cents. Rumors that AOL, Microsoft, or even Jimmy the hobo who lives under the Longfellow Bridge may buy it.
    • 2003. VA Software bought by Microsoft for a cup of coffee and a donut. All Microsoft-critical articles mysteriously disappear from Slashdot. Bill Gates as Borg logo replaced with Bill Gates as God.
    • 2004. CmdrTaco loses virginity.
    • 2004. The WIPO Troll returns again, showering Slashdot in 45,000 copies of the same post: "Lick my crotch hairs." Slashdot, despite running on 18 redundant IIS/8.0 servers, buckles under the load. The term "Slashdotted" is replaced with "WIPO-Trolled."
    • 2004. Slashdot officially shut down. Millions of screaming, unwashed geeks invade Redmond campus and lynch Bill Gates.
    • 2005. Linus Torvalds and Anal Cox found dead along with six penguins, a tub of crisco and several used condoms.
    • 2005. CmdrTaco rumored to have had sex again.
    • 2006. CowboiKneel found dead in hotel room with 56 pizza boxes covering his bloated corpse. Three suffocated gay prostitutes are extracted from beneath his body as police remove it with a backhoe.
    • 2007. CmdrTaco actually has sex again.
    • 2007. BSD is still officially "dying." No word on when its demise will take place.
    • 2007. CmdrTaco starts new weblog to replace Slashdot, creatively named Dotslash. Remainder of Linux users flock to the site and immediate WIPO-Troll it out of existence.
    • 2008. CmdrTaco has sex with his wife for the first time.
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    STOP ME BEFORE I POST AGAIN!

  3. Dirty Linux Hippies are Dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered Dirty GNU Hippie community when last month IDC confirmed that Rancid Smelling GNU Hippies account for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all humans. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that Natty haired greasy GNU Hippie have lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Reeking Linux Hippies are collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last [sysadminmag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive /usr/bin/sh test.

    You don't need to be a Kreskin [amdest.com] to predict the future of the Stinking sweaty Linux hippie. The hand writing is on the wall: Foul-stenched GNU hippies with swampy armpits face a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for them because they are dying. Things are looking very bad for Hairy-backed GNU hippie. As many of us are already aware, they continue to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

    Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

    Troll leader Anonymouse Coward states that there are 7000 goatse.cx trolls. How many ascii art trolls are there? Let's see. The number of goatse.cx versus ascii art posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 ascii art trolls. Pimply-faced GNU hippies posts on Slashdot are about half of the volume of ascii art posts. Therefore there are about 700 Cock-Gobbling GNU Hippies. A recent article put "first post" at about 80 percent of the troll market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 "first post" trolls. This is consistent with the number of first posts.

    All major surveys show that Putrid smelling greasy GNU hippies have steadily declined in market share. Slashdot is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Grubby Smelly Linux Hippies are to survive at all it will be among troll hobbyist dabblers. Slashdot continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Dirty GNU Hippies are dead.

    This troll was reposted from the Troll Library without permission of the original author. If you object to this post, or if you wish to add your troll to the Troll Library, please reply to this message.

  4. More news to cheer you up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    1. Re:More news to cheer you up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      That is hardly material worthy of the Troll Library.

  5. Pissed First by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ????

  6. Re:ISO Mirror by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    email me

    I am testing a script to catch email address harvesters, I know this is oftopic, but please don't mod it down.

  7. Hah! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Linux commies. Come over to *BSD. Truly free.

    You are who you associate yourself with.

    1. Re:Hah! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Heard on the radio where the Sheriff in Georgia said that *BSD was one of
      among the 300 corpses discarded behind the crematorium. Apparently
      *BSD wasn't even worth burning.

  8. LONG LIVE AMERICA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Good job Joe,

    Now we can rest assured we have "stabilized" the "enemey", reduced the "foreign threat", to "protect our children" from the "EVIL" "red army."

    Uncle SAM will be proud...but not yet. Not until you BLOODY BLOW uP THOST BASTARRDS out of the sky. This is america, where people deserve to be free, freedom!!!! freedom from oppression, but do to that we must "terminate" the "numbers".

    Remember they...uh, I mean the "terrorists" are just "threatening" our livelihood to "freedom from high prices produce in NON-SWEAT SHOPS"...

    Kill those damn red bastards,

    I am Joe America!!!

  9. Re:isnt it ironic? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    no, not really.

  10. heh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    wo yao zhongguo de linux. zhi shi bu hao.

  11. Re:sob by fsck! · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    +1, best four-word post of the evening.

  12. RACISM by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Your racist tone carries very STRONGLY.

    Please don't be racist!

  13. Re:Jokes? Or for Real, check this out! by unclelib · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Correction:
    You do not work at Walmart nor do you own Walmart stock.

    Otherwise you don't work at Walmart stock, which doesn't make any logical sense from my perspective.

  14. Re:Totalitarian OSes? by edinho · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ah... The mentality of the average slashdot modders:

    1. A totally informative and cool headed post like the above gets 0 karma point.
    2. A skewered POV gets +5 karma.
    3. Reverse psychology has 95% success rate: a flamebait proclaiming itself to be not a flamebait, gets load of karma points.

    Wheeee!!!