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Installing Linux on a Dead Badger

Posted by michael on from the slightly-ahead-of-its-time dept.

Elysdir writes "An article by Lucy A. Snyder at the online speculative-fiction magazine Strange Horizons provides information on the next frontier in Linux installations. 'Let's face it: any script kiddie with a pair of pliers can put Red Hat on a Compaq, his mom's toaster, or even the family dog. But nothing earns you geek points like installing Linux on a dead badger.' (Disclosure, in case it matters: I'm an editor for the magazine.)"

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  1. Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by JM+Apocalypse · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How utterly pointless.

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  2. Will the nonsense ever end? by LostCluster · · Score: 5, Informative

    Michael,

    April Fools Day was last Thursday, you insenstive clod!

    1. Re:Will the nonsense ever end? by NanoGator · · Score: 4, Funny

      "April Fools Day was last Thursday, you insenstive clod!"

      Everybody bookmark this comment. It's the first time Slashdot's ever modded somebody as +5 Informative for stating what day it is!

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    2. Re:Will the nonsense ever end? by wickidpisa · · Score: 4, Funny

      Badgers? We don't need no stinking badgers!

  3. the correct URL by Tumbleweed · · Score: 4, Funny

    is Here

    Now, I gotta say that installing Linux on badgers has some interesting Beowulf cluster potential (according to the above site), I think the related mushrooms may cause hallucinations (making you think this is a good idea), and the snake is _definitely_ cause for concern.

    YMMV.

  4. Next PETA demonstration by prostoalex · · Score: 5, Funny


    Naked supermodels with Windows boxes protesting this.

    1. Re:Next PETA demonstration by TildeMan · · Score: 5, Funny

      Hell, as a member of PETA myself, I am outraged at this cruelty to animals. How would you like it if you died and a badger installed linux in you?!

      Oh wait, this is Slashdot. You guys would love that. Carry on.

      /not really a member of PETA, in case you couldn't tell

    2. Re:Next PETA demonstration by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      > How would you like it if you died and a > badger installed linux in you?!

      Let me tell you about Soviet Russia...

  5. what the...? by krosk · · Score: 5, Insightful

    These really are getting out of hand... ok fitting a PC into a Linux box (literally) was kind of interesting. Making an iMac into an aquarium is fun. But a dead badger? I'm no animal rights activist... but this joke isn't even funny

    1. Re:what the...? by NiceGeek · · Score: 5, Funny

      You would have preferred a live badger? Would have made the install a lot more interesting I'll admit.

    2. Re:what the...? by NanoGator · · Score: 4, Insightful

      "But a dead badger? I'm no animal rights activist... but this joke isn't even funny"

      Well actually it is mildly funny to those of us who are sick of seeing Linux installed on everything under the sun but not being used particularly well on it. "We put Linux on a watch! That means there's great potential!! Slashdot us!!!"

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    3. Re:what the...? by beacher · · Score: 4, Funny

      Perhaps if we built a large wooden badger??

  6. Wow.... by JoeLinux · · Score: 4, Funny

    This should have definitely come from the "sick-and-wrong" dept. Or maybe a new mod: "-1, Sick" Nasty Nasty Nasty.

    Though I wonder if you could put linux on an Aibo, then use the badger skin...

  7. Start of Obligatory Meme's. by wdavies · · Score: 4, Funny

    I, for one, welcome our new Zombie Badger Overlords...

    1. Re:Start of Obligatory Meme's. by Tumbleweed · · Score: 4, Funny

      Don't blame me, I voted for Mushroom Mushroom.

    2. Re:Start of Obligatory Meme's. by tulimulta · · Score: 5, Funny

      1. Obtaining a badger corpse. $50

      2. Removing its intestines and replacing
      them with a linux-running computer. $300

      3. Watching your co-workers flee in panic
      as your telnet-operated zombie badger
      bores through their windows boxen.
      Priceless.

  8. what the... by AssProphet · · Score: 4, Funny

    News for nerds, stuff that Matters
    why is this on slashdot?

    1. Re:what the... by kiwioddBall · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I don't know, this is pretty amusing - it has been a slow news day on Slashdot. Lets face it, someone posted frontpage news that says that they've skinned Longhorn this morning - an operating system that isn't out for 2-3 years, and then said it is going to change format anyway - I mean, what did they achieve? Bugger all except putting together some BMP's and an XML probably. I think the word matters lost all meaning today.

      I liked the dead badger picture.

    2. Re:what the... by Soko · · Score: 4, Funny

      Dude.

      You subscribed to Slashdot, you picked a nick like AssProphet, , you haven't been here that long and you expect me to share your moral outrage at the lameness of michael's story selections.

      Wow. Seeing that means my day wasn't that bad after all. Thanks!

      Soko

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    3. Re:what the... by Tumbleweed · · Score: 4, Funny

      Run, Coward!

