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Flavor vs. Flavour

Posted by michael on from the pedantry-will-get-you-nowhere dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A recent flamewar ensued on the Linux kernel mailing list, this time debating the proper spelling of 'flavor', or is it 'flavour'? Even Linux creator Linus Torvalds joined the fray with some rather humorous comments. For the most part, it sounds like spellings will stay as they are, but it makes for an entertaining read."

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  1. RKZ RAPED MY MOTHERS PENISBIRD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FP v FP

  2. slashdot is gay! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    now you know, and knowing is half the battle.

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  4. 1st by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1st post

  5. First "SLOW NEWS DAY" post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Slashdot REALLY sucks

  6. *BSD is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Fact: *BSD is dying

    It is common knowledge that *BSD is dying, that ever hapless *BSD is mired in an irrecoverable and mortifying tangle of fatal trouble. It is perhaps anybody's guess as to which *BSD is the worst off of an admittedly suffering *BSD community. The numbers continue to decline for *BSD but FreeBSD may be hurting the most. Look at the numbers. The loss of user base for FreeBSD continues in a head spinning downward spiral.

    OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of BSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.

    Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

    All major marketing surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dilettante dabblers. In truth, for all practical purposes *BSD is already dead. It is a dead man walking.

    Fact: *BSD is dying

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

    Dear Limpy,

    Next time she gags on your cock, give her a good, hard backhand across the mouth, then throw her face-down on the bed and fuck her in the ass.

    Trust me, after you do that a few times, she'll figure out a way to supress her gag reflex.

  8. Since this story is going nowhere anyway. by Jellybob · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Thankyou, I hadn't been made aware of this before, it's good to know.

  9. Re:Slow news day? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Just fair warning to everyone. Don't use the crapper if Linus eats at Del Taco for lunch.

  10. Re:Flavor, flavour... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    dylan lainhart has no penis
    he "cut the hell out"