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Distro Taste Test - Linux and Beer
An anonymous reader writes "Those Aussies are mad!!! Linux is an international phenomenon, drawing in developers and users from all over the globe. This diversity is reflected in the enormous number of flavours (or distributions) it is available in. This cornucopia of names reminds me of nothing so much as the world of beer. I thought it would be entertaining to look for parallels between some notable distros and the beers of the world."
You can keep your Yellow Dog beer to yourself, thanks
haha, next we'll see australian sites making parallels between linux and the crocodile hunter. doesnt do much for our racial stereotype, but hey - cheers and beers for all!
hmmmmmmm, beer!
So having a glass of Red Hat on the way to your systems administration job isn't so bad any more...
"I was studying up... honest."
-I just work here... how am I supposed to know?
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You are not the customer.
Nope, sorry, have to disagree.
Slackware is more like Guinness (extra stout, not the draught), in the 'slap upside the head' kinda way.
I would put Red Hat somewhere around Caffery's Ale, smooth and pleasing to the palate.
If Windows is like Budweiser, does that make Lindows parallel to Bud Lite?
A shame indeed... XXXX, Fosters? All shite, I never see aussies drinking them... they're just marketed to foolable American markets as real Aussie beer. Most 'export' beer is brewed in your own country anyway (well, UK/USA).
(Most) real Aussie beer is quite nice.
from the mad-max dept.
What the hell...? Oh, wait, I think I just got it.
Those Aussies are mad!!!
Okay, Aussies, Mel Gibson, Mad-Max.
That was dumb.
"Come on, let's go drink till we can't feel feelings anymore."
Piss and anti freeze.
FRA: STFU GTFO
Luckily VB doesn't have a parallel in the Linux world.
"Smoking helps you lose weight - one lung at a time" -- A. E. Neumann
CE is bud light...i'd put Lindows as Schlitz Malt Liqour or something...
If Mr. Edison had thought smarter he wouldn't sweat as much. --Nikola Tesla
From the article...
....character of it's home country of France. Sadly, good. well-known beer is a little thin on the ground there, so we will borrow from neighbouring Belgium to complement Mandrake.
Have these people never heard of Stella Artois or Kronenbourg 1664
I can only pity them if that's the case.
I lay awake last night wondering where the sun had gone, then it dawned on me.
Visual Tcl/tk
You sure you haven't been drinking Foster's?
:-p
We don't touch the stuff here, and only export it to stupid foreigners, who don't know better
www.fearthecow.net
I've just got back from Russia - the beer there is amazing. You can buy a really good beer for about 50 pence, and drink it in the street, or on the metro.
Get your own free personal location tracker
I can see red hat as Guinness..
I mean Guiness is dark and mysterious and the bubbles go the wrong way...
no wait your right, that sounds more like slackware...
If Mr. Edison had thought smarter he wouldn't sweat as much. --Nikola Tesla
Bud would cost $100 for a sixer, while they'd be passing out pints of Guiness on the street for free. Oh imagine the joy!
XXXX? Not sure about anywhere else but I can assure you its consumed in quite large quantities here in QLD Australia - its not too bad either, for cheap piss at least. Though any beer can be good if you give it a chance to get used to.
I.O.U One Sig.
While many parallels may be drawn, beer tends to increase a geeks chance of finding a woman. Linux, unfortunately, does the opposite.
Homer: "hmmm something special about this Red Tick beer!"
...meanwhile in Red Tick brewery...
Brewer tastes beer.
Brewer: "Hmm needs more dog."
I am a viral sig. Please help me spread.
Any article about beer that fails to refer to the culmination of hundreds of years of brewery, experimentation, blind luck and dedicated alcoholism known as "Palm Speciale" (or Heineken, which tastes great too and allows me to live on with both kidneys when consuming large quantities) is as immoral an unethical as things could possibly get, a true crime against humanity! Eris bless the Belgians for this fine contribution to the world! Also, some BSDs make for excellent beer comparisons; such as OpenBSD and "Kasteelbier" (castlebeer, when translated. Dutch stuff, quite strong and capable of flattening many a braggart) for obvious reasons.
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You raise an interesting conundrum!
