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Depenguinator "Upgrades" Linux to BSD

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-thats-just-creapy dept.

cperciva writes "Many systems around the world have been possessed by penguins and dead rats. It would be nice to exorcize these evil spirits, but this can be difficult without physical access to the machines in question. Thanks to a new depenguinator, it is now possible to upgrade Linux systems to run FreeBSD 5.x without requiring anything more than an SSH connection." Clever idea.

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  1. Re:Hmm... by alcmaeon · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    "It also depends on your audience. Saying "Abortion is murder" at a pro-choice meeting might well be flamebait, but saying it at a pro-life meeting certainly is not."

    God, if slashdot is no different from the choice vs. life crowd, I'm outta here. Nothing to be gained from hanging around with a bunch of tunnel vision zealots.

  2. Re:Hmm... by Atzanteol · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Just to get a bit more off topic here. People who believe that abortion *is* murder may be tunnel-visioned (as you put it). But keep in mind that anyone who tries to convince them otherwise is effectively trying to justify murder to them.

    Many people get upset when you tell them 'murder is okay'.

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    "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"

    - Charles Darwin
  3. Re:Hmm... by AME · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    While I agree that your post is offtopic (as is this one -- come on, moderators... Bring it on!), I must say that it's a very insightful offtopic post.

    Congratulations. Not much on Slashdot impresses me anymore.

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    "I have a good idea why it's hard to verify programs. They're usually wrong." --Manuel Blum, FOCS 94
  4. It's gods' inconsistency, not mans'. by RLiegh · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If you keep reading, god gave moses a whole book of do's and don'ts which boil down to "if soome-one does this, stone them. if someone does that, stone them". The adultery and homosexuality laws spring immediately to mind, but that is only the _tip_ of the iceberg.

    Oh, by the way, that's not even taking into consideration the "cleansing" of Palestine^W Canaan.

  5. Re:5.2RC on my lappie - good so far by puzzled · · Score: 0, Offtopic



    That was stupid, inflamatory, and irrelevant to anyone who knows anything about what is really going on with the various BSD derivatives the first time you said it. Are you a genuine troll, a troll larva, or a very clever shell script created by some Linux fanboy? I'm guessing shell script ...

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    I am very easy to get along with, but I don't have time to waste being nice to people who are being stupid. -Theo