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Gentoo Linux 1.2
MrOutlander writes "Gentoo Linux releases version 1.2 of their cutting edge distribution with many updates including KDE 3.0.1 (20020604) and GNOME 2 (beta, 20020607) support. I love emerge :)"
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Gentoo 1.2 was released on June 10. This is one of the top 10 Linux distributions, and one of the few Linux distributions that generates any excitement anymore. Does Slashdot care at all about being current? My understanding is that this is a Linux website (I have come to this understanding from reading postings about minor kernel patches etc.). Perhaps it would be well to keep up on Linux news.
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Who is michael and why are all his posts judged frontpage worthy and mine not so?
Is this some sort of joke?
by TrollBurger
No one really gives a fuck about a new distro, the fact is that slashdot editors are payed to hype new linux stuff that no one other than a bunch of nerds would care about, while selectively ignoring other things which might be of similar or greater interest (or reliablity/security) ( - like BSD for example).
But I thought (sob!)BSD was DEAD!!!(sob!!)
Please sir, I request that you publish this in Penthouse Forum. At the very least forward this to RMS since he has so much experience with homosexual geek orgies.
CLIT should release a Cunni Lingux distribution.
We should petition the Jim Henson Company to make a singing Goatse muppet.
Learn to Play Go
HELLO! BY YOUR USE OF THE PSEUDO-WORD "BOXEN", I HAVE GATHERED THAT YOU ARE A FLAMING HOMOSEXUAL LIKE MYSELF!!! TELL ME, DO YOU KNOW ANY TRICKS FOR CURING SPERM-INDUCED STOMACH PAINS??? THESE HAVE BEEN THE BANE OF MY EXISTENCE SINCE I STARTED USING LUNIX!!!
THE "G" IN "GNU" STANDS FOR GAY!!!
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Gnu's Not Unix, but it sure feels great in my ass!!!
It is official; National Geographic confirms: Gentoo Penguins are dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Gentoo Penguin population when the Australian Antarctic Data Centre confirmed that the Gentoo Penguin habitat has decreased yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of Antartica. Coming on the heels of a recent National Geographic survey which plainly states that Gentoo Penguins have lost more habitat, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Gentoo Penguins are collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Penguin population counts.
You don't need to be an Eskimo to predict Gentoo Penguin's future. The hand writing is on the iceberg: Gentoo Penguins face a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Gentoo Penguins because Gentoo Penguins are dying. Things are looking very bad for Gentoo Penguins. As many of us are already aware, Gentoo Penguins continue to lose habitat. Red blood flows like a river of, well, blood.
The colony on the Antartic Peninsula is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its population. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Gentoo Penguins Ikky and Wokky only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Gentoo Penguins are dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers. Gentoo Penguin leader Kowikki states that there are 96610 Gentoo Penguins in South Georgia. How many Gentoo Penguins are there in the Iles Kerguelen? Let's see. The number of South Georgia versus Iles Kerguelen posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 96610/5 = 19322 Gentoo Penguin on the Iles Kerguelen. Falkland Island posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Iles Kerguelen posts. Therefore there are about 9661 Gentoo Penguins on the Falklands. A recent article put the Antartica Peninsula colonies at about 80 percent of the total Gentoo Penguin population. Therefore there are (96610+19322+9661)*4 = 502372 Gentoo Penguins on the Antartic Peninsula. This is consistent with the number of Antartica Peninsula Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of the Antartic Peninsula, abysmal fishing success, and so on, the Peninsula colonies died out and the bodies were scattered around the region, and have in turn infected all the other colonies.
All major surveys show that Gentoo Penguins have steadily declined in population and habitat. Gentoo Penguins are very sick and their long term survival prospects are very dim. If Gentoo Penguins are to survive at all it will be among hippy nature-loving dilettante dabblers. Their bodies continue to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save them at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Gentoo Penguins are dead.
Fact: Gentoo Penguins are dying
No security through obscurity: my password is goatse. Stop me before I troll again.
How in the world did you get modded down, especially twice? That's just wrong, and I'm willing to lay my karma on the line for it.
Will some moderator please mod back up the above two, especially the second one, there's no possible justification for their modding down. Really, that's just wrong.