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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!

  3. 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...

  4. 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.

  5. 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!

  6. 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?

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. New idea by t0ny2 · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  12. 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

  13. 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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  14. 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.

  15. 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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