      I live...*RAAWWWRRRR!*

    4. Re:what the... by coastwalker · · Score: 4, Insightful

      No No No, this is a great story

      This is high culture and should be recorded for posterity!

      Ok so its humor and humor isnt serious enough to count as news that matters, except that if you dont "get" humor then you are probably not functioning very well.

      A little self mockery never did any harm to people with compulsive behaviour and I'm more than happy to remind myself that cool gadgets are only tools to do something else..

      Having said that can I tell you about my new minidisk portable recorder, its just like brilliant! Its got 4x extended recording and a mic input so I can record live stuff and its half the size of the tape recorder it replaces. The only thing is that I dont have an optical input on my sound card so all transfers are going to have to be analog to start with, still its going to be far better quality than the cassette tapes I usualy use. It also has this realy neat remote so you can walk around with it in your pocket. Sorry am I boring you?

      The story is well written. The voodo linux and magic are all authentic enough to read true. I get cartoons and satire in my newspaper so why not here?? Ok April 1st was a bit mad, but that was generally a bit too contrived to be funny; this article made me laugh.

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  9. Notice who posted the story... by LostCluster · · Score: 5, Funny

    I told you all last Thursday that Michael didn't have to do anything special to pick his April Fool's Day stories. He'll post nonsense any day of the year!

  10. This makes sense by Daimaou · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've been installing and supporting a dead beast of an OS on nice hardware for my clients for years. It only makes sense to install a nice OS on a dead beast for a change.

  11. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by Walt+Dismal · · Score: 5, Funny

    My name is Darl McBride. Is that dead badger licensed?

  12. everything2! by apetime · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Very cool to find a writeup from everything2 in actual publication. The article first appeared here in January.

    The writeup has 10 C!s. Very nice.

  13. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Agreed. This has to rank up there as the single most fucking retarded story Slashdot has ever posted.

  14. Badgers? by Punk+Walrus · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... we don't need to stinkin' badgers!

    (obvious)

  15. busted! by zer0mass · · Score: 5, Informative

    shit, I can't believe I wasted 10 minutes watching that damn thing. I viewed it for 2 minutes, thinking something cool would happen in the end, but then realized the shit was just looping over and over again.

  16. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by edwdig · · Score: 5, Funny

    It can't really be much worse than installing Linux 2.6 on the iPod. Altho 2.4 kinda worked, 2.6 had a note in the release notes along the lines of "It mostly works, except for the hard disk and the screen." If that can be described as "mostly works", then I'm sure someone can come up with some criteria that defines Linux on a badger (living or dead) as useful.

  17. Anyone know... by Comatose51 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Anyone know if the reanimation and Linux installation process described in the article can be adapted for use on a doll, as in the blow-up kind...

    If this works, fun can be only a Perl script away...

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  18. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by jigyasubalak · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wake me up when someone installs a Linux in an alive/dead Darl's ass.

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  19. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by JPriest · · Score: 5, Funny

    You are the person companies hire just so you can walk up to the water cooler, tell a joke, have everyone stare blankly at you, and then go back to working.

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  20. So what happened? by whiteranger99x · · Score: 4, Funny

    Was the dead horse unavailable for the project, so you had to settle for the badger? :P

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  21. What's an RPG? by runlvl0 · · Score: 4, Funny


    It's a Role Playing Game.

    "Let's see, the deer is in the glade, about forty feet in front of you with an armor class of 2..."

    "I'm attacking with my +5 damage Rocket Propelled Grenade."

    Damn Santa Claus DMs.

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  22. New idea by t0ny2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'd love to see a dead-wolfpack of these.

  23. Imagine by Chuck+Chunder · · Score: 4, Funny

    A Beos Wolf cluster.

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  24. Montreal 2600 - bunch of geeks by rv101 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or if you're geek enough you can tape yourself badger-badgering: http://www.mtl2600.org/media/video/badgerbadger.mp g

  25. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by mog007 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Tux was always so innocent in my eyes. He's like a nice wholesome character you can get all your friends to worship. I had no idea he was a necrophile.

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  26. Installing Linux on a tree - security problems by CdBee · · Score: 4, Funny

    I had a success installing Mandrake 8.1 on a (living) chestnut tree, but it got hacked via a platform-specific Root exploit.

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  27. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by spurious+cowherd · · Score: 4, Funny

    Gives new meaning to the term "Boot up"

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  28. What's the world coming to!!! by Genda · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ya can't bloody install linux on a bloody dead badger!!! It's passed on. This badger is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late badger. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. If you hadn't tried to install bleedin' linux on it, it would be pushing up the daisies. It's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-badger!

    Genda

  29. Re:Next up: How to install linux on a live badger! by Zareste · · Score: 5, Funny

    Badger badger badger badger, Linux, Linux!

    Sorry

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