If French Fries became Freedom Fries, does that mean that French Beer is... Free [as in] Beer?? I'm totally there!!
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Actually, LFS is a little more like buying a "make beer at home" kit than true homebrew, but that's a minor nit...
Australia needs their own distro patterned after Foster's beer. The best part is we could have the Crocodile hunter do the endorsements. Imagine a commercial where we dress him up as a penquin and have him battle Micro$haft Crocs - Crikeey and that Croc has a bad case of worms...
From excellent karma to terible karma with a single +5 funny post...
Fosters: It's american for canadian beer with an australian image.
XXXX is the most horrible beer in the world!!
Come down to NSW and enjoy a proper beer, from Victoria of course...
37 - what does it stand for really...
Terrible stuff from South Australia. I can't believe I used to be able to drink it.
:-) )
Much better SA beers are the Coopers series.
I can drink VB if it is cold, and free (as in beer
If you are drinking Australian Beer outside of Australia then you really can't judge the good ones. Generally, it's the crap that gets exported. There are a lot of really good domestic beers that don't get exported. James Squire springs to mind as one.
Tp.
...than to say that Heineken is, as far as I'm concerned, the best readily available "mass market" beer here in the US. There are plenty of imports, microbrews, and less popular beers to be had, and certainly several of them (Rolling Rock and Shiner Bock, to be sure) are worthy of mention when it comes to taste. But nothing beats a Heineken in terms of quality versus price.
To all Slashdotters who think that a six-pack of Bud Light is the way to achieve Zen each night, try buying a six-pack of Heinekens tonight, and I promise you won't go back to the lamebrau that is Bud Light. Yeah, the bottles are a bit tougher to open and dispose of than Bud Light's convenient cans, but for very little more money, you get a superior brew, a better buzz, and you also don't have to put up with that "liquid rice" aftertaste.
"BSD: Free as in speech. Linux: Free as in beer. Windows 10: Free as in herpes." --Man On Pink Corner in #52607549.
I am very glad someone took this cognitive step. At last I can strike another item from the list of things in my life that are NOT related to Guiness. Mmmmmmmm Guiness...
If you outlaw the law, only criminals will have laws
Aussie beer lovers wonder where Coopers and James Squire are.
Anyone sick of Foster's [should happen with the first glass], give these a go.
Use ISO 8601 dates [YYYY-MM-DD]
These beers are generally made according to the Purity Law, and since Skolelinux is based on Debian, the same arguments as the article already put forth about HefeWeiss should apply here as well.
The big question would be which of the beers? All the ones I know have their fans and foes ...
I will therefore unilaterally claim that the beer in question should be Frydenlund Bokkol!
SIGBUS @ NO-07.308
Linux is more like crack. Since using it I've sold my t.v. and lost all my friends.
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On Slashdot I'm a lawyer.
They missed the FreeBSD beer, something like a Boch Beer - dark, and tasty, and people keep saying its no good.
-- Eduardo B. Fonseca
Debian beer is the worst beer. Its made from Gnu/Stallmans Gnu/Semen combined with 2 year old goat urine
The 'e' in Duvel is pronounced as the 'u' in 'dust', not like the 'e' in 'elementary'.
- bram, one of the 5 non-beer-drinking-belgians
I'm from Victoria, so I can tell you that Tasmanian (Taswegian) beer is the best...
Boags and/or Cascade
Belgian dark beer is nearly three times as strong as the standard US beer.Actually i do believe that it's one of the strongest beers i have ever had. This beer is brewed by monks who put the focus on beer alone, most of them work and live preferably in solitude, only hang around with other monks, don't wanted to be bothered with anything else but beer and makin it (well, some are into the cheesebizz too) and on top of it all, they are not known to have alot of sex with women.
Anyone made a connection yet?
bada bing
Debian GNU/Linux : I'd pair Debian with a something like Weihenstephaner HefeWeissBier. The Debian Free Software Guidelines are reminiscent of the German Beer Purity laws, which mandate that the beer be made out of malt, hops, yeast and water alone
:) Using Debian now for quite a time and finding it so stable and free from fancy stuff, being really "pure" i find that parrallel to the "Deutsches Reinheitsgebot" (German Beer Purity law) remarkable.
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I really never thought about that parallel
Being a lover of our german beer, consisting of the 4 ingredients only, with no addiotional artifical stuff, no other flavours and chemicals, this really must be the reason, i like debian so much !
There's really nothing beating german beer (gimme a Licher Pils!)
Three o'clock in the afternoon now, hmm, to early to go to the fridge now and get a beer out
Lord "not Gargamel's Cat!" Azrael
Australians don't touch the shit.
You can spell it like that if you want. You can spell it FLAVAH or !"$%^&* if you like.
The correct spelling,however, is F L A V O U R.
For correct spelling, do not use Websters. Try the Oxford English Dictionary. It does acknowledge the US variant. It remains just that - a variant...
I'll see your Constitution and raise you a Queen.
By accident I came across this only a few hours ago. Apparently it was written before Win 95 was released.
If Operating Systems Were Beers...
DOS Beer:
Requires you to use your own can opener, and requires you to read the directions carefully before opening the can. Originally only came in an 8-oz. can, but now comes in a 16-oz. can. However, the can is divided into 8 compartments of 2 oz. each, which have to be accessed separately Soon to be discontinued, although a lot of people are going to keep drinking it after it's no longer available.
Mac Beer:
At first, came only a 16-oz. can, but now comes in a 32-oz. can. Considered by many to be a "light" beer. All the cans look identical. When you take one from the fridge, it opens itself. The ingredients list is not on the can. If you call to ask about the ingredients, you are told that "you don't need to know." A notice on the side reminds you to drag your empties to the trashcan.
Windows 3.1 Beer:
The world's most popular. Comes in a 16-oz. can that looks a lot like Mac Beer's. Requires that you already own a DOS Beer. Claims that it allows you to drink several DOS Beers simultaneously, but in reality you can only drink a few of them, very slowly, especially slowly if you are drinking the Windows Beer at the same time. Sometimes, for apparently no reason, a can of Windows Beer will explode when you open it.
OS/2 Beer:
Comes in a 32-oz can. Does allow you to drink several DOS Beers simultaneously. Allows you to drink Windows 3.1 Beer simultaneously too, but somewhat slower. Advertises that its cans won't explode when you open them, even if you shake them up. You never really see anyone drinking OS/2 Beer, but the manufacturer (International Beer Manufacturing) claims that 9 million six-packs have been sold.
Windows 95 Beer:
You can't buy it yet, but a lot of people have taste-tested it and claim it's wonderful. The can looks a lot like Mac Beer's can, but tastes more like Windows 3.1 Beer. It comes in 32-oz. cans, but when you look inside, the cans only have 16 oz. of beer in them. Most people will probably keep drinking Windows 3.1 Beer until their friends try Windows 95 Beer and say they like it. The ingredients list, when you look at the small print, has some of the same ingredients that come in DOS beer, even though the manufacturer claims that this is an entirely new brew.
Windows NT Beer:
Comes in 32-oz. cans, but you can only buy it by the truckload. This causes most people to have to go out and buy bigger refrigerators. The can looks just like Windows 3.1 Beer's, but the company promises to change the can to look just like Windows 95 Beer's - after Windows 95 beer starts shipping. Touted as an "industrial strength" beer, and suggested only for use in bars.
Unix Beer:
Comes in several different brands, in cans ranging from 8 oz. to 64 oz. Drinkers of Unix Beer display fierce brand loyalty, even though they claim that all the different brands taste almost identical. Sometimes the pop-tops break off when you try to open them, so you have to have your own can opener around for those occasions, in which case you either need a complete set of instructions, or a friend who has been drinking Unix Beer for several years.
AmigaDOS Beer:
The company has gone out of business, but their recipe has been picked up by some weird German company, so now this beer will be an import. This beer never really sold very well because the original manufacturer didn't understand marketing. Like Unix Beer, AmigaDOS Beer fans are an extremely loyal and loud group. It originally came in a 16-oz. can, but now comes in 32-oz. cans too. When this can was originally introduced, it appeared flashy and colorful, but the design hasn't changed much over the years, so it appears dated now. Critics of this beer claim that it is only meant for watching TV anyway.
VMS Beer:
Requires minimal user interaction, excep
You know, I always wanted to be a dancer, but I could never get the shit off my shoes
And even then, it's only because those illiterate rednecks can't spell beer.
Thus, XXXX.
what bs. Gimmy a Cascade anyday.
Two guys driving the trucks for Tuborg and Carlsberg respectively meet in a bar.
The Tuborg guy approaches the Carlsberg worker and sees he is drinking Tuborg:
- I see you're drinking Tuborg, I guess that Carlsberg crap isn't good enough, ey?
- No, I just don't want my wife to catch me smelling like beer.
You can substitute the brands if you like.
Well, why hasn't he asked a French Dude ?
He could also have Googled around...
Or maybe proposed the cider (I know, this is not beer, but Budweizer is not beer either).
Trolling using another account since 2005.
I'm from Tasmania, and I agree :)
Hmm, now I feel like a boags premo...
Tried them both. They're excrement, as the grandparent suggests. A mixture of fizzy, cooking beer and ubiquitous American-style-bland- micro-brewery-crap. Underhopped and overhyped..
And each major distribution is like your favorite brewshop. Pick and choose your ingredients and handcraft a brew to you taste. As with many brewshops, most of the ingredients have the same origin. Customers stay with a particular shop because of the little extras they offer like support, recipes, etc. You can make each install or batch as strong or weak as you wish, as light or as dark.
Also, as with homebrew, several methods are available for different levels of expertise. The precompiled distributions are like using malt extract while distros that you compile (LFS, Gentoo, etc.) are more like the full grain versions made at home. Run-from-a-disc versions (Knoppix, etc.) are like the kits at Wal-Mart - easy to get started with, but not much in the way of customization.
And just like homebrew, we love GNU/Linux for those same reasons: We don't want someone else to choose for us. We want to know how it works or how its made. And free is good - both beer and speech.
Homebrewing since 1996, Linux since 2001.
There is a strange and mysterious force that turns Budweiser drinkable when you're in St. Louis.
This force is actually called "the brewery in the city," which cranks out something a fair bit smoother than the thin, bitter, fairly nauseating swill that passes for same in New England (and is brewed in a different brewery). It makes you realize why some people actually *enjoy* the stuff.
Moral of the story? Check the can, see where it was brewed. If you're a wannabe Guinness snob in the US, the results might surprise you... (And as far as I'm concerned, Labatt's is as bad as northeastern Bud.)
...sad.
They either drink VB (Victoria Bitter) or their local state offering.
Meaning the NSWelsh that don't drink VB either drink Toohey's New or Resches Pilsener. Queenslanders that don't drink VB drink either Castlemaine 4X or Powers Bitter. South Aussies that don't drink VB drink that disgusting Southark Ale shit. Etc, etc, etc, in regards the rest of the states.
Me I drink Tooheys on hot summer days & Coopers for serious beer drinking.
.............YOU'RE a variant. How do you like that?!
Sorry people, any article on beer OR linux that doesn't mention Heineken is not worth its salt!
Bud is only the biggest selling beer because it is huge in the USA. Heineken reigns supreme it most of the rest of the world.
- brought to you from the objective Netherlands (home of Heineken)
I don't know that RHL is the best pairing for Guinness. RH is great and I run it in many places, but I think of it more as the first non-mainstream beer that people try before they dig in and discover how many varieties there really are. Where I live, that's Shiner Bock. Maybe Guinness fits better with OpenBSD: stout, bitter, not to everyone's taste, but if you enjoy it, you almost can't drink anything else.
"You can never have too many elephants on your team."
Nonsense. Fosters LightIce is the SECOND HIGHEST SELLING BEER in .au. Just check their annual reports. (VB is first)
Australians love their Fosters. It seems like you guys are the stupid ones.
I was always told that Fosters was an Aussie word that meant "Export Only"...
There really should be a Beer 101 class for geeks everywhere. Here's a start: What Part of Beer Don't You Understand?.
Unfortunately, the Homebrew computer club has little to do with homebrewing beer or even brewing software although beer geeks know the true meaning of Free as in Beer.
Alexandre http://enkerli.wordpress.com/
yeah right... I have friends from over there and you're an idiot.
Sure, not everyone likes it but that's because it's a bit like Microsoft. It's everywhere. It's one of the highest selling beers there.
I think it is pretty funny that a Brit with the attitude of a Frenchie would use a sig line that is a Yank pop culture reference. We are everywhere and can't be stopped. I'll bet the last Scottish restaurant you ate at was McDonald's. ;)
Fat Tire is the real best American beer. I think that most beers taste like crap, but Fat Tire actually tastes good. Gets you intoxicated really fast too!
This small company has other good beers. Check them out.
Well, it turns out you were wrong. It's not entertaining at all.
I believe Mplayer plays both of them.
e di a/mplayer/pkg-descr
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/multim
Don't forget the native Mozilla/Opera plugin while your there.
Xine would probably be fine as well.
this only proves that the australians are insane, beer driven people! anyways, I'd say Lindows would be Miller lite.
Yup.
It's only funny until someone gets hurt. Then, it's hilarious.
Duff beer? And of course, everybody can see theo y.mpeg) and Duffman!!
likeness between Steve Ballmer (http://www.fuckedcompany.com/images/dancemonkeyb
(URL posted, not link, out of sympathy for target...)
Call me old fashioned, but I like a dump to be as memorable as it is devastating - Bender
Click here you lazy shits!
well, my favorite about russia is that you (at least used to, i think still can) buy vodka in those small glass lemonade bottle looking bottles with a remove only cap(~0.3l), i think cans too.
anyways.. just guess why it's not that uncommon to smuggle alcohol from russia to finland(1l of 97% costs about 1euro in russia vs. 20-30euros street price in finland, legal 0.7l bottle of cheapest 40% scotch costs around 22-23euros for comparision).
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of course this has nothing to do with the subject at hand, except maybe you could say street alcohol to be like warez, cheap but you never know for sure what you get.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
The whole "free, as in beer" thing never made sense to me because as long as I can recall free beer is not legal. So free beer is just something that doesn't exist to me. Fine with me though since beer is just chilled piss anyway. :) I'd guess talking about "free, as in whiskey" would just be bizarre. Makes me picture a handfull of distros grouped into the "sour mash" catagory. hehe.
pigfukr
IIRC, RedHat 7.0 actually WAS called Guinness.
Better beer than release version. It came with the beta GCC 3.0 (remember kgcc?), beta glibc 2.2 and a very unstable XFree86 4.0.
Slackware is more like Guinness (extra stout, not the draught), in the 'slap upside the head' kinda way.
.5 pound steel cut oats. OK, this is not traditional in an Irish stout, but gives the beer a creamier texture which you'll want if you'll be bottle carbonating.
I'll second that. (and I also prefer the extra stout most of the time, even though the stuff we get here is now brewed in Canada) However, Slackware is actually a home-brewed Irish style stout.
It's been a few years, but IIRC...
Mash the following grains to produce about 6 gallons of wort:
7.5 pounds of pale malt. (preferably British or Belgian 2-row)
1 pound of roasted, unmalted barley. Dark black stuff for the proper Guinness approach. (BTW, the use of unmalted roasted grain rather than roasted malt is what sets a stout apart from a porter)
162F is a good strike temp for the mash. Generally I'd do a modified mash where you drain some wort, heat it up, and return it to the mash to keep things around 150F - 155F until the starches are done converting. Oh -- bit of Burton river salt (mostly gypsum) in the water also helps extraction.
Then, boil it up. Use bittering hops like Chinook, Fuggles, or Kent Golding. Since Alpha Acid content varies, I can't give an exact amount here, but shoot for about 35 IBUs.
Chill, put in a carboy, and ferment. Wyeast's Irish Ale yeast is ideal, but the 1056 American works well, too and gives a cleaner (though less traditional) finish. The only dry yeast I can recommend (and then only barely) is Whitbread, if you can find it anymore.
Don't bother to transfer for a secondary ferment. When it's done, prime the carboy. (boil 3/4 cup of dextrose in water, cool, add)
Then bottle:
NUM=1
cat beer | while read 12oz ; do
makepkg -cap y slackware-beer-1.0-malt-$NUM.tgz
NUM=`expr $NUM + 1`
done
Or if you have better brewing equipment than I do, keg and carbonate. My friends have been using something called "BevMix" lately, which is 60% nitrogen / 40% CO2 but can be used with standard soda kegs. It works really good, and the beer serves up with that great cascading Guinness effect! Even better if you can get the correct tap like my buddy Dan has. It's amazing he gets any work done! Of course, this afternoon I'll be hanging out at Len's house where he has a Pepsi machine converted into a canned Guinness machine, and it only costs a nickel, so probably the 2.4.22 update in -current won't be happening until tomorrow.
Brew your own custom flavor!
I think Miller Lite # 3 best seller in US( worst beer ever brewed) has to relate to some OS. I'm thinking Mac OS 9. OsX is much better maybe its a Sam adams. I hate Sam adams, but other people seem to love it. Just like osx.
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
Redhat = Samuel Adams. - Why would anyone with any knowledge of beer pick a brit brew for an American distro? Commonly available and well known. Not the best amber in its class, but certainly deserves (great nose - aromatic hops) to be mentioned on anyone's best ale list.
Debian = Celis White. - I'll continue on the wheat beer theme, and this is a great wheat beer. It's hard to get your hands on one. It's cloudy and has yeast on the bottom so it may scare the first timers. But once you get to know it well, you come to love it for its quirkiness.
Slackware = Anchor Old Foghorn. - No casual weekend drinker's beer. If this is your first time, order yourself a half-pint. You don't know what you're getting yourself into.
SuSE = Erdinger Weissbier Dunkel. - Another wheat beer, but darker and full. Meticulously brewed like the distro. Despite being a great beer, few people in the US will ever try it.
MacOS = Smirnoff Ice. - This one's for the hip and groovy image conscious crowd. No one who actually likes beer would ever drink this.
I read the article, and I think it could have been a lot better.
For one, they compared Windows in a linux article to beer. And yet, they did not compare Mac OS X, or any of the other BSDs. For that matter, how about comercial unix like solaris? I mean, windows does not belong in this.
But, lets be a little more accurate.
For one, Nady is obviously the 'windows' of beers. Every kid drinks it because he can buy it for nothing (parallels to the piracy used to install windows 98 on your new dell when it comes with xp). Nady is by far the shittiest beer, yet, I guarentee you, its the most popular among the youngsters looking for a quick college drink.
Redhat is Budwiser, hands down. Every linux user has run Red Hat. Some people think linux /is/ Red Hat. RH is american made (ok, compiled.. whatever), as is Budwiser. RH also has a HUGE marketing department, and I'm sure Budwiser has the largest advertising budget of all other beers.
Mac OS X, no contest, is Guiness. Guiness beers aren't for everyone. Its an elite beer, and you either hate it, or you love it. Its a little more expensive, comes in a fancy bottle with a little thing that floats to the top as you drink it. And its almost not beer. Doesn't taste anything like Budwiser, though it will get you drunk
The home-brewed beer is not gentoo. Gentoo is close, and if we were to completely limit our discussion to linux, it would be. But, the article is going to put windows in there, so I'm going to put other unix-like os's in here. Its only fair :p. The home-brewed beer is one of the BSDs. I would say Free BSD as it is frequently thought of as a bit of a challenge, but I think OpenBSD qualifies much more.
To go a little further, Free BSD may be more like a wine celler, and Open BSD a home-brewed beer.
Mandrake, which is basically a copy off Red Hat, can go straight to Coors which is, and this is fact, non-passing Budwieser. When Bud has a bad batch, its turned into Coors, and sold for a bit less. Its not as good, but it ain't so bad either.
Debian is an interesting one. Debian is not your standard linux distro, and its one of the few that really do the trick. Its easy to maintain, and its very compatable, out of the box, with lots of hardware, even old stuff you'd think only netbsd would run on. For this reason, I'm labeling it the 'old favorite' Milwaukie's best. Milwaukie, btw, is a GREAT beer, for the price. Its about $.45 per 14 oz can. Yeah, not 12 oz.
I'd say that Killian's Irish Red is BeOS, simply because its a great beer, yet susprisingly unpopular. Yeah, Be ain't really unix, so shoot me.
Darwin, aka the Mach kernel, should be known as Steel Reserve simply because it gets the job done, and quite quickly. That beer will put you down, reguardless of size. And you'll allways feel like crap in the morning. Which is how I feel when I stay up till 6am working out some strange darwin issue, and wake up at 9am.....
don't forget Antarctica. along with being a great beer, it even has 2 penguins on the label - lolt m
http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/1585/antar1.h
http://www.antarctica.com.br/entrada.html
= home brew?
You've never been to a party that had free beer, ohh man, thats about the only reason many people go to parties is the free food and beer, It's not legal for say the 7-11 to offer beer for free, but I don't think there is any laws for giving beer to your friends for free, unless you live in a "dry county"
For those of us living in "the land of the free", it should be noted that Budvar is unavailable by that name in the U.S. due to a mostly unsuccessful longstanding attempt to crush the Czech brewery.
It's difficult to find at all, and when you can it is marketed here under the name "Czechvar".
From the article:
.. Duvel beer seems to be the best fit here, with the light golden appearance of a pilsner disguising the complex aromas and the kick of a 9% ABV beer...
Mandrake : [SNIP]
WRONG !!!!
Duvel is not 9% ABV but 8.5%. Source: The bottle on my table
What's wrong with Fischer's La Belle Strasbourgeiosie?
I am an Australian and no-one here drinks Fosters Larger.
Are you sure these friends of yours are actually Australian, because they're totally and utterly incorrect.
Fosters Light Ice is a totally different beer. Fosters Larger is the swill advertised internationally as the beer of choice in Australia.
But yes, VB is undoubtedly the most popular beer in Australia.
It's #3 or so in Europe.
Far from declaring war on us for exporting Bud, they seem to like it too.
Beer snobbery is unbelievable to me. People wouldn't never have at someone else because they like iceberg lettuce instead of romaine. But if they like Bud, they must be some kind of uninformed idiot.
Ridiculous. You like what you like. Why does that qualify you to tell other people they like the wrong beer?
..and when a Victorian says something good about Tasmania, you know it must be bloody good!
- Chuq
Lots of distro's of Linux doesn't make it good, it just means that no one's managed to do it right yet. It's a lot like beer in that, no matter what kind of brewing process you use, it's still watered-down fermented wheat and/or barley juice.
As it is Gods Own Beer - the relevant choice would be a install compiled direct from Linus' own tree.
The Singularity is closer than you think
Quant
it is not too early
The Singularity is closer than you think
Quant
So much trouble. Why don't you just download curl and use this:
n ova-[01-38]/nikki-nova-[001-128].jpg -# -o "nikki-nova-#1-#2.jpg"
curl http://www.nikki-nova-archive.com/gfx/sets/nikki-
Anyway. Just so I can be on topic, what kind of Linux distro would correspond to Smirnoff Ice Triple Black?
Stella Artois is part of Interbrew, in Belgium it is considered the worst piss of the street. Abroad it is an "export" beer sold at high price. For those of you who now feel shocked: exactly the same goes for Heineken (NL), Tuborg(DK) and Carlsberg(DK)
10 ?"Hello World" life was simple then
The whole "free, as in beer" thing never made sense to me because as long as I can recall free beer is not legal.
Think parties with kegs of beer. Just walk right in, grab a Solo cup, fill it up, and drink it up, its free. Most of the time you're drinking cheap beer, but every now and then someone buys some good stuff.
Also, clubs/bar can serve free beer (and any other kind of drink). This is certainly legal. Hell, I drink free beer most Saturdays. Remember to tip your bartender, though (kinda like "its free, but buy a copy or donate to support the distro").
Cheers.
--Drunk as in Beer
That would be a chip shop? Got something from one last week.
I have nothing against US culture. I think my sig gives away one bit I have followed for a long time. I also wear jeans & t-shirt so I probably don't look that different either.
"Attitude of a Frenchie"? If you mean did I oppose the war our leaders created in Iraq - yes. I didn't think that showed...
Correct spelling is something I was taught at school. I would just as readily objected if they had redefined Pi to 3. That is just as wrong.
I'll see your Constitution and raise you a Queen.
Where are you getting this information from, anyway?